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Russia has voiced opposition to Donald Trump’s demands that Ukraine pay for us with rare minerals.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Trump’s comments on Tuesday informed Ukraine that Ukraine would no longer get loose, but added that “it would be greater not to be proportionate. “

A day before, Trump said he was “looking for an agreement with Ukraine where they were sure what we gave them with their rare lands and other things. “

Ukraine has one of the largest untapped resources of rare earth minerals, worth around £12 trillion.

It occurs when a Russian missile strike broke a block of apartment and administrative buildings, killing five other people and wounding at least 55 years in the city of Izium in the northeastern region of Ukraine in the Jarkiv region, said Tuesday the Regional Governor.

Russian forces hit the town’s central district using a ballistic missile, governor Oleh Syniehubov said on Telegram citing preliminary information. Rescuers were working at the site and at least one person was trapped under the rubble, he added.

Posting footage of the aftermath of the strike, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky wrote: “This brutality cannot be tolerated. Maximum pressure must be applied to Russia – through military force, sanctions, and diplomacy – to stop the terror and protect lives.”

Trump Ukraine offers us rare lands in exchange for help

The Russian strike kills four, 20 wounds in Ukrainian the city of Izyum

Father of Brit teen, who died in Ukraine, pays tribute: ‘His heart was set on it’

One killed in Moscow residential building blast

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16:32 , Tom Watling

Belgium will continue to support Ukraine, new Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said on Tuesday as he delivered his policy statement to parliament.

His coalition government swore on Monday, after almost 8 months of negotiations.

16:03 , Tom Watling

15:49, Tom Watling

A Russian strike killed five civilians and wounded 55 on Tuesday in the city of Izium in Ukraine’s northeastern Jharkiv region, destroying the City Council building, authorities said in an update.

3. 30 P. M. , Tom Watling

The Ukraine Army on Tuesday that its Air Force had reached a command post of the Russian army in the Russian Kursk region the day before.

“The facility sustained significant damage, leading to substantial casualties among enemy personnel,” the general staff said on Telegram.

The Independent could not independently verify the statement.

The Ukraine Army has reported movements in Russian army and power comforts in recent weeks.

3:00 p. m. , Tom Watling

Two Russian TU-95MS strategic bombers conducted a routine flight over the Sea of Barents and Norwegian Sea, state-run RIA news agency reported on Tuesday, citing the Russian Defence Ministry.

Strategic bombers, which are components of Russia’s nuclear deterrence, have also made flights in recent months in black and Baltic seas such as the Okhotsky Sea and the Japanese sea.

Russia uses such flights to prepare for the strength and strength of the allocation at a time of greatest confrontation in the east-west due to the war in Ukraine.

14:38 , Tom Watling

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) leader Rafael Grossi arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday and inspected an electrical power distribution substation, warning that attacks on Ukraine’s power grid could provide a nuclear threat twist by disrupting supply.

“I’m at Kyivska electrical substation,” an important part of Ukraine’s power grid essential for nuclear safety,” Grossi wrote on X. “A nuclear accident can result from a direct attack on a plant, but also from power supply disruption.”

Grossi published photos of him visiting the substation throughout the Galushchenko Energy Minister, and showed what to be opposed defenses to Russian strikes.

Moscow has bombarded the infrastructure of the Ukraine force, adding substations, all its three -year invasion, although it has avoided direct movements on the plants of the nuclear force of Ukraine.

Grosi said he would stop in Russia later this week to talk about the scenario in Ukraine and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, occupied through Russia. Russia captured the factory, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, at a time after its forces went to Ukraine in February 2022.

“It is imperative that, in the training of my duties, I maintain the channels of communication,” Grossi told a news conference.

I am in Kievska Electrical Sondat, a vital component of the Ukraine force network that is essential for nuclear safety. A fate nuclear turn can result from a direct attack in a factory, but also from an interruption of the strength supply. OIEAORG is there to evaluate the impact, and assistance saves this risk. pic. twitter. com/kd29wkvnhn

– Rafael Marianogrossi (@rafaelmgossi) February 4, 2025

2:16 p. m. , Archie Mitchell

Downing Street has suggested to the British not to stay with former conservative deputy Jack Apresti to the war in Ukraine after joining the country’s international legion in the opposite combat to Russia.

The former chairman of the Conservative Party has now based his skills in existing warfare in a non-combatant role in Kiev.

But, he asked if the prime minister supported the participation of Mr. LoPresti in the war, Sir Keir Starmer’s official spokesman said the Government begged Ukraine.

The spokesman said: “Our long-standing position is that we advise Ukraine, with the exception of the safe western regions of the country.

