Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said during his visit to China that his country would only negotiate with Russia when it was ready to negotiate in “good faith.”
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Russia not ready for talks, says Kiev
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said during his visit to China on Wednesday that his country would only hold talks with Russia “in good faith” when it is ready to do so.
During his meeting with Chinese Prime Minister Wang Yi, Mr. Kuleba reiterated Ukraine’s position that it is “ready to negotiate with the Russian side (…) while Russia is ready to negotiate in good faith”. Ukrainian diplomacy says that “the Russian side does not want to do this at the moment.”
Russian officials have set tough conditions for the talks: Ukraine must cede all territory claimed by Russia and it must renounce its entry into NATO.
Two injured in Moscow
The probe into Wednesday morning’s car bomb blast in Moscow has been handed over to investigators in charge of “particularly sensitive” files, the Russian capital’s investigative committee said, as confusion over the identities of the two injured men continued.
Several media outlets, including state agency TASS, initially said the victims were a Russian military officer and his wife, but the latter, Andrei Torkashov, denied any injuries to other media outlets.
The Moscow Investigative Committee “has been handed over for investigation to the Criminal Case First Department for investigation of particularly important cases,” the organization indicated in a telegram without further details of the incident.
Gulepa in China
Chinese diplomatic chief Wang Yi welcomed Ukrainian representative to China Dmytro Kuleba on Wednesday.
As of Friday, Dmytro Kouleba has made the first visit by a senior Ukrainian official to China since the start of the Russian invasion.
Romania seeks drone parts
Romanian authorities on Wednesday launched operations to find possible drone fragments in Ukraine’s southeastern region after new Russian bombings targeting the neighboring country.
“The Ministry of Defense has ordered searches in the Plauru area to locate possible objects that fell on national territory,” a press release said. In response to this “new series of drone attacks carried out by Russian forces”, Bucharest has “reinforced its control and monitoring of national airspace”.
Wounded Russian military officer
A Russian military officer was injured in a car explosion in Moscow on Wednesday morning, state agency TASS reported, and investigators are supporting the possibility of a bomb. According to TASS, Andriy Torkasov, a “participant in a special military operation” in Ukraine, and his wife were injured in the explosion. His leg was amputated, and his wife received the pieces.
Mr. The agency did not specify Torgacho’s position or activities, while investigators did not identify him.
Several Russian figures who supported the attack on Ukraine were killed or injured in the bombings, and each time Cue came up as a suspect.
A death in Kherson
A Russian bombardment in Kherson, southern Ukraine, killed one person overnight, the head of the local military administration said Wednesday morning.
“At night, the Russian army shelled the Dnipro district of the city. As a result of this attack, a woman born in 1947 was killed. Rescue workers found her body under the rubble,” Roman Mrochko said on the social network Telegram.
The city of Kherson, located on the banks of the Dnieper River, which defines the front line in this area, is the most frequent target of Russian fire. Part of the region is occupied by Russia, which it claims as its annexation.
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Ukraine used drones to attack a boat in its port on the Kerch Strait, which separates Russia from the more secure region of Crimea, killing one person and injuring four others, Russian regional authorities said on Tuesday.
Four injured people, two of them in critical condition, have been hospitalized, officials in Krasnodar, in southwestern Russia, said.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Army, for its part, announced that its Navy “Inflicted significant damage on enemy cargo ship Slavian”WHO “Used to transport military supplies”.
According to Russian news agency TASS, the attack was carried out using aerial drones that struck 12 kilometers as the crow flies from the Crimean bridge, a key Russian structure that has already been targeted by Ukraine several times.
The ship was in the port of the Caucasus on the Kerch Strait, which provides a ferry link between mainland Russia and the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed by Moscow in 2014. Cargo also passes through this port.
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