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Top diplomat insists peace cannot be achieved without \u2018taking Russian interests into account\u2019
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Russian <\/a>foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said he was ready to meet US secretary of state Marco Rubio<\/a> following reports of a rift with president Vladimir Putin<\/a>.
\u201cSecretary of State Marco Rubio and I understand the need for regular communication,\u201d he told RIA Novosti news agency on Sunday, weeks after efforts to organise a summit of Russian and American leaders were put on ice.
Lavrov said he was ready to discuss mending bilateral ties as well as the war<\/a> in Ukraine<\/a>, repeating that peace could not be achieved without \u201ctaking Russian interests into account\u201d, a phrase Moscow<\/a> uses to signal it\u2019s standing firm in its maximalist demands for Ukraine<\/a>.
Meanwhile, Russia<\/a> launched hundreds of drones and missiles targeting energy infrastructure in Ukraine<\/a> between Friday and Saturday, killing at least seven people.
State-owned energy company Tsentrenergo said the attacks were one of the largest on its facilities since the start of the war in 2022, and that it had been forced to halt operations at its plants in the Kyiv<\/a> and Kharkiv<\/a> regions.
Given that the two leaders are on opposite sides of a strategic argument<\/a> that is killing people and shaping the world \u2013 an issue that could undermine European cohesion in the face of Russian aggression \u2013 a meeting between Donald Trump<\/a> and Hungary<\/a>\u2019s prime minister Viktor Orban<\/a> should be an incendiary moment.
But the cold water of their mutual admiration for Vladimir Putin<\/a> means that no fireworks can ignite in the Oval Office.
Orban<\/a> has been in power for longer than the 47th president of the United States<\/a>. But he has the same authoritarian instincts. Like Trump<\/a>, he has sought to undermine the judiciary, while his cronies have captured much of Hungary\u2019s media and enjoy preferential treatment in business.
His problem is that Hungary, along with Slovenia and the Czech Republic, relies heavily on fuel imports from Russia<\/a>. Mostly through these countries, the European Union has spent \u20ac260bn (\u00a3230bn) on Russian fuel since Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine<\/a> in 2022.
Naive, self-sabotaging and riddled with Moscow\u2019s<\/a> agents, Ukraine<\/a> gave up its nuclear weapons and an arms industry<\/a> that produced a third of the Soviet Union\u2019s supply, trusted the West and the Kremlin to protect it, and was left fighting for its life.
Now, 30 years on, the start-up nation redefining how war is fought<\/a> has been forced into a bodge-and-make-do world of arms production,<\/a> fusing old technology with IT know-how<\/a> to break the bonds its allies tied to make Kyiv<\/a> fight one-handed.
The latest innovation is a cruise missile with a range of 3,000km, a maximum speed of 900kmph and a payload of over a tonne, which has been used in strikes deep into Russian territory<\/a>.
The FP-5 \u201cFlamingo\u201d missile is powered by a rocket and a Soviet-era turbofan jet engine bolted on top. Some of those engines have been dug out of landfill dumps.
Russian air defence systems destroyed or intercepted 71 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Russian defence ministry said on its Telegram channel.
Of these, seven were downed over the Kursk region and seven were downed over the Black Sea. Most of the drones were shot down in the bordering regions of Ukraine and Russia, the defence ministry said.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said he was ready to meet US secretary of state Marco Rubio but that Russia would not abandon its core conditions for ending the Ukraine war.
“Secretary of state Marco Rubio and I understand the need for regular communication,” Lavrov, Putin’s foreign minister since 2004, told state news agency RIA Novosti.
“It is important for discussing the Ukrainian issue and promoting the bilateral agenda. That is why we communicate by telephone and are ready to hold face-to-face meetings when necessary,” Lavrov said.
Europe will need to invest in Ukraine\u2019s defence to halt Russia\u2019s war and ensure the continent\u2019s security against increasing threats from Moscow, Czech Republic foreign minister Jan Lipavsky said.
\u201cWe know that if we want to stop Russia, we have to pay for it,\u201d Lipavsky told AFP from the sidelines of the European Union-CELAC summit in Santa Maria, Colombia yesterday.
The center-right government in Prague has been a strong ally for Kyiv since the beginning of Russia\u2019s invasion in 2022.
Russia will abide by its obligations under a global nuclear ban, the Kremlin spokesperson said Dmitry Peskov said.
The remarks from Moscow come after days of uncertainty over remarks by US president Donald Trump that appeared to suggest Washington might restart atomic tests after more than three decades.
Trump’s comments came after Russia announced it had tested a new atomic-powered and nuclear-capable underwater drone and a new nuclear-powered cruise missile.
But Moscow did not announce any tests of its nuclear weapons, which last occurred in 1990.
\u201cPutin has repeatedly said that Russia is committed to its obligation to end nuclear tests, and that we have no intention” of conducting them, Peskov told reporters.
Earlier this week, Putin ordered officials to study the possibility of resuming nuclear testing, though Russia said it would not do so unless the US did so first.
Slovakia will not be party to use of frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine, the country\u2019s prime minister Robert Fico said.
His remarks come as the European Commission proposed a plan to allow the EU nations to use up to \u20ac185 billion, comprising majority of Russia\u2019s sovereign assets currently frozen in Europe, in order to support Ukraine, without formally confiscating them.
\u201cSlovakia won\u2019t take part in any legal or financial schemes to seize frozen assets if those funds would be spent on military costs in Ukraine,\u201d Fico said, stating that use of these assets will only fuel the war.
\u201cDo we want to end the war or are we stoking it? We are going to give \u20ac140 billion to Ukraine to keep the war going. So what does that mean? That the war will go on for at least another two years,\u201d Fico said.
Ukrainian repair services have deployed workers non-stop to fix the damage to power grids caused by massive Russian airstrikes, Volodymyr Zelensky said.
\u201cRepair crews are working almost around the clock in most regions,\u201d Zelensky said in his evening address.
\u201cRestoration efforts are ongoing, and although the situation is difficult, thousands of people are involved in stabilising the system and repairing the damage.”
Around 100,000 homes in the Kharkiv region have plunged into darkness after Russian airstrikes through the weekend.
The massive attacks on Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure have heightened scrutiny over the the energy ministry’s apparent failure to protect the country’s most critical energy facilities near nuclear power sites, according to several current and former officials who spoke to AP.
Ukraine was looking to order 27 Patriot air defence systems from US companies, Volodymyr Zelensky said.
In the meantime, he added, the war-hit nation was looking to borrow essential anti-missile defence systems from its European allies.
Additional help was always needed until Russia continued to wage war, the Ukrainian president said.
“It’s never enough. It’s enough when the war ends. And enough when Putin understands that he has to stop,” he said.
Naive, self-sabotaging and riddled with Moscow\u2019s<\/a> agents, Ukraine<\/a> gave up its nuclear weapons and an arms industry<\/a> that produced a third of the Soviet Union\u2019s supply, trusted the West and the Kremlin to protect it, and was left fighting for its life.
Now, 30 years on, the start-up nation redefining how war is fought<\/a> has been forced into a bodge-and-make-do world of arms production,<\/a> fusing old technology with IT know-how<\/a> to break the bonds its allies tied to make Kyiv<\/a> fight one-handed.
The latest innovation is a cruise missile with a range of 3,000km, a maximum speed of 900kmph and a payload of over a tonne, which has been used in strikes deep into Russian territory<\/a>.
The Independent\u2019s world affairs editor Sam Kiley reports from Kyiv:<\/em><\/strong>
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