Ukraine has accused Russia of launching a deadly missile strike that killed at least four people in the dormitory of a boarding school in Kursk.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said that a Russian bomb destroyed the school building "even though dozens of civilians were there". The school is located in a part of Kursk held by Ukrainian forces.
It comes as Mr Zelensky said Nato membership for Ukraine would be a "great victory" for US president Donald Trump.
The Ukrainian president said joining the alliance would be the "cheapest" way of guaranteeing Kyiv's security while also strengthening Mr Trump geopolitically.
"It will be a signal that it is not for Russia to decide who should be in Nato and who should not, but for the United States of America to decide," he said.
The remarks followed comments on Friday by Mr Trump, who said American and Russian officials were "already talking" about ending the war. Mr Trump said his administration has had "very serious" discussions with Russia, but he did not elaborate.
Key Points
- Russia and Ukraine trade blame over an attack on a boarding school
- Ukrainian drone attacks kill two in Russia's Belgorod, governor says
- Excluding Ukraine from US-Russia talks about war very dangerous, says Zelensky
- Russian air attack kills 15 in Ukraine, gas infrastructure targeted
Russia's highest-ranking casualty in Ukraine war is a governor blown up by landmine
03:35
Russia has marked its most senior casualty in the Ukraine war after a deputy governor of a region was killed fighting in Ukraine.
Sergey Efremov, the deputy governor of Russia’s eastern region of Primorsky Krai, was killed after he returned to the Russian frontlines from a battle with Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region.
He was reportedly travelling in a car blown up by a landmine along with another Russian army officer.
“I know that his friends and comrades will do everything to avenge him,” Oleg Kozhemyako, the area’s governor, said in an emotional video. He confirmed that his deputy had died a “hero”.
His death is the first such significant military loss in the Russian ranks as the senior officials typically avoid combat roles.
Ukraine calls US push for truce and elections in Kyiv a 'failed plan'
03:18
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Arpan Rai
The US call for Ukraine to hold an election after agreeing to a ceasefire with Russia looked like a "failed plan" if that is all it consists of, though more details were needed, an aide to president Volodymyr Zelensky said.
President Donald Trump's top Ukraine official, Keith Kellogg, said the US wanted Ukraine to hold elections, potentially by the end of the year, especially if Kyiv can agree to a truce with Russia in the coming months.
"We haven't seen Mr Kellogg's full interview, only a few quotes about the elections, so it's hard to fully assess his position," said Dmytro Lytvyn, Mr Zelensky's communications adviser.
"But if his plan is just a ceasefire and elections, it is a failed plan – Putin won't be intimidated by just those two things," he told Reuters in a written statement.
Kyiv has repeatedly said it does not want a ceasefire without obtaining security guarantees that would stop Moscow regenerating its forces and launching another invasion in the future.
Elections are currently prohibited under martial law, which Ukraine imposed after Russia's 2022 invasion.
Ex-Tory MP joins Ukraine’s foreign legion to aid fight against Putin
03:04
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Arpan Rai
A former Tory MP who lost his seat at the general election last year has joined the Ukrainian International Legion to help in the fight against Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
Jack Lopresti, a former deputy chair of the Conservative Party, was previously the MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke in Gloucestershire, but is now based in Kyiv using his skills in the ongoing war.
As an MP, Mr Lopresti visited Ukraine and was a strong advocate in parliament for more aid to be given to Volodymyr Zelensky to support the country’s efforts to defeat Russia. He has also served in the UK Army Reserve as a corporal.
Ukraine drone attack forces flight suspensions at several Russian airports
02:58
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Arpan Rai
Ukraine's overnight drone attack in Russia sparked a fire in the Astrakhan region and forcing the suspension of flights at several airports, Russian officials and media said this morning.
The attack targeted fuel and energy facilities in Russia.
"Ukrainian armed forces attempted a drone attack on objects located in the region, including fuel and energy facilities," said Igor Babushkin, governor of the Astrakhan region in southern Russia.
"Falling drone sparked a fire. There were no casualties," he said on his Telegram channel.
The governor did not say what was on fire. Baza, a Russian news Telegram channel that is close to Russia's security services, said that Ukraine attacked a gas processing plant near Astrakhan.
