Russia Launches Massive Ukraine Attack
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Ukraine has hit a Russian chemical plant with UK-made Storm Shadow missiles, the Ukrainian military said on Tuesday. Calling the strike "a successful hit" that penetrated the Russian air defence system, Ukraine's general staff of the armed forces said they were still assessing the outcome of the "massive combined missile and air strike".
Trump wants Russia and Ukraine to freeze the war on the current battlelines, with Moscow holding a huge swathe of eastern Ukraine.
Russia launched a large-scale air attack on Ukraine early Wednesday, causing power outages across most of the country, setting homes ablaze and killing at least six people, including a six-month-old baby,
U.S. president wants a swift end to the conflict, but both sides are digging in over the region in Ukraine’s east.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will visit Sweden on Wednesday to meet Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson in the city of Linkoping, where they plan to visit a company, the Swedish government said,
After he was briefed on what the senior official described as a “productive” call between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday, Trump essentially pressed pause — believing both sides in the Russia-Ukraine conflict were not ready to seriously talk peace, the official said.
Ukraine and Russia should “stop at the battle lines” and end the war, U.S. President Donald Trump has said, suggesting that negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow should start on the basis of the current territorial situation.
There are no plans for President Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin to meet "in the immediate future," a White House official said on Tuesday.
European democracy and rule of law are at risk, the general says, so Europe must give Ukraine whatever it can to pressure Moscow, even if Trump does not.
Ukraine's top Olympic sliding contender is frustrated with the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation's potential decision to allow Russian athletes to compete in the Milan-Cortina Games.