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Al Jazeera
5 hours ago
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,220
Here is how things stand on Saturday, June 28: Fighting Ukraine's military has said it struck four Russian Su-34 warplanes at the Marinovka base outside Russia's city of Volgograd, some 900km (550 miles) from the Ukrainian border. A Russian missile attack has killed at least five people and wounded more than 20 in Samar in Ukraine's southeast, in the second strike on the industrial city in three days. Russian troops have captured the village of Nova Kruhlyakivka in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region, Russia's state news agency TASS reported. A Russian attack has damaged an 'important power facility' in Ukraine's southern Kherson region, causing power cuts in some settlements in the region, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said. A Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Kursk region injured a war correspondent from Chinese news outlet Phoenix TV, Russian authorities said, as they urged the United Nations to respond to the incident. Ukraine's air force said it downed 359 out of 363 drones and six of eight missiles launched by Russia in an overnight attack. Russia's drone production jumped by 16.9 percent in May compared with the previous month, data from a think tank close to the government showed, after President Vladimir Putin called for output to be stepped up. Ceasefire deal United States President Donald Trump said he thinks something will happen in Russia's war in Ukraine that would get it 'settled', citing his recent call with Putin but offering no other details. Putin said relations between Russia and the US were beginning to stabilise, attributing the improvement to efforts by President Trump. Putin reiterated that he had 'great respect' for the US leader and was willing to meet him. Putin also said Moscow was ready to hold a new round of peace negotiations with Ukraine, potentially in Istanbul, although the time and venue have yet to be agreed. NATO Lithuania has notified the UN that it is leaving the treaty banning antipersonnel landmines. It joins Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Poland – all NATO and European Union members bordering Russia – in withdrawing from the treaty, citing the increased military danger from their Russian neighbour. The Kremlin said Estonia's stated readiness to host NATO allies' US-made F-35A stealth jets, capable of carrying nuclear weapons, posed a direct threat to Moscow. Putin said Russia was looking to cut its military expenditure from next year, contrasting that with NATO's plan to raise its collective spending goal to 5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the next 10 years. Sanctions Senator Ron Wyden, the top Senate Finance Committee Democrat, pressed US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to commit to enforcing Ukraine-related sanctions against Russia and to clarify comments about Russia rejoining an international bank payments network. Wyden also sought answers on how the US-Ukraine critical minerals deal and investment agreement would help improve Ukraine's post-war security and not benefit any entity or country that aided Russia's war effort. Ukraine plans to ask the EU to sanction Bangladeshi entities it says are importing wheat taken from Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia, after its warnings to Dhaka failed to stop the trade, a top Ukrainian diplomat in South Asia said.
Miami Herald
15 hours ago
- Politics
- Miami Herald
Senior Russian General Makes Major Trump Zelensky Prediction
Russian Major General Apti Alaudinov said he did not think U.S. President Donald Trump would save Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and called into question the American leader's reliability in promises he makes. Trump is attempting to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine and an end to Moscow's full-scale invasion, which it launched in February 2022 to international outcry. Ukraine is under intense pressure from Russian advances. Zelensky has urged Trump to increase American military aid to Kyiv and tighten the screw on Russian President Vladimir Putin to force him to make peace. "I don't think Trump will save Zelensky, because Zelensky has made too many mistakes for Trump not to stand up for him," Alaudinov told state news agency TASS. Alaudinov is deputy head of the main military and political department of the Russian army, and the commander of the Akhmat special forces of the defense ministry. He said that Trump does not feel compelled to stick to previous statements, and that the American president can take his promise back, "then give a new one, then change his strategy," TASS reported. Zelensky and Trump have had a fractious relationship at times. In February, tensions burst open in public when Zelensky, Trump, and U.S. Vice President JD Vance clashed during a meeting at the White House in front of the media. The relationship has since been repaired, but there are still sharp points of contention, particularly over Trump's handling of Russia and Putin. Trump is hoping to build bridges with Russia and restore relations once the war is resolved. But Alaudinov said "we need to understand that only Russia is a friend of Russia". "All the others are relative friends," Alaudinov told TASS. "This is why we must clearly play our own game in each of these games and do everything to ensure that we win in each of these games in the interests of our state, and not to be on good terms with someone." He added: "That's the whole point. We have two allies: the army and the navy." This is a developing article. Updates to follow. Related Articles Ukraine's New Drone Boss Is Getting Results, On and Off BattlefieldRussia Plans to Teach China How to Beat US and NATO Weapons: Ukraine IntelZelensky Reveals Details of Chat with Trump at NATO SummitEurope Needs Ukraine to Fight Russia With Reduced US Help: Think Tank 2025 NEWSWEEK DIGITAL LLC.
