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Vladimir Putin<\/a> is set to send his top negotiator to Washington in a bid to win back the favour of Donald Trump<\/a>, who is reportedly angry at the Russian autocrat.
Washington officials have <\/a>acknowledged that Putin<\/a> is resisting attempts to strike a ceasefire, and discussed what economic or diplomatic punishments could push Russia<\/a> closer to a deal, the sources said.
It comes following Mr Trump\u2019s explosive reveal that he was \u201cp***** off\u201d with Putin and would look to unleash oil tariffs on Russia if they did not take peace talks seriously.
Kirill Dmitriev, Putin\u2019s Kyiv-born and US-educated envoy, will meet with Mr Trump\u2019s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff this week, Reuters reported.
Responding to the reports on X, Mr Dmitriev said: \u201cThe resistance to US\u2013Russia dialogue is real\u2014driven by entrenched interests and old narratives. But what if improved relations are exactly what the world needs for lasting global security and peace?\u201d
On Tuesday, two senior Washington sources told Reuters that a peace deal does not seem imminent, despite US efforts.
Meanwhile, half of the US Senate – including 25 Republicans and 25 Democrats – has united to propose sanctions on Russia if it refuses to engage in good faith negotiations with Ukraine.<\/a>
If you\u2019re just joining us now, here\u2019s everything you need to know so far on Wednesday:
Donald Trump must not be misled by Vladimir Putin\u2019s \u201cstalling tactics\u201d to delay peace in Ukraine, outgoing German minister Annalena Baerbock said during a visit to Kyiv.
The US president showed the first signs of frustration with his Russian counterpart over the weekend, telling NBC News he was \u201cp***** off\u201d and \u201cvery angry\u201d with Putin over the failure to reach an agreement with a ceasefire – before threatening to unleash oil tariffs on Moscow.
Paying a final visit to Kyiv as Germany\u2019s foreign minister – before a new government takes office with CDU leader Friedrich Merz at the helm – Ms Baerbock said she would raise the issue with US secretary of state Marco Rubio during a meeting of Nato foreign ministers this week.
“At the upcoming meeting of NATO foreign ministers, we will make it clear to the American side that we should not engage with Putin’s stalling tactics,” the 44-year-old Greens leader said in a statement released after her arrival in the Ukrainian capital.
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Anti-corruption officers in Ukraine have exposed a $17.8 million embezzlement scheme in the defence ministry, Ukraine\u2019s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) has said.
The funds were embezzled during food procurement for the Armed Forces between 2022 and 2023, and have led to charges being brought against a former head of department within the Ministry of Defence.
Food supplies for the army were arranged through pre-assembled \u201cfood kits\u201d taken from a selection of 409 items – but only 10 per cent of those products were regularly ordered, NABU said according to Ukrainska Pravda<\/em>.
Other items such as spices and berries, were very rarely due to their seasonal nature.
\u201cThis system allowed suppliers to manipulate prices \u2013 artificially inflating the cost of high-demand products while lowering prices for unpopular or seasonal products (such as cherries or apricots in winter).
\u201cAt first glance, there were no violations, as the total price of the kit remained unchanged. However, potatoes, supplied in thousands of tonnes, cost a fortune, while seasonal berries and fruits, which were rarely ordered, were priced at mere pennies.”
Ukraine is has come up $10 billion short in what is needed for recovery efforts in 2025, Kyiv\u2019s prime minister Denuys Shmyhal said on Wednesday.
Kyiv needs $39.3 billion in international support this year and its partners have confirmed their commitment to covering this amount, Mr Shmyhal said.
But so far the overall shortfall is nearly $10 billion, he said after the 13th meeting of the Steering Committee of the Ukraine Donor Platform.
“This year, we consider the key areas of joint work of the Ukraine Donor Platform to be budget support, sustainable financing for infrastructure, housing and energy recovery, as well as economic development and investment attraction on the path to the EU,\u201d he said.
The Ukrainian military recorded 176 clashes with Russian forces over the past day, 64 of which took place on the eastern Pokrovsk front.
Vladimir Putin\u2019s forces have been steadily advancing near Pokrovsk, a strategic Ukrainian town which serves as a supply hub for other areas of the frontline. Russia has aimed to cut supply lines to and from Pokrovsk to other Ukrainian-controlled areas.
Clashes were also recorded on the fronts in Kharkiv, Kupiansk, Lyman, Toretsk, Kursk and others.
The grinding war of attrition in eastern Ukraine has seen Russia send large masses of troops charging towards stretched Ukrainian defences, claiming incremental territorial gains at the cost of large manpower losses.
Dozens of people were evacuated from an apartment building in the Russian city of Kursk following a Ukrainian drone attack, a regional official said on Wednesday.
“As a result of the attack of enemy drones on Kursk, there is damage to an apartment building in the city centre,” the acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein, said on Telegram.
At least 60 people were evacuated from the building which was hit with drone debris, he said. “Fortunately, there are no casualties.”
Ukraine has not yet commented on the attack, the size of which remains unclear.
Such is the Trump Tower-sized self-conceit of Donald J Trump<\/a> that for weeks \u2013 if not months \u2013 he could not see what virtually the whole of the rest of the world could: Vladimir Putin was playing him like a cheap violin.
Trump, seemingly mesmerised by the Russian leader, gave his friend everything he wanted: dominance in Ukraine, aside from a carve-out for US mineral interests<\/a>; a Russian zone of influence in Europe; the abandonment of Nato and other allies. All of that in return for the Russians scaling back their nuclear arsenal and giving the Americans a free run at acquiring Greenland<\/a> and Canada (even if they are not Russia\u2019s to give away and won\u2019t ever happen).
That looked to be the kind of grand bargain Trump was looking for, but Putin overplayed his hand.
Associate editor Sean O\u2019Grady writes:<\/em><\/strong>
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