Ukraine

In an interview published on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he would be willing to sit at the negotiating table with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, if that was the only to “bring peace to the citizens of Ukraine and not lose people.”

Russia’s war in Ukraine has brought fears of a nuclear catastrophe as Zaporizhzhia has repeatedly been caught in the crossfire of fighting.

Armen Sarkisyan, the Moscow-backed collaborator from Ukraine’s Donetsk region, died in the hospital after being injured in an explosion in an seçkine residential complex in Moscow on Monday, according to Russian state-run outlets.

Competing claims have emerged over a deadly attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia’s Kursk region, that Ukraine has controlled for five months.

Moscow claims to have seized the eastern Ukrainian village of Novovasylivka as it appears to be slowly closing in on the key logistic city of Prokrovsk.

The EU will be able to renew its sectoral sanctions against Russia after Hungary abandoned its veto threat, which it had linked to energy concerns.

Zelenskyy said last year he had no intention of renewing the gas transit deal, stressing the importance for Europe of moving on from Russia and not allowing the Kremlin to ‘earn additional billions’ on Ukrainian blood.

The future of US aid to Ukraine remains uncertain as President Donald Trump begins his second term in office.

“We’d better meet and have a calm conversation on all issues of interest to both the US and Russia based on today’s realities,” Putin said in a TV interview.

The latest wave of rallies was fuelled by Fico’s recent trip to Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, a rare visit to the Kremlin by an EU leader since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.