Putin, Russia and Ukraine
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Russia strikes global business in major Ukraine air attack and accuses Kyiv of blocking peace
Russia targeted a U.S.-founded electronics manufacturer near Ukraine's border with the European Union in a major air attack on Thursday as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy sought U.S. support to bring Russian leader Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is ready to make “some compromise” on his demand that a ceasefire takes place before any talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin – as long as some security guarantees for Ukraine are established.
Putin has been reproached for taking thousands of children from Ukraine who were then illegally adopted by Russian families or placed in foster homes in Russia or in Russian-held areas that were seized by the Russian military. Due to an international ...
Hungary has offered to host peace talks between Russia and Ukraine twice, and the offer still stands, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in a podcast broadcast on Facebook on Thursday.
At the top of Vladimir Putin’s shopping-list is the western part of Donetsk province, which is still firmly in Ukrainian hands. But it is not just the symbolism that is important to him. The real prize is to force Ukraine to abandon its strategically critical “fortress belt”,
Special U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff says Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump to allow the U.S. and European allies to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the 3 1/2-year war.
Ukrainian officials said the deadly strikes were a further sign that Russia had no intention of halting hostilities.