Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump says Putin is ‘doing what anybody would do’ before 14 killed in Russian strike

Appeasement in the direction of Russia is resulting in extra tragedy in Ukraine, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has stated.

“That is what occurs when somebody appeases barbarians,” Tusk wrote on X. “Extra bombs, extra aggression, extra victims. One other tragic evening in Ukraine.”

Mr Tusk was responding to a lethal Russian missile and drone assault on Ukraine which killed a minimum of 14 folks.

Britain and different European nations should be able to take over Nato if Donald Trump carries out US threats to withdraw from the organisation.

That was the highly effective message delivered on Saturday by former Conservative defence secretary Sir Ben Wallace.

“We’re witnessing a brand new period the place we can not take with no consideration US safety ensures,” stated Sir Ben.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban has stated there shall be a strategic partnership between Hungary and the US after the warfare in Ukraine ends.

Mr Orban has supported US president Donald Trump’s push for a fast ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.

Round 3.5 million Russian passports have been issued to Ukrainians, Moscow’s inside minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev stated. This implies round 700,000 have been issued since March 2024, when 2.8 million had been handed out.

Holding a Russian passport within the occupied territories has been made needed for Ukrainians who need to entry healthcare, retirement earnings, social providers, or show property possession. A Russian regulation stipulated that anybody within the occupied territories who didn’t have a Russian passport by 1 July 2024 was topic to imprisonment as a “overseas citizen”.

Larger European defence budgets are step one to constructing a safe Europe, Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte has stated.

“We might want to spend extra to maintain ourselves protected,” Mr Rutte instructed German Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag (WamS).

“However we additionally must shortly ramp up our defence manufacturing on each side of the Atlantic…for much too lengthy, we’ve produced far too little.”

Ammunition, ships, tanks, jets, but additionally satellites and drones had been wanted, Rutte stated.

European international locations are scrambling to spice up defence spending and preserve assist for Ukraine after US president Donald Trump froze U.S. army help to Kyiv and raised doubts about Washington’s dedication to European allies.

Sir Keir Starmer has welcomed Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese’s assist for his ‘Coalition of the Prepared’ peacekeeping plan in Ukraine.

After the 2 held a cellphone name on Saturday, Downing Road stated Sir Keir welcomed Mr Albanese’s “dedication to think about contributing to a Coalition of the Prepared for Ukraine”.

Sir Keir “reiterated the UK’s dedication to the Aukus programme”, the assertion added.

Mr Albanese wrote on X: “Good to speak with @Keir_Starmer tonight reaffirming our assist for AUKUS, our dedication to the courageous folks of Ukraine in defence of their sovereignty and worldwide regulation.”

Round 3.5 million Russian passports have been issued to Ukrainians, Moscow’s inside minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev stated. This implies round 700,000 have been issued since March 2024, when 2.8 million had been handed out.

Holding a Russian passport within the occupied territories has been made needed for Ukrainians who need to entry healthcare, retirement earnings, social providers, or show property possession. A Russian regulation stipulated that anybody within the occupied territories who didn’t have a Russian passport by 1 July 2024 was topic to imprisonment as a “overseas citizen”.

Russia has retaken three villages in its western Kursk area, Moscow’s Defence Ministry has stated.

Russian troops declare to have retaken the villages of Viktorovka, Nikolaevka and Staraya Sorochina again from Ukrainian forces, who staged a shock incursion into the southeastern Russian area final August.

The battlefield report has not been independently verified.

Open supply maps confirmed this week tha Ukraine’s positions have deteriorated sharply in Kursk, the place its troops are practically surrounded by Russian forces.

World affairs editor Sam Kiley is in Rymachi, Ukraine:

Donald Trump’s offhand description of how Russia is making the most of his suspension of intelligence and army help to Ukraine as “what anyone would do” reveals reveals his real indifference to the plight of Ukraine.

Not less than 14 folks have been killed in drone and missile strikes whereas Russian forces have launched a large assault on Ukrainian troops in Kursk.

Trump’s verbal shrug is an indication that that is precisely what he anticipated and needed Ukraine to endure as a direct consequence of his abandonment of a former ally.

He has completed all the things he can to attempt to hasten a Russian victory to not advance peace talks. With out the early warning programs that the US as soon as provided risks to civilians shoot up – making the practice journey to Kyiv extra dicey.

The theme of “hope” was chosen lengthy earlier than this 12 months’s deterioration of Washington-Kyiv relations, however contributors at a global Ukrainian research convention stated that hope is required greater than ever — not solely in Ukraine however in america itself.

Non secular leaders, students, artists and diplomats have been gathering on the College of Notre Dame in Indiana since Thursday for a three-day convention targeted on “Revolutions of Hope: Resilience and Restoration in Ukraine.”

However hope could also be exhausting to summon at a convention that introduced collectively supporters of Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s ongoing army assaults.