A high Russian official mentioned Friday he has arrived in the US for talks with US officers. Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s envoy for funding and financial cooperation, introduced his go to in a put up on X. He mentioned it was “deliberate some time in the past” on an invite “from the US facet.”
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Dmitriev has been a key interlocutor in discussions between the Trump administration and the Kremlin on quite a few points, together with the Ukraine conflict and the discharge of American detainees in Russia.
Putin’s unbudging stance has exasperated Western leaders.
“He’s rejected the chance for talks as soon as once more, as an alternative making ludicrous calls for for Ukrainian land, which he couldn’t and has not taken by drive,” Starmer mentioned at a information convention alongside Zelensky and several other different European leaders. “In fact, that could be a full non-starter.”
NATO Secretary-Normal Mark Rutte mentioned Putin’s targets stay unchanged however he “is operating out of cash, troops and concepts.”
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof additionally attended Friday’s assembly of the “Coalition of the Keen” in particular person. About 20 different leaders joined by video hyperlink.
Russia says it has captured Ukrainian villages
The Russian Protection Ministry claimed on Friday that over the previous week its forces have captured 10 Ukrainian villages. The small conquests are a part of Russia’s sluggish however regular slog to envelop the remaining Ukrainian strongholds within the Donetsk area from each the north and the south and create footholds for urgent additional west into the Dnipropetrovsk area.
The Defence Ministry additionally mentioned its forces downed 111 Ukrainian drones over a number of areas in a single day, with particles inflicting harm to properties and infrastructure.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported that air defences downed three drones heading to the town, which compelled flights to be suspended at two Moscow airports.
In the meantime, Ukrainian authorities mentioned Russian artillery struck a residential block within the southeastern metropolis of Kherson on Friday, killing two folks and injuring 22 others.
Russian planes additionally dropped a minimum of 5 highly effective glide bombs on the northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv, injuring six folks and damaging properties, in accordance with Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov.
And for the primary time, Russia fired glide bombs on Ukraine’s southern Odesa area Friday, in accordance with Oleh Kiper, head of the Odesa Regional Army Administration, calling it “a brand new, critical risk” within the space. Glide bombs are considerably cheaper than missiles and carry a heavier payload.
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