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Russian president Vladimir Putin<\/a> congratulated Donald Trump<\/a> on winning the US election and said Moscow<\/a> was ready for dialogue with him.
In his first remarks since Mr Trump\u2019s win, Mr Putin said the president-elect had acted \u201clike a real man\u201d during an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania in July.
Mr Trump\u2019s win has caused concern in Ukraine<\/a>, where the Russian forces have made swift advances of late, over fears that he would curtail US support for Kyiv.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a>, though, commended Mr Trump on his victory and described a recent phone conversation with him as \u201cexcellent\u201d. He denounced calls for a ceasefire without security guarantees, calling them \u201cnonsense\u201d.
The Biden administration committed to supporting Ukraine ahead of the presidential election, ensuring Kyiv would continue getting aid even after Mr Trump assumed office in January.
\u201cThat\u2019s not going to change,\u201d White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. \u201cWe are going to surge and get that out there to Ukraine.\u201d
Meanwhile, Russian drone strikes killed at least one person and injured 34 injured in Odesa and Kharkiv early this morning.
The Russian foreign ministry has summoned the deputy head of Canada\u2019s embassy in Moscow to protest over what it called \u201cfalse accusations\u201d that Russia was behind a sabotage campaign against Nato countries.
Western security officials have said that parcels that exploded at logistics depots in Europe were part of a test run for a Russian plot to trigger explosions on cargo flights to the United States. Russia has rejected the accusations.
War in Ukraine could end easily if Donald Trump\u2019s future US administration takes a solution-based approach, Turkey\u2019s president Tayyip Erdogan has been quoted as saying.
Mr Erdogan also said efforts of the Western countries led by the US to end war in Ukraine would accelerate a solution, based on his reported in-flight interview with reporters on his way back from Budapest.
European nations boosted their defences in response to the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but much remains to be done for them to be ready to face threats from Russia, according to a new report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Published as the think-tank opened a three-day gathering in Prague to discuss European and transatlantic military capabilities, the report said: \u201cNato has not just significantly increased its ambitions regarding its deterrence and war-fighting posture, but European members have sought to address critical capability and readiness shortfalls.
\u201cUnsurprisingly, however, after decades of neglect and underinvestment, much remains to be done and progress has been mixed.\u201d
European nations have boosted their defenses in response to the annexation of the Crimea Peninsula in 2014 and Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 but much remains to be done for them to be ready to face threats from Russia
Former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger has said that Donald Trump\u2019s desire for a swift end to the war in Ukraine will see Kyiv lose territory to Russia.
He told BBC Radio 4\u2019s Today programme: \u201cHe will attempt to engineer a rapid solution, but he\u2019s been pulled in two directions. There will be a land swap. That is a terrible thing for the people who end up living under Russian rule.
\u201cBut fundamentally, it\u2019s not the main argument. The main argument is whether Ukraine is a western or eastern country in future.\u201d
Sir Alex added: \u201cTrump\u2019s advisers, on the one hand, are saying that Ukraine should be forced into neutrality, so basically back into the bosom of Putin. Others are talking about the need to do a land swap, but then reinforce its military and economic capabilities, and we need to make sure we are compounding that second argument.\u201d
Ireland\u2019s Taoiseach Simon Harris has said there was a very resolute view at the European Political Community summit in Budapest this week that the EU must stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes.
\u201cThe US had its election and it made its decision but that doesn\u2019t change European values, and European values around the importance of the UN Charter, the importance of territorial integrity remain,\u201d he said.
Vladimir Putin has described China as Russia\u2019s ally and threw his weight behind Beijing\u2019s claims over Taiwan, while insisting that no countries have anything to fear from their deepening co-operation.
The two countries have not declared a formal military alliance, but signed a \u201cno limits\u201d partnership deal in 2022, less than three weeks before Mr Putin sent his troops into Ukraine.
\u201cWe do not believe that China is pursuing an aggressive policy in the region,\u201d Mr Putin said at the Valdai discussion club in the Russian resort of Sochi.
China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, despite strong objections by the government in Taipei, and regularly holds wargames near the island. But Mr Putin suggested that Taiwan was trying to stir up a Ukraine-style crisis in Asia in order to attract outside support.
\u201cA lot is going on around Taiwan,\u201d Mr Putin said. \u201cEveryone formally acknowledges, yes, Taiwan is part of China. But in reality? In reality, it is acting in a completely different direction. Provoking the situation towards escalation.
\u201cWe do support China. And because of this, we believe that [China] is conducting a completely reasonable policy. And also because it is our ally. We have a very large trade turnover, we co-operate in the security sector.\u201d
South Korea has been targeted with cyberattacks by pro-Russia hacking groups after North Korea dispatched troops to Russia to support its war against Ukraine, Seoul\u2019s presidential office has warned.
The office held an emergency intra-agency meeting after detecting denial-of-service attacks on some government and private websites in recent days.
Some of the websites experienced temporary outages but there was no serious damage, the presidential office said, adding that the government will strengthen its ability to respond to such attacks.
Vladimir Putin has described Donald Trump in one word as he spoke publicly for the first time about the Republican\u2019s election victory, my colleague <\/em>Lucy Leeson <\/em><\/strong>reports<\/em><\/a>.
Putin said he had been \u201cimpressed\u201d by Trump, before describing him as \u201ccourageous\u201d concerning the assassination attempt on the president-elect at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
On Thursday, Putin said: \u201cIn his first term as president he was dubbed mostly a businessman, but his behavior when there was an attempt on his life, I was impressed, he is a courageous person.
The Russian city of Saratov was targeted by a Ukrainian drone overnight, the regional governor said on Friday, saying drone debris had fallen in an industrial zone after it had been destroyed.
The governor, Roman Busargin, made the comments on his official Telegram channel and said that nobody appeared to have been hurt.
Saratov, about 730km southeast of Moscow, hosts an oil refinery.
A major airbase housing long-range strategic bombers is also located less than 16km out of the city and has been targeted by Ukraine in the past.
Early this morning, Russian forces struck the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, with a guided KAB aerial bomb severely damaging a 12-storey residential building in the Saltivskyi district and injuring at least 25 people.
The blast caused a fire, destroyed multiple floors, and left residents trapped, according to Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov. Search and rescue teams are working to locate anyone still beneath the rubble.
Five of the injured were taken to hospital, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov reported. The attack, launched from Russian-controlled Donetsk Oblast, also damaged nearby buildings, metro entrances, and vehicles.
A separate strike targeted Kharkiv\u2019s city centre, hitting administrative and historic structures as well as residential areas. Another hit impacted a nearby neighbourhood, damaging shops, multistorey buildings, and cars. Fortunately, no casualties were reported in these additional attacks, Mr Syniehubov confirmed.
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