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The Independent
03-07-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv summons US envoy as Trump administration plays down weapon shipments halt
Ukraine has summoned the acting US envoy to Kyiv to warn the Trump administration that any 'delay or procrastination' in supplying the war-hit nation with weapons will only benefit Russia. The US has blocked a number of planned shipments to Ukraine that included Patriot air defence missiles and precision-guided artillery, Hellfire missiles and Howitzer rounds, warning that its own domestic stockpiles were running low. 'The Ukrainian side emphasised that any delay or procrastination in supporting Ukraine's defence capabilities will only encourage the aggressor to continue the war and terror, rather than seek peace,' Ukraine's foreign ministry said yesterday. Ukraine has complained that this pause in military aid has allowed Russian forces to advance further inside Ukrainian territory, ramping up military offensives on two fronts in Ukraine and threatening to expand the fighting. Russian forces have penetrated up to 7km (4 miles) into the northern Sumy region from different directions along the border and the war's largest battle is being waged in Donetsk as Russia inches toward its stated goal of capturing all of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Al Arabiya
22-06-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Ukraine says US strikes on Iran justified to stop nuclear ‘threat'
Ukraine said Sunday that US and Israeli strikes on Iran were justified to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons, praising the military intervention as a 'clear signal.' 'Ukraine is convinced that Iran's nuclear program must be stopped so that it never again poses a threat to the countries of the Middle East or any other state,' the Ukrainian foreign ministry said.
NHK
10-06-2025
- Politics
- NHK
Ukraine says North Korean missiles becoming more precise
The Ukrainian foreign ministry says North Korean missiles believed to have been used for Russia's recent large-scale attack on Ukraine are becoming more precise. Ukraine's Air Force and other authorities said Russian forces had staged assaults across the country with more than 300 drones and seven missiles, including those made in North Korea, overnight through Tuesday morning. They said three people were killed in the capital Kyiv and the southern region of Odesa. A spokesperson for the Ukrainian foreign ministry, told reporters on Tuesday that two North Korean KN23 short-range ballistic missiles had been shot down in Kyiv. He noted that the North has significantly improved the accuracy of its missiles as it uses them on the battlefields in Ukraine. He said the latest development should be a "wake-up call" for everyone. The spokesperson called on the international community to join efforts to pressure Pyongyang to stop cooperating with Moscow. The head of the Ukrainian defense intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, viewed the KN23 missile as a military threat in an interview released on Monday. He said the North Korean missiles used to land a few kilometers off the mark, but now they are accurately hitting the target.
LBCI
02-06-2025
- General
- LBCI
Ukraine-Russia talks begin in Istanbul
Ukrainian and Russian delegations have begun a second round of peace talks in Istanbul, where they are set to exchange plans for how they want to end the three-year war. "A meeting between the delegations of Ukraine and Russia began in Istanbul in the presence of the Turkish side," the Ukrainian foreign ministry wrote on social media, while footage from inside Istanbul's Ciragan Palace showed Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan delivering opening remarks to negotiators sitting opposite each other. AFP
News.com.au
29-05-2025
- General
- News.com.au
Russia says Ukraine not responding on Istanbul talks
Russia on Thursday said it was still waiting for Ukraine to commit to new talks in Istanbul on Monday, after Kyiv demanded Moscow send its peace terms before pledging to attend the meeting. Diplomatic efforts to end the three-year conflict have gained pace in recent months, but Russia has maintained an intense bombardment of Ukraine and repeatedly rebuffed calls for an immediate ceasefire. Moscow offered to hold a second round of direct talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on June 2, when it said it would present a "memorandum" outlining its conditions for a long-term peace settlement. Ukraine said the meeting would not yield results unless it saw a copy of the memorandum in advance, a proposal the Kremlin dismissed. "As far as I know, no response has been received yet... we need to wait for a response from the Ukrainian side," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, calling Kyiv's demand to hand over its peace terms "non-constructive". Ukraine said it had already submitted its own vision of a peace settlement to Russia and demanded Moscow do the same. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia was "doing everything they can to make the meetings empty. And this is another reason why there must be sufficient sanctions, sufficient pressure on Russia." "We continue to urge (Russia) to share this document," said Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesperson Georgiy Tykhy. Moscow's refusal to send the document "suggests that it is likely filled with unrealistic ultimatums", he said. - 'Shut the door' - Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Russia and Ukraine not to "shut the door" on dialogue ahead of the anticipated second round of talks in Istanbul. Negotiations in Istanbul on May 16 -- the first direct talks on ending the conflict in more than three years -- yielded only a prisoner exchange and promises to stay in touch. Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharov told state television the Kremlin planned to send the same negotiating team as was at the earlier talks. That was led by Vladimir Medinsky, a Kremlin aid who also took part in talks in 2022 in the weeks after Russia launched its offensive. After the May 16 talks, Ukraine accused Russia of outlining unrealistic demands, including calls to cede territory Kyiv still controls. The Russian offensive, launched in February 2022, has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and the destruction of large parts of eastern and southern Ukraine. Russian forces have moved forward on the battlefield while pushing peace demands that include Ukraine abandoning its NATO ambitions and giving up around a fifth of its land. The Russian army said Thursday it had captured three villages in Ukraine's Donetsk and Kharkiv regions in its latest advance. Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan was expected to travel to Kyiv on Thursday to meet Zelensky, after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday. US President Donald Trump, who has been pushing for a peace deal, has become increasingly frustrated with Moscow's apparent stalling, and warned Wednesday he would determine within "about two weeks" whether Putin was serious about ending the fighting. Local authorities in Ukraine said Thursday Russia had fired 90 drones overnight. At least seven people were killed in drone, missile and artillery strikes across five frontline Ukrainian regions, officials said. Russia said it had repelled 48 Ukrainian drones overnight, including three near Moscow. Trump told reporters he was "very disappointed" at Russia's deadly bombardment during the negotiating process, but rebuffed calls to impose more sanctions on Moscow. Kyiv has accused Russia of deliberately stalling the peace process to pursue its offensive. Zelensky earlier this week said Russia was "amassing" more than 50,000 troops on the front line around Sumy, where Moscow's army has captured a number of settlements as it seeks to establish what Putin has called a "buffer zone" inside Ukrainian territory. bur/tw/jhb
