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Leaders of Europe including the UK, France and Germany said \u2018the current line of contact should be the starting point of negotiations\u2019
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European leaders have issued a joint statement expressing support for President Donald Trump\u2019s stance<\/a> on ending the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Leaders of nations including the UK, Germany, France, Ukraine and the European Union backed calls for the fighting to \u201cstop immediately\u201d.
\u201cWe strongly support President Trump’s position that the fighting should stop immediately, and that the current line of contact should be the starting point of negotiations,\u201d a statement, published by several European governments including the UK on Tuesday, said.
Trump has been public about the fact he does not believe Ukraine can win its war with Russia and said it will need to make territorial concessions or \u201cface destruction\u201d in a reportedly heated meeting at the White House last week.
“They could still win it, I don’t think they will,\u201d the US president said during a meeting with Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese.
US secretary of state Marco Rubio<\/a> held a phone call with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Monday, while an anticipated meeting this week between the two was postponed, according to CNN. It comes ahead of a critical Trump-Putin meeting, which does not yet have a date.
Poland has warned Russian President Vladimir Putin against travelling through its airspace for an impending summit in Hungary with US President Donald Trump.
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Putin in 2023, accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children.
\u201cI cannot guarantee that an independent Polish court won’t order the government to escort such an aircraft down to hand the suspect to the court in The Hague,\u201d Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told Radio Rodzina.
\u201cI think the Russian side is aware of this. And, therefore, if this summit is to take place, hopefully with the participation of the victim of the aggression, the aircraft will use a different route.\u201d
The ICC warrant obligates member states to arrest Putin if he sets foot in their territory.
Last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was forced to avoid the airspace of several countries due to an ICC arrest warrant also issued against him for alleged war crimes.
Poland has a tense relationship with Russia, after the country engaged in drone incursions into its airspace last month, prompting its foreign minister to demand the imposition of a no-fly zone.
Poland\u2019s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has confirmed that Polish security services detained eight people suspected of preparing to carry out acts of sabotage in various regions on Tuesday.
\u201cABW (the internal security agency), in cooperation with other services, detained eight people in various parts of the country in recent days, suspected of preparing acts of sabotage,\u201d the Polish leader wrote on X\/Twitter.
\u201cFurther operational activities are continuing,” he added.
On X, the minister responsible for special services, Tomasz Siemoniak, said, \u201cThe matters … concern reconnaissance of military facilities and critical infrastructure elements, the preparation of means to carry out acts of sabotage, and the direct execution of attacks.\u201d
Officials have reported being attacked with the use of arson and cyberattacks as part of a \u201chybrid war\u201d waged by Russia to affect nations supporting Ukraine. Russia has denied the accusations.
A Russian attack on energy infrastructure in Ukraine\u2019s northern region of Chernihiv has led to power cuts affecting \u201chundreds of thousands\u201d of people.
\u201cEmergency crews in Chernihiv region are unable to begin work on restoring power supply due to continuous attacks by Russian drones,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s energy ministry said in a statement on Telegram on Tuesday.
Donald Trump has told Ukraine it will have to cede vast swathes of its territory, including the entire Donbas region, which is almost 90 per cent occupied by Russia.
European leaders issuing a statement on Tuesday said that \u201cthe current line of contact should be the starting point of negotiations\u201d.
European leaders including those of Britain, France, Germany, Ukraine and the European Union have issued a joint statement in support of US President Donald Trump\u2019s position on ending the fighting between Ukraine and Russia.
\u201cWe strongly support President Trump’s position that the fighting should stop immediately, and that the current line of contact should be the starting point of negotiations,\u201d the statement published by <\/strong>several European governments including the UK on Tuesday, said.
\u201cWe must ramp up the pressure on Russia’s economy and its defence industry, until Putin is ready to make peace. We are developing measures to use the full value of Russia’s immobilised sovereign assets so that Ukraine has the resources it needs.\u201d
World security is at its most fragile since World War II, Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia\u2019s SVR intelligence service said on Tuesday.
“The world is now experiencing the most fragile moment for international security since World War Two, namely a period of qualitative transformation of the global order,” Russia\u2019s RIA cited him saying on Tuesday.
He said there is a \u201cfierce struggle\u201d between the world\u2019s power centres with the aim to redefine the contours of the future political landscape.
\u201cOur shared, and perhaps principal, task is to ensure that adaptation to the new reality proceeds without a major war, as has happened at previous historical stages.\u201d
After a phone call on Monday to discuss Russia\u2019s ongoing military action in Ukraine, an in-person meeting between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov has been delayed.
A White House official told CNN that the meeting had been put on hold for the time being, but a reason was not provided. A source told the publication that the stalling was because of divergent expectations about a possible end to Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.
The meeting was expected to be a forerunner to a highly anticipated summit between US President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin in Budapest.
A Russian foreign ministry spokesperson said: \u201cYou can\u2019t postpone what was not agreed upon\u201d, adding that the meeting required preparation. Moscow is said to be working on what Lavrov and Rubio discussed on Monday.
It has led to speculation that the Trump-Putin meeting may also be pushed back.
Field Marshal Lord Richards tells The Independent<\/em>\u2019s Sam Kiley that Ukraine has been given false hope by its Western allies and cannot triumph against Russia unless Nat forces join the fight.
European troops are \u201cready to deploy\u201d to Ukraine in the coming weeks if Vladimir Putin agrees to a ceasefire, defence secretary John Healey said.
However, Ukrainians must be the “people who will decide how and what” is negotiated in any peace talks, he said.
He said: \u201cPeace is possible, and if president Trump can broker a peace, then we will be ready to help secure that peace for the long term.
\u201cThat requires us to invest and prepare our forces to be ready to deploy.
\u201cKeir Starmer<\/a> has said, if necessary, he\u2019s willing to see UK boots on the ground in Ukraine, and I\u2019ve accelerated already millions of pounds in that preparation for any possible deployment in the event of peace.
\u201cAnd I would expect the cost of that to be well over \u00a3100m.\u201d
Russian troops have pushed into the eastern Ukrainian<\/a> city of Pokrovsk \u2013 and immediately begun the casual commission of war crimes, with the murder of at least three civilians who were trying to flee the invaders.<\/a>
In footage shared with The Independent<\/em>, an elderly woman lies on the verge of a road by a level crossing not far from the railway tracks on the outskirts of the city. She is wounded, and still.
A few yards away, a body lies on its back \u2013 inert, dead. Nearby, another victim lies collapsed next to the bicycle they had loaded with supplies before desperately bumping the wheels over the rails as the enemy approached. Slow and awkward, he or she must have been an easy target for Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u2019s vanguard.
World affairs editor Sam Kiley<\/strong><\/a> from Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine:
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