内容摘要：Members of the Durua tribe, part of India’s Indigenous Adivasis communities, perform traditional dances during the Chaitra Parab festival, a month long harvest celebration in Hatipakna village, Koraput district, in India’s eastern state of Odisha, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Members of the Durua tribe, part of India’s Indigenous Adivasis communities, perform traditional dances during the Chaitra Parab festival, a month long harvest celebration in Hatipakna village, Koraput district, in India’s eastern state of Odisha, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

of the Ukrainian government, especially Zelenskyy himself, saying his term expired last year. Under Ukraine’s constitution, it’s illegal for the country to hold a national election while it’s under martial law, as it now is.Zelenskyy dismissed claims that

prohibited him from meeting Putin, saying that the claim was Russian propaganda.In the war’s early months, Zelenskyy repeatedly called for a personal meeting with Putin but was rebuffed. After the Kremlin’s decision in September 2022 to illegally annex four regions of Ukraine — Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia — Zelenskyy issued the decree declaring that holding negotiations with Putin had become impossible.On Tuesday, Zelenskyy said that this decree affected other Ukrainian officials who were directly negotiating with the Russian leader.

AP writers Geir Moulson in Berlin and Matthew Lee in Antalya, Turkey, contributed to this report.Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The

came under a massive Russian drone-and-missile attack Sunday that killed at least 12 people and injured dozens.German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, for a meeting in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 28, 2025. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, for a meeting in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 28, 2025. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz, right, welcomes Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during an official military reception at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 28, 2025.(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz, right, welcomes Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during an official military reception at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 28, 2025.(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz, right, and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy leave a news conference at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 28, 2025.(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)