“The government supports Ukraine anywhere where we can, to put Ukraine in the most powerful position. “

But, he asked directly if the prime minister would advise that more British be indicated to the fight for Ukraine, the spokesman repeated: “We advise everyone to Ukraine, with the exception of some western regions of the country. “

13:49, Tom Watling

Trump asks Ukraine to give us rare land minerals such as war payment

13:16 , Tom Watling

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that “only strength and pressure” can save you the war of aggression in Russia.

The politician released a video of Russia’s new missile strike in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Izyum, which killed five other people and wounded 30 others.

12:46, Tom Watling

A Russian strike killed five civilians and wounded more than 30 in the city of Izyum in the northeast region of Jharkiv in Ukraine, destroying the municipal council building, authorities announced on Tuesday.

The Russian forces attacked the central district of the city with a ballistic missile, said Governor Oleh Syniehubov on Telegram, bringing out the initial information. He added that there were no army services in the region.

It added a 15-year-old female component injured and 3 other people underwent surgery after the strike.

Rescuers continued painted on the site, he added.

Izium occupied through the Russian forces at the beginning of the large -scale invasion of Ukraine of Moscow, which is now produced on its anniversary and generalized destruction.

After the liberation of the city, Ukrainian said they had discovered mass wells and accused Russia of war crimes, what Moscow denies.

12:16, Tom Watling

11:43, Tom Watling

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed the “brutality” of the Russian missile strike against Izyum, which killed five and wounded 20, is tolerated.

He is a video of the aftermath of the strike, which took its earlier position on the day.

“This brutality cannot be tolerated. The maximum tension will have to be implemented in Russia, through the force of the army, sanctions and international relations, to avoid the life of terror and the shield,” he wrote.

Izyum. La rescue operation continues after a Russian missile strike in the city. This attack destroyed the component of the Municipal Council building. By the time we know there are casualties, another twenty people have been injured. Tragically, five other people died. My condolences to the families. . . pic. twitter. com/hazug8bnoc

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / володиijo зеленський (@zelenskyua) February 4, 2025

11:10 , Tom Watling

A Russian missile strike broke a block of apartment and administrative buildings, killing another 4 people and wounding at least 20 in the city of Izyum in the Northeast of Jharkiv in Ukraine, the regional governor announced Tuesday.

The Russian forces arrived at the central district of the city with a ballistic missile, Governor Oleh Syniehubov on Telegram, which mentions the initial information.

Rescuers worked at the site and at least one user trapped under the rubble, he added.

A five -story residential block was destroyed and several administrative buildings were partially destroyed after the attack, according to Syniehubov.

The Kharkiv region, which borders Russia, is under Russian air attacks.

10:39, Tom Watling

British Medic loses the arm and leg on strike in Ukraine

10:10, Tom Watling

Moscow apartment blast ‘kills pro-Putin paramilitary leader’

09:47 , Tom Watling

Ukraine’s military said Tuesday it shot down 37 of 65 Russian drones overnight in an attack that hit businesses, a rail depot and homes across the country.

Ukraine’s state railways Ukrzaliznytsia said Russia attacked a depot in Dnipropetrovsk region, causing significant damage to infrastructure and premises.

The attack has also caused fires in 3 personal corporations in the central region of Cherkasy, its governor Ihor Taburets told Telegram.

In the northeastern region of Sumy, it damaged eight residential buildings and one apartment building, regional authorities said.

Of the 65 drones, another 28 were not successful in their objectives, due to the electronic war, said the Ukrainian army.

Ukrenerg, the country’s national network operator, reported emergency force cuts in 8 regions on Tuesday, causing missile and drone attacks.

09:23 , Tom Watling

The Kremlin said Tuesday that the comments of US President Donald Trump suggested that he looked for Ukraine to supply Washington the rare land minerals that now need kyiv to pay for help in the United States to receive it for free.

Trump told Newshounds on Monday that Ukraine was willing to worry about the trade, adding that he sought Ukraine’s “matching” for “nearly $300 billion” from Washington.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the comment has shown that the United States is no longer in a position to supply loose aid to Kyiv.

9:00 am, Tom Watling

08:24, Alex Croft

An 18-year-old British volunteer who enlisted to assist the protection of Ukraine killed via a Russian drone a few minutes after his first mission, according to a report.

James Wilton, from Huddersfield, went to Ukraine at the age of 17 and a previous army experience, where he would have won an accidental education course through Ukrainian instructors.

But his first project on the Eastern Front of Ukraine on July 23, 2024, also to be the last, after James and his partner discovered persecuted through several Russian drones in an open box without running canopy.

“I’ll never get over this. I didn’t want him to go but his heart was set on it. He wanted to help Ukraine,” his father Graham told The Sun.

