A Russian army command post in the Kursk region broke through missile and artillery forces, the Ukrainian military said.
Moscow’s forces have been seeking to counteract a Ukrainian incursion in the region since August 6, when kyiv has organized a wonderful offensive on the Russian border.
The Kremlin led a risk of Donald Trump to impose on the BRICS organization in countries if he created his own currency.
Trump warned BRICs member countries to update the US dollar as a reserve currency by repeating a risk of one hundred percent of the price lists he had made after winning the November presidential elections.
But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Brics, whose Russia is a member, spoke of establishing his own currency, but only to create joint investment platforms.
“This is not the first time Trump makes such statements, it is not new,” he said.
“There were statements like this before, when only he was the president-elect.
“The fact is that Brics is talking about creating a non -unusual currency, and has never done so.
And in what might be considered thinly veiled ridicule of Trump’s grasp of foreign affairs, he added: “In all likelihood, US experts probably need to explain the BRICS agenda in more detail to Mr Trump.”
The Kremlin in December said that any American to force countries to use the dollar is changing, after Trump had the same opposite risk to the BRICS.
Hungary’s Viktor Orban has threatened not to approve the next cycle of sanctions opposed to Russia if Brussels does not help Russian fuel through restored Ukraine.
“That Ukraine is not willing to let Russian gas through its territory so that it can reach Central Europe, and with this it raises the price of gas … this is unacceptable,” the far-right prime minister said on state radio.
The transit of Russian gas to central Europe via Ukraine was halted on 1 January.
Gas exports stopped when a public shipping agreement expired and Kyiv refused to negotiate a new one that repels “the operation of the special army” of Russia, which has been in disaster since February 24, 2022.
A key to the Declaration on the War in Ukraine over the past few months has been the clients of a possible peace agreement in the wake of the election of Donald Trump.
While the new US president has not, as he suggested he would, ended the conflict on “day one” of his return to the White House, it has been widely suggested his leadership will significantly alter its dynamics – if only through a substantial withdrawal of material support for Kyiv.
In turn, beyond a few weeks they have noticed a Moscow signaling wave about the Kremlin position on negotiations.
In that vein, an interview has been published by Russian state news agency TASS with Fyodor Lukyanov, research director with the Valdai Discussion Club – an international forum where Russian and foreign officials and scholars meet to discuss global issues.
Lukyanov has continuously moderated Putin’s annual speech in Valdai and is a well-connected and authoritative voice on the Kremlin’s goals, according to the Institute for the Study of the First Group of Experts on the War.
It Depends on Primary Agreements is the name of the interview, which highlights the Kremlin’s nonstop efforts to shape national and global expectations regarding long-term negotiations between Putin and Trump.
“Tass’s resolution to leverage Lukyanov’s interview to stop the national hypothesis on the option of a long-term peace settlement also highlights the relevance of this interview and Lukyanov’s statements in contemplating Russia’s conceivable negotiating positions in VI states, the United States,” according to ISW analysts.
Lukyanov states in the interview that the “main thing” for future peace negotiations regarding Ukraine is “not the territories” but addressing the “root causes” of the war, which Lukyanov defined as NATO’s expansion into Eastern Europe in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Discussing Ukrainian lands currently held by Russian forces, he said “with the territories, everything is clear: how much you take is yours”, which ISW suggests offers a further indication that the Kremlin has no intention of compromising on its territorial gains in Ukraine in future peace negotiations.
“This position suggests that the Kremlin likely means that any long-term peace negotiations with Trump begin with the United States detecting Russia’s territorial claims in Ukraine, likely adding the spaces that Russia does not occupy recently before genuine negotiations can begin that concentrate on those ‘supped’ root causes,'” say analysts.
Lukyanov states that the main request of Russia for long -term peace negotiations with Trump is “a replacement in the security panorama in Eastern Europe” and “abandonment [of] a safe number of provisions on which the ‘are founded’ Life and functioning styles of NATO “, adding that Russia possibly also needs to need to talk about the option of” cutting the presence point of the army [NATO] “.
