Zelensky sees Trump, Kellogg envoy and IMF top officials on the sidelines of the UN Assembly

In the US to attend the 80th UN General Assembly, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met today with the US President's special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg, and had a face-to-face meeting with Trump himself on the sidelines of the ongoing proceedings at the UN headquarters.

"I informed him," Zelensky explains on his X profile referring to the meeting with Kellog, "about the situation at the front and the results of the counteroffensive operation near Dobropillia and Pokrovsk. We also talked about the development of cooperation between Ukraine and the United States, including mutually beneficial agreements on drones and US arms procurement that Ukraine has proposed to the US'.

"I am grateful to Keith Kellogg for his support and assistance, and to US President Donald Trump for his efforts to end the war and stop the killing," Zelensky concludes.

Volodymyr Zelensky let it be known via X that he had "spoken with the director of theInternational Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, about the possibilities of using Russian frozen assets for the benefit of Ukraine and all possible ways of cooperation, including new programmes to support our country's resilience in the coming years". "We agreed on further close cooperation between the government of Ukraine and the IMF," he added after the meeting in New York. And, after Copenhagen and Oslo airports were reopened following the closure triggered by drone sightings in the airspace of the two countries, Zelensky points out that in the talks "special attention was paid to Russia's violations of Nato member countries' airspace, including the one on 22 September in Copenhagen". "We exchanged views on the reasons," he adds, "If there is no resolute response from the allies, states and institutions to the provocative aggressions, Russia will continue. For her part, also on X, Georgieva wrote of a 'very positive meeting' with Zelensky 'to talk about Ukraine's economic resilience, progress on reforms and needs at the financial level'. The IMF, she reiterated, 'remains committed to supporting Ukraine to ensure stability and build a sound economic future'.

The Russian Defence Ministry claims that its troops have taken control of the village of Pereyzne, in the Donetsk region of south-eastern Ukraine. Tass reports. Moscow's statements are not independently verifiable. Yesterday, the Russian army claimed to have occupied the village of Kalynivske, in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region. The Kiev army rejects Moscow's claim, reports the Ukrainska Pravda newspaper. Meanwhile, Russian air defence systems destroyedtwo drones flying to Moscow. This was announced by the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergej Sobyanin.