Ukraine-Russia battle newest: Trump envoys to carry talks in Davos as Zelensky says Putin is just not involved in peace | EUROtoday

The Kremlin stated on Monday that it was laborious to disagree with consultants who stated that US President Donald Trump would go down in world historical past if he took management of Greenland.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated he was not discussing whether or not such a step can be good or dangerous – merely stating a reality.

The Kremlin stated on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been invited to hitch US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace”, and that Moscow is learning the proposal and hopes for contacts with Washington regarding it.

Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez stated a US invasion of Greenland “would make Putin the happiest man on earth”.

Sanchez stated any army motion by the US in opposition to Denmark’s huge Arctic island would injury Nato and “legitimise” the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

“If we focus on Greenland, I have to say that a US invasion of that territory would make Vladimir Putin the happiest man in the world. Why? Because it would legitimise his attempted invasion of Ukraine,” he told The Vanguard.

“If the United States were to use force, it would be the death knell for Nato. Putin would be doubly happy,” he stated.

President Donald Trump on Saturday appeared to change tack over Greenland by vowing to implement a wave of increasing tariffs on European allies until the United States is allowed to buy Greenland.

Volodymyr Zelensky said he held a special energy coordination meeting yesterday, noting that the situation remains most difficult in several areas.

He said Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and the surrounding regions are the worst hit due to Russian attacks.

Ukraine needs to ramp up electricity imports and acquire additional equipment from its partners, the Ukrainian president said.

Zelensky said he has ordered a separate review in Kyiv to identify buildings that are still without heating.

“Unfortunately, there are discrepancies between city-level and government-level reports even concerning the number of such buildings. The Ministry of Energy and all central government bodies must fully engage to help people,” he said.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said in a Telegram post that repairing the country’s energy system remains challenging, “however we’re doing every part we are able to to revive every part as shortly as doable”.

He said two people were killed in overnight attacks across the country that struck Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipro Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi and Odesa.

More than 1,300 attack drones, 1,050 guided aerial bombs and 29 missiles of various types were used by Russia to strike Ukraine this week, he added.

“If Russia intentionally delays the diplomatic course of, the world’s response needs to be decisive: extra assist for Ukraine and extra stress on the aggressor,” Mr Zelensky said.

He spoke the day after a Ukrainian delegation arrived in the US for talks on a US-led diplomatic push to end the war.

Ukraine, whose power system is under constant Russian attacks, will implement projects to improve electricity transmission from western part of the country to its power-hungry east, energy minister Denys Shmyhal said this morning.

The three operational Ukrainian nuclear power plants, which currently provide Ukraine with most of its electricity, are located in the west of the country, while eastern Ukraine previously relied on thermal power plants that have been almost completely destroyed.

Russia is showing no signs of interest in talks leading to a peace deal and is instead focusing on boosting arms production, including a target of 1,000 drones a day, Ukraine’s top military commander has said.

“On the contrary, we see an increase in intensity of military actions, an increase in the number of offensive enemy groupings, an increase in production of strike weapons, missiles and drones,” General Oleksandr Syrskyi told the online media outlet lb.ua in an interview.

“At the moment, the enemy produces daily 404 ‘Shaheds’ (Iranian-designed drones) of different kinds. And the plans are to increase that. The enemy plans to boost production significantly, up to 1,000 drones a day,” he said.

Talks with US officials on a resolution of the nearly four-year-old war with Russia will continue at the World Economic Forum opening this week in the Swiss resort of Davos, Ukraine’s top negotiator Rustem Umerov said.

In a message on Telegram, Umerov said two days of talks in Florida with a US team including envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, president Donald Trump’s son-in-law, had focused on security guarantees and a post-war recovery plan for Ukraine.

He gave no indication whether any agreements had been achieved at the meeting.

“We agreed to continue work at the team level during the next phase of consultations in Davos,” Umerov stated.

The two sides, within the newest of a collection of conferences meant to work out the small print of an settlement, had “discussed in depth” the 2 points, “focusing on practical mechanisms and carrying out and implementing them,” Mr Umerov stated.

He stated his delegation had reported on Russian strikes final week which badly broken Ukraine’s vitality infrastructure and left a whole bunch of condo buildings with no heating or electrical energy.