By Mark Wyatt, live news reporter
This is the start of a new week and the 1,068 days since Russia introduced its giant full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
As the war draws closer to its three-year anniversary, we’re taking a step back to look at the bigger picture.
Before we begin, here’s a card that appears on the battlefield:
Although the war between Israel and Hamas was halted due to a ceasefire agreement, there is still such an agreement on the table in Ukraine.
Many expected Donald Trump’s return to the White House to push forward potential peace negotiations, with the president emphasizing the end of the war on the campaign trail.
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 wants to meet Putin “immediately” and the Russian president has suggested he feels the same way.
Putin told a Russian state television reporter: “We believe that the president’s existing statements about his willingness to paint together. We are open to this and in a position for negotiations.
“It would be for us to know, on the basis of today’s realities, to speak calmly. “
US hasn’t stopped military aid
Last week, there were considerations in Ukraine after Marco Rubio, the newly sworn in U. S. Secretary of State, announced that he had halted foreign aid subsidies for 90 days.
Ukraine relies on the US for 40% of its military needs, and Trump has previously threatened to pull the support being sent.
Fortunately for kyiv, Zelenskyy showed on Saturday that Washington had interrupted his army aid expeditions.
“I am focusing on the help of the army; it has been arrested, thank God,” he said at a press convention throughout the president of Moldavo, Maia Sandu.
Zelenskyy did not clarify whether humanitarian aid had been paused.
Russia drops ‘thousands’ of explosives
In the background of diplomacy and politics, war is continuing to destroy lives in Ukraine.
Zelenskyy said Russia had used 1,250 air bombs, more than 750 attack drones and more than 20 missiles to attack Ukraine last week.
“Only determination can avoid those terrorists,” he said in X.
“We are constantly running with our partners to our defense functions and Russia’s ability to terrorize Ukraine is diminishing.
“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 the component of his speech before the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday night on Thursday night to resort to the hard oil sign to reduce costs as a blow of the Moscow portfolio.
“At this time, the value is high enough for war to continue,” he said, asking Saudi Arabia and OPEC to cut Worths.
Putin downplayed Trump’s economic threats, saying “excessively” low oil prices were bad for both the US and Russia.
“We are not seeing anything new here,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said when asked about Trump’s economic ultimatums.
In another part of Thearray . .
The population of Bélarus began to vote the presidential elections, which is almost certain that the government of Alexandre Lukashenko will increase.
The authoritarian leader wins a seventh mandate as a leader in yesterday’s elections, extending his 31 years in power.
His iron rule since 1994 has earned Lukashenko the nickname “Europe’s last dictator,” depending on the subsidies and politicians of Russia’s close ally.
He let Moscow use its territory to invade Ukraine in 2022 and even house some of Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons.
“It is having a dictatorship as in Bélarus than a democracy like Ukraine,” Lukashenko said in his feature films.
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.
About 60,000 people protested in the capital, Bratislava, on Friday and approximately 100,000 turned out for rallies 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 photographs take us from the city of Pokrovsk, key in eastern Ukraine, which has been bombarded by Russia for months.
Ukraine’s special forces has claimed to have killed 21 North Korean soldiers and injured scores more after an eight-hour standoff in Russia’s Kursk region.
“Special operations operators killed 21 years and wounded 40 North Koreans who attacked Ukrainian positions,” he said in a statement.
“The attack of the North Koreans, who were fighting in the appearance of Russia, was retained for more than 8 hours through the operators of the 8th Regiment of the SSO of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with kind infantry, with small weapons and launched .
North Korea infantry men supported the Russian sets who sought to re -assemble the festivities occupied through the Ukrainian territory of Kursk, a territory that can result in long -term peace negotiations.
Almost another hundred people were arrested after the SBU security service in Ukraine led about 150 “special operations” throughout the country.
After another 222 people were charged with suspicious activity, the SBU carried out a series of raids in Ukraine between Saturday and Monday.
At least 85 people were arrested following the massive operation, a statement from the SBU read.
Those included, according 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 U. S. had hired Ukraine more than Europe, yet Kaja Kallas said Europe was the biggest contriyer.
“By my count, we have given more than 134 billion euros (£113 billion) to Ukraine. This makes us the largest donor,” Kallas told Reuters.
He also said that the EU cares about peace conversations, amid advice that the United States can highlight only negotiations.
“Any negotiation or agreement between Russia and Ukraine, which also considers Europe. Therefore, “not just anything in Europe Europe” is also the main thing here,” he declared.
Russia’s attached envoy to the United Nations has responded to Donald Trump’s economic threats in Moscow.
Earlier, the U. S. president said he would impose costs and sanctions “if we conclude a ‘deal’ and soon. “
Now Dmitry Polyanskiy said the Kremlin sees what Trump believes an agreement includes before doing so.
“It’s not just about ending the war,” Polyanskiy told Reuters.
“It is mostly fighting the deep reasons for the Ukrainian crisis. “
He continued: “Therefore, we will have to see what” agreement “means in the understanding of President Trump. It is not guilty for what the United States has been doing in Ukraine since 2014, which in fact” anti-russia “and the preparation of War with us, however, is in its strength to avoid 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.
Figures showed inflation kicked up to 9.52% in 2024, the fourth highest in the last 15 years and up from 7.42% in 2023.
As a comparison, the figure in the United Kingdom 2. 5% last month, according to official figures.
These photographs come to us from Kiev, where the art exhibition has been opened.
The exhibition “Altar of Freedom” sees orthodox icons painted in armored plates that stopped the balls to hit Russia Ukrainian.
In addition, through the Secretary of Defense now, who said that the United Kingdom can be informed of field classes such as Sweden after having expressed his other people about how to prepare for war.
Stockholm distributed brochures entitled “In case of crisis or war” last year, which presented recommendation on the location of the shelter an air attacks and what foods to eat.
Questioned in the House of Commons to place it if it was an intelligent idea, John Healey said: “One of the benefits of all Nordic countries that are now components of NATO, very close relations that we have with those countries in terms of defense and Security, we can be informed from the other.
“I think there are classes for us in the U. K. as we look ahead and look at a point in expansion and complexity of the threats that we might face in the coming years. “