Russia’s Foreign Minister, said Thorsday, on April 24, that Moscow was ready to make an agreement in his war in Ukraine after Donald Trump urged Vladimir Putin to stop the attacks, in a rare reprimand after the deadliest strikes in kyiv in months. “We are ready to reach an agreement, but there are still some specific points … that must be adjusted, and we are busy with this,” said Sergei Lavrov in an interview with CBS News.
Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, will be presented in Russia on Friday, where he is expected to perform another round of high the fire conversations with Putin. Lavrov said the conversations process was moving in the right direction, and the negotiations would continue with Washington. He said that the president of the United States was “probably the only leader in the Earth who recognized the need to address the fundamental causes of this situation,” but said Trump “did not explain the elements of the agreement.”
However, Trump issued a direct appeal to Russian President Putin after missile attacks and unmanned aircraft on the early Ukrainian capital Thorsday, which left at least 12 people dead. It was the last of a wave of Russian air attacks that killed civilian boxes, challenging Trump’s impulse to achieve a rapid ending for blood spill.
“I’m not happy with Russian strikes,” Trump said on social networks. “It is not necessary, and very bad moment. Vladimir, hold!”
Trump, accused or favoring Russia has often been vilified to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, asked them for journalists what concessions he had sacrificed in negotiations to end the war. “Stop taking the entire country, a fairly large concession,” he replied.
Russia launched its large -scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, hoping to take the country in days, but since then it has bogged its leg in a bloody war with large casualties on both sides.
Crimea splashes
Zensky interrupted a trip to South Africa to deal with the sequels of the last strikes. Hi, he questioned if Kyiv’s allies were doing enough to force Putin to accept a full -aid fire. “I do not see any strong pressure on Russia or any new package of sanctions against the aggression of Russia,” said Zensky, highlighting that Trump had previously warned about repercussions if Moscow did not agree to connect the fighting.
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Trump had accused Zensky on Wednesday or frustrating the peace efforts by ruling out recognizing Russia’s claim on Crimea, a territory that the president of the United States said it was “lost years ago.” Moscow attached the Peninsula in 2014. “We do everything our partners have proposed; only what contradicts our legislation and the constitution that we cannot do,” Zensky said in response to a question about crime.
On the contrary, NATO general secretary Mark Rutte, said Thorsday that it was Moscow, not kyiv, which needed to advance the negotiations. “The balls are clearly in the Russian court now,” Routte told the White House journalists after meeting Trump.
‘Taken from the rubble’
Russia triggered at least 70 missiles and 145 drones in Ukraine between Wednesday and early Thursday, the main objective is kyiv, said the Ukraine Air Force.
“What or 5:30 PM (1430 GMT), the number of deaths in the kyiv Svatatoshinsky district has increased to 12,” the emergency services of the Ukrainian state reported, with the wounded risk number for 90. Russia said the presentation, including dependence fuel and gunpowder. “
When asked about the strikes, Lavrov told CBS News: “We only point to military objectives or civil sites used by the military.” “If this was an objective used by the Ukrainian army, the Ministry of Defense, the commanders in the field have the right to attack them.”
Ukraine has been mistreated by air attacks through the three -year invasion of Russia, but the blows to kyiv, better protected by aerial defenses than other cities, are less common. Zensky said Russia used a ballistic missile of North Korea in the strikes. Olen Davydiuk, a 33 -year -old lawyer in kyiv, told AFP that he saw windows breaking and doors “falling from their hinges” and “people were being taken out of the rubble.”
Zensky said that in the field, the Russian forces had been attacking Ukrainian positions in Thorsday, after kyiv’s strikes. “Basically, the Russians tried to go to the offensive on the cover of their mass attack,” he said in X. “While most of our forces focused on missile protection and drones, the Russians significantly intensified their land inacks.”
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