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Mint
5 hours ago
- Politics
- Mint
Russia Probes Rail Incidents in Regions Near Ukraine Border
Russia's main investigating authority has initiated criminal probes after two bridges blew up in regions bordering Ukraine, crushing passing trains that caused at least seven fatalities and widespread injury. Authorities have classified the incidents as 'terrorist attacks,' the country's Investigative Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said Sunday in comments broadcast by state TV channel Rossiya 24. A section of the road bridge in the Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, struck a passenger train en route to Moscow shortly before midnight on Saturday, the regional governor Alexander Bogomaz said in a Telegram post. The number of injured stands at 66, he said. Hours later, a similar incident occurred in Kursk, which also borders Ukraine. There a railway bridge collapsed as a freight train was passing, Governor Alexander Khinshtein said. The engine crew was hospitalized. It's unclear whether there is a connection between the two. The incidents occurred just as a Russian delegation prepares to travel to Turkey for a second round of peace talks with Ukraine this week. The opening round on May 16, the first in more than three years, ended with a prisoner exchange agreement and discussions on a potential ceasefire. Russia's government, including Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, has been notified of the two incidents, state news agency Tass reported, citing Transportation Ministry head Roman Starovoit. So far, Russia has not signaled if the incidents may affect the talks. Ukraine has so far made no official comment on the incidents. However, Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Ukrainian Center for Countering Propaganda, said on Sunday the Kremlin may be 'preparing the ground for disruption of the talks,' adding it's not the first time Russia conducts 'false-flag' attacks. 'Ukraine has no motive to disrupt the Istanbul summit. On the contrary, Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire long ago,' Kovalenko said in a Telegram post. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said last week Kyiv is in favor of pushing forward with negotiations, but has been awaiting a memorandum from Moscow laying out its position before a follow-up meeting takes place — a position the Kremlin said was 'unconstructive.' Ukraine came under one of the longest barrages from Russian missiles and drones early Sunday, with air sirens sounding for more then nine hours. The scope of the damage is yet to be assessed. Ukraine's Military Intelligence Service said a military train exploded in the Zaporizhzhia region, which is partially occupied by Russia, without giving details on how the blast occurred. The explosion disrupted logistics between the area and the Crimea peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014, the service said. This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Russian delegation led by Putin's aide to attend new peace talks in Istanbul
Russia is once again sending the same delegation, led by Vladimir Medinsky, aide to Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, to the next round of peace talks with Ukraine scheduled to take place in Istanbul on 2 June – a delegation previously criticised by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for its low level. Source: Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, on air at the state-owned TV channel Rossiya 24, as reported by Suspilne, a Ukrainian public broadcaster Details: Zakharova stated that the composition of the Russian delegation will remain unchanged and will again be headed by Vladimir Medinsky. Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the composition of the Ukrainian delegation would depend on the Russian one. The upcoming round of negotiations may be held in Istanbul on 2 June. This date and location were proposed by Russia, but Ukraine has not officially agreed to it yet. Kyiv is calling on Moscow to send over the proposed "memorandum" on a ceasefire before the talks take place. Background: Zelenskyy said on 29 May that the Russian side had failed to deliver the so-called memorandum to the US, Ukraine or Türkiye, despite earlier promises. On 28 May, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov proposed that the second round of negotiations be held in Istanbul on 2 June. Earlier, Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umierov had handed over a document to Russia outlining Ukraine's position and was awaiting their "memorandum" in response. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
Ya Libnan
26-03-2025
- Politics
- Ya Libnan
Trump is still struggling to end Ukraine war as US- Russia talks ended with no deal
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, second right, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, second left, at a previous round of talks in Riyadh last month. The talks ended yesterday with no deal. There were no immediate plans for another call between Putin and Trump. Ukraine and Russia have agreed in theory to a limited, 30-day ceasefire, but President Vladimir Putin has essentially demanded Ukraine's surrender and continued to bomb it. By Alexander Smith President Donald Trump's promises of a hasty end to the war in Ukraine were given a hard reality check Tuesday, with Russian officials saying that the latest round of ceasefire talks with the United States ended without a written agreement and the Kremlin continuing to bomb Ukraine. The media had been briefed to expect a statement following discussions in Saudi Arabia, but no such written conclusion was released. In an interview with Russian state television, the first deputy chairman of Russia's defense committee, Vladimir Chizhov, blamed the position taken by Ukraine. 