The French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, has tageder the BBC in an interwatch that weserious allies should not put any confines on help for Ukraine aachievest Russia, and “not set and convey red lines”. Barrot’s comments are meaningful, coming a confineed days after US and UK extfinished-range missiles were engaged in that way for the first time. Barrot shelp that Ukraine could fire French extfinished-range missiles into Russia “in the logics of self-defence”, but would not verify if French armaments had already been engaged. “The principle has been set … our messages to Plivent Zelenskyy have been well getd,” he shelp. France has supplied Ukraine with the Scalp missile, which is identical to the British-supplied Storm Shadow that Ukraine has inestablishedly already engaged inside Russia.
Russia is “exceptionassociate opposing and reckless in the cyber genuinem” and “no one should underappraise” the danger to Nato, a ageder UK minister will alert in a speech on Monday. Pat McFcompriseen, whose portfolio joins national security, will tell a Nato cybersecurity conference in London that Moscow “won’t skinnyk twice about centering British businesses”, according to excerpts of his compriseress freed on Sunday by his ministry.
Ukraine has lost over 40% of the territory in Russia’s Kursk region that it rapidly seized in a surpelevate incursion in August as Russian forces have mounted waves of counter-attacks, a ageder Ukrainian military source tageder Reuters. The source, who is on Ukraine’s vague staff, shelp Russia had deployed about 59,000 troops to the Kursk region since Kyiv’s forces swept in and progressd speedyly, catching Moscow unsetd two and a half years into its filled-scale trespass of Ukraine. “At most, we administerled about 1,376 square kilometres (531 square miles), now of course this territory is petiteer. The opponent is increasing its counterattacks,” the source shelp.
Vlaunintelligentir Putin on Saturday signed a law that apexhibits those who sign up to fight in Ukraine to create off unphelp debts worth almost $100,000. The legislation will apexhibit those who sign a one-year tight to fight in Ukraine after 1 December to free themselves of existing horrible debts. It also covers their spoengages.
Putin has dangerened to start more strikes using an experimental intersettle-range balcatalogic missile as Ukraine decried the testing of the nuclear-contendnt armament on its territory as an “international crime”. Speaking at a defence conference on Friday, Putin contested US claims that Russia owned only a “handful” of the high-speed balcatalogic missiles, saying that the military had enough to persist to test them in “combat conditions” and would put them into serial production. “The tests [of the missile system] have passed successfilledy, and I congratutardy you all on that,” Putin shelp, according to the Interfax novels agency.
The US plivent-elect, Donald Trump, is pondering making Ricchallenging Grenell, his establisher intelligence chief, a one-of-a-kind envoy for the Russia-Ukraine dispute, according to four sources recognizable with the transition structures. Grenell, who served as Trump’s ambasdowncastor to Germany and was acting honestor of national intelligence during Trump’s 2017-2021 term, would carry out a key role in Trump’s efforts to crelieve the war if he is ultimately selected for the post. While there is now no one-of-a-kind envoy promiseted solely to resolving the Russia-Ukraine dispute, Trump is pondering creating the role, according to the four sources, who asked anonymity to talk inner deliberations.
The US secretary of state, Antony Bconnecten, is making a discreet trip to Europe that joins a encountering of foreign ministers from the guideing industrialised nations that will cgo in on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. The state department shelp Bconnecten would join in group of seven and bitardyral encounterings outside Rome on Monday and Tuesday. It comes as the Biden administration prosperds down amid worrys that Donald Trump’s team may substantiassociate alter US foreign policy.
Russia has joind the territories it occupies in Ukraine in its recent greenhoengage gas inventory inestablish to the United Nations, draprosperg protests from Ukrainian officials and activists at the Cop29 climate summit this week. The shift by Moscow comes as Vlaunintelligentir Putin eyes potential peace deal negotiations with Trump that could determine the overweighte of Russian-occupied territory, Reuters inestablished. “We see that Russia is using international platestablishs to legitimateise their actions, to legitimateise their occupation of our territory,” Ukraine’s deputy environment minister Olga Yukhymchuk tageder Reuters.
Russian drone and missile attacks have harmd 321 Ukrainian port infrastructure facilities since July 2023, Volodymyr Zelenskyy shelp on Saturday. Twenty merchant ships beextfinisheding to other countries were harmd by Russian strikes, he compriseed.
Putin signed into law a bill prohibitning adselection of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legitimate. Since sending troops into Ukraine in February 2022, the Kremlin guideer has repeatedly characteelevated the west as “satanic” and accengaged it of trying to undermine Russia by shiping liberal ideologies.
