‘UNACCEPTABLE’ On Sunday, Putin proposed direct talks with Ukraine in Turkey, but he spurned a challenge from Zelenskyy to meet in person, instead sending a team of mid-ranking officials to the talks. The Istanbul talks ended after less than two hours, with no apparent sign of progress so far inContinue Reading
SETTING THE TONE Russia continued its attacks in the hours ahead of the talks, with Kyiv saying Moscow’s shelling on Friday morning killed a woman in the frontline town of Kupiansk. Kyiv also said another woman in her 50s was killed in the Dnipropetrovsk region, while Moscow said it downedContinue Reading
The US has sensitive nuclear technology at a nuclear power plant inside Ukraine, and is warning Russia not to touch it, according to a letter the US Department of Energy sent to Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy firm Rosatom last month. In the letter, which was reviewed by CNN and is dated MarchContinue Reading
“NOT THE KEY PLAYERS” If the talks do go ahead, they will have to address a chasm between the two sides over a host of issues. The Russian delegation is headed by presidential adviser Vladimir Medinsky, a former culture minister who has overseen the rewriting of history textbooks to reflectContinue Reading
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz repeated the threat of sanctions on Tuesday, saying that “if there is no real progress this week, we want to work together at the European level for a significant tightening of sanctions”. French President Emmanuel Macron also said he was in favour of imposing new sanctionsContinue Reading
The Prime Minister and his Ukrainian, French, German and Polish counterparts spoke to Donald Trump on Saturday. Source linkContinue Reading
It comes after US President Donald Trump called for ‘ideally’ a 30-day ceasefire between Kyiv and Moscow. Source linkContinue Reading
“SACRED DUTY” Putin has long said that the Soviet Union and primarily Russia were the main victors in WWII and on Friday called his nation the “heirs of victors”. Olga Zhuravleva, whose father and grandfather fought in WWII, decried US President Donald Trump for saying the war was “mostly accomplishedContinue Reading
Ukraine has expressed readiness to accept a US proposal to enact an immediate 30-day ceasefire, while Russia has proposed only a three-day ceasefire to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two on Thursday. Ukraine’s foreign minister said on Thursday, Russia had repeatedly violated the three-day ceasefireContinue Reading
The analysis, which used billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations around the world, also found the last 12-month period, from May 2024 to April 2025, was 1.58C above the pre-industrial level, the estimated 1850-1900 level which is used to define the pre-industrial era. Source linkContinue Reading
