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POLITICS

Trump’s ‘energy ceasefire’: Kyiv backs it if Moscow does, Russia silent

Zelenskyy said Russia struck a power plant in Kyiv and energy facilities in the Kharkiv region after Trump’s announcement, which came with no details.

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Archive photograph from 2015 of the Trypilska thermal power plant in the Kyiv region of Ukraine, with two tall chimneys and an electrical substation
POLITICS

Streeting: UK does not support Trump’s Russia diesel deal

The defence secretary said it was for Ukrainians to choose their leader, after Trump suggested Ukraine should get a new one.

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Official portrait of Wes Streeting in a blue suit and red tie, standing beside a Union Jack flag
DEFENCE & SECURITY

Zelensky: For Russia, ‘all ordinary life is simply a target’

Russia’s defence ministry said in two statements that it had hit data centres in Kyiv working for Ukraine’s armed forces.

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Volodymyr Zelensky speaking at a press conference
POLITICS

EU to drop two oligarchs, extend Russia sanctions to 2029

The deal has still to be formally adopted, and Latvia – the last country to hold out – is already preparing national sanctions of its own against the two men.

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Mikhail Fridman, centre, and Alisher Usmanov, right, at a Kremlin meeting with business leaders in 2009; on the left is Alexander Shokhin of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
DEFENCE & SECURITY

Moscow hit by largest drone attack yet, mayor says

Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said more than 1,600 drones were shot down, 450 of them on the approach to Moscow, as Russia’s defence ministry reported destroying nearly 2,000…

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Sergei Sobyanin, mayor of Moscow