Ukraine\u2019s Ministry of Internal Affairs says seven regions remain under attack from Russia, in addition to Kyiv.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nPolitics and diplomacy<\/p>\n
\n- United States President Donald Trump issued a rare rebuke<\/a> to Russian leader Vladimir Putin following the attack on Kyiv.<\/li>\n
- \u201cI am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying. Let\u2019s get the Peace Deal DONE!\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said that reaching a deal to end the Ukraine war is now up to Moscow.<\/li>\n
- \u201cThere is something on the table now, I think, where the Ukrainians are really playing ball. And I think the balls are clearly in the Russian court now,\u201d Rutte told reporters.<\/li>\n
- Ukraine said that a forensic medical investigation revealed that Russian forces tortured Viktoria Roshchyna, a 27-year-old Ukrainian reporter, who died last September after months in detention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Economy<\/p>\n
\n- Ukrainian Finance Minister Sergii Marchenko told the Reuters news agency that Ukraine is going \u201cas fast as we can\u201d on a critical minerals deal with the Trump administration, which would give the US greater access to Ukraine\u2019s natural resources in exchange for military aid.<\/li>\n
- Trump had said earlier that he expected to sign the minerals deal this week, but it still seems unlikely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Ceasefire<\/p>\n
\n- Trump said a ceasefire deal for Ukraine<\/a> is in the works, and he was continuing to put pressure on Ukraine and Russia.<\/li>\n
- The US president said the Kremlin had made the \u201cpretty big concession\u201d that it was open to \u201cstopping the war, stopping taking the whole country\u201d.<\/li>\n
- Trump also suggested that Ukraine might be unable to recover Crimea.<\/li>\n
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the US CBS programme, Face the Nation, that negotiations were \u201cmoving in the right direction,\u201d but specific points needed to be \u201cfine-tuned\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These are the key events on day 1,156 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. Here is where things stand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,12,7661,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-48420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","12":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114396683937067589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}