Kyiv planning to foil Trump-Putin upcoming talks: Russian Defence Ministry

Moscow: The Russian Defence Ministry on Wednesday accused the Ukrainian government of planning a provocation aimed at disrupting the upcoming meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska on August 15.

In a post on Telegram, the Russian Defence Ministry said, “According to available information received through several channels, the Kyiv regime is preparing a provocation to foil the Russian-American talks scheduled for 15 August 2025.”

The ministry asserted that with this objective, the security service of Ukraine has sent a group of foreign journalists to Kharkiv’s Chuguev, which is under the control of Kyiv, under the pretext of doing “reports on the residents of the city in the frontline zone.”

The defence ministry also claimed that the Ukrainian forces will carry out the strikes on the city and blame it on Russia.

“Immediately ahead of the summit on Friday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine plan a provocative strike using UAVs and missiles against one of the densely populated residential quarters or a hospital with a large number of civilian casualties, which will have to be immediately recorded by the foreign Western journalists,” said the Russian Defence Ministry.  (IANS)

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