Andy Gregory reports:

Brit Soldier, 18, killed through the Russian drone “minutes after the first mission” in Ukraine

08:02, Alex Croft

According to Ukrainian and American officials.

Kim Jong Un’s forces have not been seen on the battlefield for around three weeks, Ukrainian special forces said, according to the New York Times.

Pyongyang sent around 11,000 troops with Vladimir Putin’s war effort in November last year, 4 months after kyiv’s troops confiscated Russian territory in Kursk.

They temporarily won a reputation as fierce and “committed” soldiers, which chose suicide before surrender, but were hindered by poor tactics and a linguistic barrier.

In January, the National Intelligence Service of South Korea said that three hundred Kim infantry had been killed and another 2,700 injured since they entered the conflict.

Alexander Butler reports:

What happened to North Korean troops fighting Ukraine in the lines?

07:44, Alex Croft

Russia attracted 65 drones to Ukraine 37, Ukrainian aerial defenses, kyiv’s army announced Tuesday.

Of the 65 drones, 28 were not successful in their objectives, after the electronic war, the army added.

07:20, Alex Croft

Moscow’s renewed attacks on the Ukraine Force’s infrastructure this winter have increased scrutiny of the Ukrainian Force Ministry’s failure to provide the country’s maximum critical force amenities near nuclear sites.

Despite more than a year of warnings that the sites were vulnerable to possible Russian attacks, the Ministry of Energy acted quickly, existing and previous Ukrainian officials in kyiv to The Associated Press.

Two years of punishing Russian movements in their electric power network have left Ukraine depending on the nuclear force for more from its electricity production. Unprotected nuclear switches are vulnerable located outside the doors, the perimeters of their 3 operational nuclear force plants, which must transmit the force of the reactors to the rest of the country.

Full here:

Russian Attacks Near Ukrainian Nuclear Sites Raise Considerations Regarding Kyiv’s Preparedness

06:55, Arpan Rai

The Russian forces continued to suffer the best losses in January 2025 despite a slower progress rate compared to the last months in the past expired of 2024, the Institute for the Study of War said.

The US-based think tank cited Russian casualties recorded by the Ukrainian defence ministry and said January was the second-highest month of losses since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Russian forces have suffered 48,240 casualties in just the past month, amounting to over three Russian motorized rifle divisions worth of personnel, the ISW said, citing Ukrainian figures.

“The ISW observed geolocated evidence to assess that the Russian forces won around 498 km2 in January in Ukraine and the Oblast of Kursk, about 16. 1 km consisting of the day. Regional Regional,” he said in the last evaluation.

4:38 p. m. , Tom Watling

United Kingdom has ‘ruthless pragmatic’ to EU’s restart conversations

06:01 , Arpan Rai

US shipments of weapons into Ukraine were briefly paused in recent days before resuming over the weekend, four people briefed on the matter told Reuters.

The shipments were restarted after the White House withdrew its initial evaluation to avoid anyone in Ukraine, two of the resources said. The brief judgment occurred while Trump’s management debated his policy towards Kyiv.

There are factions inside the administration that are at odds over the extent to which the US should continue to aid Kyiv’s war effort with weapons from US stocks, said one of the people, a US official.

The White House did not respond to a request for comments.

Stop the United States weapons would hinder kyiv’s ability to combat and put it in a less advantageous negotiation position in peace conversations.

It is unclear if the Trump administration will formally acknowledge the pause and subsequent resumption of shipments.

05:55

The United Nations human rights monitoring project has registered an “alarming” increase in the execution of Ukrainian captured through the Russian armed forces.

The United Nations said it had gained reports of 79 executions in 24 separate incidents since the end of August last year.

“Many Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered or were in physical custody of the Russian armed forces were shot dead on the spot. Witness accounts also described the killings of unarmed and injured Ukrainian soldiers,” the mission said in a statement.

International Humanitarian prohibits the execution of prisoners of war and injured, and considers it a war crime.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Andrii Sybiha, requested a pressing action opposed to the Russian atrocities.

“The terrible executions of Russia of Ukrainian prisoners show that Ukraine confronts genuine animals,” he said in X. “We want new and effective foreign legal teams and concrete measures to be guilty authors. “

05:15 , Andy Gregory

The Interior Ministry has reversed the “catastrophic” adjustments to the Household Refugee program for Ukraine to ensure that young people can now register in their parents in the United Kingdom, after families independent of families are separated.

While Britain has offered sanctuary to nearly 300,000 Ukrainians after Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, changes to the rules issued overnight last February by the Tory government have prevented some parents from bringing their children to the UK.

Your home excursion allows Ukrainian refugees to bring young people to the United Kingdom

16:38 , Tom Watling

Starmer to urge European leaders to submit to Russia at EU meeting

05:00, Andy Gregory

Ryanair plans to resume flights to and from Ukraine with the hope that Donald Trump effectively announce a high fire with Russia.

