Ukraine’s foreign minister says China wants to help forge ‘fair and lasting’ deal to end war
Ukrainian police and National Guard servicemen check vehicles at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Kharkiv on Friday. Photograph: Sergey Kozlov/EPA
Ukraine did not say what weapons were involved in the attack, but it has used western-supplied missiles and domestically produced drones to strike Russian air bases and air defence systems in what appears to be a campaign to weaken Moscow’s air power before US-made F-16s are finally delivered to Kyiv in the coming months.Russian drone crashes in Nato state Romania during attack on Ukraine
“The EU stands with Ukraine. Today we transfer €1.5 billion in proceeds from immobilised Russian assets to the defence and reconstruction of Ukraine,” said European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. “There is no better symbol or use for the Kremlin’s money than to make Ukraine and all of Europe a safer place to live.”
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