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BBC News
02-05-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
JD Vance: Russia's war in Ukraine not ending 'any time soon'
US Vice-President JD Vance has said the war in Ukraine is "not going to end any time soon", in an interview with Fox said the question facing the US administration now is how it can help Russia and Ukraine "find middle ground" to end the conflict that has been raging for more than three Vance added, "it's going to be up to [Russia and Ukraine] to come to an agreement and stop this brutal, brutal conflict".His comments come shortly after Washington signed a deal with Kyiv to share the profits of Ukraine's rare earth minerals in return for future US security assistance. Vance made the comments in a wide-ranging interview, in which he defended Trump's approach to the war in Ukraine."Yes, of course, [the Ukrainians] are angry that they were invaded," Vance added. "But are we going to continue to lose thousands and thousands of soldiers over a few miles of territory this or that way?"Trump this week suggested that Ukraine might be willing to cede Crimea - which Russia invaded in 2014 - in order to reach a truce Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky had earlier implied that he would be unable to accept Russian control of the peninsula, citing the Ukrainian a separate interview with Fox News on Thursday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there needed to be a "breakthrough" in the conflict soon, otherwise Trump "will have to decide how much time to dedicate to this". Russian president Vladimir Putin this week announced a temporary three-day ceasefire from 8 May, to coincide with anniversary celebrations marking the end of World War foreign minister Andrii Sybiha called for an immediate 30-day ceasefire in fighting between the two countries has Thursday night, a Russian drone attack on Ukraine's south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia injured 14 people, but caused no Moscow accused Ukraine of using drones to target a market in Russia-controlled southern Ukraine, also on Thursday. Seven were killed and more than 20 were injured, according to Russian denied the accusations, adding that the attack was only targeted at military personnel.
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, two cosmonauts launch for ISS
April 8 (UPI) -- NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and two Russian cosmonauts launched to the International Space Station early Tuesday from Kazakhstan. The Soyuz spacecraft with its three crew members on board launched at 10:47 a.m. local time -- 1:47 a.m. EDT -- from the Russia-controlled Baikonur Cosmodrome in the former Soviet nation. "Jonny Kim is now on his way to the International Space Station on his first spaceflight!" NASA's Johnson Space Center said on X as it celebrated the successful launch. Kim is serving as a flight engineer for the Soyuz MS-27 mission, which is on a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the ISS. The trio are scheduled to arrive at the orbiting space laboratory at 5:03 a.m. EDT with hatch opening expected at about 7:20 a.m. Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky will join Expedition 73 at the space station, where they will spend the next eight months performing what NASA called "cutting-edge research." "While aboard the orbiting laboratory, Kim will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare the crew for future space missions and provide benefits to people on Earth," NASA said in an August press release. A U.S. Navy lieutenant commander and dual naval aviator and flight surgeon, Kim, who also served as a Navy SEAL, was selected as an astronaut in 2017. "Behind every successful astronaut is an extraordinary team of dedicated individuals who truly care," Kim said in a post to X on launch day. "At NASA, we're renowned for engineering excellence, groundbreaking research and pushing the boundaries of what's possible. But what truly sets us apart is our people. It's not the rockets, planes, satellites or science that define this agency -- it's the remarkable individuals who bring it all to life -- always has been, and always will be. "So, to those who faithfully serve our public to make this possible: Thank you."
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Russian army says Kyiv launched three attacks on civilian energy infrastructure during Russia-US talks
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that Ukraine had launched three attacks on Russian civilian energy infrastructure on Monday as Russian and U.S. officials held talks in Saudi Arabia about a possible ceasefire agreement. The ministry said in a statement that Ukraine on Monday had launched attacks on infrastructure owned by the Rosseti state-owned company, on the Svatovo gas distribution station in Russia-controlled eastern Ukraine, and on an underground gas storage facility in Crimea. Russia says it has agreed to a moratorium on its own attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure after a phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday last week. Ukraine has not declared a similar moratorium, but has said it would be willing to do so if a formal agreement setting out the precise terms for such a deal was reached. "By continuing his daily attacks on Russia's energy infrastructure, (Ukrainian President) Zelenskiy is confirming his unwillingness to reach a deal and the impossibility of trusting any guarantees he might give to observe any possible agreements," the Defence Ministry said in its statement.