Russia's aviation watchdog Rosaviatsia said that it was suspending flights from the airports of Astrakhan as well as from four others, in Kazan, Nizhnekamsk, Saratov and Ulyanovsk to ensure air safety.
Earlier, Rosaviatsia temporarily suspended flights from the Volgograd airport in southern Russia, but flights there have since been restored, it said on Telegram.
There were no official reports on any attack on Volgograd, but Baza, and other Russian news Telegram channels reported a large coordinated drone attack that reportedly targeted an oil refinery.
Russian arrest warrant for UK journalist ‘is desperate rhetoric’, No 10 says
02:00
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Holly Evans
Downing Street has condemned a Russian arrest warrant issued for a UK journalist, calling it an example of “desperate rhetoric” from Vladimir Putin’s administration.
A court in Russia’s Kursk border region has issued an arrest warrant for Jerome Starkey, defence editor at The Sun, and put him on an international wanted list.
The Kursk regional court accused him of illegally crossing the border into Russia.
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Russia and Ukraine trade blame over deadly attack on boarding school
00:00
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Holly Evans
Competing claims emerged over a deadly attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia’s Kursk region that has been under Ukrainian control for five months, with Ukraine and Russia accusing each other of carrying out the strike.
The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said Saturday night that four people were killed and a further four seriously wounded in the strike, with 84 people rescued by Ukrainian servicemen from the rubble of the building. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Moscow had bombed the boarding school where civilians were sheltering and preparing to evacuate.
The General Staff said those in need of additional medical assistance were evacuated to medical facilities in Ukraine.
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Russia claims another Ukrainian village has fallen as it closes in on a key city
Sunday 2 February 2025 22:00
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Holly Evans
Russia on Friday claimed it had captured another village in its relentless offensive in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region and as it closes in on the critical Ukrainian logistics hub of Pokrovsk after almost three years of war.
The Russian claim that its forces took Novovasylivka could not be independently confirmed, and Ukrainian officials made no immediate comment.
However, battlefield maps published early Friday by the Ukrainian General Staff suggested the village was at least partly under Russian control. A comparison with other maps of the area by The Associated Press indicated Novovasylivka is largely under Russian control.
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Why peace talks between Ukraine and Russia are not as simple as Trump makes out
Sunday 2 February 2025 20:00
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Holly Evans
US president Donald Trump’s pre-election promises to end the war in Ukraine in less than 24 hours – and before his inauguration – have proved empty.
Keith Kellogg, Mr Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, says the administration’s new goal is to stop the fighting in 100 days.
But details on how this will be achieved remain scant. Mr Trump has repeatedly claimed this is because speaking openly about his plans would undermine his negotiating position. His detractors, however, say this is a cover for a lack of plan.
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Inside Kyiv’s nightly battle against Putin’s drone bombardment
Sunday 2 February 2025 18:00
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Holly Evans
The crack and the ear-splitting blast – two in a row, then a third – rattle windows and set off car alarms. But, in a city under constant bombardment, a smoker in a doorway tips a little ash and takes another drag.
A hotel receptionist, pooled in lamplight, doesn’t look up from her papers.
The explosions, they know, come from outgoing long-range anti-aircraft missiles being fired from the centre of the Ukrainian capital against incoming attacks.
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What happened to the North Korean troops fighting Ukraine on the frontline?
Sunday 2 February 2025 17:00
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Holly Evans
North Korean troops have been pulled back from the frontline amid devastating losses, according to Ukrainian and American officials.
Kim Jong Un’s forces have not been seen on the battlefield for around three weeks, Ukrainian special forces said, according to the New York Times.
Pyongyang sent roughly 11,000 soldiers to help with Vladimir Putin’s war effort in November last year, four months after Kyiv’s troops seized Russian territory in Kursk.
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Russian arrest warrant for UK journalist ‘is desperate rhetoric’, No 10 says
Sunday 2 February 2025 16:00
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Holly Evans
Downing Street has condemned a Russian arrest warrant issued for a UK journalist, calling it an example of “desperate rhetoric” from Vladimir Putin’s administration.
A court in Russia’s Kursk border region has issued an arrest warrant for Jerome Starkey, defence editor at The Sun, and put him on an international wanted list.