As noted by ISW, Putin issued a series of demands to the United States in December 2021 ahead of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, adding that NATO is dedicated not to settling for Ukraine or any other country as new members, as well as other measures that would restrict NATO’s activities in the region.
“Lukyanov’s statements assume that Trump and his management are weak and will most likely be intimidated through Kremlin displays of force than former management [President Joe] Biden,” ISW analysts said.
Lukyanov writes that Trump wants to “dump all further problems” concerning Ukraine on Europe and “does not respect” European states or NATO more broadly.
He suggests that Trump will abandon Ukraine and NATO.
“Trump respects only those who show consistency,” says Lukyanov, while calling the Kremlin to “never give in” and “prepare for a complicated conversation, even adding elements of [a] cliff. “
ISW concludes: “Lukyanov’s interview supports Kremlin’s unrup Trump’s equality on the foreign scene.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, sentenced an attack on Russian drones to Sumy, who killed nine other people when a construction of several lands affected.
A total of 13 people, including a child, were injured when the building was struck.
“Hex according to the time, we receive updates to In Sumy.
“Work at the site of the impact of a Russian ‘Shahed’ (drone) are proceeding,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address on Thursday.
“This has a characteristic of Russian movements: destroying the lives of many families of a complete building.
“All these movements want a reaction from the world,” he said.
“Terror is unpunished. “
The Norwegian police are fixed aboard a Norwegian shipment with a completely Russian crew, which is suspected of participating to damage a Baltic Sea fiber optic cable.
Silver Dania’s team is recently questioned, police lawyer Ronny Jorgensen
“It is suspected that the vessel concerned in serious hurt to a Baltic Sea fiber cable between Latvia and Sweden,” police said in a statement.
Sweden and Latvia opened an investigation on Sunday into the alleged sabotage of a cable connecting the two countries, and Swedish police seized and set up a shipping Maltese flag suspected of having the damage.
A Norwegian police spokesperson said the two ship seizures were related to the same incident.
According to Norwegian broadcaster NRK, the Silver Dania, owned by Silver Sea Shipping Corporate of Bergen, is recently being sought through investigators.
“This is such serious damage,” Mr. Jorgensen.
The arrest made at the request of the letters, police said in the city of Tromsoe in northern Norway.
The Norwegian-owned and flagged vessel had been sailing from St Petersburg in the Baltic Sea to Murmansk in the Russian Arctic, police said.
Jorgesen said he could not go to the main points of the investigation or how it would take place.
Silver Sea’s owner, Tormod Fossmark, told Fiskeribladet: “We did anything. We browse the applicable domain of Gotland at 13. 5 ks at the applicable time.
“We didn’t have an anchor. “
An oil refinery in Russia’s southern Volgograd region caught fire after an overnight Ukrainian drone attack, but the blaze has now been put out, the regional governor said.
Andrei Bocharov, the governor, said that the Russian aerial defenses had promoted an attack on their region through 8 drones.
“Due to the fall in the rubble of one of the drones, a fireplace broke out in the territory of an oil refinery, which was temporarily extinguished,” he said.
He added to the telegram messaging application that a refinery had been injured and taken to the hospital.
It is possible that Sky News verify the report independently.
Russia introduced a night attack of drones opposite to Ukraine, who wounded 4 people.
The drones have hurt in the northeast region of Sumy, the Odesa region in the south and the central region of Cherkasy.
A cereal hospital and a cereal warehouse in Odesa were broken the attack, which 59 of the 102 drones introduced through Russia were sacrificed through the Air Defenses of Ukraine, said the Ukraine Air Force.
Oleh Kiper, the Odesa regional governor, said four civilians, including a doctor, were injured in drone attacks targeting the city of Chornomorsk.
The strikes also partially disrupted electricity supplies in the city and damaged the city’s hospital, an administrative building, a grain warehouse, a residential house, and several trucks, he said on the Telegram app.