Ukraine-Russia conflict newest: Trump ‘demands control’ of pipeline in Ukraine carrying Russian fuel | EUROtoday

Russia and Ukraine’s prime diplomats yesterday used a high-level convention in Turkey to as soon as once more commerce accusations of violating a tentative US-brokered deal to pause strikes on power infrastructure, underscoring the challenges of negotiating an finish to the three-year-long conflict.

The two international ministers spoke at separate occasions on the annual Antalya Diplomacy Forum, a day after US envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian president Vladimir Putin to debate peace prospects. Ukraine’s European allies on Friday promised billions of {dollars} to assist Kyiv hold preventing Russia’s invasion.

While Moscow and Kyiv each agreed in precept final month to implement a restricted, 30-day ceasefire, they issued conflicting statements quickly after their separate talks with U.S. officers in Saudi Arabia. They differed on the beginning time of halting strikes, and alleged near-immediate breaches by the opposite aspect.

“The Ukrainians have been attacking us from the very beginning, every passing day, maybe with two or three exceptions,” Russian international minister Sergei Lavrov mentioned, including that Moscow would offer the US, Turkey and worldwide our bodies with an inventory of Kyiv’s assaults in the course of the previous three weeks.

A consultant of the Russian international ministry individually instructed state media yesterday that Moscow has been sharing intelligence with the US concerning greater than 60 supposed breaches of the deal by Kyiv.

Officials in Ukraine claimed a Russian missile intentionally struck the warehouse of an Indian pharmaceutical firm in Kyiv.

“Today, a Russian missile struck the warehouse of Indian pharmaceutical company Kusum in Ukraine. While claiming ‘special friendship’ with India, Moscow deliberately targets Indian businesses – destroying medicines meant for children and the elderly,” Ukraine’s embassy in India mentioned on X.

A 26-year-old Ukrainian F-16 pilot was killed yesterday whereas performing a fight mission, the Ukrainian air power mentioned.

Pavlo Ivanov is the second F-16 pilot to be killed since Ukraine lately added the fighters to its arsenal. A 30-year-old pilot died in August final 12 months when a fighter plane crashed whereas repelling a Russian air assault.

“We express our deepest condolences to Pavlo’s family. He died in battle, defending his homeland from occupiers,” the air force said in a statement.

“Ukrainian pilots work at the maximum of human and technical capabilities, risking their lives each time they perform combat missions. Pavlo was one of them.”

US president Donald Trump said yesterday that talks to end Russia’s war on Ukraine might be going OK, adding that there is a time when you have to put up or shut up.

At a meeting between US and Russian envoys earlier this week, it was reportedly said that the fastest way to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine was to support a strategy that would give Russia ownership of four eastern Ukrainian regions it attempted to annex illegally in 2022.

The US has demanded control of a key pipeline in Ukraine that is used to send Russian gas to Europe, according to reports, while Kyiv negotiates a mineral deal with Donald Trump’s administration.

Prospects for a breakthrough in the minerals deal between Washington and Kyiv were scant given the meeting’s “antagonistic” atmosphere, a source told Reuters, following last week’s meeting.

The US has demanded that the government’s International Development Finance Corporation take control of a natural gas pipeline, which runs from the town of Sudzha in western Russia to the Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod.

Senior economist Volodymyr Landa told The Guardian that Washington’s bullying “colonial-type” calls for had little probability of being accepted by Kyiv.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky final week mentioned a minerals deal needs to be worthwhile for each nations and may very well be structured in a manner that may assist modernise Ukraine.

The newest draft would give the US privileged entry to Ukraine’s mineral deposits and require Kyiv to put in a joint funding fund all revenue from the exploitation of pure sources by Ukrainian state and personal companies.

The proposed deal, nevertheless, wouldn’t present US safety ensures to Kyiv – a prime precedence of Mr Zelensky – for its battle in opposition to Russian forces occupying some 20 per cent of its territory.