The Kursk regional court accused him of illegally crossing the border into Russia.
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Starmer praises ‘real progress’ in UK’s ties with Germany as they discuss Ukraine
Sunday 2 February 2025 14:27
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Holly Evans
Sir Keir Starmer said the UK and Germany shared a “common approach on key issues and challenges”, including the war in Ukraine.
Ahead of a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Prime Minister said the two countries had made “great strides” in science and technology.
Sir Keir said: “I’m very much looking forward to coming for the dinner on Monday on the eve of the EU Council, and of course the wider reset in relations between the UK and EU.”
Mr Scholz said that his visit to Chequers was “a good sign of the very good relations between our two countries, and indeed between the two of us”.
Sir Keir and Mr Scholz then enjoyed a private walk through the estate grounds before having lunch in the dining room, spending around two-and-a-half hours together.Starmer praises ‘real progress’ in UK’s ties with Germany
What happened to the North Korean troops fighting Ukraine on the frontline?
Sunday 2 February 2025 13:30
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Alexander Butler
North Korean troops have been pulled back from the frontline amid devastating losses, according to Ukrainian and American officials.
Kim Jong Un’s forces have not been seen on the battlefield for around three weeks, Ukrainian special forces said, according to the New York Times.
Pyongyang sent roughly 11,000 soldiers to help with Vladimir Putin’s war effort in November last year, four months after Kyiv’s troops seized Russian territory in Kursk.
They quickly gained a reputation as being fierce, “committed” soldiers, who would often choose suicide over surrender, but were hampered by poor tactics and a language barrier.
In January, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service said 300 of Kim’s soldiers have been killed and another 2,700 wounded since joining the conflict.
Read the full story: Russia and Ukraine both trade blame on school attack
Sunday 2 February 2025 12:30
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Holly Evans
Competing claims emerged over a deadly attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia’s Kursk region that has been under Ukrainian control for five months, with Ukraine and Russia accusing each other of carrying out the strike.
The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said Saturday night that four people were killed and a further four seriously wounded in the strike, with 84 people rescued by Ukrainian servicemen from the rubble of the building. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Moscow had bombed the boarding school where civilians were sheltering and preparing to evacuate.
The General Staff said those in need of additional medical assistance were evacuated to medical facilities in Ukraine.
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Ryanair hoping to resume flights to Ukraine in event of ceasefire
Sunday 2 February 2025 11:33
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Holly Evans
Ryanair are plotting to resume flights to Ukraine as hopes continue to rise that President Donald Trump will be able to push for an end to the conflict.
The Telegraph reported that Michael O’Leary, the airline’s chief executive, said Ryanair was developing a blueprint to allow flights to resume, with hopes they could be running within six weeks of a ceasefire.
Mr O’Leary said: “I would very much hope it’s this year. I think one of the things that Trump can deliver, hopefully, would be an earlier resolution of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.”
Mr Trump has promised to bring an end to the nearly three-year-long conflict, by imposing sweeping tariffs and sanctions on Putin, and has said that the White House are in discussions with Moscow.
Zelensky says attack on school shows how Russians fight the war
Sunday 2 February 2025 10:57
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Holly Evans
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, some 12 km (7.5 miles) from the border with Ukraine, showed how Russia fights the war.
"They destroyed the building even though dozens of civilians were there," Zelenskiy wrote on the X social media platform.
"This is how Russia waged war against Chechnya decades ago. They killed Syrians the same way. Russian bombs destroy Ukrainian homes the same way."
This is how Russia wages war—Sudzha, Kursk region, Russian territory, a boarding school with civilians preparing to evacuate. A Russian aerial bomb. They destroyed the building even though dozens of civilians were there.
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) February 1, 2025
This is how Russia waged war against Chechnya decades ago.… pic.twitter.com/MG4MVhcumS
Russia's Defence Ministry said early on Sunday on Telegram that Ukrainian forces had launched "a targeted missile strike on a boarding school in the city of Sudzha" from Ukrainian territory.
In a statement, Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova called the strike a "terrorist attack" and vowed to bring Kyiv to justice.
Ukrainian drone attacks kill two in Russia's Belgorod, governor says
Sunday 2 February 2025 10:31
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Holly Evans
Russia's Belgorod region bordering Ukraine came under multiple Ukrainian drone attacks on Sunday, and two civilians were killed, the regional governor said.
