Basic events
Peter Walker
Downing Street refused to certainly what goals the Prime Minister hoped to come from Saturday morning meeting, saying it was “a fast condition” with a large number of countries involved.
UK officials expect to release the entire list of attendees in advance, but it seems to prevent it from completing the complexity of organizing a large speed event. There are reports that Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, may not attend the meeting due to concerns about Anglo-French plans to try to ensure a long-term deal with peace.
Starmer is expected to set the details of the leaders of a plan, led by him and French President Emmanuel Macron, in avoiding Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s harmful White House meeting with Trump two weeks ago. Starmer and Macron spoke one by one on Friday night early in the summit, Downing Street said.
Ukrainian air defenses were destroyed by 130 of the 178 drones launched by Russia during the latest overnight strike, Kyiv’s Air Force said on Saturday.
It added that another 38 drone was “lost in location”, usually a reference to electronic jamming, and that Russian forces also fired two ballistic missiles.
Analysis: Putin clarified Russia just play the ball by his policies
Pjotr Sauer
For once, the US president and European leader were on the same page.
Holding for a familiar parable, a choir of western state leaders declared this week that “the ball is in the Russian court” after Ukraine agreed with US conversations on Tuesday in an immediate 30-day stop.
Instead of making a playing, Vladimir Putin on Thursday took the ball, snecraws a fresh set of conditions across it, and returned it -asserted the game could not move forward to the other side of his policies.
“The idea itself is right, and we definitely support it,” said Putin, sitting next to his longtime ally Alexander Lukashenko at a Kremlin meeting.
It was the “but” that followed all the heavy lifting.
“There are questions we need to discuss, and I think we need to talk about them with our American and partners,” he added, suggesting that Ukraine is also unable to move and the western military help with Kyiv will stop during the stop.
Meanwhile, the message is clear: Russia has no intention of stopping its own rearmament. Ukraine is afraid that Putin is preparing to do exactly what she has accused of Kyiv of: Exploiting the ceasefire to rebuild and strengthen her offensive if the talks are falling, as Russian forces are forcing their land advantage.
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Starmer to display proposals for a peace deal to the leaders of the world
Peter Walker
As we just mentioned, Keir starmer warned that Vladimir Putin could not be allowed to “play games” with the possibility of a stop in Ukraine stopping, as he was preparing to show proposals for a peace deal with a coalition of nearly 25 world leaders.
The UK’s Prime Minister is Mago -Host a meeting on Saturday’s “Coalition of the Willing”, a group of countries that come up with help to maintain peace in Ukraine. He will seek to pile pressure to the Russian president that “finally arrived at the table” and “stop barbaric attacks in Ukraine” after Kyiv agreed this week with an immediate 30-day stop.
European countries, the EU Commission, Nato, Canada, Ukraine, Australia and New Zealand are expected to participate in the virtual meeting and provide updates with the help they can provide for implementing a peace deal.
It came as Putin praised Donald Trump for “doing everything” to improve relationships between Moscow and Washington, after Trump said the US had a “excellent and productive discussion” with Putin in recent days.
Putin said at a meeting of his security leaders who improved the US relations were now on the agenda. “We know that the new administration led by President Trump is doing everything he can to restore at least what was usually destroyed by the previous US administration,” he said.
Summary of opening
Welcome to our live scope of the Russia-Ukraine War.
Today, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will encourage about 25 world leaders to make concrete promises to support Ukraine and increase pressure to Vladimir Putin to accept the ceasefire.
The British prime minister expects the video call to see the so-called “Coalition of the Willing” with a strong promise of help for Ukraine to run-up in any peace agreement and, afterwards, to ensure the country’s security.
More than a while. First, here’s what else makes the headlines:
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy said After Kyiv accepted a proposal in the US for a 30-day stop but Moscow said it would only agree if some conditions were met. The President of Ukraine also urged the US and other allies to apply pressure in Moscow, recovering his belief that Russian president Vladimir Putin, will delay reaching for a ceasefire as much as possible. “If there is a strong response from the United States, they will not let them play,” Zelenskyy told journalists. “And if there are steps that Russia is not afraid of, they will delay the process.” He said separately that Putin “will try to drag everything into endless discussions … as his guns continue to kill people”.
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Vladimir Putin called for Beleaguered Ukrainian troops in the Russian region of Kursk to “surrender”saying they are treated with dignity. Donald Trump urged Putin to be free of the life of the troops as he said his envoy would hold a “superb and productive” communication with the Russian leader in the proposed 30-day stop. Moscow’s fast counterofensive on Kursk last week recovered most of the territory that Ukraine obtained last August in the western region of Russia’s border and is expected to be used as a bargaining chip in peace talks. “We are sympathetic to President Trump’s call,” Putin said in comments that Russia’s television television on Friday. “If they put their weapons and surrender, they will guarantee life and noble treatment.” Trump said “thousands” of Ukrainian troops were “fully surrounded by Russian military and in a vicious and vulnerable position”. Meanwhile, Putin praised Trump for “doing everything” to improve relationships between Moscow and Washington.
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The Ukraine military leadership denied the battlefield claims. “There is no threat of our units surrounded,” The general staff of Ukraine has been posted on social media. Zelenskyy also provided a sharp assessment, saying: “The situation in the Kursk region is obviously very difficult.” He insisted on the campaign that still had value. Resources in Ukraine and military analysts say Trump’s claim of a mass -scraclement of the Kursk is inaccurate.
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G7 Foreign Minister in Russia warns new penalties unless it accepted the cease “in equal terms”Saying penalties may include “covers to oil prices, as well as additional support for Ukraine, and other means”. France and Germany accused Russia of seeking to block Truce, while Starmer said Moscow has shown “complete disregard” for Trump’s proposal.
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A Russian missile hit a residential area in the Middle City of Ukrainians of Kryvyi Rih on Friday, injuring 11 people including two childrenThe governor of the region said. Serhiy Lyaks posted photos on a telegram showing damage to high apartment buildings, private homes and a building that appears at home of many businesses. Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the military administration in the city – the town of Zelenskyy – said two places to take direct hits. One of the sites hit is a night club, he said. In the southern Kherson region, Russia -guided bombs hit a series of targets including a residential area in Kherson City, which killed a person, the regional governor said the Telegram region. Near the city of Black Sea of Odesa, Russian drones invaded the neighboring harbor of chornomorsk, cutting power over its residents, the governor of the region said.
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EU Foreign Affairs Chief Kaja Kallas will propose 27-country bloc supply up to € 40bn ($ 44bn) with the new military assistance in Ukraine, Said diplomatic resources. Meanwhile, EU senior diplomats, agreed Friday in a six-month expansion of sanctions against nearly 2,000 Russians including Putin and many older politicians and businessmen.
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