Ryanair’s leader’s executive, Michael O’Leary, said the airline’s writing plans to allow flights to restart within six weeks of the dispute that ended at a press convention in London on Wednesday, Telegraph reported.

Natalie Wilson reports:

Ryanair boss plans to resume Ukraine flights within six weeks of end of conflict

04:53, Arpan Rai

Donald Trump has said he wants Ukraine to supply the United States with rare earth metals as a form of payment for financially supporting the country’s war efforts against Russia.

Mr Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House, said Ukraine was willing to participate in the idea, adding that he wants “equalisation” from Ukraine for Washington’s “close to $300bn” in support.

“We are telling Ukraine that they have very frequent lands very valuable,” Mr. Trump. “We are looking to make a deal with Ukraine, where they will ensure what we give them with their rare lands and other things. “

It is not without transparent delay if the US president used the term “infrequent land” to designate all types of critical minerals or simply to rare lands.

Rare earths are an organization of 17 metals used to make magnets that force movement for electric vehicles, mobile phones and other electronic. There are no known substitutes.

04:00, Andy Gregory

A deputy regional governor has the highest-ranking Russian government official to die in opposition to Ukraine.

Sergey Efremov, deputy governor of the eastern Primorsky Krai region, was killed in Kursk, where Russian forces have been repelling a Ukrainian invasion since last August.

On Friday, Efremov reportedly killed along with an army officer when his vehicle hit a landmine and exploded.

Arpan Rai reports:

Russia Suffers Primary Casualties as Deputy Governor Killed Through Kursk Land Mine

03:59, Arpan Rai

The high -nuclear firm of the United Nations is addressed to kyiv for a security inspection of the nation of the nation of war.

Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said in X: “During my eleventh stop in Ukraine since the war began. I am addressing Kievska, critical of the safety of Ukraine’s nuclear force, to Ukraine’s force to assess the wounds and spare it a nuclear accident.

During my eleventh stop in Ukraine 🇺🇦 From the beginning of the war, I have addressed Kievska under Endorship, critic of Ukraine Nuclear Energy Security, to evaluate wounds and assistance saves him a Fate Nuclear Nuclear turn. A fragile grid has an expanding threat to all NPPs, not just ZNPP. pic. twitter. com/64v8dvbyi7

– Rafael Mariogrossi (@rafaelmgossi) February 3, 2025

Last week, the OIEA said that Mr. Grossi would stop at kyiv for “high -level” meetings to ensure that the nuclear safety of the war began in February 2022.

According to substations, more of the part of electric power fed in Ukraine is generated through 3 nuclear force plants, however, Russian missile attacks and drones opposed to deposits threaten the solid functioning of nuclear force plants , according to that of Ukraine Nuclear Inspector.

03:46, Arpan Rai

Ukraine has brought home 12 young men forcibly taken through Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s boss said yesterday, Andriy Yermak’s boss earlier.

“As a component of the initiative of the President of Ukraine, to bring back the young people of the AU, it was imaginable to return to the house 12 young people under the tension of the Russian occupation,” Mr. Yermak said on his telegram channel.

The Bring Kids Back UA program, as a component of Zelensky, is an initiative to return home to all young people expelled from Ukraine, according to the declaration of the initiative.

Among the young people who returned were a 16-year-old woman who lost her mother, a 17-year-old woman who won a summons to the Russian army, and an eight-year-old woman, Mr. Yermak.

No quick comments from Russia.

An arrest warrant opposed to Vladimir Putin is already issued through the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, which accuses him of war crimes by taking a lot of young Ukrainians from the orphanages.

03:34, Arpan Rai

The father of a 18 -year -old British volunteer, James Wilton, who died through a Russian drone in Ukraine, paid tribute and said that his son was an “educated and comprehensive young man. “

“My son James had just turned 18 when he sought to volunteer and fight in Ukraine,” said his father Graham Wilton to The Sun.

“I do not necessarily agree with its resolution on this issue, but we explain why it sought to do it,” he said.

“I will never.

“James was a polite, likeable young man and never really had a bad word to say about anyone or anything,” he said.

A British teenager killed through the Russian drone “minutes in the first mission” in Ukraine

16:37 , Tom Watling

What happened to North Korean troops fighting Ukraine on the line?

3:00 am, Andy Gregory

02:55, Arpan Rai

James Wilton, from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, was only 17 when he left the university and traveled to register in foreign combatants in Ukraine.

He opposed the wishes of his mother and his sisters, because he sought to make the difference and assistance to those who suffer from war.

A few days after achieving the front of the war, Wilton was killed through a Russian drone the crossing of an open floor with a heavy bag on the back. It is possible that the young man simply does not be saved, despite the efforts of his friend, an American volunteer named Jason.