One man was killed in the village of Malinovka about 8 km (5 miles) east of the border overnight, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
Several other settlements came under Ukrainian attack on Sunday morning. Later in the day, a woman died in hospital and another civilian suffered injuries after a passenger car came under a drone attack, Gladkov said.
Russia's defence ministry said it had destroyed 44 Ukrainian drones over the last 24 hours.
There was no immediate comment from Ukraine. Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war that Russia started with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Russia and Ukraine trade blame over an attack on a boarding school in Russia's Kursk region
Sunday 2 February 2025 09:03
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Holly Evans
Competing claims emerged over a deadly attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia's Kursk region that has been under Ukrainian control for five months, with Ukraine and Russia accusing each other of carrying out the strike.
The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said Saturday night that four people were killed and a further four seriously wounded in the strike, with 84 people rescued by Ukrainian servicemen from the rubble of the building.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Moscow had bombed the boarding school where civilians were sheltering and preparing to evacuate.
The General Staff said those in need of additional medical assistance were evacuated to medical facilities in Ukraine.
The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed in the early hours of Sunday that it was Ukrainian forces that had launched a missile strike on the school, saying that the missiles were launched from Ukraine's Sumy region.
Ukraine destroys 40 Russian drones during overnight strike, air force says
Sunday 2 February 2025 08:30
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Holly Evans
Ukrainian air defences downed 40 out of 55 drones launched by Russia during its latest overnight attack, Kyiv's air force said on Sunday.
It added that another 13 had been "locationally lost" and did not reach their targets, typically a reference to electronic jamming.
Pensioner waits at missile attack site to identify bodies of family, presumed dead
Sunday 2 February 2025 07:16
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Namita Singh
Ukrainian military pensioner Ihor Yavorskyi spent all day on Saturday at the site of a Russian missile attack to discover what he presumed was the inevitable – identifying the bodies of three family members he was certain were killed in the strike.
Mr Yavorskyi, 61, stood together with other anxious residents alongside rubble in the central Ukrainian city of Poltava. All were waiting patiently as emergency crews retrieved the bodies of victims from part of an apartment block reduced to rubble in the assault.
Each time, he rushed over to crews carrying victims on stretchers to examine bodies being brought past. But none of those recovered so far were those of his son Dmytro, 37, daughter-in-law Alyona, 38, and granddaughter Sofia, aged nine.
"My son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter are here," Yavorskyi said.
"They've been killed here, all three of them. Within a second."Around him, crews clambered up and down vast piles of smouldering rubble and made their way through twisted metal and debris. Cranes shifted slabs of concrete out of the way to enable rescuers to sift through the mounds.
"No, again, that's not it," he said after hurriedly checking a new victim being brought out. "That's an elderly person. It's not him."
Tulsi Gabbard’s history with Russia is even more concerning than you think
Sunday 2 February 2025 07:00
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Holly Evans
In the summer of 2015, three Syrian girls who had narrowly survived an airstrike some weeks earlier stood before Tulsi Gabbard with horrific burns all over their bodies.
Gabbard, then a US congresswoman on a visit to the Syria-Turkey border as part of her duties for the foreign affairs committee, had a question for them.
“How do you know it was Bashar al-Assad or Russia that bombed you, and not Isis?’” she asked, according to Mouaz Moustafa, a Syrian activist who was translating her conversation with the girls.
It was a revealing insight into Gabbard’s conspiratorial views of the conflict, and it shocked Moustafa to silence. He knew, as even the young children did, that Isis did not have jets to launch airstrikes. It was such an absurd question that he chose not to translate it because he didn’t want to upset the girls, the eldest of whom was 12.
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Putin ally leaves for India for 'important' negotiations
Sunday 2 February 2025 06:55
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Namita Singh
A key Vladimir Putin ally in the Russian parliament said on Sunday that he was leaving for India for a series of “important” talks.
Vyacheslav Volodin, the chairman of Russia's State Duma – the lower house of parliament – said in a Telegram post: "We will be in New Delhi by nightfall, important meetings and negotiations are planned tomorrow.
