Officials say proposal is aimed at stirring up division and disorientating Kyiv’s allies Europe live – latest updates
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Officials say proposal is aimed at stirring up division and disorientating Kyiv’s allies Europe live – latest updates
None of the proposals have been rejected outright, despite the EU dismissing the reported contents
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron signed a letter of intent on Monday for Kyiv to acquire up to 100 Rafale warplanes and new air-defence systems to strengthen its long-term war effort. Zelensky's visit to Paris comes as Russian drone and missile strikes intensify and Moscow claims frontline gains.
A "calculated" barrage of Russian drones and missiles across Ukraine killed at least four people, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday, with Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko saying that almost every district of the capital had been hit. Dozens of people were wounded in the attacks, including a child and a pregnant woman, the president said.
The battle for a shattered Ukrainian city has become the new focal point for the years-long war, which is approaching a horrifying new milestone.
The small eastern city has been a focus of Moscow's grinding Donbas offensive.
Russian and Ukrainian troops are locked in a desperate fight in the ruins of Pokrovsk, a road and railway hub at the heart of the Donets River coal basin. The near-emptied city has been the target of a grinding Russian offensive for more than a year – and one that has exposed the struggle Kyiv faces in manning a front line stretching some 1,250 kilometres.
Drones now outnumber inhabitants in front-line town of Dobropillia, unrecognizable after years of war
Ukraine is lying to its people and the world about its military setbacks, the Russian Defense Ministry has said
The new restrictions target two major oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, and its subsidiaries
The leaders' cancelled summit is just the latest twist in Trump's efforts to broker an end to the war, writes Anthony Zurcher.
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday his planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin was on hold, calling it potentially a “waste of time.” The decision to delay the Budapest talks, announced last week, followed a Monday call between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
The Ukrainian leader left Washington without promises on Tomahawk missiles, the outlet’s sources say
US President Donald Trump said Friday it was likely too soon to send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, suggesting the war with Russia could end without them, as he met President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House a day after agreeing to a new summit with Vladimir Putin.
U.S. president meets Zelenskyy, while floating possibility of supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine
The president did not announce a date for the meeting in Budapest, which he said will be preceded by talks between senior advisers.