Soon we will return with more updates in Ukraine.
Before leaving, here is a review of what has happened in 24 hours beyond 24 hours:
These images come from Izium, in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, where emergency workers have engaged in a recovery effort following a Russian missile strike yesterday.
The strike killed at least five other people and injured 55.
In our 13. 55 minute we reported on the resolution of the United Kingdom Foreign Ministry of withdrawing the accreditation of a Russian diplomat, an eye reaction for an eye after Moscow expelled a British diplomat whom he accused of espionage.
Speaking after the last development, British Foreign Minister David Lammy said this resolution had sent a transparent message.
Russian ambassador to the UK Andrei Kelin was summoned to the Foreign Office to be informed of the move.
Mr Lammy: “We are not excused to our national interests.
“My message to Russia is clear – if you take action against us, we will respond.”
In November, Russia expelled a British diplomat who, according to him, a spy.
In our 12. 27 position, we reported that comments from a top Russian politician who advised that plans for talks on the most sensible between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were at an “advanced stage” and may take a position as early as this month.
Speculation spread about how the new U. S. president plans to end the war in Ukraine, which he had in the past promised to do on the “first day” of his presidency.
But the comments of the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Moscow, Maria Zakharova, reported that Washington had still presented main points on how you can download an agreement to finish hostilities.
“At this time, there are many words, many statements,” he said.
“There is no clarity or certainty about the steps being taken. Therefore, it would be premature to discuss the prospects of negotiations or anything in general in this context… We will focus on specific steps and actions.”
According to the reports, a popular musician died after falling from the window of his apartment, the police searches of his alleged donations to the Ukrainian army.
The Mash Telegram channel, which would have links with Russia’s security services, said Vadim Stroykin was accused of up to 20 years in criminal if he was accused and discovered that he blamed “to participate in a terrorist organization” for his alleged by the Ukrainian army .
The website, Fontanka, reported that the police had registered their apartment in the tenth land in the Central District of Admiralteysky in St. Petersburg yesterday.
“The last time he noticed alive in the tenth land when he went to the kitchen to drink water,” Fontanka said.
Stroykin then “hastily opened the window and committed the irreversible act,” in order to purify.
There was, however, skepticism about this death narrative.
Anton Barbashin, editorial director of Riddle Russia, a magazine that supplies investigation of Russian affairs, said this . . .
Russia has threatened to retaliate if the European Union decides to impose sanctions on Russian diplomats.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reacted to media reports suggesting that the upcoming package of EU sanctions against Russia may restrict the travel of Russian diplomats to the bloc’s member states.
It arrives after the Russian fuel materials to the states of the Ukraine European Union were interrupted last month, which closed the oldest path of Moscow to the continent.
The five -year fuel shipping agreement between Russia and Ukraine ended in the early hours of January 1. This expected resolution after kyiv said in several events that he would not reach an agreement in the midst of the existing war.
Vladimir Putin has today been hosting a Kremlin reception with winners of the 2024 Science and Innovation Prize for Young Scientists.
Discussions The occasion covered a diversity of clinical issues, which at one time went to Mars and the possibility of traveling there.
The Russian president said during the meeting that there was no chance of exploring the planet today, but that doing so was possible in the future.
And in comments reported via the RIA News Agency, he proceeded to what turns out to have been a joke as he asked the young scientists if the fashionable radiation covering fabrics allowed living things to succeed in Marsarray
“Tell me, radiation coverage compounds allow, for example, cows flying and back? Or rabbits, cats or dogs?” Putin said.
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Kyiv has won new airplanes from its western allies.
Ukraine gained its first French French aircraft today, the French defense minister said online.
The French changed the jets to make them more for an Air-Aire fight on the floor because they had been designed.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov later delivered American-made F-16 fighters to the Netherlands.
The aircraft, along with French Mirage jets, “will soon begin carrying out combat missions, strengthening our defence”, Umerov said on Facebook.
The British government has announced that it would revoke the accreditation of a Russian diplomat, in retaliation for a resolution made through Moscow last year.
Russia said in November that he expelled a British diplomat for espionage, an accusation denied by London.
But Britain’s Foreign Office said in a statement today that it had summoned the Russian ambassador to announce its decision, saying it was in response to “Russia’s unprovoked and baseless decision to strip the accreditation of a British diplomat in Moscow in November”.
“All other measures taken through Russia will be considered as escalation and they have responded accordingly,” he added.
In our previous article, we discussed the ongoing Ukrainian incursion in the Kursk region of Russia, which was introduced six months ago.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said this afternoon that the Ukrainian troops had tried a counterattack in the west of the region, which were driven through the Russian forces.
The ministry said Ukrainian troops and armoured vehicles had launched several waves of attacks near the villages of Ulanok and Cherkasskaya Konopelka, but that they were beaten back and the settlements were under Russian control.
The battlefield report could not be independently confirmed, but the fact that Ukrainian forces are still capable of launching significant attacks in Kursk region highlights the stiff challenge that Russia faces to dislodge them.
Ukraine’s foothold in Kursk has shrunk significantly since the immediate aftermath of the 6 August incursion but provides Kyiv with a useful bargaining chip in potential peace talks.