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Ukrainian leader meets US president in Florida today to seek a resolution to conflict
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Moscow warned that any European troop contingents deployed to Ukraine would become legitimate targets for Russia’s armed forces, ahead of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky’s crunch peace talks with his US counterpart today about security guarantees.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov went on to accuse European politicians of being driven by ambitions in their relations with Kyiv and disregarding the people of Ukraine and of their own nations, in the remarks published by Russia’s state news agency TASS.
Zelensky is set to discuss security guarantees and territorial disputes surrounding Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia with Donald Trump in the US leader’s Florida residence.
Putin warned that Moscow would accomplish all its goals by force if Ukraine didn’t want to resolve the conflict peacefully, according to TASS on Sunday, just one day after he launched a brutal aerial strike targeting Kyiv with almost 500 drones and 40 missiles. Nearly a third of Ukraine’s capital was left without heating in sub-zero weather conditions and two people were killed.
Zelensky has said the attack on Kyiv showed Putin “doesn’t want peace”, at a time where he confirmed a 20-point peace plan draft is “90 per cent ready.”
Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump will hold a call with other European leaders as they’re set to continue discussions surrounding ending the war between Russian and Ukraine later on today in Florida.
The Ukrainian president previously said he hoped European leaders could also be involved in talks either on Sunday or at a future date.
Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said on Saturday he would speak with the leaders of Ukraine, Germany, France, the UK, Italy and the EU ahead on the chances for peace ahead of the Florida talks.
Three more Iranian satellites were sent into space on Russia’s Soyuz launchers on Sunday, Iranian state media said, as the two US -sanctioned nations extend their space collaboration.
Iran has increasingly relied on its ally Russia to put satellites in orbit in recent years, with the latest three intended to help with monitoring agriculture, natural resources and the environment.
“These satellites were designed and produced by Iranian scientists … despite all the sanctions and threats,” Iran’s ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali told state TV in reference to Western measures over Tehran’s nuclear programme.
The situation at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is stable and power is being supplied through one high-voltage line, the state RIA news agency cited a spokesman at the plant as saying. An IAEA team is monitoring repairs near the plant after a local ceasefire brokered by the agency began. The work is expected to last several days.
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has said decisions on peace depend on Kyiv’s partners ahead of his meeting with US president Donald Trump today.
Zelensky arrived in Florida yesterday for discussions as he affirmed that the 20 point peace plan draft was 90 per cent complete.
The Ukrainian military said on Sunday that it struck the Syzran oil refinery in Russia’s Samara region in an overnight drone attack.
The strike on the facility caused a fire and damages were still being assessed, Kyiv’s General Staff said in a statement.
It added that a recent Ukrainian strike on the Volgograd oil refinery had damaged a pipeline and equipment for producing lubricants.
Power line repairs have begun near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after another local ceasefire brokered by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the agency said on Sunday, citing its Director General Rafael Grossi.
An IAEA team is monitoring repairs expected to last a few days, as part of efforts to prevent nuclear accident during the war in Ukraine conflict, the agency added.
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