"India is a strategic partner. We have long-standing relations of trust and mutually beneficial cooperation with it. It is necessary to develop contacts in all areas."
One civilian killed in Ukrainian drone strike in Russia’s Belgorod, says governor
Sunday 2 February 2025 06:38
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Namita Singh
At least one civilian was killed in a Ukrainian drone strike in the Russian region of Belgorod bordering Ukraine, the regional governor said this morning.
"A man was killed," governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said of the overnight strike in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
"He died from his injuries before the ambulance crew arrived."
Mr Gladkov said the attack took place in the village of Malinovka about 8km east of the border.
Russia's defence ministry said it destroyed five Ukrainian drones overnight over Russian territory, including one over the Belgorod region.
Ukraine should hold election after war ends, says US
Sunday 2 February 2025 06:23
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Namita Singh
The US has demanded that Ukraine should hold presidential and parliamentary elections after a ceasefire is agreed with Russia.
Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia said votes “need to be done” if a truce is agreed.
"Most democratic nations have elections in their time of war. I think it is important they do so," Keith Kellogg told the Reuters.
"I think it is good for democracy. That's the beauty of a solid democracy, you have more than one person potentially running."
Russian air attack kills 15 in Ukraine, gas infrastructure targeted
Sunday 2 February 2025 04:58
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Namita Singh
Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles on Ukraine on Saturday, killing 15 people and damaging dozens of residential buildings as well as energy infrastructure across the country, Ukrainian officials said.
In the central city of Poltava, Ukraine's Emergency Services said a Russian missile had struck a residential building, killing 11 people and wounding 16, including four children.
They said 22 people were rescued from rubble and emergency crews worked well into the night. Rescue teams carried out the dead on stretchers.
Reuters TV footage showed thick columns of smoke rising from mounds of rubble outside the building, part of which was reduced to a twisted mass of metal and building materials.
Firefighters and dozens of rescuers were searching through rubble.
One retired military veteran, certain his son, daughter-in law and granddaughter had died on the first floor of the building, waited outside the building all day, checking with rescue teams for them among the bodies pulled out.
One killed, four injured in Russian drone attack
Sunday 2 February 2025 04:47
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Namita Singh
In Kharkiv, in Ukraine's northeast, one person was killed and four were wounded in a Russian drone attack, the mayor said.
Three police officers were killed during the attacks as they patrolled streets in a village in the northeastern region of Sumy, regional officials said.
Ukraine accuses Russia of deadly strike on boarding school in Kursk
Sunday 2 February 2025 04:27
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Namita Singh
Ukraine blamed Russia for a deadly missile strike yesterday that killed at least four people in the dormitory of a boarding school situated in a part of Russia's Kursk region held by Ukrainian forces.
Some of the war's fiercest battles in recent months have been taking place in the Kursk region that borders Ukraine, where Kyiv forces have held swathes of the land since staging a major cross-border incursion last August.
Ukraine's Armed Forces said on its Telegram messaging app that Russia launched an aerial bomb from Russian territory that struck a boarding school in Sudzha, killing at least four. The boarding school housed people preparing for evacuation.
As of 10pm on Saturday, 84 people had been rescued or received medical assistance, the statement said. Four of the injured were in a serious condition. Rescue efforts to clear rubble were proceeding.
Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack on Sudzha, some 12km from the border with Ukraine, shows how Russia fights the war
."They destroyed the building even though dozens of civilians were there," Mr Zelensky wrote on X.
"This is how Russia waged war against Chechnya decades ago. They killed Syrians the same way. Russian bombs destroy Ukrainian homes the same way."
Russia blamed Ukraine for the attack. Early this morning, Russia's defence ministry said on Telegram that Ukraine's forces launched "a targeted missile strike on a boarding school in the city of Sudzha" from the territory of Ukraine.
Zelensky sceptical about ‘other security guarantees’
Sunday 2 February 2025 04:06
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Namita Singh
In the absence of Nato membership, other security guarantee proposals offered to Ukraine should be backed up by sufficient weapons from the US and Europe, and support for Kyiv to develop its own defense industry, said Volodymyr Zelensky.
He also said a French proposal to put European forces in Ukraine to act as a deterrent against Russian aggression is taking shape, but he expressed scepticism, saying many questions remained about the command-and-control structure and the number of troops and their positions.
