Ukraine has reported dozens of civil deaths for Russian attacks during the past week, including three killed in a night assault on Wednesday in the South -Card of Dnipro.
A child was among the victims of the drone attack, which occurred hours before high -risk meetings in Paris later take place on Thursday, during Thursday, the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, and special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff will meet with French president Emmanuel Macron and other European officials to discuss the conflict.
The defense of Ukraine and the foreign ministers, as well as the chief of Cabinet of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are also found in the French capital to talk with the Delegations of the US Union. UU. And Europe, although the kyiv delegation has not specified who plans to comply with.
But as the High Fire of Moscow on the energy infrastructure approached its closure, the conversations to achieve a widely wide fire so far have shown few signs of progress.
Russia has attached to its hard line positions while accusing Ukraine of violating the high energy fire, to which kyiv never agreed.
“This temporal moratorium has not been and is not being observed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, journalists, said on Tuesday.
Russia said that Ukrainian drones went to an electricity substation and a high voltage energy line in the Bryansk region that day, an electricity substation in Kherson's busy part in Ukraine and two low pressure gas pipes in Kursk.
Moscow's forces claimed to have demolished seven UAV near Shuya in the Ivanovo region on Wednesday, 260 km (160 miles) east of Moscow and 500 km (310 miles) of the Ukrainian border. In total, he said, 26 drones were shot down on several regions of Russia.
When asked if Russia would resume attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure on Friday, Peskov said: “Everything will depend on new orders of the supreme commander in chief”, a reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The proposal of Alto El Fuego de Energy of March 18 by Putin was a counteroffie of the total proposal of Alto the total fire of the president of the United States, Donald Trump on March 10, which Ukraine had agreed. Therefore, the United States ended with two separate agreements of high fire, one with Moscow and one with Kyiv, to which each capital at war had the other.
“Today marks exactly one month since the Russian Federation refused to accept a high full and unconditional fire proposed by the American side in the negotiations,” said Ukraine general personnel last week. During that time, he said, Russia made 5,124 terrestrial assaults, more than 3,000 of them against Pokrovsk, Toretsk and Lyman, the three Russian priority objectives in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
“Since the beginning of April Solo, the Russian Army has already used almost 2,800 air bombs,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram.
The United States has found not only between two failed cessation of fire, but has denied that it has proposed an effective partition of Ukraine after a truce.
The Times, a British newspaper, reported that Washington's special envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg proposed to divide Ukraine into spheres of influence “almost as Berlin after World War II”, with Russian and NATO troops that control different areas.
Kellogg said the Times misrepresented his proposal, that it was “references from areas or areas of responsibility by an allied force”, not including US troops, “in support of the sovereignty of Ukraine.”
But speaking during a meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent State (CIS) in Almaty on Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that “a return to the borders of 1991, as Zelenskyy continues to demand, is impossible.”
Even Kellogg's idea of a Berlin -style occupation for troops of different nationalities was a non -scenario for Russia, which has said that Ian Troops would never accept on Ukrainian soil.
Rodion Miroshnik, a Russian ambassador, in general, told journalists on Saturday that to maintain military areas would lead to “a new level of climbing.”
Given these divergences, Peskov said it is “hardly possible” to expect immediate results.
Russia warns Poland, Baltic Nations
Moscow diplomatic messaging to isolate Europe was also running in all cylinders.
Peskov called the exhortation of the head of Foreign Policy of the EU Kaja Kallas so that EU leaders visit kyiv, no Moscow, on May 9, the anniversary of the end of World War II, an “aggressive statement.”
The Russian ambassador to Germany, Sergey Nechayev, told the Izvestia newspaper of Russia that he expected a new coalition “not to repeat the errors of the previous coalition” when supporting a “epochal change” in the defense spending and looking for infists of a strategic defeat in Russia, but to take a more flexible position.
Sergey Naryshkin, [the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, said that in the event of aggression from NATO, the first to “suffer will be the bearers of such ideas among the political circles of Poland and the Baltic countries”.
The US and Russia did make some progress in Istanbul on April 10 in talks to normalise the operation of their embassies, but even here, Russia leveraged the discussion to have sanctions against it lifted.
For instance, Moscow proposed lifting a ban on Aeroflot flights to the US so its diplomats could travel freely, and partially lifting sanctions on Russian banking so the country could pay its diplomats and other expenses.
Meanwhile, Moscow expanded its attacks in Ukraine.
