New interviews between Russia and the US are expected to be a ceasefire in Ukraine, as soon as this week, the Kremlin negotiator said in an interview for state television, which broadcast hours after the Moscow forces burned a ballistic missile in Kiev and killed at least one person.
It was not clear from the comments of Kirill Dmitriev on the Russian channel 1, which would be involved in conversations and at what level or whether there would be personal meetings.
Dmitryv, considered to be a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, traveled to Washington last week for two days of meeting with officials, including Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, the special envoy of President Donald Trump. He was the highest Russian official who visited the US capital from the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Russia until 2022.
Dmitriev said that Channel 1 said that the topics discussed during the “positive, sincere conversation” were potential joint investments, including metals of rare countries and in the Arctic. “We see many requirements of American companies in the energy sphere and other spheres,” he said.
The Russian forces soon burned a ballistic missile in the capital of Ukraine and fire rockets and drones in several other places. The attack included over 100 drones and 23 missiles of different types, said the armed forces of Ukraine.
The Russian Defense Ministry said in the update that it launched a “exact blow” with weapons based on air and sea “against the central artillery base” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and businesses involved in drones production. The Ministry did not specify any places of these goals.
In Kiev, the explosion was heard early on Sunday from an air defense effort and fires broke out in at least three districts, because some residents hid in metro stations. One person was killed and at least three injured, the military administration of the city on the telegram said. They also focused on the sums and kupyansk on the Ukrainian northeast, along Mykolyiv in the south.
One rocket was captured in the Khmelnytskyi region in Western Ukraine, the regional governor said.
The Polish army said that in response to the “intensive activity of Russian nozzles of long reach of Russian nozzles, performing air strikes in Western Ukraine. It was not a violation of the Polish airspace.
Sunday fire followed on Friday in Kryvyi Rih, the home town of President Volodymyr Zelenka, which killed 19 people, including nine children, and injured dozens of others.
At the end of last week, Ukrainian European allies urged Putin to immediately respond to the US proposal for a partial ceasefire that Kiev accepted, while American officials were frustrated by Russian efforts to end Washington to end three years of war.
“The pressure on Russia is still inadequate, and the daily Russian strikes in Ukraine prove it,” Zelezskiy said on Sunday in paper X. “These attacks are a Putin reaction to all international diplomatic efforts.”
With the help of Kateryna Chursina and Wojciech Moscow.
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