Ukraines Zelensky says he urged Trump to enlist Chinas help in ending Russias invasion

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that he asked US President Trump to press China’s leader to use Beijing’s influence over Moscow in a diplomatic effort to get Russia to end its 4½-yearlong invasion of Ukraine.Zelensky told reporters he has not yet received feedback from the White House about Trump’s talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping but expects to learn the outcome.Zelensky, who is keen to muster more international support for Ukraine’s defense, was in the United States this week on a trip coinciding with the UN General Assembly.He met with Trump on Tuesday.NATO countries have called China a “decisive enabler” of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion.Zelensky shared more details of his US trip in voice messages to a group of journalists.Here’s what Zelensky also said:Washington is pushing for a three-way meeting involving delegations from the US, Ukraine and Russia, with officials holding technical talks in that format without the countries’ leaders, Zelensky said.Ukraine is waiting for the US to propose a date for those meetings, he said, adding that American officials suggested the United Arab Emirates as the location for these talks.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday that Putin and Trump during their call earlier this month discussed holding such a meeting in the near future.

“As of now, I can’t give you any specifics,” Peskov said.Representatives from the three countries held three rounds of trilateral negotiations early this year, twice in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, and once in Geneva, but the talks achieved no significant breakthroughs.Speaking to reporters in St.Petersburg on Friday night, Putin decried recent Ukrainian attacks deep inside Russia and on Russian-held areas of Ukraine and said that while “proposals to resume the talks are all on the table,” Moscow “will think carefully about what we need to do in response.”The Kremlin will make its decisions, “including on the p...