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Russia has welcomed remarks by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggesting the U.S. is making security guarantees conditional on Kyiv relinquishing control of the Donbas region.
Speaking on Thursday (26 March), Russian Special Envoy Kirill Dmitriev said Zelenskyy’s comments, made in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday, “can’t help but make us happy.”
Dmitriev also said the U.S. had played a “positive and constructive” role in the European Union’s decision earlier this year not to seize €210 billion ($240 billion) in Russian sovereign assets for a loan to Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Russian strikes hit energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region overnight, leaving tens of thousands of residents without power, energy company DTEK said on Thursday.
“The damage is extensive, and repairs will take time,” the company said on Telegram, adding that power had been restored to 31,500 families, while 33,400 remained without electricity.
Elsewhere, foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) met in France to discuss the war in Ukraine, as well as tensions involving the U.S., Israel and Iran.
Ahead of the meeting, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned that the West was facing a “war on two fronts”.
“There’s the Iranian conflict and the continuing Ukrainian conflict,” he said.
Both the United States and Iran are giving conflicting messages about trying to end the conflict in the Middle East as the rest of the world battle with the consequences of the war. Welcome to AnewZ's coverage of the tensions in the Middle East.
Israel says it has killed Alireza Tangsiri, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Navy.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen resigned on Wednesday after her coalition suffered a heavy election defeat, triggering negotiations over who will form the next government.
A drone has flown into Estonian airspace from Russia. It happened early on Wednesday morning and slammed into a chimney at a local power station, the Baltic country's Internal Security Service told public broadcaster ERR.
Iran has rejected a U.S. proposal to end the war, insisting any ceasefire will occur only on its own terms and timeline, according to a senior political-security official speaking to state-run Press TV on Wednesday.
An industrial area near one of Russia's biggest oil refineries was damaged in a Ukrainian drone attack, a Russian official said on Thursday.
Taiwan Defence Minister Wellington Koo on Thursday says the next arms sale package from the United States is on track after the government received a letter of guarantee from Washington, even as the U.S. and Chinese leaders prepare to meet in May.
The United Nations has adopted a resolution to recognise transatlantic slavery as the "gravest crime against humanity" despite resistance from Europe and the United States. Ghana proposed it at the United Nations on Wednesday calling for reparations.
Foreign ministers from the world's leading Western democracies meet in France this week against the backdrop of wars in Iran and Ukraine, economic uncertainty, and mounting unease over an increasingly unpredictable U.S. foreign policy.
A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found Alphabet’s Google and Meta liable for $6m in damages in a landmark social media addiction lawsuit, a ruling that could influence thousands of similar cases.
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