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The US and Russian presidents are set to speak at 3pm in a fresh bid to end the conflict started by Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago
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Donald Trump<\/a> is holding crunch talks with Vladimir Putin today to speed up ceasefire efforts<\/a> after Western leaders demanded an immediate truce.
The 3pm phone call to end the \u201cbloodbath\u201d comes after Trump last week vowed to meet Putin \u201cas soon as we can\u201d during a diplomatic fiasco prompted by the Russian president shunning peace talks in Turkey.
The US president’s renewed effort to end the war in Ukraine<\/a> will also include calls to Nato<\/a> leaders and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, but the Trump administration has insisted Russia and the US are the only ones who can bring an end to the conflict.<\/a>
\u201cI will be speaking, by telephone, to President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Monday at 10am. The subjects of the call will be stopping the \u2018bloodbath\u2019 that is killing, on average, more than 5000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week, and trade,\u201d Trump wrote on TruthSocial.
A flurry of diplomatic activity began when Zelensky met with US vice president JD Vance, secretary of state Marco Rubio, and European leaders in Rome yesterday, as he intensified his efforts ahead of Trump’s call with Putin.
Meanwhile, Kyiv\u2019s military intelligence agency has warned Russia<\/a> could test-launch its intercontinental ballistic missile in a drill to intimidate Ukraine<\/a>. <\/a>Russia also carried out its largest drone attack on Ukraine since the start of the war on Sunday and fired at least 273 drones, killing one woman.
Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 112 attack and decoy drones overnight into Monday, Ukraine\u2019s air force has said.
Air defences downed 76 of the Russian drones over Ukraine\u2019s eastern, northern, southern and central regions. A total of 35 disappeared from radar, likely due to Kyiv\u2019s use of electronic warfare.
The Kharkiv, Sumy, Donetsk, Cherkasy and Kirovohrad regions were all attacked by Russian drones, the air force added according to Ukrainska Pravda<\/em>.
Anti-aircraft missile units and aircraft were used by Ukrainian forces to repel the attacks.
Finland will supply more than \u00a375m (90 million euros) worth of ammunition to Ukraine using frozen Russian assets, the defence ministry announced on Monday.
“Finland has been selected as one of the states implementing European Union measures to supply Ukraine with defence materiel using proceeds from frozen Russian assets,” it said in a statement.
The ammunition will be procured from Finnish suppliers, with the funding channelled through the European Peace Facility (EPF)
Minister of Defence Antti H\u00e4kk\u00e4nen said according to Defence Industry Europe: \u201cFinland\u2019s support for Ukraine is unwavering and strong even in other respects. This new package alongside our national EUR 660 million support programme will forge closer links between the Finnish industry and Finland\u2019s support for Ukraine.
\u201cThis is a great example of the Finnish defence industry\u2019s abilities, and it shows that our investments into ammunition production capacity are paying off,\u201d he added.
Ukraine\u2019s security service says it has destroyed Black Sea gas infrastructure belonging to Russia using unmanned drones.
The target of the strikes was \u201cRussian radar equipment installed on Ukrainian gas extraction platforms,\u201d the SSU said.
A Neva radar station, gas storage points and a residential block on the platform were damaged in the attack, the SSU said.
\u201cAs part of the same special operation, SSU specialised officers used two types of drones, demonstrating the effectiveness of joint deployment. Once again, we reminded the enemy that there is no place for Russian junk in the Black Sea,\u201d it added.
Dozens of Abrams tanks are set to make their way to Ukraine from Australia despite private objections from US officials, the Australia\u2019s ABC news reported.
Anthony Albanese, the Australian prime minister, confirmed the delivery of 49 retired tanks when meeting Volodymyr Zelensky in Rome on Sunday at Pope Leo XIV\u2019s first formal Sunday mass.
The shipments of the retired tanks have been delayed partly due to resistance from Washington, ABC reported back in April.
This resistance has not subsided, with a US official questioning how useful they are on battlefields in Ukraine. With weak roofs which make them vulnerable to drones, an anonymous Australian defence official even questioned whether Kyiv is interested in the vehicles.
Pope Leo XIV and US vice president JD Vance met on Monday morning ahead of a flurry of US-led diplomatic efforts to make progress on a ceasefire in Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Mr Vance’s motorcade was seen entering Vatican City just after 7:30am, one day after the Catholic convert joined Sunday\u2019s formal Mass opening the pontificate of the first American pope.
Joining Mr Vance at the Vatican was secretary of state Marco Rubio, also a Catholic, the vice president\u2019s spokesperson said.
Having been largely sidelined during the first three years of Russia’s war, the Vatican has offered to host any peace talks while continuing humanitarian efforts to facilitate prisoner swaps and reunite Ukrainian children taken by Russia.
One person was killed and three injured in a Russian attack on the southern city of Kherson late on Sunday.
“A 75-year-old woman sustained fatal injuries after an enemy shell hit her house,” the city\u2019s military administration reported.
A man and a woman who suffered concussion and blast injuries were taken to hospital after the attack.
A Russian drone attack on Ukraine\u2019s northeastern Sumy region damage buildings overnight on Monday.
“Early reports indicate that there were strikes by six drones in the Shostka hromada. The infrastructure of a business was damaged,\u201d the region\u2019s military administration wrote.
Emergency operations are ongoing with the full extent of damage yet to be confirmed.
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