By Mark Wyatt, live news reporter
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 starting, here is a letter that appears on the battlefield:
Although the war between Israel and Hamas stopped due to a high fire agreement, there is still such agreement on the table in Ukraine.
Many expected Donald Trump to return to the White House to boost possible peace negotiations, the president emphasizing the end of the war in his electoral campaign.
Instead, there’s been a lot of talking about talking, from all corners.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Kyiv must be included in peace talks and that he wants representatives from Europe around the table also.
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 journalist: “We believe that the president’s existing statements about his preference to the paintings together. We are open to this and in a position for negotiations.
“It would be better for us to meet, based on the realities of today, to talk calmly.”
The United States has arrested the help of the Army
Last week, there were moderate considerations in Ukraine after Marco Rubio, the newly jury in the United States Secretary of State, announced that he stopped foreign aid subsidies for 90 days.
Ukraine was founded in the United States for 40% of its army needs, and Trump in the past threatened to attract the envoy.
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 whether humanitarian aid had been stopped.
Russia drops ‘thousands’ of explosives
In the context of international relationships and politics, it continues 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 avoid those terrorists,” he said in X.
“We are constantly running with our partners to our defense capabilities and decreases Russia’s ability to terrorize Ukraine.
“Long-range features are crucial. Sanctions are essential. The drop in the value of oil is significant. The key is to act in unity and live with resolution. “
Trump’s defense of oil
Speaking of oil, Trump used part of his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos last Thursday evening to call on the powerful oil cartel OPEC to push down prices as a way to hit Moscow’s wallet.
“Currently, the value is important enough for war to continue,” he said, calling Saudi Arabia and OPEP to Worths.
Putin downplayed Trump’s economic threats, saying “excessively” low oil prices were bad for both the US and Russia.
“We don’t see anything new here,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said when asked about Trump’s economic ultimatums.
Elsewhere in Thearray . .
The population of Belarus began to vote in the presidential elections, which is almost certain to increase the government of Alexander Lukashenko.
The authoritarian leader wins 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 “last dictator of Europe”, depending on the subsidies and politicians of the nearby ally of Russia.
He let Moscow use his territory to invade Ukraine in 2022 and even hosts some of Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons.
“It’s better to have a dictatorship like in Belarus than a democracy like Ukraine,” Lukashenko once said in his characteristic bluntness.
Meanwhile, in nearby Slovakia, Robert Fico, the country’s prime minister, has rejected calls for his resignation after tens of thousands demonstrated against his government’s policy shift closer to Russia.
On Friday, some 60,000 people protested in the capital, Bratislava, and around 100,000 turned out to be demonstrations in cities across the country.
Here are some of the best pieces about Ukraine from Sky’s correspondents and editors this month:
Thank you for following our canopy from the war in Ukraine today.
Before leaving, these are today’s advances:
These images come to us from the key logistics town of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, which has been under Russian bombardment for months.
Ukraine’s special forces claimed to have killed 21 North Korean infantrymen and wounded more scores after eight hours in Russia’s Kursk region.
“Special Operations Forces operators killed 21 and wounded 40 North Korean soldiers who were attacking Ukrainian positions,” it said in a statement.
“The attack of the North Koreans, who were fighting in the aspect of Russia, was held for more than 8 hours through the operators of the 8th SSO Regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with friendly infantry, with small arms and grenade launchers. “
North Korea infantry men have supported Russian sets to seek to bise back the portions occupied by Kursk Ukrainians, a territory that can be critical in long -term peace negotiations.
Nearly 100 other people were arrested after the SBU Security Service in Ukraine led some 150 “special operations” across 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 after the great operation, a statement through SBU reading.
Those included, to the SBU:
The European Union’s foreign policy chief has pushed back against claims by Donald Trump that Europe has not been paying its fair share towards supporting Ukraine.
Trump said the United States had hired Ukraine more than in Europe, however, Kaja Kallas said Europe was the largest contribution.
“By my count, we have given more than 134 billion euros (£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.
“Whatever negotiation or agreement there is between Russia and Ukraine, that also concerns Europe. So ‘nothing about Europe without Europe’ is also the main thing here,” she said.
Russia’s attached envoy to the United Nations has responded to Donald Trump’s economic threats in Moscow.
Earlier, the US president said he would impose tariffs and sanctions “if we don’t make a ‘deal’ and soon”.
Now, Dmitry Polyanskiy said the Kremlin sees what Trump believes an agreement includes before continuing.
“It’s not just the of finishing the war,” Polyanskiy told Reuters.
“It is mostly fighting the deep reasons for the Ukrainian crisis. “
He continued, “So, we’ll have to see what ‘agreement’ means in President Trump’s understanding. It is not to blame for what the United States has been doing in Ukraine since 2014, which in fact “anti-Russia” and preparing for war with us, however, is in its strength to prevent this malicious policy.
By Sarah Taaffe-Maguire, business and business 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.
Today, he has encouraged Vladimir Putin to call the Russian government and the Central Bank to react to superior inflation and act with moderate value.
The figures have shown that inflation has more than 9. 52% in 2024, the upper fourth in the more than 15 years and up to 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 brochures entitled “On the occasion of a crisis or war” last year, which presented recommendation on the search for shelters an air raid and what foods to eat.
Asked in the House of Commons whether he thought this was a good idea, John Healey said: “One of the benefits of all Nordic countries now being part of NATO, of the very close defence and security relationships we have with those countries, is that we can indeed learn from each other.
“I think there are indeed classes for us in the United Kingdom, because we the long run and we an expanding point and a complexity of the threats that we may just be faced in the years to come. “