'They sat for 12 hours and seemed to have agreed on a joint statement,' Chizhov told Rossiya 24. 'However, this was not adopted due to Ukraine's position,' he said, calling the holdup 'very characteristic and symptomatic.' The White House did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment on the conclusion of the talks. While both sides have, in theory, agreed to a limited, 30-day ceasefire, Russian President Vladimir Putin has imposed conditions that would essentially constitute a Ukrainian surrender. Meanwhile, Kyiv says the Kremlin is clearly uninterested in peace, given that it continues to launch nightly mass drone attacks against the country. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters earlier Tuesday that there were no immediate plans for another call between Putin and Trump. Ukraine, meanwhile, is still counting the casualties from an attack a day earlier in the city of Sumy — on a dense residential area, a children's hospital and a school — with authorities so far reporting 101 people injured, including 23 children. Russia fired 139 more Iran-designed Shahed drones into Ukraine overnight, Ukrainian officials said. They added that while 78 were shot down, others caused damage in the regions of Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Cherkasy and Odessa. 'Instead of making hollow statements about peace, Russia must stop bombing our cities and end its war on civilians,' Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said in a statement Monday. 'Any diplomacy with Moscow must be backed up by firepower, sanctions, and pressure.' Three years after it was invaded by Putin, Ukraine has itself launched retaliatory strikes on targets related to the Kremlin's war effort. On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry said it shot down a Ukrainian drone headed for an oil pumping depot that supplies the country's energy exports. The ministry said that drone attacks launched by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy 'confirm his inability to negotiate.' It added, 'The Kiev regime continues to deliberately plan, prepare and carry out attacks on energy infrastructure.' Russia and Ukraine have continued this mutual bombardment despite agreeing to a limited ceasefire in principle earlier this month. The Kremlin, meanwhile, has issued demands tantamount to a Ukrainian surrender. There have been subtly differing statements about what this ceasefire might cover, with American readouts referring to 'energy and infrastructure' and the Kremlin referring only to 'energy infrastructure.' U.S. and Russian negotiators have also presented starkly different accounts of how the talks were going. While Moscow's representatives have appeared circumspect, American officials have sounded optimistic about the talks in Saudi Arabia, even as a parallel ceasefire agreement brokered by the White House in the Gaza Strip has fallen apart. One of the heads of Russia's delegation in Riyadh, Grigorii Karasin, was more forthcoming, calling the negotiations 'very useful.' 'We discussed everything, there was a busy, not an easy dialogue, but very useful for us and for the Americans,' he told Russia's state-controlled Tass news agency Tuesday. 'Of course, not everything was resolved, not everything was agreed upon,' he added. One issue being discussed is the 'Black Sea Initiative,' which was designed to help Ukraine ship grain abroad while minimizing the impact of sanctions on Russian food and fertilizer exports. Moscow nixed this deal in 2023, complaining the second half of the deal was not being honored by Western countries. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia would need 'clear guarantees' to resume the deal, and that these 'guarantees can only be the result of an order from Washington to Zelenskyy.' Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday that territory and 'lines of demarcation' were among the subjects discussed in Riyadh, as well as a proposal by the U.S. to take control of a key nuclear plant in Ukraine. 'They are talking about ownership of the big nuclear power plant in particular,' he said. 'Something like that would be fine with me,' he added, calling it a 'great meeting.' Meanwhile, Zelenskyy gave his most expansive account yet of the remarkable Oval Office bust-up between him, Trump and Vice President JD Vance last month. He told Time magazine in an interview published Monday that he 'was defending the dignity of Ukraine' during that discussion. CNBC
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Joint US-Russia statement following Riyadh meeting not adopted due to Ukraine's stance, Moscow claims
Russia has claimed that a joint statement following consultations between the Russian and American delegations in Riyadh was not adopted because of Ukraine's stance. Source: Vladimir Chizhov, First Deputy Chairman of the Defence and Security Committee of the Federation Council [the upper chamber of the Russian parliament], on Kremlin-aligned Russian TV channel Rossiya 24, as reported by European Pravda Details: Chizhov described the meeting in Riyadh as a link in the chain of Russo-American communications, which began with a telephone conversation between Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump. "They [the delegations in Riyadh] sat for 12 hours and seemingly agreed upon a joint statement, which, however, was not adopted because of Ukraine's position, which is also very typical and symptomatic," he claimed. Background: Earlier, Grigory Karasin, Chairman of the Federation Council's Committee on International Affairs, commented on the meeting between the two delegations in Saudi Arabia on 24 March, stating that the conversation was challenging but ultimately beneficial for both Moscow and Washington. According to Russian propaganda media outlets, the Moscow-Washington meeting lasted 12 hours with breaks. Reports indicated that a joint statement would be issued later. The Kremlin stated that the primary focus of the discussions with the US delegation in Saudi Arabia was the resumption of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, from which Russia withdrew in 2023. On Tuesday 25 March, the Ukrainian and American teams once again met in Saudi Arabia to discuss a potential truce between Kyiv and Moscow. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump's promise of a quick end to Ukraine war gets a reality check after talks end with no deal
