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Ukraine: possible meeting between Zelensky and Trump in late September

Negotiations are continuing; the Ukrainian president could hold a summit with Donald Trump in New York at the end of the month

11 September 2026

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Efforts to achieve peace in Ukraine are continuing amidst the bombings. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that he intends to meet his US counterpart Donald Trump in New York at the end of September. This meeting would follow the recent visit to Kyiv and Moscow by the two US envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, who held direct talks with both Putin and Zelensky.

“At the end of September, I believe we will have the opportunity to meet with the American team in New York,” Zelensky said during a press conference in Canada, referring to a “meeting in New York with President Trump”.

Meanwhile, Canada itself has signed a declaration with Ukraine in which the two countries commit to establishing a ‘hundred-year’ partnership in the economic and security spheres. This decision follows the example of the agreement signed in London in January 2025 between the government in Kyiv and the United Kingdom.

In addition, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the allocation of 218 million euros to provide Ukraine with air defence systems. Canada will also provide “over 268 million euros in loan guarantees for gas purchases”, thereby helping Ukraine to get through the winter, Carney said alongside Zelensky during a press conference in Calgary, in western Canada.

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Kremlin: There was no threat to Zelensky’s plane

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has commented on the case of the Russian drone that allegedly attempted to strike Ukrainian President Zelensky whilst he was travelling. The ‘alleged threat to Volodymyr Zelensky’s aircraft’ ‘did not exist, and this has been acknowledged by the Ukrainians themselves’, said Peskov, referring to the alarm caused yesterday by the remarks of the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Stoere, who claimed that the Ukrainian President’s plane had been ‘nearly hit by a drone as it was about to take off from Moldova’.

Both sources from the Ukrainian presidency and the Moldovan government spokesperson have played down the Norwegian Prime Minister’s claims. The Moldovan spokesperson stated in a press release that Moldova had ‘closed its airspace on the afternoon of 8 September, shortly after 4.30 pm, following a violation of its airspace by a Russian drone coming from Ukraine’. “After 5.20 pm, the authorities confirmed that the drone had crashed and exploded approximately 160 km from Chisinau International Airport. The flight restrictions were then lifted and the Ukrainian president’s aircraft took off, later than scheduled.” A source within the Ukrainian presidency told AFP that “it was a false alarm in Moldova, when a Russian (drone) entered the airspace of Moldova and Romania”. The source described as ‘exaggerated’ the claim that Zelensky had faced even the slightest risk in that situation.

The war on the ground continues

A real threat, however, is that of shelling, which continues from both the Russian and Ukrainian sides. The death toll from a Russian attack on a shopping centre in Pavlohrad, in the Dnipropetrovsk oblast of Ukraine, has risen to five dead and 67 injured. Local authorities have reported that among the injured are three teenage boys aged 13, 14 and 15. The capital has also been hit: a Russian drone struck a nine-storey residential block in the Dniprovskyi district, causing at least eight injuries and a major fire. In total, Russia has launched 66 drones into Ukrainian territory in the last few hours – according to a statement from the air force – including over 50 Shahed-type drones: the air defences shot down or neutralised 62 of the drones, whilst four struck various locations.

On the Russian front, the Ministry of Defence has announced that it shot down 777 Ukrainian drones overnight across some 15 regions and in Crimea; according to the authorities, these attacks resulted in two deaths. “Overnight, air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 777 Ukrainian drones,” the ministry said in a statement. In the Tula region, some 200 km south of Moscow, “two people were sadly killed” in the drone attacks, the regional governor, Dmitri Miliaev, wrote on Telegram, adding that three others were injured. In the southern Volgograd region, two people were hospitalised following a Ukrainian missile strike that hit a residential building, the regional governor, Andrei Botcharov, reported in a statement.

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