Ukraine-Russia warfare newest: Zelensky warns Putin is planning ‘massive’ assault forward of Sunday peace talks | EUROtoday

Among the wrong statements made through the conferences are errors about how lengthy the warfare has been occurring, when it began and whether or not or not the nation has a vp.

The discussions have thus far been led by US particular envoy Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, military secretary Dan Driscoll and different senior members of the administration.

“This is a serious problem,” Oleksandr Merezhko, head of Ukraine’s parliament international affairs committee, instructed the publication explaining that the developments had been deeply troubling. “(The envoy) has already made several big mistakes — both technical and, in essence, serious diplomatic ones.”

For common wage earners in Russia, it is a huge payday. For criminals in search of to flee the cruel situations and abuse in jail, it is an opportunity at freedom. For immigrants hoping for a greater life, it is a simplified path to citizenship.

All they should do is signal a contract to battle in Ukraine.

This determined recruitment drive is a part of Moscow’s technique to replenish its forces within the practically four-year battle, whereas concurrently avoiding an unpopular nationwide mobilisation. The bloody warfare of attrition has additionally seen international combatants be a part of the fray. Following a mutual defence treaty in 2024, North Korea reportedly despatched 1000’s of troopers to assist Russia defend its Kursk area towards a Ukrainian incursion.

Firefighters work at a facility of an industrial enterprise hit throughout an in a single day Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine, in Odesa on Thursday.

Donetsk stays the ultimate contentious problem stopping a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, in accordance with US secretary of state Marco Rubio.

“The one remaining item … is the territorial claim on Donetsk. There is active work going to try to see if both sides’ views on this can be reconciled,” he instructed a US Senate Foreign Relations Committee assembly.

“It’s still a bridge we haven’t crossed. It’s still a gap, but at least we’ve been able to narrow down the issue set to one central one, and it will probably be a very difficult one.”

President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that Russia is making ready a “new massive strike” as he stated the assaults discredited peace talks.

“The Russians are preparing a new massive strike – our intelligence indicates this,” he stated in a video to his social media account on Wednesday.

“The United States, Europe, and all our partners have to understand how this discredits diplomatic talks. Every single Russian strike does.”

Russia’s second largest oil producer has agreed to promote most of its international property to the US Carlyle Group pending approval from the US authorities.

The international property are value round $22bn and are held by the corporate’s unit LUKOIL International GmbH, which oversees them.

“The agreement signed is not exclusive for the Company and is subject to some conditions precedent such as procurement of necessary regulatory approvals including permission of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for the transaction with Carlyle,” Lukoil stated in a press release.

The firm was sanctioned by the US in October resulting from gradual progress in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, in accordance with Washington.

Three folks have been killed in in a single day Russian assaults in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia area, in accordance with the world’s governor.

Two ladies aged 26 and 50 and a 62-year-old man had been killed within the incident within the metropolis of Vilnyansk, stated Governor Ivan Fedorov.

Drones struck the world at round midnight (10pm GMT). Several homes had been broken and one was utterly destroyed, he stated.

Estonia’s international minister Magnus Tsahkna has stated that Russians who’ve fought within the warfare towards Ukraine needs to be prevented from coming into the Schengen space.

The area consists of 29 nations in Europe and border-free journey is enabled between them.

“You can imagine these hundreds of thousands of ex combatants and criminals, coming here and what they’re going to do,” he stated.

“They’re going to do many bad things.”

A senior Kremlin official has stated Russia can maintain direct talks with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky, supplied he travels to Moscow to talk together with his Russian counterpart.

“We have never refused and do not refuse this kind of contact,” Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said, adding that Moscow is prepared to ensure Zelensky’s security and working conditions if he comes to Russia.

It isn’t the first time Russia has said Zelensky should travel to Moscow if he wants a leaders’ summit with Putin. Kyiv has dismissed the suggestion as a non-starter given the security threat the Ukrainian president would face.

Ushakov’s remarks come after Ukraine’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said Zelensky is ready to meet Putin to resolve the two key issues in the peace talks, including territorial questions and the future of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

A senior Kremlin official has rejected a report claiming Russia has sustained the largest number of troop deaths for any major power in any conflict since the Second World War.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov snubbed the findings and said people should only trust casualty figures shared by the Russian defence ministry.

“I don’t think such reports can and should be viewed as reliable information,” Peskov instructed reporters at a each day briefing yesterday.

Russia has rarely released any details of its casualties in Ukraine and the figures it does put out are widely considered to be understatements.

A report from US think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies said Russia suffered 1.2 million casualties, including up to 325,000 troop deaths, between February 2022 and December 2025.