Newsweek
21 hours ago
- Politics
- Newsweek
Senior Russian General Makes Major Trump Zelensky Prediction
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Russian Major General Apti Alaudinov said he did not think U.S. President Donald Trump would save Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and called into question the American leader's reliability in promises he makes. Trump is attempting to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine and an end to Moscow's full-scale invasion, which it launched in February 2022 to international outcry. Ukraine is under intense pressure from Russian advances. Zelensky has urged Trump to increase American military aid to Kyiv and tighten the screw on Russian President Vladimir Putin to force him to make peace. "I don't think Trump will save Zelensky, because Zelensky has made too many mistakes for Trump not to stand up for him," Alaudinov told state news agency TASS. Alaudinov is deputy head of the main military and political department of the Russian army, and the commander of the Akhmat special forces of the defense ministry. He said that Trump does not feel compelled to stick to previous statements, and that the American president can take his promise back, "then give a new one, then change his strategy," TASS reported. Zelensky and Trump have had a fractious relationship at times. In February, tensions burst open in public when Zelensky, Trump, and U.S. Vice President JD Vance clashed during a meeting at the White House in front of the media. The relationship has since been repaired, but there are still sharp points of contention, particularly over Trump's handling of Russia and Putin. Trump is hoping to build bridges with Russia and restore relations once the war is resolved. But Alaudinov said "we need to understand that only Russia is a friend of Russia". "All the others are relative friends," Alaudinov told TASS. "This is why we must clearly play our own game in each of these games and do everything to ensure that we win in each of these games in the interests of our state, and not to be on good terms with someone." He added: "That's the whole point. We have two allies: the army and the navy." This is a developing article. Updates to follow.
Qatar Tribune
a day ago
- Politics
- Qatar Tribune
Russia condemns Israeli strikes on Iran, defends own war
The Kremlin has criticized Israel's recent airstrikes on Iran, insisting the conflict is not comparable to Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine. 'The outbreak of the conflict, actually, and the Israeli attacks on Iran were absolutely not provoked,' Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told state news agency TASS on Thursday. By contrast, he said, the background to the 'special military operation' - as Moscow calls its invasion of Ukraine - is 'well known to everyone.' Israel has defend its strikes on Iran with the need to stop the Tehran's nuclear weapons programme. The Israeli government sees the programme as a direct threat to its country. Russia, meanwhile, has justified its invasion of Ukraine by citing security concerns, including NATO expansion and the alleged oppression of Russian-speaking minorities. The attack on February 24, 2022 took place without warning - just a few days earlier, the Kremlin had publicly denied having any invasion plans. Iran is one of Russia's closest allies in the Middle East and uses Iranian-designed drones in its war on Ukraine. (DPA)
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Russia captures village in eastern Ukraine near lithium deposit, Russian-backed official says
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian troops have taken control of a village in eastern Ukraine which is close to a lithium deposit after fierce resistance from Ukrainian forces, a Russian-backed official said on Thursday. The village of Shevchenko is located in Donetsk, one of four Ukrainian regions - in addition to Crimea - that Moscow has claimed as its own territory in annexations that Kyiv and Western powers reject as illegal. The Russian Defence Ministry announced earlier on Thursday that Shevchenko had been taken along with another settlement called Novoserhiivka. Reuters could not independently confirm the battlefield report and there was no immediate comment from Ukraine. Open source mapping from Deep State, an authoritative Ukrainian military blogging resource, showed Shevchenko under Russian control. Soviet geologists who discovered the lithium deposit there in 1982 suggested it could be significant. It sits at a depth that would allow commercial mining, and Russian-backed officials have suggested it will be developed when the situation permits. "The village of Shevchenko, which is located on the border with the Dnipropetrovsk region, is another settlement that has a lithium deposit. This was one of the reasons why the Ukrainian armed forces sent a huge number of their soldiers to hold it," Igor Klimakovsky, a Russian-appointed official in Donetsk, was cited by the state TASS news agency as saying on Thursday. The Ukrainian Geological Survey says the deposit is located on Shevchenko's eastern outskirts and covers an area of nearly 40 hectares. Parts of the Russian press incorrectly claimed in January that the Shevchenko deposit had already been captured, confusing it with the seizure of another settlement of the same name elsewhere. Lithium is a coveted global resource because of its use in a host of industries and technologies from mobile phones to electric cars. Ukraine has reserves of about 500,000 tons, and Russia has double that, according to U.S. government estimates.
