Ukraine-Russia newest: Moscow shuts down airports as Ukraine launches main drone assault | EUROtoday

Ukrainian in a single day drone assaults have set a number of non-residential buildings on hearth in Russia’s Kaluga and Bryansk areas, regional governors stated this morning.

“Emergency services and firefighters are on the site,” Alexander Bogomaz, governor of the Russian border area of Bryansk stated, with out offering additional element.

The defence ministry stated its air defence items had destroyed 23 Ukrainian drones in a single day, together with 17 over Bryansk.

Vladislav Shapsha, governor of the Kaluga area, which borders the Moscow area to its northeast, stated a non-residential constructing within the area was on hearth as results of Ukraine’s drone assault.

Ukraine launched no less than 17 drones focusing on Moscow early right now, forcing the short-term closure of two of the capital’s airports, Russian officers stated.

Mayor Sergei Sobyanin stated the 12 drones had been destroyed within the Ramenskoye and Kolomensky districts of the Moscow area, in addition to in Domodedovo metropolis, southwest of Moscow.

“According to preliminary information, there is no damage or casualties at the site of the fall of the debris,” Sobyanin stated on Telegram. “Emergency services are on the sites.”

The Ramenskoye district, some 45km (30 miles) southeast of the Kremlin, was final focused in September Ukraine’s greatest assault on the Russian capital, when Russian air defence items destroyed 20 drones.

Rosaviatsia, Russia’s federal air transport company, stated on Telegram that “to ensure the safety of civil aircraft flights, temporary restrictions have been introduced on the operation of the Domodedovo and Zhukovo airports,” beginning at 5.30am GMT.

It didn’t say how lengthy the restrictions could be in drive.

Russian president Vladimir Putin signed into regulation a treaty on the nation’s strategic partnership with North Korea which features a mutual defence provision, in line with a decree printed yesterday.

The accord, signed by Mr Putin and North Korean chief Kim Jong-un in June after a summit in Pyongyang, calls on all sides to return to the opposite’s help in case of an armed assault.

Russia’s higher home ratified the treaty this week, whereas the decrease home endorsed it final month. Mr Putin signed a decree on that ratification that appeared on Saturday on a authorities web site outlining legislative procedures.

The treaty galvanises nearer ties between Moscow and Pyongyang since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

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Russia is open to listening to president-elect Donald Trump’s proposals on ending the struggle, an official in Moscow has stated.

Russian deputy international minister Sergei Ryabkov stated Moscow and Washington had been “exchanging signals” on Ukraine by way of “closed channels.” He didn’t specify whether or not the communication was with the present administration or Mr Trump and members of his incoming administration.

Russia is able to hearken to Mr Trump’s proposals on Ukraine offered these had been “ideas on how to move forward in the area of settlement, and not in the area of further pumping the Kyiv regime with all kinds of aid,” Mr Ryabkov stated yesterday in an interview with Russian state information company Interfax.

Russian chief Vladimir Putin described Donald Trump in a single phrase as he spoke publically for the primary time in regards to the Republican’s election victory.

Putin stated he had been “impressed” by Trump, earlier than describing him as “courageous” regarding the assassination try on the president-elect at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Donald Trump’s incoming administration’s priority in Ukraine will be to establish peace, and not restore lost territory, a senior aide to president-elect said.

Bryan Lanza, a long-time Republican party strategist, told the BBC that Trump’s administration would be asking Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky for a “realistic vision for peace.”

Mr Zelensky has repeatedly stated peace can’t be established till all Russian forces are expelled and all territory captured by Moscow, together with Crimea, is returned. His “victory plan” offered final month maintains that provision in addition to an invite for Ukraine to affix Nato, lengthy denounced by Russia.

“And if president Zelensky comes to the table and says, well we can only have peace if we have Crimea, he shows to us that he’s not serious. Crimea is gone,” he stated. “And if that is your priority of getting Crimea back and having American soldiers fight to get Crimea back, you’re on your own.”

He stated the precedence was “peace and to stop the killing.”

“What we’re going to say to Ukraine is, you know what you see? What do you see as a realistic vision for peace? It’s not a vision for winning, but it’s a vision for peace. And let’s start having the honest conversation,” he stated.