Zelenskyy calls for truce in air, at sea after massive Russian attack overnight

Volodymyr Zelenskyypresident

The first steps to establishing real peace should be forcing the sole source of this war, Russia, to stop such attacks,

Zelenskyy said in a Telegram post

Recep Tayyip Erdoğanturkish President

We support the idea of establishing a ceasefire as soon as possible and stopping attacks in the air and at sea as a confidence-building measure between the parties,

Erdogan told an online meeting

If now the US quits (financing the war) ... why would the other 26 member states have a chance to take this war to the end?"

Orban told state radio

Ukraine is ready to go the way of peace, and it is Ukraine that wants peace from the very first second of this war. The task is to force Russia to stop the war,

he wrote

Russia is trying to hurt ordinary Ukrainians by shelling energy and gas production facilities, without abandoning its goal of leaving us without power and heating, and causing the greatest harm to ordinary citizens,

he said

Let me emphasize once again that Ukrainians do really want peace, but not at the cost of giving up Ukraine,

Zelenskiy said

Everyone needs to make sure that Russia, as the sole source of this war, accepts the need to end it,

Zelenskiy said, addressing a summit in Brussels where European leaders have gathered to discuss defence spending and support for Ukraine after the U.S. paused military aid to Kyiv

This can be proved by two forms of silence that are easy to establish and monitor, namely, no attacks on energy and other civilian infrastructure – truce for missiles, bombs, and long-range drones, and the second is truce on the water, meaning no military operations in the Black Sea,

Zelenskiy added

Anything that affects the security of Europe should be resolved with the participation of Europe,

he added, welcoming a new rearmament plan to boost the EU's defence spending