Reuters
25-03-2025
- Politics
- Reuters
Russian army says Kyiv launched three attacks on civilian energy infrastructure during Russia-US talks
MOSCOW, March 25 (Reuters) - Russia's Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that Ukraine had launched three attacks on Russian civilian energy infrastructure on Monday as Russian and U.S. officials held talks in Saudi Arabia about a possible ceasefire agreement. The ministry said in a statement that Ukraine on Monday had launched attacks on infrastructure owned by the Rosseti state-owned company, on the Svatovo gas distribution station in Russia-controlled eastern Ukraine, and on an underground gas storage facility in Crimea. Russia says it has agreed to a moratorium on its own attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure after a phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday last week. Ukraine has not declared a similar moratorium, but has said it would be willing to do so if a formal agreement setting out the precise terms for such a deal was reached. "By continuing his daily attacks on Russia's energy infrastructure, (Ukrainian President) Zelenskiy is confirming his unwillingness to reach a deal and the impossibility of trusting any guarantees he might give to observe any possible agreements," the Defence Ministry said in its statement.
The Guardian
27-02-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv's troops regain village near Pokrovsk as ISW says Russians falter
Ukrainian troops on Wednesday announced a successful counterattack to retake the settlement of Kotlyne near the key city of Pokrovsk, which many Russian forces have died trying to take over the past year. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said: 'The year-long Russian effort to seize Pokrovsk has so far failed, and Russian forces appear to have abandoned the effort to take the city directly, preferring instead to conduct a wide envelopment. The Kremlin may have abandoned even that effort for now, however, in the fact of increasing Ukrainian resistance in the area and extremely high Russian losses.' The Russian defence ministry said its forces had recaptured the settlements of Pogrebki and Orlovka, north of the town of Sudzha, in Kursk oblast where Ukraine has held territory inside Russia since August 2024. The ministry added that Russian forces had struck Ukrainian units and positions near more than a dozen settlements, including several around Sudzha. Zelenskyy, in his nightly video address, noted it was nearly seven months that Ukrainian forces 'have been holding the buffer zone on the aggressor's territory in Russia. They have almost become used to it.' The Ukrainian military said it had attacked Russia's Tuapse oil refinery on the Black Sea coast and that at least 40 explosions had been recorded at the site. Tuapse is home to one of Russia's biggest oil refineries and has been targeted by Ukrainian drones several times before. The Ukrainian military also said it had attacked two military airfields in Russia-controlled Crimea but gave no further details. Russia confirmed drones attacked its southern Krasnodar region, including the port of Tuapse, on Wednesday. Drones also attacked the Russian regions of Bryansk and Kursk, which border Ukraine, according to Russia's defence ministry. Ukraine said Russian strikes on Kostyantynivka city in the east killed at least five people and wounded eight more. Russian drones also killed two people near Kyiv, including the Ukrainian journalist Tetiana Kulyk who worked for the Ukrinform news agency. Ukraine's interior ministry said separately that two people were wounded in Kharkiv city during a drone attack. Ukraine's largest private energy company, DTEK, said one of its facilities had been damaged in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Any peace deal for Ukraine must include 'security guarantees' involving the 'Atlantic alliance', according to Giorgia Meloni, who was referencing Nato. The Italian prime minister spoke as it emerged a draft deal between the US and Ukraine does not include security guarantees, but only references Ukraine somehow obtaining them. Peace in Ukraine 'can only be achieved if Kyiv is given adequate security guarantees to make sure that what we have seen over the past three years does not happen again', Meloni said on Tuesday. While Donald Trump said Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, would sign their 'very big agreement' in Washington on Friday, Zelenskyy insisted that 'guarantees of peace and security' remained vital as he prepared for 'talks' with Trump. 'For me and for all of us in the world, it's important that US support is not stopped. Strength is needed on the path to peace,' Zelenskyy said during his evening address to Ukrainians on Wednesday. Zelenskyy elsewhere suggested the deal provides a 'framework' under which security guarantees would be agreed jointly with the US and Europe. On security guarantees, Trump said 'we're going to have Europe do that' and Ukraine should forget about joining Nato. Zelenskyy is expected to visit Britain this weekend for talks with its prime minister, Keir Starmer, and other European leaders. Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that after his proposed trip to Washington on Friday, 'I plan to go to London: and immediately after this I and the Europeans will meet there with Keir Starmer'. Keir Starmer will convene the meeting after he returns from also meeting with Trump in Washington. The Romanian parliament has authorised its army and allies to shoot down drones illegally breaching Romanian airspace. The EU and Nato member has had Russian drone fragments repeatedly fall on to its territory as Moscow has attacked Kyiv's ports.
