Ukraine-Russia war latest: Poland asks Nato to impose no-fly zone over Ukraine to stop Putin’s drone incursions

At the least one individual was killed and 7 others have been injured after Russian forces staged an enormous assault in Zaporizhzia this morning.

The assault on Ukraine’s southeastern metropolis additionally sparked numerous fires, regional governor Ivan Fedorov stated.

One little one was among the many injured, he stated. Footage posted by the governor on-line confirmed firefighters battling blazes in non-public properties and different buildings.

At the least 10 strikes have been recorded on the town, public broadcaster Suspilne stated.

Poland has known as for a Nato-enforced no-fly zone over Ukraine, stating it could be the easiest way to guard the alliance from incursions into its personal member states’ airspace.

Poland’s overseas minister Radoslaw Sikorski’s remarks come after 19 Russian drones violated his nation’s airspace final week and one other Russian drone entered Romanian airspace over the weekend.

“Safety for our inhabitants – for instance, from falling particles – would naturally be better if we may fight drones and different flying objects past our nationwide territory,” Sikorski stated.

“We as Nato and the EU might be able to doing this, however it’s not a choice that Poland could make alone; it may solely be made with its allies,” he advised German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine.

Poland would be capable of shoot down Russian drones over Ukrainian territory, he stated, calling it an “advantageous” transfer.

“If Ukraine have been to ask us to shoot them down over its territory, that will be advantageous for us. Should you ask me personally, we must always think about it,” Sikorski stated.

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney on Monday stated he had spoken to US president Donald Trump over the weekend in regards to the scenario in Russia, Ukraine and China.

Carney, talking within the Home of Commons, made no point out of discussing US tariffs on some imports from Canada.

The UK will deploy RAF jets to Poland in response to Russian drones violating the nation’s airspace.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer stated Britain would offer additional air defence over Poland following final week’s incident by which Russian drones have been shot down by Nato forces.

He advised Channel 4 Information: “That’s the proper factor to do. The incorrect factor to do can be to disregard this elevated aggression from (Russian President Vladimir) Putin, from Russia.

“As a result of this wasn’t a one-off. You noticed only some weeks in the past the bombing of the British Council in Kyiv, the attacking of the EU embassy, and the direct hits on the Council of Ministers in Kyiv itself.”

He added: “It is completely clear that the Russians are ramping up the aggression. It is crucial that, with our Nato allies, we reply appropriately to that and that is what we’re doing right this moment.”

Ukraine’s prime navy commander has sacked two senior officers after Kyiv’s military gave up territory in areas below their command, Ukrainian media reported on Monday, quoting navy sources.

Ukrainska Pravda, citing two senior navy sources, stated prime commander Oleksandr Syrskyi ordered the dismissal of the 2 officers accountable for the seventeenth and twentieth military corps over the previous two weeks. The Interfax Ukraine information company filed an analogous report.

Ukrainska Pravda stated the seventeenth military corps, headed by Volodymyr Silenko, was positioned in Zaporizhzhia area, the place the Ukrainian navy had misplaced a minimum of one village on the banks of the Dnipro River.

The twentieth military corps, headed by Maksym Kituhin, was primarily based on the executive border between japanese Donetsk area and central Dnipropetrovsk area, the place Russian forces have introduced a sequence of successes, capturing a variety of villages.

Interfax stated the 2 officers had been transferred to different duties.

Russia’s Defence Ministry on Monday stated its forces had seized the village of Olhivske in Zaporizhzhia area.

Because the struggle has been occurring for greater than 3 1/2 years, Russian forces have been engaged in an extended, grinding westward drive specializing in Donetsk area.

Along with the advances introduced simply inside Dnipropetrovsk area, Russian forces have additionally utilized stress to components of northeastern Kharkiv area, notably across the largely destroyed metropolis of Kupiansk.

They’ve additionally tried to keep up a foothold within the northern border area of Sumy, though President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, quoting Syrskyi, has stated Kyiv’s forces have been recapturing floor close to the border.

US treasury secretary Scott Bessent stated on Monday that the Trump administration wouldn’t impose further tariffs on Chinese language items to halt China’s purchases of Russian oil until European international locations hit China and India with steep duties of their very own.

Bessent advised Reuters and Bloomberg in a joint interview that European international locations wanted to play a stronger position in reducing off Russian oil revenues and bringing its struggle in Ukraine to an finish.

“We count on the Europeans to do their share now, and we’re not transferring ahead with out the Europeans,” Bessent stated, when requested whether or not the US would impose Russian oil-related tariffs on Chinese language items after Trump slapped a further 25 per cent duties on Indian imports.

Volodymyr Zelensky additionally advised Sky Information that Vladimir Putin used the Alaska summit with Donald Trump as a result of he “needed to flee from political isolation”.

The Ukrainian president stated he thinks the Russian chief “ought to have paid extra” for the assembly with the US president.

Mr Zelensky advised the broadcaster: “He ought to have acquired a setback on this struggle and cease.

“However as a substitute, he acquired de-isolation. He obtained the images with president Trump. He acquired public dialogue, and I believe this opens the doorways for Putin into another summits and codecs, as a result of that is how it’s, and we see that, we observe this, and I do not assume he paid something for it.”

Mr Zelensky argued that Mr Putin “ought to pay, firstly, as a result of he began the struggle, and secondly, as a result of (he’s) looking for a method out of isolation”.

He continued: “[It is very important not to give Mr Putin this space, because otherwise he won’t feel compelled that he has to stop the war.

“He’s waging the war and everyone is trying to stop him by arguing, by asking him – but instead force should be used. He understands force. That’s his language. That is the language he understands.

“He doesn’t speak many languages, but that’s the language of force he understands, just like Russian, his mother tongue – and we ask very much European and US countries to do that, to show that.

“Yes, they take some steps, such as sanctions, for example, but more needs to be done, quicker.”

Volodymyr Zelensky has told Sky News that Vladimir Putin is attempting to trick Donald Trump into delaying sanctions.

Speaking of the Russian and US leaders’ meeting in Alaska last month, the Ukrainian president said: “I think it gave a lot to Putin, and I believe, if it was a trilateral meeting, we would have some result.”

The broadcaster’s Yalda Hakim asked if Mr Putin was attempting to trick Mr Trump. Mr Zelensky said he was, and added: “He’s doing everything he can to avoid sanctions, to prevent US and Trump from putting sanctions on him, and if you keep postponing applying sanctions any further, then the Russians will be better prepared.”