By Mark Wyatt, journalist
This is the beginning of a new week and 1,068 days since Russia introduced its giant invasion at Ukraine scale.
While the war is approaching his 3 -year -old birthday, we step back to look as a whole.
Before we begin, here’s a card that appears on the battlefield:
While the war between Israel and Hamas has paused due to a ceasefire deal, there is still no such agreement on the table in Ukraine.
Many had hoped the return of Donald Trump to the White House would speed up potential peace negotiations, with the president putting plenty of emphasis on ending the war throughout his election campaign.
Instead, there have been a lot of discussions to talk about, everywhere.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Kyiv will have to be included in peace talks and also needs representatives of Europe around the table.
Trump says he met with Putin “immediately” and that the Russian president informed him that he felt the same.
Putin told a Russian state television reporter: “We believe that the president’s existing statements about his willingness to paint together. We are open to this and in a position for negotiations.
“It would be better if we were, in today’s realities, to speak calmly. “
US hasn’t stopped military aid
There were reasonable concerns in Ukraine last week after Marco Rubio, the newly sworn in US secretary of state, announced he would pause foreign aid grants for 90 days.
Ukraine relies on the US for 40% of its military needs, and Trump has previously threatened to pull the support being sent.
Thankfully for Kyiv, Zelenskyy confirmed on Saturday that Washington has not halted its military aid shipments.
“I focus on the help of the army; he didn’t arrest, thank God,” he said at a press convention along Moldovan President Maia Sandu.
Zelenskyy said if humanitarian aid had stopped.
Russia drops ‘thousands’ of explosives
In the background of diplomacy and politics, war is continuing to destroy lives in Ukraine.
Zelenskyy said yesterday that Russia has used 1,250 aerial bombs, over 750 attack drones and more than 20 missiles to attack Ukraine in the past week.
“Only determination can prevent those terrorists,” he said in X.
“We are constantly running with our partners to our defense functions and decreases Russia’s ability to terrorize Ukraine.
“Long range capacities are crucial. The sanctions are essential. The fall in oil costs is important. The key is to act in unity and live with resolution. “
Trump oil defense
Speaking of oil, Trump used the component of his speech before the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday night on Thursday night to resort to the hard oil sign to reduce costs as a blow of the Moscow portfolio.
“Right now the price is high enough that that war will continue,” he said, calling on Saudi Arabia and OPEC to cut prices.
Putin downplayed Trump’s economic threats, saying “excessively” low oil prices were bad for both the US and Russia.
“We see nothing new here,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, when asked about Trump’s economic ultimatumes.
In another part of the region . . .
The other people of Belarus have a vote in the presidential election, which is sure to make Alexander Lukashenko’s bigger government.
The authoritarian leader is expected to win a seventh term as leader in yesterday’s election, extending his 31 years in power.
His iron rule since 1994 has won Lukashenko the nickname of the “last European dictator”, founded on subsidies and politicians closely by ally.
He let Moscow use his territory to invade Ukraine in 2022 and even hosts some of Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons.
“It’s having a dictatorship like in Belarus than a democracy like Ukraine,” Lukashenko said in his feature film franchise.
Meanwhile, in neighboring Slovakia, Robert Fico, the country’s prime minister, rejected calls for his resignation after tens of thousands of others demonstrated his government’s policy replacement of Russia.
About 60,000 people protested in the capital, Bratislava, on Friday and approximately 100,000 turned out for rallies in cities across the country.
These are some of the pieces about Ukraine of Sky’s correspondents and editors this month:
Thank you for following our canopy from the war in Ukraine today.
Before leaving, here are the advances today:
These photographs come from the Pokrovsk key logistics city in eastern Ukraine, which has been a Russian bombing for months.
Ukraine’s special forces has claimed to have killed 21 North Korean soldiers and injured scores more after an eight-hour standoff in Russia’s Kursk region.
“The special operations operators killed 21 years and injured 40 North Koreans from the North who attacked the Ukrainian positions,” he said in a statement.
“The attack by North Korea, which fought in the aspect of Russia, held for more than 8 hours through the operators of the 8th SSO Regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with infantrymen, with soft weapons and grenade launchers.
North Korea infantry men supported the Russian sets who sought to re -assemble the festivities occupied through the Ukrainian territory of Kursk, a territory that can result in long -term peace negotiations.
Almost another hundred people were arrested after the SBU security service in Ukraine led about 150 “special operations” throughout the country.
After another 222 people were accused of suspicious activities, the SBU carried out a series of raids in Ukraine between Saturday and Monday.
At least 85 other people were arrested as a result of the large operation, through the SBU reading.
Those included, to the SBU:
The foreign policy leader of the European Union has rejected Donald Trump’s claims that Europe has not paid its just percentage to Ukraine.
Trump said the United States had hired Ukraine more than in Europe, however, Kaja Kallas said Europe was the largest contribution.
“According to my account, we have given more than € 134 billion (£ 113 billion) to Ukraine. This makes us the largest donor,” Kallas told Reuters.
She also said that the EU should be involved in any peace talks, amid suggestions that the US could run the negotiations alone.
“Any negotiation or agreement between Russia and Ukraine, which also considers Europe. Therefore,” not anything in Europe Europe “is also the main thing here,” he said.
Russia’s deputy envoy to the United Nations has responded to Donald Trump’s economic threats against Moscow.
Previously, the president of the United States said it would impose prices and sanctions lists “if we do not make an” agreement “and soon. “
Now, Dmitry Polyanskiy has said the Kremlin would need to see what Trump thinks a deal comprises of before proceeding.
“It’s not merely the question of ending the war,” Polyanskiy told Reuters.
“It is mostly fighting the deep reasons for the Ukrainian crisis. “
He continued: “So we want to see what ‘the agreement’ means in the understanding of President Trump. It is guilty of what the United States has been doing in Ukraine since 2014, which makes it” anti-russia “and prepares for the War with us.
By Sarah Taaffe-Maguire and economic journalist
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine preceded the worst cost of living crisis in the UK since the 1970s – but its own economy is one of the worst-affected by inflation.
It today prompted Vladimir Putin to call on the Russian government and central bank to react to high inflation and act to moderate price rises.
Figures showed inflation kicked up to 9.52% in 2024, the fourth highest in the last 15 years and up from 7.42% in 2023.
For comparison, the figure in the UK stood at 2.5% last month, according to official figures.
These images come to us from Kyiv, where a different kind of art exhibition has opened.
The exhibition “Altar of Freedom” sees orthodox icons painted in armored plates that stopped the balls to hit Russia Ukrainian.
No more from the Secretary of Defense now, who said that the United Kingdom can be informed classes from countries like Sweden after issuing their brochures of other people on how to prepare for war.
Stockholm distributed leaflets titled “In Case Of Crisis Or War” last year, which featured advice about seeking shelter during an air raid and what foods to eat.
Asked in the House of Commons if he thought of it as a smart idea, John Healey said: “One of the benefits of all the Nordic countries that is now a component of NATO’s very close defence and security relations with those countries, is that we can actually be informed from each other.
“I think there are classes for us in the U. K. as we look ahead and look at a point in expansion and complexity of the threats that we might face in the coming years. “