Zelenskyy's New York remarks Truce, missiles and finance

Sep 22

Ukrinform presents Zelenskyy's complete September 22 post-Trump briefing in New York with English interpretation. He offers a reciprocal halt to energy attacks, says Washington will convey it to Russia and leaves Russian acceptance unknown. He denies that Trump requested a unilateral halt that day, describes an energy truce as a first stage and alleges Putin will justify further strikes as retaliation for Ukrainian attacks during Russian elections. He asks Trump to involve Xi, renews readiness for a trilateral meeting when all sides are ready, doubts Russian willingness and hopes Trump will use the Graham sanctions instrument if Russia will not de-escalate; he does not know whether Trump will do so. He seeks an urgent winter Patriot interceptor package and future production licenses. He describes the American response as positive but says he obtained nothing very concrete. He reports a signed German contract for 600 missiles in two 300-missile packages and offers to replace advance American supplies in 2027. The German production years are fragmented in this English track. Licensing lead time remains uncertain, and no delivery or license document is shown. Asked about attacks on other European countries, he argues Putin is not winning, fears returning soldiers and seeks to divide European and American support for Ukraine. The English interpretation says Russian soldiers are dying at a rate of 32,000–33,000 per month. He alleges drone activity in several European countries, warns of high risks to countries bordering Russia or Belarus and urges them always to respond. These are his claims and forecasts, not independently verified deaths, responsibility or announced invasions. Asked about Russian-American business proposals, he cites that day's removal of sanctions from two unnamed oligarchs, vows to return to Europe with the same names and stresses the difficulty of resisting Russian money. He declines to discuss business details he has not heard. On financing, he says increasing attacks raise defense costs, describes work with Ursula and the IMF director to avoid financial collapse and says teams will meet in seven days. He proposes sharing Ukrainian technology with Europe while using unspent European defense allocations for Ukraine; the interpretation calls the program 'ASAP'. It refers to a two-year '50 billion' package and efforts to bring '45 billion' forward, without a stated currency. These wording and amount uncertainties are retained, with no new allocation or payment established. He links European urgency to risks of Russian aggression elsewhere. In Haltiwanger's final exchange, readiness for talks is distinguished from believing Putin wants peace, with an awkward Saudi-ceasefire recollection retained in the footage. A closing answer says the UN helps leaders meet but suggests this may be limited.

Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met in New York on September 22 to discuss Russia's war against Ukraine. Fox's panel reports Trump suggesting a deal might be approaching and describes bipartisan interest in supporting Ukraine, without a concluded peace agreement or concrete military-aid commitment. TSN supplies preparations and a live public question-and-answer exchange. Its correspondent reports a delayed start and Ukrainian priorities of winter air defense, Patriot interceptors and possible SAMP/T missile production. Zelenskyy expresses hope for ending the war before winter; Trump says a deal is needed but does not disclose territorial terms. They discuss refinery strikes, fuel-price pressure, the Graham sanctions powers and possible missile-production cooperation. Asked about a trilateral encounter involving Putin in Miami, Trump says he does not know whether that specific format will happen, while asserting both leaders want the war to end. TSN's anchor subsequently presents Miami as a possible venue. No summit, peace deal or Patriot production license is confirmed. Vremya's account says no details of the Zelenskyy talks were yet available and airs Trump saying he expects to meet Putin again, while explicitly remaining unsure whether that meeting would be in Miami. It treats the previous Alaska meeting as background. Tagesschau's September 23 retrospective airs Trump saying the war must end before winter and that a deal will emerge, though its terms remain unknown. It then includes Zelenskyy's separate post-meeting press statement offering to halt attacks on Russian diesel supplies and refineries if Russia stops striking Ukraine's electricity, heating and water systems. That conditional offer is also recorded as a distinct statement; it is not an agreed ceasefire. TSN's September 23 retrospective says the meeting lasted about forty minutes. It reports Zelenskyy's account that a unilateral halt to Ukrainian refinery strikes was not discussed on this occasion, Trump responded positively to a proposed winter air-defense package, and Zelenskyy asked him to involve Xi Jinping in negotiations. A positive response is not reported as a finalized aid commitment. Vremya's September 23 retrospective portrays the public exchange as tense, airs the complete refinery-strike question and Trump's reply about diesel prices, and says no Patriot missiles or supply promise were obtained. It acknowledges that the private discussion's tone is unknown. This is retained alongside TSN's report of Zelenskyy's positive account of prospective support. Vremya also repeats unsubstantiated drug-use insinuations from social media while quoting the qualification that the observed gesture is not proof and that Zelenskyy has denied such allegations. Vremya's September 26 retrospective cites Bloomberg for a claim that Trump urged Zelenskyy at the September 22 UN-side meeting to visit Moscow for talks with Putin and that Zelenskyy refused and was upset by the request. It frames the public exchange as Trump admonishing Zelenskyy over infrastructure attacks; that is the broadcaster's interpretation. The private Moscow proposal is attributed to Bloomberg's sources, not established by the public footage. Separately, contemporaneous reporting relayed a denial from Ukraine's presidential office; that denial is not included in Vremya's item. The September 27 review replays the refinery-strike question and Trump's answer about rising diesel prices. The correspondent then makes categorical drug-use allegations based on Zelenskyy's gestures and greetings. The footage supplies no evidence establishing drug use; this is a hostile allegation, not a medical or factual finding. In the original post-meeting briefing, Zelenskyy says Trump wants to end the war, urges a leaders' dialogue and says the U.S. response on winter interceptors was positive but he received nothing very concrete. He denies a request for unilateral Ukrainian restraint at this meeting. His account does not confirm a missile transfer, production license or agreed summit, and does not resolve the separately attributed private Moscow-proposal claim.