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BBC News
24-03-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
US and Russia teams to meet for Ukraine ceasefire talks after night of drone attacks
Officials from the United States and Russia are set to meet in Saudi Arabia on Monday to discuss plans for a potential ceasefire to the war in comes a day after US negotiators held talks with a Ukrainian delegation, which Kyiv described as "productive and focused".US President Donald Trump's special envoy said the separate discussions in Riyadh would bring about "some real progress".Meanwhile, cross-border attacks continued overnight, with a Russian air strike injuring a 37-year-old man in Kyiv, according to local authorities. Russia's defence ministry said it had intercepted a number of Ukrainian drones in several regions. Kyiv's regional governor Mykola Kalashnyk said the overnight strike also damaged several houses, and the injured man had been taken to hospital. An earlier attack in Kyiv on Saturday killed three people, including a five-year-old on Sunday, a Russian strike in Zaporizhzhia injured a 54-year-old woman and damaged residential buildings, the region's administration said on Russia, the defence ministry said it had intercepted and destroyed 28 Ukrainian drones Russia and Ukraine have continued fighting despite the ongoing talks looking to secure an end to the three-year discussions, mediated by the US, are part of Trump's plan to secure a fast ceasefire in special envoy, Steve Witkoff, said he was hopeful that real progress towards at least a partial ceasefire would be made during the talks, in an interview with Fox Sunday evening's meeting between Kyiv and Washington, Ukraine's Defence Minister Rustem Umerov said the talks were working towards securing "a just and lasting peace" for Ukraine and Europe."The discussion was productive and focused - we addressed key points including energy", he said in a post on ahead to Monday's meeting, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there were "difficult negotiations head"."We are only at the beginning of this path," he told Russian State TV.
Arab News
12-03-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Ukraine says Russia blew up teens recruited to make bombs
KYIV: Ukraine's security service on Wednesday accused Russia of blowing up two teenage boys it had recruited to make bombs and plant them near a Ukrainian railway and Russia frequently accuse each other of recruiting civilians to carry out sabotage attacks in their local areas, often on railway infrastructure, offering financial incentives and grooming them via social explosion Tuesday evening in the center of the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk killed a 17-year-old boy on the spot and seriously injured a 15-year-old boy, the SBU security service wrote on a statement it said 'the Russian security service blew up two of their own agents' by remotely triggering an improvised explosive device they were said the boys were planning to plant the device near the city's railway SBU said Russia had recruited the local teens through Telegram channels, calling them college students 'in search of 'easy money'.'A Russian handler rented an apartment where the teens learnt bomb-making and fashioned two improvised devices disguised as thermos flasks, packing them with metal nuts to maximize injuries, the SBU the boys walked together, carrying one of the devices in a package, Russian security services remotely tracking them on GPS 'activated the improvised explosive device,' the Ukrainian agency bystanders suffered shrapnel wounds while another explosive device left in the rented apartment was also remotely triggered minutes later, prosecutors said, posting a picture of firefighters tackling a Ivano-Frankivsk region, near the border with Poland, has had critical infrastructure damaged by Russian bombing.'All the circumstances of the crime are currently being established,' prosecutors SBU said the 15-year-old survivor would be classed as a suspect and risked charges of aiding a 'terrorist act' and illegally making explosives, punishable by up to a life sentence.
