
Ukraine ready for peace talks anytime, foreign minister says, as Trump backtracks from idea to ‘target Moscow’ – as it happened
Jakub Krupa
created: July 16, 2025, 3:49 p.m. | updated: July 17, 2025, 8:18 a.m.
14.16 BST Ukraine ready for peace talks anytime, Ukrainian foreign minister saysUkrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha repeated his warnings that Europe needs to face the threat of Russia, and urging the EU to adopt further sanctions against Moscow.
He also reiterated that Kyiv was ready for peace talks anytime.
Speaking alongside Polish and Lithuanian ministers in the Polish city of Lublin, he responded to overnight attacks on Ukraine by saying that “having no success on the battlefield, the Kremlin is directing air terror against our peaceful cities and communities, against civilians.” He also referenced the earlier attack at a Polish-owned factory in Ukraine.
Sybiha also criticised Russia’s claims that Ukraine was delaying further peace talks, calling them as “lie, manipulation and distortion of facts,” and stressing that “Ukraine has never been, is not and will not be an obstacle to peace” having agreed to US-led ceasefire proposals.
He said Kyiv remained “ready for such negotiations in any format, in any geography.”He was backed by Polish and Lithanian counterparts, with Lithuania’s Kęstutis Budrys calling it out as “false narratives and false propaganda coming from Russia.”“It’s up to Putin to take these conditions, what President Trump is telling him to do already [for] four months and we’re still waiting,” he said.
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