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A mother and child are among at least six people killed in Russian attacks over the past day, Ukrainian authorities said.
The 10-year-old boy and his mother, 41, were killed in the town of Bohodukhiv in the eastern Kharkiv region, after Moscow launched a wave of attacks targeting the country’s east and south.
A “massive” Russian drone attack on the southern port city of Odesa killed one and injured two others, regional governor Oleh Kiper said, while a 71-year-old man was killed in an attack on Novhorod-Siverskyi in the northern Chernihiv region.
On Sunday morning, two more people were killed in Russian attacks on the city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region and Oleksiievo-Druzhkivka.
A total of 36 people were injured across Ukraine over the past day, according to a tally of updates by Ukrainian authorities.
Meanwhile, a man suspected of shooting a top military intelligence officer in Moscow has been detained, according to Russia’s security service.
Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev – an official previously linked to the Salisbury poisonings – was shot several times outside an apartment building in an alleged assassination attempt. He is currently recovering in hospital after undergoing surgery.
Ukraine’s Klitschko brothers are set to give evidence at a British parliamentary committee hearing on the war in Ukraine.
Vitalii Klitschko, who is the mayor of Kyiv, is one of President Zelensky’s highest profile domestic political opponents, and has often been highly critical of the president.
The hearing is set to begin at around 1:30pm – stay with us for all the key lines.
Germany has indicted a Ukrainian national in connection with allegations of a plot linked to Russian intelligence to detonate parcel packages in Europe, German prosecutors said in a statement on Monday.
The Russian embassy in Berlin has not yet commented on the news.
US secretary of state Marco Rubio will lead “a sizeable delegation” of US officials to the Munich Security Conference this weekend, the conference’s head said.
More than 50 members of the U.S. Congress are also expected at the meeting, an annual conference on international security policy that has been held in Munich since 1963.
The governors of Michigan and California are expected to attend, former diplomat and conference chairman Wolfgang Ischinger told a news conference in Berlin.
“At the moment, transatlantic relations are, in my view, in a considerable crisis of trust and credibility,” he said. “That is why it is particularly gratifying that the American side is showing such strong interest in Munich.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed the US has set a June deadline for Ukraine and Russia to finalise a peace agreement, aiming to conclude the nearly four-year conflict.
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Ukraine is set to launch drone production in Germany by mid-February, president Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
In a post on X, he wrote: “Today, we are opening exports. Ten export centers across Europe will be operating as early as 2026 – in the Baltic and Nordic states. Ten representative offices will be active in 2026.
“By mid-February, we will already see the production of our drones in Germany.”
Russian forces have attacked an energy facility in Ukraine’s northwestern Volyn region, Novovolynsk mayor Borys Karpus said.
“The enemy struck an energy facility near the Novovolynsk hromada [settlement] again last night,” Mr Karpus said in a post on Facebook.
Water is being supplied via the electricity network, he said. Wastewater treatment plants are requiring generators to function, and some boiler houses have also switched to generator power.
He added: “The boilers are being fired up. Fuel is available. All the appropriate services have been deployed. The situation is under control.”
Ukrainian and Russian leaders need to meet in person to hash out the hardest remaining issues in peace talks, Kyiv’s foreign minister has said, adding that only US president Donald Trump has the power to bring about an agreement.
“Only Trump can stop the war,” Sybiha told Reuters in his office in Kyiv, close to the Dnipro river.
From a 20-point peace plan that has formed the basis of recent trilateral negotiations, only “a few” items remain outstanding, Sybiha said.
“The most sensitive and most difficult, to be dealt with at the leaders’ level.”
Sybiha said Ukraine wants to accelerate the efforts to end the four-yer-old war and capitalise on the momentum in the US-brokered talks before other factors come into play, such as campaigning for the US Congressional mid-term elections in November.
Russia remains open for cooperation with the United States but Washington is creating artificial barriers, Moscow’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
In an interview with Russian media outlet TV BRICS, Lavrov said that he said he saw “no bright future” in the economic sphere of relations with the United States.
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