It is his first fighting project in Ukraine.

02:00, Andy Gregory

A former conservative MP who lost his seat in last year’s general election has joined Ukraine’s International Legion to fight Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Jack Lopresti, former vice-chairman of the Conservative Party, was in the past MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke in Gloucestershire, but now he has based his skills on the existing war in Kiev.

As an MP, Mr Lopresti visited Ukraine and was a strong advocate in parliament for more aid to be given to Volodymyr Zelensky to support the country’s efforts to defeat Russia. He has also served in the UK Army Reserve as a corporal.

Our political editor David Maddox has the full report:

The former deputy in history joins the Ukrainian Foreign Legion to fight Putin

4:36 p. m. , Tom Watling

Former NATO leader Jens Stoltenberg returns to Norway as finance minister

01:00 , Tom Watling

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are seen by Russia as possible venues for a summit between US president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin, two Russian sources with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters.

Mr Trump has said he will end the war in Ukraine as soon as possible and said he is ready to meet with Putin. Mr Putin congratulated Mr Trump on his election and stated he is ready to meet the US leader to discuss Ukraine and energy.

Russian officials have repeatedly denied any direct contact with the US about preparations for a phone call between Mr Trump and Mr Putin, which would precede an eventual meeting later this year.

However, senior Russian officials have visited both Saudi Arabia and the UAE in recent weeks, according to the Russian sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation.

A source said that there is still some opposition to the concept in Russia, since some diplomats and intelligence officials pointed to the nearby army and the security that the Kingdom and the EAU have with the United States.

00:00, Tom Watling

Competitive statements have emerged in a fatal attack against a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in the Kursk region in Russia that has been under Ukraine for five months, Ukraine and Russia accumulating with each other for having done the strikearray

The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said Saturday night that four people were killed and a further four seriously wounded in the strike, with 84 people rescued by Ukrainian servicemen from the rubble of the building. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Moscow had bombed the boarding school where civilians were sheltering and preparing to evacuate.

The general said that those who want more medical assistance had been evacuated to medical comfort in Ukraine.

The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed in the early hours of Sunday that it was Ukrainian forces that had launched a missile strike on the school, saying that the missiles were launched from Ukraine’s Sumy region.

Russia and Ukraine blame others for a fatal school attack

Monday 3 February 2025 23:20 , Andy Gregory

Russian forces are intensifying their offensive around the strategically vital Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, threatening key supply lines and raising concerns about a potential encirclement.

The city, a crucial logistical hub in eastern Ukraine, has become a focal point in the nearly three-year-long conflict.

While Ukrainian defenders advance fiercely Russian, the stage in Pokrovsk is increasingly precarious. The main routes of origin of the city are under consistent threat, Russian troops invade in several directions.

Read the full article here:

Battle for Pokrovsk: Ukraine in this city may be the peak of the war

Monday, February 3, 2025 10:50 pm, Tom Watling

The Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Andrii Sybiha, said Monday that a building in the number of Ukrainian war prisoners carried out through the Russian forces requires a pressing foreign response.

A U. N. agency said Monday it had seen an “alarming increase” in reported executions in months.

“The global will have not only condemned, but also to take pressing measures. We want new and effective foreign legal teams and concrete measures to hold the perpetrators,” Sybiha said in X.

The @uunhumanrights confirm Russia’s ongoing executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war. At least 79 cases since the end of August 2024. This may be one of the largest POW intentional homicide campaigns in fashion history. These atrocities require foreign action.

— Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦 (@andrii_sybiha) February 3, 2025

Monday 3 February 2025 22:20 , Tom Watling

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said on Monday that the invasion of Ukraine through Russia and the policy of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, took Europe to a greater duty for their own physical and economic security.

Macron made the comments as he arrived at a gathering of European Union leaders in Brussels to discuss relations with the United States and bolstering Europe’s military defences.

The beginning of the summit was overshadowed by the fact that Trump pointed out during the weekend that he will soon impose pricing lists to EU imports, after ordering similar measures to the products of Canada, Mexico and China.

The leaders who arrived warned Trump to begin an industrial war and said the EU would retaliate if he did.

Macron said Trump’s policies were one of the many points that pushed the EU to depend less on others.

“The Covid epidemic and Russian aggression in Ukraine Awakening moments,” Macron told journalists.

“What is happening at the moment in Ukraine today, what is also happening now with the elections, the statements of the new US administration of President Trump pushes Europeans to be more united, more active to respond to the subjects of their collective protection,” he says.

This meant boosting Europe’s defence industry and buying more European arms, Macron said.

