Ukraine-Russia battle newest: Suspect in assault on Putin’s common is extradited to Moscow from Dubai | EUROtoday

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky stated he was imposing sanctions on some international producers of parts for Russian drones and missiles used in opposition to Ukraine.

“Producing this weaponry would be impossible without critical foreign components, which the Russians continue to obtain by circumventing sanctions,” Zelensky stated on X.

“We are introducing new sanctions precisely against such companies – component suppliers, as well as missile and drone manufacturers. I have signed the relevant decisions.”

According to 2 decrees revealed by the Ukrainian presidency, the targets of the sanctions embody a number of Chinese corporations in addition to corporations from the previous Soviet Union, the United Arab Emirates and Panama.

Ukrainian and Russian leaders want to fulfill in individual to hash out the toughest remaining points in peace talks, Kyiv’s international minister has stated, including that solely US president Donald Trump has the facility to result in an settlement.

“Only Trump can stop the war,” Sybiha instructed Reuters in his workplace in Kyiv, near the Dnipro river.

From a 20-point peace plan that has fashioned the idea of current trilateral negotiations, solely “a few” objects stay excellent, Sybiha stated.

“The most sensitive and most difficult, to be dealt with at the leaders’ level.”

Sybiha stated Ukraine desires to speed up the efforts to finish the four-yer-old battle and capitalise on the momentum within the US-brokered talks earlier than different elements come into play, similar to campaigning for the US Congressional mid-term elections in November.

Russian president Vladimir Putin thanked his UAE counterpart Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan for assist with the detention of a person suspected of taking pictures a Russian navy intelligence officer in Moscow.

The two leaders spoke over the cellphone on Saturday night, stated Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.

“Vladimir Putin thanked Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan for ensuring effective cooperation between the two countries’ security agencies and for the assistance of the Emirati side in apprehending the suspect in the assassination attempt on General Vladimir Alekseyev,” an announcement stated.

In addition, the leaders had an extra dialogue of the problems raised throughout the President of the UAE’s current go to to Moscow.

A Ukrainian-born Russian citizen has been extradited to Moscow from Dubai on suspicion of gravely injuring Vladimir Alexeyev, deputy head of Russia’s huge GRU navy intelligence service.

A Russian airstrike on a residential space in jap Ukraine killed one individual and wounded two, officers stated on Sunday.

The assault on the town of Kramatorsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk area prompted a fireplace in a nine-story residence block, in line with Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.

Russia additionally struck power infrastructure in Ukraine’s Poltava area in a single day into Sunday, Serhii Koretskyi, chief govt of Ukraine’s state-owned fuel firm Naftogaz stated.

Russia has hammered Ukraine’s energy grid, particularly in winter, all through the almost 4-year-old battle. It goals to weaken the Ukrainian will to withstand in a technique that Kyiv officers name “weaponising winter”.

A Ukrainian-born Russian citizen has been extradited to Moscow from Dubai on suspicion of gravely injuring one of Russia’s most senior military intelligence officers, Russian security officials and investigators said on Sunday.

The Federal Security Service (FSB), the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said in a statement that a Russian citizen named Lyubomir Korba was detained in Dubai on suspicion of carrying out the shooting.

Russian investigators said Korba, born in the Ternopil region of Soviet Ukraine in 1960, was tasked by Ukrainian intelligence to carry out the shooting. Russia said Ukraine was behind the shooting, a charge Kyiv has denied.

Russian media showed masked FSB officers escorting a blindfolded man from a small jet in Russia in the dark.

The FSB said it had identified two accomplices, also Russian citizens. One, Viktor Vasin, was detained in Moscow, while another, Zinaida Serebritskaya, escaped to Ukraine, Russian investigators said.

Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, deputy head of Russia’s vast GRU military intelligence service, was shot three times on Friday with a Makarov pistol equipped with a silencer in an apartment block on the Volokolamsk highway in northern Moscow, the investigators said.

Russia has claimed to have captured two settlements in eastern Ukraine on Sunday.

The country’s defence ministry said its forces had captured the settlements of Hlushkivka in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region and Sydorivka in Sumy region.

The Independent could not independently verify the battlefield report.

Ukraine has backed calls for a ceasefire during the Winter Olympics.

The idea was proposed by Pope Leo under what he said was the tradition of the Olympic truce. Ukraine responded to the suggestion and backed the proposal.

“We are interested in a ceasefire and if Russia once again rejects, ‌it will once again confirm who is the obstacle for peace and who ​wants to continue this war,” Ukraine’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha told Reuters.

The top Russian military general reportedly shot in an alleged attempted assassination outside his Moscow apartment has been accused of being involved in the 2018 Salisbury poisonings.

Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev is deputy head of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence arm.

Mr Alexeyev is believed to have been behind the deadly Salisbury poisonings that caused the tragic death of mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, 44, according to reports. The EU imposed sanctions on him over the poisoning of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in 2018.