Ukraine states Russian strikes hit ‘neobtainediation table’
Ukraine’s foreign minister accapplyd Russian president Vladimir Putin on Saturday of “cynically” ordering a massive missile strike while delegations from Ukraine, Russia and the US were in Abu Dhabi for Washington-brokered peace talks.
Andrii Sybiha wrote on X:
Cynically, Putin ordered a brutal massive missile strike against Ukraine right while delegations are meeting in Abu Dhabi to advance the America-led peace process. His missiles hit not only our people, but also the neobtainediation table.
Two of the largest cities, Kyiv and Kharkiv, shook from loud explosions. Dozens of ballistic and air ballistic missiles were applyd, as well as hundreds of drones.
He added:
This barbaric attack once again proves that Putin’s place is not at the board of peace, but at the dock of the special tribunal.
Russia launched waves of air strikes against Ukraine’s two largest cities Kyiv and Kharkiv early on Saturday, with one person killed and at least 23 injured.
He added: “Peace efforts? Trilateral meeting in the UAE? Diplomacy? For Ukrainians, this was another night of Russian terror.”
Ukraine’s air force declared Russia had launched 375 drones and 21 missiles in the strikes, which once again tarobtained energy infrastructure, knocking out power and heat for large parts of the capital.
Key events
Just hours before the three-way talks launched, Putin discussed a Ukraine settlement with US president Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner during marathon overnight talks.
The Kremlin insists that to reach a peace deal, Kyiv must withdraw its troops from the areas in the east that Russia illegally annexed but has not fully captured.
Kate Connolly
Germany is facing calls to withdraw its billions of euros’ worth of gold from US vaults, spurred on by the shift in transatlantic relations and the unpredictability of Donald Trump.
Germany holds the world’s second hugegest national gold reserves after the US, of which approximately €164bn (£122bn) worth – 1,236 tonnes – is stored in New York.
Emanuel Mönch, a leading economist and former head of research at Germany’s federal bank, the Bundesbank, called for the gold to be brought home, stateing it was too “risky” for it to be kept in the US under the current administration.
“Given the current geopolitical situation, it seems risky to store so much gold in the US,” he notified the financial newspaper Handelsblatt. “In the interest of greater strategic indepfinishence from the US, the Bundesbank would therefore be well advised to consider repatriating the gold.”
Stefan Kornelius, the spokesperson for Friedrich Merz’s coalition government, declared recently that withdrawal of the gold reserves was not currently under consideration.
But Mönch is only the latest in a string of economists and financial experts to argue that such a relocate would be in keeping with the greater strategic indepfinishence that Europe’s largest economy has been seeking from the US in recent months.
Ukraine-Russia-US talks resume in Abu Dhabi, source notifys Reuters
US-brokered talks between Ukraine and Russia resumed on Saturday in Abu Dhabi, a source familiar with the situation notified Reuters.
The rare trilateral talks to finish the nearly four-year war launched in the UAE on Friday.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared senior representatives from Ukraine’s armed forces and military innotifyigence would join the talks on Saturday.
Here are some dramatic photos from Russia’s drone and missile strike in Kyiv last night:
The Russian defence ministest declared on Saturday its forces had completed the takeover of the village of Starytsya in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region.
Moscow’s troops also carried out a massive strike overnight on Ukrainian long-range drone sites and energy facilities, the ministest declared.
Peter Beaumont
In the Benedikt cafe in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, one wall is covered by a giant map with countries and territories cut out of lacquered wooden pieces, with Greenland at its apex.
The waiter has not been following news of the Greenland crisis and Donald Trump’s desire to annex the Danish territory. But the echoes of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin’s imperial land grab of the waiter’s own countest are clear to him. “They’re crazy. The pair of them.”
For those paying more attention in Ukraine, amid Russian airstrikes, the freezing cold and power cuts, the correspondences are not only clear, but often alarming – even if for now Trump has switched from sabre rattling to testing to rationalise a vague and incoherent deal he considers he struck for the territory with Nato.