Monday, February 3, 2025 21:50, Andy Gregory

The father of an 18 -year -old British volunteer who was killed through a Russian drone, while it was his first fighting project in Ukraine paid tribute, saying that his son was an “educated and comprehensive young man. “

James Wilton, from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, dropped out of school and travelled to enrol in foreign fighters, opposed to the wishes of his mother and sisters, because he sought to make a difference and assist those suffering from war.

He was killed in July in a drone strike by crossing an open floor with a heavy package on his back and may not be saved, despite the efforts of his friend, an American volunteer named Jason.

Mr Wilton’s father, Graham, said: “My son James was only 18 years old when he sought to volunteer and fight in Ukraine. I don’t necessarily agree with your resolution on this, however, we have explained why you need to do this. .

“I had just finished school and I wasn’t sure what I was looking for outside life. But from our conversations, it made me transparent that this was what I was looking for.

“So I did everything I could to make sure that he knew precisely what was troubling and that he can be completely ready for what he can expect.

“James was a well educated and comprehensive young boy and never had a bad word to say about anyone or anything. I made sure that it was as ready as it would be before taking him to Manchester airport for his flight to Krakow.

“I also told him to speak with his sisters and his mother before he left, which he did, but they were dead set against him going. But James made his mind up and he would’ve gone regardless, so he had my blessing and knew I was here if he needed me.”

Monday, February 3, 2025 21:19, Andy Gregory

A pro-Putin leader killed in a bomb blast in the corridor of a luxury construction in Moscow, according to the Russian government and reports.

Armen Sarkisyan, who Ukraine has accused of aiding Russia’s war in Donetsk, was targeted in the attack; he was critically injured in the blast and later died in hospital, according to the Kommersant newspaper.

Another user killed and 3 others injured in the explosion. The state news firm Tass cited an unnamed law enforcement source as saying a bomb had been planted in the building.

In December, Sarkisyan – who also ran a boxing federation – was charged in absentia by the Security Service of Ukraine with participation in illegal armed or paramilitary formations or assisting such formations in combat operations against its armed forces.

The agency, known as SBU, in the past accused Sarkisyan of recruiting prisoners to combat in Ukraine, cooperating with Russian security forces and created armed education known as “arbat” or “Armenian battalion. “

Tom Watling reports:

Moscow apartment blast ‘kills pro-Putin paramilitary leader’

Monday 3 February 2025 20:50 , Andy Gregory

Monday, February 3, 2025 8:20 pm, Andy Gregory

Moldova denounced what a violation of his airspace said through a drone and said he argued with his allies to know how to stimulate aerial defenses, having suffered many violations of this type after the Russian war.

One of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not identify the origin of the drone, but said he entered Moldavan’s airspace during the night. The Moldova Ministry of Defense said the drone entered the country’s airspace from Ukraine, remained for a short time and then returned to the Ukrainian territory.

“Such moves are unacceptable and constitute a risk to national security and our citizens,” the Foreign Ministry said.

“In this context, Moldova is analyzing the cases of the incident and participating in an active discussion with foreign partners to save a similar scenario and the defenses of (our) airspace. “

Monday, February 3, 2025 7:50 pm, Andy Gregory

NATO leader Mark Rutte said the United States and Europe realize Ukraine is a “geopolitical” challenge and “for many reasons, we will have to stay connected. “

When asked if Europe plans a defense race that does not come with the United States, Mrrutte advised that it was “thinking silly” to think that the army block can spread without the United States.

“This is something geopolitical that is happening at this time with Ukraine,” he said. “The United States realizes that the European aspect of NATO realizes that Array . . . United States is also threatened Witray . . . long -range missiles that leave North Korea, can -tre in the future , thanks to all the technologies that Russians deliver.

“So, for many reasons, we want to continue connected. I am a faithful transatlantic. I am sure that the most productive that the West can do is remain united, and I know that the same thought continues to prevail in the United States. “

Monday, February 3, 2025 7:20 p. m. Andy Gregory

U. S. arms shipments U. S. Ukraine was briefly stopped in recent days before resuming over the weekend when Trump’s management debated its policy toward Kiev, to Reuters, four other people on the matter.

The expeditions were restarted after the White House withdrew its initial evaluation to avoid all in Ukraine, two of the resources said.

There are factions within management that do not agree to the extent that Washington continues to help kyiv’s war effort with the weapons of US actions, said an American official.

Monday 3 February 2025 18:51 , Andy Gregory

Donald Trump has said that Ukraine needs to obtain the United States with rare land minerals, telling White House journalists that kyiv is in a position to do so.

According to the World Economic Forum, the geological areas of Ukraine make it a greater global provider of mineral resources, Kyiv has about 5% of the world total.

These come with titanium, lithium, beryllium, manganese, gallium, and uranium, which are found in a diversity of key industries such as aerospace, medicine, and defense, as well as battery production, LEDs, semiconductors, and nuclear power.

