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A man suspected of shooting a top military intelligence officer in Moscow<\/a> has been detained, according to Russia<\/a>\u2019s security service.
Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev \u2013\u00a0an official previously linked to the Salisbury poisonings<\/a> \u2013 was shot several times outside an apartment building<\/a> in an alleged assassination attempt. He is currently recovering in hospital after undergoing surgery.
Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service (FSB) said that a Russian citizen named Lyubomir Korba was detained in Dubai and has been extradited to Russia, in a statement on Sunday.
Sergei Lavrov, Russia\u2019s foreign minister accused Ukraine of the attack, which it has denied.
It comes as the US<\/a> is aiming to get a peace deal between Ukraine<\/a> and Russia<\/a> over the line in March despite a lack of progress on territorial concessions, according to reports.
President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters that the Americans \u201cwant to do everything by June\u201d in comments released on Saturday.
But attacks continued as Russia launched more than 400 drones and about 40 missiles on Saturday in strikes on Ukraine’s energy sector, targeting the power grid, generation facilities, and distribution substations, Zelensky said.
The top Russian military general reportedly shot in an alleged attempted assassination outside his Moscow apartment has been accused of being involved in the 2018 Salisbury poisonings.<\/a>
<\/a>Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev is deputy head of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence arm.
Mr Alexeyev is believed to have been behind the deadly Salisbury poisonings<\/a> that caused the tragic death of mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, 44, according to reports. The EU imposed sanctions on him over the poisoning of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in 2018.
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One of Donald Trump\u2019s senior envoys for Ukraine has sparked alarm after making a series of blunders during crucial peace talks, according to a report.
The unnamed official is alleged to have made several comments that exposed a basic lack of knowledge about the war between Ukraine<\/a> and Russia<\/a> during trilateral peace talks<\/a> in Abu Dhabi last month.
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Russia<\/a> has warned Ukraine<\/a> that it will not stop fighting until Kyiv<\/a> makes what the Kremlin<\/a> considers the right \u201cdecisions\u201d to end the conflict during peace talks held this week.
President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner<\/a> led the US delegation while Ukraine was represented by Rustem Umerov and Russia by military intelligence chief Igor Kostyukov.
However, despite reports that the discussions were constructive, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov<\/a> said on Wednesday that Russian troops would continue to fight until Kyiv made the right \u201cdecisions\u201d.<\/a>
The Independent<\/em>\u2019s Maira Butt<\/strong> and Alex Croft<\/strong> have more below:
Vladimir Putin has thanked his UAE counterpart Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan after a man suspected of shooting a Russian military officer was detained.
A Ukrainian-born Russian citizen has been extradited to Moscow from Dubai<\/a> on suspicion of the \u201cassassination attempt\u201d of Vladimir Alexeyev, deputy head of Russia’s vast GRU military intelligence service said.
For average wage earners in Russia, it’s a big payday. For criminals seeking to escape the harsh conditions and abuse in prison, it’s a chance at freedom. For immigrants hoping for a better life, it’s a simplified path to citizenship.
All they have to do is sign a contract to fight in Ukraine.
This desperate recruitment drive is part of Moscow’s strategy to replenish its forces in the nearly four-year conflict, while simultaneously avoiding an unpopular nationwide mobilisation. The bloody war of attrition has also seen foreign combatants join the fray. Following a mutual defence treaty in 2024, North Korea reportedly sent thousands of soldiers to help Russia defend its Kursk region against a Ukrainian incursion.
Furthermore, men from South Asian countries, including India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, have reported being duped by recruiters who promised legitimate jobs, only to find themselves conscripted for combat. Officials in Kenya, South Africa, and Iraq have confirmed similar instances of their citizens being misled into fighting.
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Russian<\/a> missiles and drones have pounded Ukraine\u2019s energy grid in recent weeks, plunging people into frozen darkness in one of the country\u2019s coldest winters on record.
Ukraine<\/a> has accused Russia of illegally targeting power infrastructure during the war to deny civilians light, heating and running water.
But Russia says its attacks are a legitimate part of its military campaign against its neighbour. Moscow<\/a>‘s invasion of Ukraine itself is widely regarded as an illegal act of aggression.
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Russia offered the United States a cooperation deal worth \u00a39tn in a bid for agreement between the two countries, Zelensky has said.
The Ukrainian leader said intelligence suggested Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev proposed US-Russian co-operation deals worth as much as $12 trillion (\u00a39tn) during negotiations.
He said that such agreements between Moscow and Washington must not violate Ukraine\u2019s constitution, on Saturday.
\u201cIntelligence showed me the so-called \u2018Dmitriev package\u2019 that he presented in the US \u2013 it amounts to around $12tn (\u00a39tn),\u201d Mr Zelensky said.
A Russian airstrike on a residential area in eastern Ukraine killed one person and wounded two, officials said Sunday.
The attack on the city of Kramatorsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region caused a fire in a nine-story apartment block, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.
Russia also struck energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s Poltava region overnight into Sunday, Serhii Koretskyi, chief executive of Ukraine’s state-owned gas company Naftogaz said.
It comes as Russia continues to batter Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure, bidding to weaken the Ukrainian will to resist in a strategy that Kyiv officials call “weaponising winter.”
Melania Trump<\/a> has confirmed she remains in direct communication with Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s team, pursuing efforts to facilitate the return of more Ukrainian children from Russia<\/a>.
The announcement comes amid ongoing international concern over the thousands of children allegedly abducted since the full-scale invasion in 2022.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, she stated: “I’m working on it, and we are in the process. I hope we have success very soon.”
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