Ukraine said Russia tried a mechanized assault on the size of a battalion in Zaporzhia on Tuesday.
South forces spokesman Vladyslav Voloshyn said that the unit was destroyed while trying an orikhiv assault to eight kilometers (five miles) from the front line. The assaults of the size of a 400-500 soldiers are rare, especially on the South Front.
The Orikhiv direction has seen a successful action on both sides. Ukraine set up a counteroffensive there in 2023, winning the lost back territory during the initial invasion. Last year, Russian forces recovered most of that territory.
Ukraine reported another recent-scale recent assault in the direction of Vesele and Skudne on the regional border of Donetsk-Zaporizhia using five tanks and 20 carriers of armored personnel.
“More equipment and labor are being used … The team moved in four columns full of paratrooper.
Ukraine offers to buy American patriotic systems
The only significant diplomatic change from President Zelenskyy, who changed tactics with Washington and offered to buy 10 patriot air defense systems, instead of asking for his donation.
The trigger for that offer was a Russian attack on Ramos Sunday on April 13. Thirty -five people died and more than 100 wounds when Russia fired two ballistic missiles to the city of Sumy.
The rescue equipment had to cut burned cars bodies, while other bodies covered the street around them. Ukrainian military intelligence reported that missiles were Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles.
The United States ambassador to Kyiv, Bridget Brink, acknowledged that Russian forces used cluster eyes.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said the attack was not an indiscriminate assault on civilians, but a strike aimed at a meeting place for the command staff of the SIVIVERSK Operational Tactics Group of Ukraine.
He accused Ukraine of celebrating such meetings in a civil environment to use non -combatants as human shields.
Russia made similar statements after killing 20 civilians in the city of Kryvyi Rih on April 4.
Ukraine general personnel said his drones attacked “several objects in the Kursk region” belonging to a Russian brigade blamed for launching the attack of ballistic missiles against Sumy.
Two days after the Sumy attack, Zelenskyy told NATO general secretary Mark Rutte Ukraine, he was ready to buy patriot systems.
“We are not only asking the patriots, we are ready to buy them,” Zelenskyy told Rutte during a visit to Odesa.
The spokesman for the Ukraine Air Force, Yuri Ignat, told a Telethon last week that a total of 137 descendants of ballistic missiles during the war had shown that “today's ballistics are demolished only by patriotic systems.”
There was no reaction from the administration of US President Donald Trump about whether he would sell the systems to kyiv.
From Trump's election, the United States withdrew from the so -called contact group of approximately 50 countries that donate military assistance to Ukraine.
The members of that group continued to promise assistance to Ukraine on Friday.
Germany promised four short-range air defense systems IRIS-T, 120 Men's Portable Air Defense Systems and 30 interceptor missiles for patriotic systems, among other things. Denmark said it would provide Ukraine to one billion euros ($ 1.1 billion) in military aid between now and 2027, including air defense, artillery systems and ammunition.
The United Kingdom and Norway announced a $ 600 million package for the repair and maintenance of vehicles, radar, anti -tank mines and “hundreds of thousands of drones.” Norway promised additional $ 938 million to equip a new Ukrainian brigade.
Rutte said that NATO members had promised 20 billion euros ($ 23 billion) in aid to Ukraine in the first quarter of 2025.
Kallas said that EU members, many of them also NATO members, had promised 23 billion euros ($ 26 billion) so far this year, compared to 20 billion euros ($ 23 billion) last year.
'Several hundred Chinese citizens are fighting' for Russia, Ukraine affirms
The puzzle of the Chinese soldiers fighting with Russia in the Ukrainian floor continues to grow.
According to reports, two Chinese soldiers captured by Ukraine were allowed on Monday to answer questions from journalists.
They said they enrolled to fight on social networks online, and added that it was also possible to be recruited through Tiktok, and asked to be returned home in exchange for Ukrainian prisoners of war.
“Everything we hear from the Russians was a lie,” said Wang Guangjun, one of the soldiers, he said. “It turned out that Russia is not so strong, and Ukraine is not so weak. And, therefore, it is better not to participate in wars at all.”
“We have information that at least several hundred Chinese citizens are struggling as part of Russia's occupation forces,” said Zelenskyy on Friday.
Two US officials told the Reuters news agency on Saturday that at least 100 Chinese citizens were fighting in Ukraine as mercenaries without a connection with the government in Beijing, but that China had sent to the officers in front as observers to obtain tactical observations.
China has denied the statements.