Monday, February 3, 2025 6:00 p. m. , Tom Watling

kyiv Guns World War Defenders of two -style devices in the farm trailers

Monday to February 2025 17: 0array Tom Watling

Blast in an upscale residential area in Moscow kills 1 and leaves 4 wounded

Monday, February 3, 2025 4:59 PM, Tom Watling

Watch live: Starmer urges Nato leaders in Brussels to step up support for Ukraine

Monday, February 3, 2025 4:30 pm, Tom Watling

British teenager killed via Russian drone ‘mins in first project’ in Ukraine

Monday, February 3, 2025 4:00 p. m. , Tom Watling

Ukraine’s army leader on Monday condemned a wave of violent attacks on officers’ features, meeting with a nationwide effort of meetings that has fueled anger among some Ukrainians and struggled to generate enough frontline manpower.

The incidents, including the fatal shooting of a draft officer and explosions at two draft offices in three days, pile pressure on an already-troubled national campaign to draft civilians despite faltering enthusiasm for service.

The setback comes as Ukraine is trying to project strength ahead of a potential negotiating process, with US president Donald Trump pushing for a swift end to the war, while Russian troops continue to capture more territory in the east.

General Oleksandr Syrskyi, who has complained of manpower shortages at the front, denounced what he said were “shameful acts of violence”, demanding investigations and punishment for incidents that killed two people and wounded seven more.

“The common goal of defending Ukraine is impossible without the entire nation’s support of the army and respect for military personnel,” he wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

The police arrested two suspects after the draft officer was shot dead on Friday at a petrol station in the central region of Poltava.

Prosecutors said one of the suspects had shot the officer, allowing a second man who had been mobilised and was in the officer’s charge to escape.

The next day an explosion inside a draft office in the northwestern city of Rivne killed one person and wounded six others, military officials said, without providing details. On Sunday, another explosion wounded one person at a draft office in Pavlohrad, authorities said.

Monday 3 February 2025 15:24 , Tom Watling

‘Alarming rise’ in Russian execution of captured Ukrainian soldiers, says UN

Monday 3 February 2025 14:18 , Tom Watling

The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring project has registered an “alarming increase” in the reports of Ukrainian infantry soldiers captured through the Russian armed forces in recent months, he said on Monday.

The mission in Ukraine said it had received reports of 79 executions in 24 separate incidents since the end of August last year. International humanitarian law prohibits the execution of prisoners of war and the wounded, and regards it as a war crime.

“Many Ukrainians who were or were in police custody of the Russian Armed Forces were shot dead.

The United Nations framework has received and analyzed video and photographic documents through Ukrainian and Russian resources that appear in executions or corpses and has conducted detailed interviews with witnesses.

He said the reported executions took place in spaces where Russian offensive operations were underway.

Danielle Bell, head of the mission, said some Russian officials “have explicitly called for inhumane treatment, and even execution” of captured Ukrainian soldiers.

The project said it also documented the execution of a wounded and disabled Russian soldier through the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2024, without giving details.

The workplace of the prosecutor of Ukraine said that he investigated dozens of cases of executions of Ukrainian military through the Russian forces.

Monday, February 3, 2025 13:52, Tom Watling

Ukraine’s military has confirmed it hit a Russian oil refinery in the Volgograd region and a gas processing plant in the Astrakhan region overnight, adding that both facilities contributed fuel to Moscow’s army.

The main processing amenities of the refinery were damaged, said the general on Telegram, and the fuel plant caught the fireplace that leads to the suspension of operations.

Monday, February 3, 2025 10:32 AM, Tom Watling

The pro-ruso separatist Armen Sarkisyan would have a leg and would be taken to surgery after being caught in an explosion in northwestern Moscow.

There are varying accounts of Mr Sarkisyan’s injuries but Russian state media Tass reports that the figure is in intensive care and is being prepared for surgery.

Monday, February 3, 2025 10:26 AM, Tom Watling

Monday 3 February 2025 10:10

Ukrainian defenses fired 2,800 missiles and drones drawn to Russia in January, Kyiv’s Defense Ministry said.

In January, Ukrainian aerial defenders demolished 2,300 enemy aerial objectives: ◾️31 KH-101, caliber, Iskander-K cruise missiles 2 iskander-m◾️◾️◾️12 KH-59/69 UAVS◾️236 UAV of others . . . PIC. twitter. com/M0VZERO6QE

— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) February 3, 2025

Monday 3 February 2025 09:51 , Tom Watling

We have noted that an explosion at a luxury residential complex in northwestern Moscow, described through Russian state media as an “assassination”, seriously injured a senior aide of Ukrainian Putin.

