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It comes as Kyiv accused Putin of a war crime after it claimed a military hospital was hit by a drone in Kharkiv
Vladimir Putin’s troops have launched over 150 deadly glide bombs at Ukraine over the last day in a huge air attack, Kyiv’s military said.
At least 153 KAB missiles – winged explosives weighing up to 1,500 kilograms nicknamed the “building destroyer” – were dropped on Ukrainian towns and cities on Saturday, according to Ukraine’s general staff.
They were part of a huge air attack involving nearly 100 airstrikes and a missile attack in regions like Sumy, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia, it added.
A military hospital was hit by an Iranian-made Shahed drone in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, which Kyiv claimed was a war crime. At least two people were killed and 35 injured in the attack on the city.
“[This was a] deliberate, targeted shelling of a Ukrainian medical institution by the Russian army. War crimes have no statute of limitations,” Ukraine’s general staff said.
It comes as Ukrainian government and military analysts said Moscow was preparing for a new offensive along the 621-mile frontline in Sumy, Kharkiv and Zaporizizhia.
“They’re dragging out the talks and trying to get the US stuck in endless and pointless discussions about fake ‚conditions‘ just to buy time and then try to grab more land,” Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said.
A ceasefire in Ukraine may not happen ‘this year’ despite US president Donald Trump’s claim to bring about a quick truce, a top Russian negotiator said.
Grigory Karasin, 75, who led the Russian delegation at talks last week with the US in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, said a peace deal may not come “this year or at the end of this year”.
„It would be naive to expect any breakthrough results at the very first meeting,“ he told Russian state-owned TV channel Rossiya-24.
Mr Trump repeatedly said he would broker a ceasefire ‘within 24 hours’ of becoming president, before back tracking to a timeline of six months in January.
This month, he said Russia “could be dragging their feet” in a rare sign of frustration with Russian president Vladimir Putin.
So, Steve Witkoff, the Henry Kissinger of our age. What do we know about this man charged simultaneously with bringing peace to the Middle East, creating harmony between Russia and Ukraine, and forging a love-in with Iran?
The routine profiles tell us little about the 68-year-old Bronx-born property developer beyond the fact that he was in the same line of work as Donald Trump and that the two men played a lot of golf together. But Trump clearly believes his golfing chum has exceptional negotiation skills. Why else would he pick him to shuttle between Putin, Hamas, and Bibi Netanyahu in a bid to solve everything all at once?
Kissinger had been a US army intelligence officer in the Second World War. At Harvard, he developed an extensive knowledge of foreign policy, and he became a leading expert in arms control and disarmament. By the time he became national security adviser, he was “one of the most important theorists about foreign policy ever to be produced by the United States”, according to his biographer, Niall Ferguson.
Steve Witkoff develops luxury hotels, Alan Rusbridger writes.
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A Russian drone strike on Ukraine’s second-largest city killed two people and wounded 35 late on Saturday, officials said, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Kyiv’s partners to respond to such attacks while seeking peace in the three-year-old war.
The strike on the eastern city of Kharkiv, which damaged a military hospital among other structures, came as Ukraine seeks strong backing from Western allies to pressure Russia into ending its full-scale invasion of its smaller neighbour.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov said five children were wounded in the attack, which also damaged several dozen residential buildings and a dormitory housing war refugees.
One survivor, who identified himself as Anton, described running to an adjacent room in his apartment when a drone struck and showered him with shrapnel.
„I had already bid farewell to life,“ said the 22-year-old, whose head and left hand were heavily bandaged.
Vladimir Putin’s troops have launched over 150 deadly glide bombs at Ukraine over the last day in a huge air attack, Kyiv’s military said.
At least 153 KAB missiles – winged explosives weighing up to 1,500 kilograms and nicknamed the “building destroyer” – were dropped on Ukrainian towns and cities on Saturday, according to Ukraine’s general staff.
They were part of a huge air attack on involving nearly 100 airstrikes and a missile attack in regions like Sumy, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia, it added.
Ukrainian air defences destroyed 65 out of 111 drones launched by Russia during an overnight attack, Kyiv’s air force said in a statement on Sunday.
It added that another 35 drones were „locationally lost“ without causing damage, typically a reference to electronic jamming, but that damage was reported in the Kharkiv, Sumy, Odesa and Donetsk regions.
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