Missiles rain on Kyiv as Russia steps up pressure before NATO summit in Ankara
Russia launched a fresh missile and drone assault on Kyiv early Monday, hours before a NATO summit in Ankara where the Ukraine war is expected to top the agenda.
Russia launched a fresh missile and drone assault on Kyiv early Monday, hours before a NATO summit in Ankara where the Ukraine war is expected to top the agenda.
Russia carried out an overnight missile and drone strike on Kyiv, damaging residential buildings, sparking fires and injuring medical workers after Ukraine warned of a large-scale assault.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said it had sent a note to all foreign diplomatic missions and international organisations accredited with the ministry, urging them to ensure the evacuation of personnel from Kyiv.
After Russia unleashed a fresh wave of strikes on Kyiv and nearby regions, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called Russian leader Vladimir Putin a "man of war."
The newest diplomatic push to end the war in Ukraine exposes a paradox at the heart of the current moment: negotiations are speeding up, yet the road to an actual settlement remains strewn with obstacles that neither side appears ready to clear.
Russia has declared a state of emergency in the port city of Novorossiysk in the Krasnodar region on Saturday, claiming an attack by Ukraine that damaged apartment buildings in a residential complex.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday reacted angrily to Russian strikes on Kyiv, telling his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to "STOP", marking a new and sharp change in tone in his remarks on the Russian leader.
Russia on Thursday denied Ukraine's allegations that its armed forces had attacked the facility of an Indian pharmaceutical firm in Kyiv during a drone strike on April 12, asserting that Moscow has never targetted civilian facilities during its ongoing Special Military Operation in Ukraine.
President Donald Trump’s intentions to strike a peace deal in Ukraine without security guarantees for Kyiv and his possible relinquishing of America’s role as supreme allied commander of NATO have sparked concern among allies.
The latest development in the Trump-Putin talks over Ukraine reveals just how tenuous and conditional any path toward peace remains.