The figure in question, Armen Sarkisyan, from Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, is a close associate known to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Russian politician he ousted in 2014 after a pro-democracy run. He then fled to Russia.

In December 2024, Ukraine’s security services (SBU) notified Mr Sarkisyan in absentia that he was being investigated for forming combat units to fight against Ukraine and assisting Russia.

In A Telegram, the SBU wrote: “The complete measures are underway to locate and punish the aggressor for the crimes opposed to our state. “

Next, we have some in balls in Mr. Sarkisyan.

The SBU allegedly alleged that Mr. Sarkisyan trained the Battalion separate from guards to guards to fight Ukraine after the full-scale invasion in February 2022.

He reportedly recruited prisoners from the occupied Donetsk region to make up the battalion, under the instruction of the FSB, Russia’s security services.

These forces fought first in Toretsk, Donetsk, and then in Kursk, the Russian border region controlled through Ukraine since last August.

Mr Sarkisyan has been on Ukraine’s international wanted list since May 2014 for, the SBU says, “organising murders in the centre of Kyiv”.

During the Euromaidan Revolution in 2014, Mr. Sarkisyan, whom he described as the crime boss, also allegedly hired pro-thugs, known as Titusky, to harass protesters.

Мtoсві – вибх в е жж жж жж, п °

– новинарня (@Novynarnia) February 3, 2025

Monday, February 2025 – 09: 5, Tom Watling

The Kremlin, asked on Monday about US president Donald Trump’s remarks that talks and meetings with Russia are scheduled, said that contacts were “apparently planned”, and that Moscow had a planning process.

Monday, February 2025 09:01, Tom Watling

A Russian power factory run via Ukrainian drones overnight closed after warnings of an impending airstrike, a local official said.

Igor Babushkin, governor of the Astrakhan region, said the factory, a lot of miles from Ukraine and even Ukrainian forces, posted a video of him in the status quo this morning.

“Having won the first signs about the danger of UAV [unnamed aerial vehicles], the company has stopped its work,” he said.

The factory, controlled through Gazprom fuel, is capable of treating approximately 8,340 metric tons of fuel condensate consistent with the day.

The verified videos on social networks have shown giant flames and black smoke jumping in the afternoon sky on a processing plant, while passers -by expressed a surprise to the length of the fire.

Ukrainian Lieutenant Andriy Kovalenko, who directs the Acuña Disinformation Center, which is a component of the National Security and Defense Council, said the coup of the Astrakhan fuel processing plant.

On February 3 at night, drones reached one of the main comforts of power in Russia, which reasons the fire. Financing . . . pic. twitter. com/elvx0xz5lg

— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) February 3, 2025

Monday, February 3, 2025 08:57, Alex Croft

The crack and explosion with one ear, two in a row, then a third window window and cause car alarms. But, in a city under constant bombardment, a smoker at a door makes a little ash and takes a road.

A receptionist at the hotel, who is detained in combination through the lamp, looks at his papers.

The explosions, they know, come from anti -life -ranking missiles of the Ukrainian capital opposed to incoming attacks.

Although the citizens of kyiv will move for these, the sound of grass engines in the sky will cause a new hurry towards wineries and shelters.

For the dwarfs of Russian Russian drones Russian, almost each and every night. It is approximately two meters in diameter, Delta winged and send between 30 kg and 50 kg of explosives. They are guided through a primitive and trained GPS system, complaining of two -step engines.

Read the office of our Global Affairs editor Sam Kiley:

The defenders of Kyiv using World War Two-style machine guns on farm trailers

Monday 3 February 2025 08:48 , Tom Watling

An explosion in Moscow that Russian state media described as a “murder” seriously injured a main paramilitary in eastern Ukraine.

One person was killed and four injured in the blast in northwest Moscow this morning.

Among the wounded is Armen Sarkisyan, a senior prel-ruso paramilitary in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, Russian news agency of Tass reported.

Monday 3 February 2025 08:27 , Alex Croft

Earlier, we reported that a Ukrainian drone strike had caused a fire to break out at a Russian gas facility

The images published through Ukrainska Pravda seem to show a fireplace in a fuel remedy plant near Astrakhan.

“The Ukrainian armed forces have attempted a drone attack on items in the region, adding fuel and energy facilities,” Igor Babushkin, the region’s governor, said on Telegram.

“After a drone, a chimney exploded, but there is no victim. “

Дрони аакува»

— Ураїнсьface правда ✌️ (@ukrpravda_news) February 3, 2025

Monday 3 February 2025 08:11 , Alex Croft

Europe should boost defense spending to ensure its security amid wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday.

“Europe takes a greater duty for its security,” Mr. Mitsotakis has declared war in an opinion piece in the Financial Times.

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