President Donald Trump's promises of a hasty end to the war in Ukraine were given a hard reality check Tuesday, with Russian officials saying that the latest round of ceasefire talks with the United States ended without a written agreement and the Kremlin continuing to bomb Ukraine. The media had been briefed to expect a statement following discussions in Saudi Arabia, but no such written conclusion was released. In an interview with Russian state television, the first deputy chairman of Russia's defense committee, Vladimir Chizhov, blamed the position taken by Ukraine. 'They sat for 12 hours and seemed to have agreed on a joint statement,' Chizhov told Rossiya 24. 'However this was not adopted due to Ukraine's position,' he said, calling the holdup 'very characteristic and symptomatic.' The White House did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment on the conclusion of the talks. While both sides have — in theory — agreed to a limited, 30-day ceasefire, Russian President Vladimir Putin has imposed conditions that would essentially constitute a Ukrainian surrender. Meanwhile, Kyiv says the Kremlin is clearly uninterested in peace given that it continues to launch nightly mass drone attacks against the country. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters earlier Tuesday that there were no immediate plans for another call between Putin and Trump. Ukraine, meanwhile, is still counting the casualties from an attack a day earlier in the city of Sumy — on a dense residential area, a children's hospital and a school — with authorities so far reporting 101 people injured, including 23 children. Russia fired 139 more Iran-designed Shahed drones into Ukraine overnight, Ukrainian officials said. They added that while 78 were shot down, others caused damaged in the regions of Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Cherkasy and Odessa. 'Instead of making hollow statements about peace, Russia must stop bombing our cities and end its war on civilians,' Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said in a statement Monday. 'Any diplomacy with Moscow must be backed up by firepower, sanctions, and pressure.' Three years after it was invaded by Putin, Ukraine has itself launched retaliatory strikes on targets related to the Kremlin's war effort. On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry said it shot down a Ukrainian drone headed for an oil pumping depot that supplies the country's energy exports. The ministry said that drone attacks launched by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy "confirms his inability to negotiate." It added, "The Kiev regime continues to deliberately plan, prepare and carry out attacks on energy infrastructure." Russia and Ukraine have continued this mutual bombardment despite agreeing to a limited ceasefire in principle earlier this month. The Kremlin, meanwhile, has issued demands tantamount to a Ukrainian surrender. There have been subtly differing statements about what this ceasefire might cover, with American readouts referring to 'energy and infrastructure' and the Kremlin referring only to 'energy infrastructure.' U.S. and Russian negotiators have also presented starkly different accounts of how the talks were going. While Moscow's representatives have appeared circumspect, American officials have sounded optimistic about the talks in Saudi Arabia, even as a parallel ceasefire agreement brokered by the White House in the Gaza Strip has fallen apart. One of the heads of Russia's delegation in Riyadh, Grigorii Karasin, was more forthcoming, calling the negotiations 'very useful.' 'We discussed everything, there was a busy, not an easy dialogue, but very useful for us and for the Americans,' he told Russia's state-controlled Tass news agency Tuesday. 'Of course, not everything was resolved, not everything was agreed upon,' he added. One issue being discussed is the "Black Sea Initiative," which was designed to help Ukraine ship grain abroad while minimizing the impact of sanctions on Russian food and fertilizer exports. Moscow nixed this deal in 2023, complaining the second half of the deal was not being honored by Western countries. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia would need "clear guarantees" to resume the deal, and that these "guarantees can only be the result of an order from Washington to Zelenskyy." Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday that territory and "lines of demarcation" were among the subjects discussed in Riyadh, as well as a proposal by the U.S. to take control of a key nuclear plant in Ukraine. "They are talking about ownership of the big nuclear power plant in particular," he said. 'Something like that would be fine with me,' he added, calling it a "great meeting." Meanwhile, Zelenskyy gave his most expansive account yet of the remarkable Oval Office bust-up between him, Trump and Vice President JD Vance last month. He told Time magazine in an interview published Monday that he 'was defending the dignity of Ukraine' during that discussion. This article was originally published on
