Russia carried out a large missile and drone assault operation on Kyiv and Kharkiv in a significant blow to progress the U.S. had made in negotiating a ceasefire with Ukraine.
Putin’s assault means that the Russian chief is not going to comply with the 30-day ceasefire phrases that Ukraine accepted to finish preventing within the three-year conflict after the US known as on Russia to make a transfer.
Air raid alerts had been despatched to almost a dozen areas as Ukrainian air defenses repelled strikes, in keeping with Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
“Now it will be as much as [Russia] to say sure or no,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio mentioned from Saudi Arabia, the place negotiations between Washington and Kyiv occurred.
He added, “If they are saying no, then we’ll sadly know what the obstacle is to peace right here.”
Earlier than the assault, President Donald Trump tried to court docket Putin to enter peace talks, saying, “It takes two to tango. I hope he’ll agree.”
After praising the US-brokered deal as “a optimistic step” that Ukraine was “able to take,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky known as on the US to “persuade Russia to do the identical.”
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