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“Here on the ground, we don’t feel any real changes from all these high-level meetings and statements,” a soldier said.
Aug. 8, 2025Updated 6:53 a.m. ET
At least three people were killed and more than two dozen were injured in Russian strikes in Ukraine on Thursday night and Friday morning, just hours after President Trump suggested that he and Russia’s leader could meet to negotiate an end to the war while leaving President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on the sidelines.
The strikes came on the day that Mr. Trump’s deadline expired for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to agree to end the war.
Among the targets was Bucha, the Kyiv suburb that suffered some of the war’s most brutal atrocities.
Just hours earlier, Mr. Trump told reporters in Washington that Mr. Putin did not need to sit down personally with Mr. Zelensky of Ukraine in negotiations to end the war.
“No, he doesn’t,” Mr. Trump said when asked if Mr. Putin had to meet with Mr. Zelensky, according to a press pool report. “They would like to meet with me, and I’ll do whatever I can to stop the killing,”
Asked what would happen when his 10-day deadline for Mr. Putin to end the war expired on Friday, Mr. Trump offered little clarity. “It’s up to him,” he said, referring to Mr. Putin. “And we’ll see what he says.”
