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The Russian forces bombed a forefront settlement in the southern region -est of Zaporizhzia Sud -est yesterday, killing a person and injuring five, said the regional governor.

Ivan Fedoir did not identify the settlement, but published images of highly damaged houses and other buildings together with buter batteries.

He said that a 66 -year -old woman had died in the attack.

Zaporizhzia is one of the four regions partly occupied by Russian forces. All four were an illegally annexed from Moscow seven months after the Kremlin had sent tens of thousands of troops in Ukraine in February 2022.

Ukraine and western nations denounce annexes as illegal.

A series of European foreign ministers criticized Russia for delaying a ceasefire and “playing”.

Kaja Kallas, head of the foreign policy of the European Union, said: “Russia is playing and does not really want peace. So our question is: how we can put more pressure on Russia”.

The Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski asked for a sort of deadline for Russia to accept a ceased in Ukraine.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said that Russia had to be a clear response to the United States on the fact that he wants to follow a path of peace.

Requests for control over Russia arrive when the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it would be “an elaborate process”.

Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on spring conscription for military service to increase his army.

The Russian president ordered at least 160,000 men between 18 and the thirty -year -old from being enrolled in the army from mid -summer this year, even if he drags the peace talks with Ukraine and the United States.

“To carry out conscription for the military service of Russian citizens aged between 18 and 30 who are not in the reserve and subject to conscription for military service, for an amount of 160,000 people, from 1 April to 15 July 2025”, says the decree, mentioned by Tass.

Last year, the spring conscription was extended to 150,000, in 2023 – at 147,000 and in 2022-134,500.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer spoke with Donald Trump last night to agree on the need to “maintain collective pressure on Putin” after the President of the United States said he was “put on the run” with his Russian counterpart for questioning the credibility of Volodymyr Zelensky.

Trump, who previously defined the Ukrainian president a dictator, suggested that he took into consideration the possibility of putting “secondary penalties” on Russian oil in an interview with NBC News.

Donald Trump suggested that he could impose secondary rates of 25-50 percent for Russian oil buyers if Vladimir Putin does not collaborate in the interviews of ceased the fire.

“I want to see him make an agreement in order to prevent Russian soldiers, Ukrainian soldiers and other people from being killed,” Trump said in the oval office. “I want to make sure you follow, and I think it will do so.”

“If Russia and I are not able to make an agreement to stop the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault … I will put the secondary oil rates on all the oil that will come out of Russia,” Trump said to the NBC.

“It would be that if you buy oil from Russia, you can’t do business in the United States,” he said. “There will be a 25 % rate on all oil, a rate from 25 to 50 points over the whole oil.”

The oil prices were little changed yesterday while the traders tried to understand how the threat of Mr. Trump of secondary rates against the second oil exporter of the world.

China and India acquire about 80 % of Russian raw exports. Chinese merchants said they were not surprised by the threat, while Beijing said that his cooperation with Russia was neither direct nor affected by third parties.

The Russian forces bombed a forefront settlement in the south region -est of Zaporizhzia Sud -est Monday, killing a person and injuring five, said the regional governor.

Ivan Fedoov, writing on the messaging app of the telegram, did not identify the settlement, but published images of highly damaged houses and other buildings together with rubble piles.

He said that a 66 -year -old woman had died in the attack.

Zaporizhzia is one of the four regions partly occupied by Russian forces. All four were formally annexed to Moscow seven months after the Kremlin had sent tens of thousands of troops in Ukraine in February 2022.

Ukraine and western nations denounce annexes as illegal.

The Kremlin offered to organize another call between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump after the President of the United States said he was “pissed off” with Russia.

Trump told the NBC News that he was very angry after the Russian leader criticized the credibility of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, and the President of the United States suggested that he could impose secondary rates of 25-50 percent for Russian oil buyers.

Trump later reiterated the journalists, was disappointed by Mr. Putin, but he added: “I think we are making progress, step by step”.

To the question about the comments of Mr. Trump, the Cremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow was continuing to work with Washington and that Putin remained open to contacts with Trump.

“We are continuing to work with the American part, first of all to build our bilateral relationships, which were seriously damaged during the previous administration (USA),” said Peskov.

“And we are also working on the implementation of some ideas relating to the Ukrainian settlement. This work is in progress, but so far there are no details that we could or should tell you. This is a process that requires time, probably because of its complexity.”

A call between the two presidents, he said, could be organized with short notice, although no one was planned for this week.

A peace agreement on the end of the conflict in Ukraine should be right, binding and acceptable for all parties involved, said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in the observations published this morning.

“We support the eradication of the causes of the crisis through dialogue and negotiations, ultimately reaching a long -term and binding peace agreement acceptable for all the parties involved, which would allow to reach a really lasting peace and stability in Eurasia and all over the world,” Wang said to the Russian State News Agency in an interview.

The President of the United States Called the Kristen Welker of the NBC Before his Sunday appearance as a conductor of Meet the press, According to Welker. He told her that he had been “put on the run” after the Russian president asked for the elections in Ukraine and once again questioned the legitimacy of the Volodymyr Zelensky government – comments that the President of the United States said they were not useless.

Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on spring conscription for military service to increase his army.

“To carry out conscription for the military service of Russian citizens aged between 18 and 30 who are not in the reserve and subject to conscription for military service, for an amount of 160,000 people, from 1 April to 15 July 2025”, says the decree, mentioned by Tass.

Last year, the spring conscription was extended to 150,000, in 2023 – to 147,000 and 2022 – 134,500.