The issue was raised by French president Emmanuel Macron and with US president Donald Trump, he said.
"I said in the presence of the two leaders that we are interested in this as a part of the security guarantee, but not as the only guarantee of safety," he said. "That's not enough."
He added: "Imagine, there is a contingent. The question is who is in charge? Who is the main one? What will they do if there are Russian strikes? Missiles, disembarkation, attack from the sea, crossing of the land borderline, offensive. What will they do? What are their mandates?"
Asked if he put those questions directly to Mr Macron, he smiled and said: "We are still in the process of this dialogue."
Australian teacher believed to have been killed by Russia in Ukraine is alive, says foreign minister
Sunday 2 February 2025 04:01
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Holly Evans
An Australian man who was feared dead after being captured by Russian forces is alive, foreign minister Penny Wong has announced.
Oscar Jenkins, 32, a teacher who signed up to fight for Ukraine against Russia, was taken captive in December last year. A video showed him being struck by a Russian interrogator, sparking fears for his life.
“The Australian government has received confirmation from Russia that Oscar Jenkins is alive and in custody,” Ms Wong said on Wednesday.
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Nato membership ‘cheapest security guarantee’ against Russian aggression
Sunday 2 February 2025 03:43
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Namita Singh
Volodymyr Zelensky cautioned against allowing Vladimir Putin to take "control" over the war, an apparent reference to Russia's repeated threats of escalation during president Joe Biden's administration.
Without security guarantees from Ukraine's allies, Mr Zelensky said, any deal struck with Russia would only serve as a precursor to future aggression. Membership in the Nato alliance, a longstanding wish for Kyiv that Moscow has categorically rejected, is still Mr Zelensky's top choice.
Nato membership is the "cheapest" option for Ukraine's allies, and it would also strengthen Donald Trump geopolitically, Mr Zelensky argued.
"I really believe that these are the cheapest security guarantees that Ukraine can get, the cheapest for everyone," he said.
"It will be a signal that it is not for Russia to decide who should be in Nato and who should not, but for the United States of America to decide. I think this is a great victory for Mr Trump," he said, evidently appealing to the president's penchant for winners and business deals.
Ukraine visit by Trump’s envoy postponed ‘for legal reasons’
Sunday 2 February 2025 03:33
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Namita Singh
With president Donald Trump back in the White House, Ukraine's relationship with the US, its largest and most important ally, is at a tipping point.
In an initial phone call with Mr Trump during the presidential campaign, Volodymyr Zelensky said, the two agreed that if he wins, they would meet to discuss the steps needed to end the war. But a planned visit by Mr Trump's Ukraine envoy, Keith Kellogg, was postponed "for legal reasons", Mr Zelensky said.
That was followed by a sudden foreign aid freeze that effectively caused Ukrainian organisations to halt projects.
"I believe that, first and foremost, we (must) hold a meeting with him, and that is important. And that is, by the way, something that everyone in Europe wants," Mr Zelensky said, referring to "a common vision of a quick end to the war”.
After the conversation with Mr Trump, "we should move on to some kind of format of conversation with Russians. And I would like to see the United States of America, Ukraine and the Russians at the negotiating table. ... And, to be honest, a European Union voice should also be there. I think it would be fair, effective. But how will it turn out? I don't know."
Ukraine in discussions with Trump administration at ‘general level’
Sunday 2 February 2025 03:12
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Namita Singh
President Volodymyr Zelensky said his team has been in contact with the Trump administration, but those discussions are at a "general level," and he believes in-person meetings will take place soon to develop more detailed agreements.
"We need to work more on this," he said, adding that US president Donald Trump understandably appeared to be focused on domestic issues in the first weeks after his inauguration.
The nearly three-year war in Ukraine is at a crossroads. Mr Trump promised to end the fighting within six months of taking office, but the two sides are far apart, and it is unclear how a ceasefire deal would take shape.
Meanwhile, Russia continues to make slow but steady gains along the front, and Ukrainian forces are enduring severe manpower shortages.
Excluding Ukraine from US-Russia talks about war very dangerous, says Zelensky
Sunday 2 February 2025 03:00
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Namita Singh
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that excluding his country f