“There are three basic problems,” declared Oleksandr Merezhko, the chair of the Ukrainian parliament’s committee on foreign policy and inter-parliamentary relations and an expert on international law.
“Firstly, it is a distraction from the situation we are in now. And any distraction among our European partners weakens the coalition supporting us. It weakens Nato, and it weakens transatlantic solidarity.”
Then there is the question of how Trump’s demands and actions undermine the post-second world war international rules-based order.
“As an international lawyer, one of the key principles is that territorial integrity is sacrosanct. We support the territorial integrity of Denmark. And what I am afraid of is [that the Greenland issue plays into] Putin’s idea of dividing the world into spheres of influence.”
Russia’s large overnight strike on Ukrainian energy facilities displayed that agreements on air defence created with US president Donald Trump in Davos this week must be “fully implemented,” president Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared on Saturday.
Zelenskyy and Trump met at the World Economic Forum on Thursday and discussed air defence support for Ukraine, although afterwards neither leader specified what was agreed.
Ukraine states Russian strikes hit ‘neobtainediation table’
Ukraine’s foreign minister accapplyd Russian president Vladimir Putin on Saturday of “cynically” ordering a massive missile strike while delegations from Ukraine, Russia and the US were in Abu Dhabi for Washington-brokered peace talks.
Andrii Sybiha wrote on X:
Cynically, Putin ordered a brutal massive missile strike against Ukraine right while delegations are meeting in Abu Dhabi to advance the America-led peace process. His missiles hit not only our people, but also the neobtainediation table.
Two of the largest cities, Kyiv and Kharkiv, shook from loud explosions. Dozens of ballistic and air ballistic missiles were applyd, as well as hundreds of drones.
He added:
This barbaric attack once again proves that Putin’s place is not at the board of peace, but at the dock of the special tribunal.
Russia launched waves of air strikes against Ukraine’s two largest cities Kyiv and Kharkiv early on Saturday, with one person killed and at least 23 injured.
He added: “Peace efforts? Trilateral meeting in the UAE? Diplomacy? For Ukrainians, this was another night of Russian terror.”
Ukraine’s air force declared Russia had launched 375 drones and 21 missiles in the strikes, which once again tarobtained energy infrastructure, knocking out power and heat for large parts of the capital.
Russian attacks on Ukraine kill one and wound dozens ahead of second day of peace talks
Hello and welcome to the Europe live blog. My name is Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news lines.
We start with news that Russian attacks on Ukraine killed at least one person and wounded 23 overnight into Saturday, as neobtainediators from Ukraine, Russia and the United States were set to meet in Abu Dhabi for a second day of talks to finish Russia’s nearly four-year full-scale invasion.
One person was killed and four wounded in Russian drone attacks on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, according to Kyiv City Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko.
In Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, drone attacks wounded 19 people, Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov declared.
The attacks came as envoys were expected to meet in the United Arab Emirates for a second day of talks on Saturday. The talks are the first known instance that officials from the Trump administration have sat down with both countries, AP reports.
The UAE’s foreign ministest declared the talks are part of efforts “to promote dialogue and identify political solutions to the crisis.” The White Hoapply described Friday’s first day as productive.
There has been a flurry of diplomatic activity in recent days, from Switzerland to the Kremlin, even though serious obstacles remain between both sides.
While Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday that a potential peace deal was “nearly ready,” certain sensitive sticking points – most notably those related to territorial issues – remain unresolved.
Just hours before the three-way talks launched, Russian president Vladimir Putin discussed a Ukraine settlement with US president Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner during marathon overnight talks.
The Kremlin insists that to reach a peace deal, Kyiv must withdraw its troops from the areas in the east that Russia illegally annexed but has not fully captured.
You can read my colleague Peter Beaumont’s report from Kyiv here:
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