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- Al Arabiya
Kremlin says Ukraine peace process has not stalled
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia does not think peace talks on Ukraine have stalled and that it still wants to achieve its goals there through peaceful political and diplomatic means. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow was waiting for Kyiv to give a signal about whether it is ready to start the third round of talks, which first kicked off in May in Istanbul.


Asharq Al-Awsat
an hour ago
- Asharq Al-Awsat
Russia Says It Struck Military-industrial Facilities in Kyiv
Russia's defense ministry said on Thursday that its forces had successfully carried out strikes on military-industrial facilities in Kyiv and on a military airfield in Ukraine. "The armed forces of the Russian Federation launched a group strike with high-precision long-range weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine in Kyiv and on the infrastructure of the military airfield," the ministry said. Reuters could not independently verify battlefield reports.


Arab News
2 hours ago
- Arab News
Rubio to meet Russia's Lavrov as strikes pound Kyiv
KUALA LUMPUR: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet with his Russian counterpart in Malaysia on Thursday, after Moscow unleashed its second major attack on Ukraine in as many first visit to Asia as secretary of state also comes as US President Donald Trump ramps up his trade war, threatening more than 20 countries with punitive top US diplomat is to meet Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of a meeting of foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Kuala Lumpur, a senior State Department official strikes on Kyiv killed at least two people, the city's military administration said Thursday, after earlier warning of incoming missiles and reporting around a dozen journalists in Kyiv heard loud blasts echoing over the city throughout the night and saw flashes from air defense system lighting up the of residents of the capital took shelter in a central metro station, an AFP reporter said, sleeping on mats, calming pets and waiting out the attack on camping came a day after Russia's biggest missile and drone attack on Ukraine in more than three years of war — and after Trump launched an expletive-filled attack on Russian leader Vladimir accused Putin of talking 'bullshit' about Ukraine, saying that the United States would send Kyiv more weapons to defend and Lavrov last met in February in Saudi Arabia, following a rapprochement between Trump and Putin. The two diplomats have also spoken multiple times by Malaysia, Lavrov will visit North Korea this weekend, the latest in a series of high-profile visits by top Moscow officials as the two countries deepen military has emerged as one of the Kremlin's main allies during its Ukraine invasion, sending thousands of troops to Russia's Kursk region to oust Kyiv's forces and providing the Russian army with artillery shells and officials said ahead of Rubio's trip that Washington was 'prioritising' its commitment to East Asia and Southeast in Malaysia, Rubio said the United States has 'no intention of abandoning' the his visit comes after Trump threatened more than 20 countries, many in Asia, with tariffs ranging from 20 to 50 percent, and announced a 50 percent toll on copper imports and a possible 200 percent duty on Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim warned Asia's top diplomats on Wednesday of a new era when tariffs are among the 'sharpened instruments of geopolitical rivalry.'Trump said Monday that duties he had suspended in April would snap back — even more steeply — on August those targeted were top trade partners Japan and South Korea, which each face 25 percent Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei and Myanmar — all members of ASEAN — face duties ranging from 20 percent to 40 percent if they do not strike deals with Washington by Trump's new levels were not too far from those originally threatened in April, although some rates were notably lower this which is also an ASEAN member, is one of only two countries — Britain being the other — to have reached a tentative agreement with Malaysia, Rubio will attend a post-ministerial conference and a meeting by East Asian foreign ministers — which will also see Japan, South Korea and China will also meet with Anwar and hold trilateral talks with the Philippines and Chinese counterpart Wang Yi is also at ASEAN, but details of any meeting between the pair have not been superpowers remain locked in a range of disputes on issues from trade and fentanyl, to Taiwan and cutting-edge mentioning the United States, Wang on Thursday called for a 'fairer and more reasonable' international order.