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Vladimir Putin does not want a ceasefire, said the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, since 16 were killed in an attack on drones in Kryvyi Rih.

Zelensky said: “People die every day. There is only one reason why this continues: Russia does not want a ceasefire and we see it. The whole world sees it.”

He said that the rescue operations were underway in the central city, with the regional governor Serhii Lysak who added that at least 50 people were injured.

The United States will know within a few weeks if Vladimir Putin is serious about peace, said the United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio – with the allies of the NATO of Washington who accuse Russia of blocking the efforts of ceased fire.

According to reports, Donald Trump and his officials of the White House have become wary of the Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin for peace in Ukraine – despite the President of the United States, he insisted for weeks that Putin was seriously to reach a respite.

Speaking at the end of a two -day meeting of NATO foreign ministers, Rubio said: “We will know it soon soon, within a few weeks, not for months, if Russia is seriously on peace or not. I hope they are.

“If this is dragging things, President Trump will not fall into the trap of infinite negotiations on negotiations,” said Rubio.

Russia has put Elton John’s charity centered on the prevention of HIV/AIDS on its list of “unwanted organizations”, the prosecutor general office said on Thursday.

The office derived what described as the “promotion of non -traditional sexual relations”.

The Elton John Aids Foundation, launched in 1992, works in over 90 countries “to increase access to health care, face the LGBTQ+ stigma and final aid”.

The Foundation, founded by the singer and songwriter, has previously clashed the Russian authorities on LGBTQ+rights. Sir Eltonwho performed in Russia, criticized what considers the discrimination against gays by the Russian government.

The trial of a former Russian minister accused of violating sanctions in the United Kingdom is not “for Vladimir Putin” or the war in Ukraine, he was said to the jurors.

Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, 48 years old, former mayor of Sebastopol in Crimea illegally attached, is facing seven counts to evade sanctions between February 2023 and January 2024.

During the final discussions yesterday at the Southwark Crown Court, his defense lawyer, Rosemary Davidson, told the jurors that the case does not concern the war in Ukraine or the work of Ovsiannikov as governor of Sebastopoli.

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Russia who tries to use peace negotiations in progress to “grasp large quantities of territory in Ukraine”, says a Think Tank of war monitoring.

Analysts based in the United States, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), said that Moscow hopes to exploit the interviews of ceased the fire to install a government of pro-Russian puppets in Kyiv, and it is likely that military operations in Ukraine continues if it is not able to guarantee “complete yield” through interviews.

He quoted the American office of the director of National Intelligence’s (Odni) who declared “Russia is exploiting its control of the theatrical initiative and the ongoing political and information efforts between the negotiations to end the war in Ukraine to obtain significant concessions from Ukraine and the West”.

He said that the Odni report also evaluated that Putin is “probably” more willing to support the risks of a longer war than to agree on the war that is unfavorable for Russia.