Ukraine, Zelensky: Moscow has stopped the prisoner trade | EUROtoday

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Twenty-four hours in the past Vladimir Putin promised to cease the raids for per week. President Volodymyr Zelensky, nevertheless, talking to journalists, mentioned that Russia has stopped the prisoner trade as a result of it doesn’t imagine it can acquire any benefit from it. “The Russians have blocked the process. They are not very interested in exchanging people because they believe it brings them nothing,” the Ukrainian chief mentioned as reported by worldwide media. “They think it gives us something. But I think they also have to think about their people, their military,” Zelensky concluded.

Meanwhile, the Russian military’s assaults in opposition to Ukraine proceed. In the previous few hours, Moscow has launched an Iskander-M ballistic missile and 111 assault drones on Ukrainian territory, together with Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas and different sorts of plane, in response to the Kiev Air Force.

In the standard morning bulletin, the Ukrainian General Staff additionally introduced that within the final twenty-four hours there have been 279 clashes alongside the entrance line and that Russian forces have carried out air strikes in opposition to settlements within the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia areas.

Some 378 buildings in Kiev are nonetheless with out heating, Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko reported right now on his Telegram channel. «About 378 buildings in Kiev are nonetheless with out heating. Most are positioned in Troyeschyna. Some are positioned in a number of different neighborhoods of the capital. Yesterday, the primary 100 buildings in Troyeschyna have been linked to the heating community. Tonight, one other 50″, specified the mayor of Kiev on Telegram.

On the opposite hand, Russian air protection forces intercepted and destroyed 18 Ukrainian drones over the areas of the Russian Federation through the night time. This was reported – as reported by Tass – by the Russian Ministry of Defense, specifying that 5 have been over the territory of the Republic of Crimea, two on the Black Sea, two within the Rostov area, one within the Astrakhan area and one within the Kursk area. Only a number of hours in the past US President Trump introduced a halt to the battle in view of a wave of frost arriving in Ukraine.