Live: US wants to hold trilateral Ukraine talks with Russia by end of October, Zelensky says
Özet haber: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that the US wants to broker a new round of talks with Ukraine and Russia on ending the war and hold it by the end of October. Earlier, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the city's Northern Bridge over the Dnipro River was again hit in a Russian attack during a visit by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments.
The United States wants to broker a new round of talks with Ukraine and Russia on ending the four-and-a-half-year war and hold it by the end of October, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky." The American side is currently in contact with Ukraine and Russia and is proposing to somehow hold a meeting at the technical level in a trilateral format by the end of October," Zelensky told reporters.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced military aid for Ukraine worth around €1 billion ($1. 13 billion) and an energy support package during a visit to Kyiv, as the Ukrainian capital came under renewed attack from Russian drones. Merz, who was accompanied by a senior minister and several company executives, said his visit "demonstrates that we will not be intimidated.
Nor will we be intimidated by a drone attack occurring at the very time of our visit."
Zelensky meets with Germany's Merz at Kyiv Russian drone strike site
Russia said it would ramp up its pummelling of Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Kyiv would increase its attacks on Russian oil refineries." Following Zelensky's statement ...
strikes by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on military and military-industrial facilities, as well as related infrastructure in Kyiv and other regions of Ukraine, will be intensified," Russia's defence ministry said in a statement.
Moscow has once again bombed one of Kyiv’s bridges, despite the presence of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Ukrainian capital. The visit was unplanned, but Merz says it was intended to show Germany’s support for Ukraine. FRANCE 24's correspondent Gulliver Cragg, reporting from Kyiv, says traffic has resumed on the bridge, though slowly. Video shows a large hole in the roadway.
Experts say the bridges are extremely solid and difficult to destroy, even with ballistic missiles.
A fire broke out at an industrial site in Russia's Krasnodar region after falling drone debris struck the site in the Temryuk district, regional authorities said.Three people were injured and were receiving medical treatment, while emergency services were working at the scene.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Ukraine's capital Kyiv on Sunday on an unannounced visit in a show of support for the country in its war with Russia. Merz's visit comes just a day after Russia warned foreigners and diplomats to leave the Ukrainian capital, saying that "massive" new air strikes would hit the city. FRANCE 24's correspondent in Kyiv Gulliver Cragg has more.
Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs was set to retain power and form a pro-Ukrainian coalition after his centrist United List secured the biggest parliamentary election victory since Latvia regained independence in 1991. With 97 percent of ballots counted after Saturday's election in the NATO and European Union country bordering Russia, United List was on 35.
3 percent, enough for 42 seats in the 100-seat parliament. Kulbergs, 47, came to power in May after the previous coalition crumbled over its handling of incidents in which stray Ukrainian military drones flew undetected into Latvia.
