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Ukraine\u2019s General Staff said oil depot were attacked in occupied Zaporizhzhia and Crimea
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Ukrainian<\/a> forces fired Flamingo missiles<\/a> at Russian oil facilities<\/a> in a fresh wave of overnight strikes, the military has said on Thursday.
This included strikes on the Morskoy Neftyanoy oil terminal in occupied Crimea <\/a>and an oil depot in occupied Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine\u2019s General Staff said.
The attack came as top military commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said the Russian army overran three settlements in the southern Zaporizhzhia<\/a> region and Ukrainian units are locked in \u201cgrueling battles\u201d to repel the thrust.
\u201cLast night, several long-range strike systems were launched, including the domestically developed Flamingo, Bars and Lyutyi,\u201d the military said.
The scale of the damage is still being assessed, it added.
This comes as Ukrainian forces pulled back from several positions in the southern Zaporizhzhia<\/a> region amid heavy fighting and adverse weather.
Russia<\/a> is taking advantage of the weather to advance in small groups, moving on foot or motorcycles, with the adverse weather preventing Ukrainian forces from deploying drones against them.
The Kremlin has said Ukraine will have to negotiate with Russia “sooner or later” and predicted that Kyiv’s negotiating position would get worse by the day.
Moscow, whose forces are trying to take control of the city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, has accused Ukrainian officials of refusing to engage in peace talks. Kyiv says Moscow’s terms to end the war are unacceptable and tantamount to asking it to surrender.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday that Russia remained open to a political and diplomatic settlement and wanted peace.
But in the absence of such an opportunity, he said Russia would continue fighting in order to protect its own security for the benefit of future generations.
“The Ukrainian side should know that sooner or later it will have to negotiate, but from a much worse position. The position of the Kyiv regime will deteriorate day by day,” Peskov said.
The European Union needs to listen to Belgium’s concerns over using Russian frozen assets to help Ukraine, Dutch finance minister Eelco Heinen told reporters on Thursday ahead of a meeting with his EU counterparts in Brussels.
The European proposal to use Russian frozen assets to help Ukraine is being held up due to concerns from Belgium, where most of the assets are parked.
Belgium has demanded financial guarantees from EU capitals against the loan, but the European Commission\u2019s top brass failing to convince the Belgian leadership to get on board with the plan last Friday, Politico<\/em> reported.
A reparations loan based on immobilised Russian assets is the most effective option to fund Ukraine\u2019s financing needs, EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has said.
EU member states have two other options, including using “headroom” in its budget to raise capital, or for an agreement among member states to raise capital by themselves, she said in a speech in European Parliament.
“Option three is to have a reparations loan based on immobilised Russian assets. We give a loan to Ukraine, that Ukraine pays back if Russia pays reparations,” she said.
“This is the most effective way to sustain Ukraine’s defence and its economy.”
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published late on Wednesday that he hoped Washington would take no actions liable to escalate the Ukraine conflict.
Lavrov said US president Donald Trump had long advocated dialogue with Russia, had sought to fully understand the Russian position on Ukraine and “demonstrated a commitment to finding a sustainable peaceful solution”.
Lavrov said Trump had acknowledged that one of the reasons behind Russia’s actions was the enlargement of the Nato alliance and the deployment of its infrastructure close to its border.
Europe, he said, was “sabotaging all peacemaking efforts and are rejecting direct contacts with Moscow. They introduce new sanctions which boomerang on their economies even further. They’re openly preparing for a new major European war against Russia.”
Lavrov’s comments were originally part of an interview with Italian daily Corriere della Sera. Tass said the Italian daily had declined to publish the interview.
The Russian<\/a> army overran three settlements in the southern Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, Kyiv\u2019s top military commander said Wednesday, as Moscow\u2019s forces expand their efforts to capture more Ukrainian territory.
Dense fog enabled Russian troops to infiltrate Ukrainian positions in Zaporizhzhia, Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi wrote on the messaging app Telegram, adding that Ukrainian units are locked in \u201cgrueling battles\u201d to repel the Russian thrust.
He noted, however, that the fiercest battles are still in the besieged Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, in the eastern Donetsk region, where close to half of all front-line clashes took place over the previous 24 hours.
Kenya said on Wednesday over 200 of its citizens are fighting for Russia in Moscow’s war in Ukraine, and that recruiting agencies are still actively working to lure more Kenyans into the conflict, Reuters reports.
Ukraine last week said that more than 1,400 citizens from three dozen African countries are fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine with some recruited through deception.
Russia was enticing Africans to sign contracts that Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andriy Sybiha described as “equivalent to … a death sentence”, and urged African governments to caution their citizens.
“Recruitment exercises in Russia have reportedly expanded to include African nationals, including Kenyans,” Kenya’s ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement.
Russia’s Port Alliance group, which operates a network of sea cargo terminals, said on Thursday that foreign hackers had targeted its systems over three days in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack and an attempted hack.
It said in a statement that critical elements of its digital infrastructure had been targeted with the aim of disrupting export shipments of coal and mineral fertilisers at its sea terminals in the Baltic, Black Sea, Far East and Arctic regions.
The attack was successfully repelled and operations remained unaffected, Port Alliance said.
Denial of service is among the web’s most basic form of attack and it works by simply overwhelming targeted servers with a firehose of bogus requests for data, making it impossible for legitimate web traffic to get through.
Russian authorities and state companies have regularly reported attempted DDoS and hacking attacks from abroad since Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in 2022.
Ukraine and some Western countries have in turn accused Russia of launching cyberattacks.
Port Alliance group operates cargo terminals at five Russian ports.
The International Monetary Fund will start a staff mission to Ukraine soon to discuss its financing needs and a potential new lending program, spokesperson Julie Kozack said on Thursday, underscoring the need for continued anti-corruption efforts in the war-torn country.
Ukrainian prime minister Yuliia Svyrydenko on Thursday announced an audit of all state-owned companies, including in the energy sector, following an alleged $100 million corruption scandal that has led to the suspension of two cabinet ministers.
Anti-corruption authorities said this week they had detained five people and identified two others still at large, suspected of involvement in the alleged plot to control procurement at nuclear agency Energoatom and other state enterprises.
Ms Kozack told reporters at a regular briefing that the IMF staff mission would center on policies to safeguard Ukraine’s macroeconomic stability and ensure its debt sustainability, with a focus on reforms to promote domestic revenue mobilization and to strengthen governance and combat corruption.
“We’ve been saying for some time that Ukraine needs a robust anti-corruption architecture to level the playing field, safeguard public resources, improve the business climate and attract investment,” Ms Kozack said, calling efforts to fight corruption a central requirement for Ukraine’s donors.
After nearly four years of bitter war, Ukraine\u2019s defence industry has more understanding than most of the demands of the modern battlefield.
The latest innovation is a cruise missile with a range of 3,000km and a payload of over a tonne, used in strikes deep into Russian territory.
Where weapons from allies come with conditions, Kyiv can fire the FP-5 Flamingo missile at any target it wants.
With arms supplies from the West so uncertain, Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine now makes about 60 per cent of its own weapons.
World affairs editor Sam Kiley reports from Kyiv:<\/em>
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has given an update on the frontline situation in Ukraine, as he visits the region of Zaporizhzhia just kilometres from Russian positions.
\u201cEastern Ukraine is, without a doubt, a major challenge,\u201d he said in an update on X.
\u201cAnd here, on the Orikhiv direction, it has always been intense. I thank all the soldiers, officers, and sergeants for defending this sector \u2013 the entire Zaporizhzhia region, and the city of Zaporizhzhia, which is so important.\u201d<\/a>
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