Zelenskiy Embarks on a Key Month for Ukraine
Caught between an unpredictable US administration and a plodding diplomatic track, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is seeking to boost his domestic weapons production to hold off Moscow's offensive.
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3 people die in overnight Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia
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3 people die in overnight Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia
Ukrainian drone attacks overnight into Saturday killed three people, Russian officials said Saturday. Russia's Defense Ministry said air defenses intercepted or destroyed 112 drones across eight Russian regions and the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula. A drone attack on the Rostov region, on the border with Ukraine, killed one person, acting governor Yuri Slyusar said. Further from the front line, a woman was killed and two other people wounded in a drone strike on business premises in the Penza region, according to regional governor Oleg Melnichenko. In the Samara region, falling drone debris sparked a fire that killed an elderly resident, regional Gov. Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said. According to the Ukrainian air force, Russia launched 53 drones and decoys at Ukraine overnight into Saturday. It said that air defenses shot down or jammed 45 drones. Eleven people were wounded in an overnight drone strike on the Kharkiv region, Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said Saturday. The reciprocal drone strikes followed a day of mourning in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Friday, after a Russian drone and missile attack killed 31 people, including five children, and wounded over 150. The continued attacks come after U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a shorter deadline — Aug. 8 — for peace efforts to make progress. Trump said Thursday that special envoy Steve Witkoff is heading to Russia to push Moscow to agree to a ceasefire in its war with Ukraine and has threatened new economic sanctions if progress is not made. ___ Follow AP's coverage of the war in Ukraine at
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UK, US and allies accuse Iran of cross-border assassination plots
The United Kingdom and 13 allied nations have publicly accused Iran's intelligence services of orchestrating a wave of assassination attempts, abductions and intimidation campaigns against individuals living in Europe and North America. In a joint statement issued on Thursday, governments including the United States, France, Germany and Canada denounced Tehran's alleged extraterritorial operations as a flagrant breach of national sovereignty. 'We are united in our opposition to the attempts of Iranian intelligence services to kill, kidnap, and harass people in Europe and North America in clear violation of our sovereignty,' the group said. The signatories – which also included Albania, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the UK – urged Iranian authorities to halt these activities, which they claimed were increasingly carried out in partnership with international criminal groups. Iran rejects accusations In a statement on Friday, Esmaeil Baghaei, a spokesperson for Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, described the claims as 'baseless'. He called them 'an attempt to divert public attention from the most pressing issue of the day, the genocide in occupied Palestine'. Baghaei said the accusations were 'blatant fabrications … designed as part of a malicious Iranophobia campaign aimed at exerting pressure on the great Iranian nation'. A UK parliamentary committee recently attributed at least 15 plots targeting individuals in the UK since 2022 to Iranian intelligence operatives. British officials have responded with tighter measures. In March, the UK government said Iran would be required to register any political influence activity inside the country, citing 'escalating aggression' from its intelligence services. In May, UK police arrested seven Iranians over alleged threats to national security, which Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounced as 'suspicious and unwarranted'.Similar concerns have emerged elsewhere in Europe. Dutch security services said Tehran was behind a foiled 2024 attempt to assassinate an Iranian dissident in the Netherlands – charges Iran denied. Authorities arrested two suspects, one of whom is also linked to the shooting of Spanish politician Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a vocal supporter of the Iranian opposition. Across the Atlantic, the US Department of Justice charged three European-based gang members and later a senior Iranian official with plotting to kill an Iranian-American journalist. Two were convicted earlier this year, while the third pleaded guilty. Prosecutors claimed the men acted at the behest of the Iranian state. Iran's foreign ministry has also called such statements 'baseless'. New tensions The allegations come at a time of renewed tensions over Iran's nuclear programme. Talks between Iran and Western powers remain frozen. Last week, Iranian officials held 'frank' discussions in Istanbul with diplomats from the UK, Germany and France. The meeting marked the first engagement since Israel's mid-June air strikes on Iran, which triggered a 12-day flare-up involving US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. While Israel insists Iran is covertly pursuing nuclear weapons, a claim it has not substantiated, Tehran maintains its nuclear activities are for civilian use only. US intelligence agencies, meanwhile, assessed in March that Iran was not actively developing a bomb, contradicting former President Donald Trump's claim that it was 'close' to doing so.
