Russia is willing in principle to resume peace talks with Ukraine and the United States in November, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said after President Vladimir Putin met U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg.
U.S. President Donald Trump has thanked 'everyone involved' in the release of American school teacher who was imprisoned in Russia on charges of fighting for Ukraine.
Speaking at a conference on Wednesday, Trump said he had asked Putin to release Hubbard during a phone call between both parties last week.
'We gave nothing in exchange, which is very rare. We never give anything in exchange,' Trump said.
Ukraine’s capital Kyiv came under attack from Russian ballistic missiles on Wednesday evening, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram.
Reuters witnesses reported explosions in the city.
Ukraine supports a U.S. proposal for three-way talks with Russia and the U.S. at negotiator level, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday.
He wants the meeting held as soon as possible, ideally by early November. He told journalists it could cover peace proposals and a possible leaders’ summit.
Zelenskyy said he had spoken to U.S. officials after envoy Steve Witkoff’s talks with Vladimir Putin in St.Petersburg.
His timeline is earlier than the Kremlin’s: Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov said Moscow was ready to resume talks in late November.
Sweden is examining whether it can legally refuse visas to Russian and Belarusian athletes, Migration Minister Johan Forssell told Reuters on Wednesday.
The move could keep neutral competitors out of next year’s Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun, even though the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) has cleared several Russians to compete.
Forssell said their participation risked normalising Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Sweden’s main sporting bodies back an exclusion but say entry decisions rest with the government.
European leaders will seek to agree on how to cover Ukraine’s estimated €70 billion ($81 billion) funding gap for 2027 at a special summit on 26-27 November, an EU official involved in preparations said.
The leaders will also discuss the bloc’s next long-term budget for 2028-2034, which EU governments aim to agree on this year ahead of elections scheduled in seven member states in 2027.
The EU has also planned €45 billion ($52 billion) in funding for Ukraine in 2027. However, the bloc had expected non-member countries, including Norway, Switzerland, Canada, Japan and Britain, to provide an additional €45 billion ($52 billion) across 2026 and 2027.
EU officials say not all of that funding has materialised.
Russia has agreed to a U.S. proposal for technical-level trilateral talks with Ukraine, a U.S. official said after envoy Steve Witkoff met President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg on Wednesday.
No date or venue has been announced.
The move follows Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov’s statement that Moscow was ready to resume three-way negotiations in late November, focused on post-war security arrangements. Kyiv has yet to comment.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is prepared to resume trilateral negotiations with Ukraine and the United States in the final days of November, according to Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov, following talks with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff focused on ending the war in Ukraine.
Ushakov said the proposed discussions would centre on building a post-war security framework for both Russia and Ukraine.
He added that Putin and Witkoff also discussed major U.S.-Russia economic projects that are nearing implementation, without providing details.
Ushakov further said preparations are under way for a possible meeting between Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and Putin on the sidelines of the APEC summit in China.
Ukraine's state energy company Naftogaz said a Russian drone struck one of its natural gas production facilities in the Kharkiv region on Wednesday, targeting critical energy infrastructure.
Acting Naftogaz chief Serhiy Fedorenko said Russia had carried out more than 400 attacks on the company's facilities since the start of the year, double the number recorded in 2025.
He said it was not yet possible to assess the extent of the damage because of the security situation, accusing Moscow of systematically targeting Ukraine's oil and gas infrastructure.
Russia has not immediately commented on the claim.
The Kremlin says progress towards ending the war in Ukraine is “theoretically possible” but depends largely on decisions by Kyiv. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia would study U.S. proposals as President Vladimir Putin held talks with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg.
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed meeting U.S. President Donald Trump in China during talks with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg on Wednesday.
The Kremlin had previously raised the possibility of trilateral talks between Putin, Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next month’s APEC summit in China.
Putin also expressed willingness to discuss restoring economic cooperation between Moscow and Washington.
Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old retired teacher from Michigan accused of serving as a mercenary for Ukraine, was released on Wednesday and taken to Pulkovo Airport.
Hubbard had been detained in Russia for more than four years and was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison following a closed-door trial in 2024. He was the only U.S. prisoner held by Russia whom Washington had designated as “wrongfully detained”.
Putin informed Witkoff of Hubbard’s release at the start of their meeting; the U.S. envoy thanked the Russian president for the gesture of goodwill.
U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff has met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow to discuss efforts towards a ceasefire in Ukraine, expressing hope that Russia would consider resuming trilateral talks with Kyiv and Washington.
Witkoff reportedly presented documents outlining possible approaches to resolving the conflict and briefed Putin on his recent meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Oslo, describing the discussions as productive.
Putin acknowledged U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine and thanked him for his attention to the issue. He also expressed Russia’s willingness to help resolve tensions between Iran and the United States.
Three drones were shot down over Russia’s north-western Leningrad region on Wednesday, Governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said.
The region surrounds St. Petersburg, where U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff is due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin later in the morning for talks on Ukraine.
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to discuss the war in Ukraine during talks in St. Petersburg on Wednesday morning.
Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said Ukraine would be the main focus of the meeting, but it was unclear whether any agreement would be reached.
A 19-year-old man was killed and two others were injured when a Ukrainian drone struck a car in Russia’s Bryansk region, Governor Yegor Kovalchuk said on Wednesday.
The Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday its drones had hit a cargo vessel carrying military cargo to Ukraine en route to the port of Odesa, hours before U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg.
The ministry also said its forces had hit a warehouse complex used for drone storage in the central Ukrainian city of Poltava, and an electric power substation, which supplies power to the Ukrainian defence and industrial sector as well as logistics centres in Kyiv.
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to arrive in St. Petersburg on Wednesday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, two sources told Reuters.
Russian special envoy Kirill Dmitriev will take part in the meeting and is expected to meet Witkoff at the airport. Witkoff is travelling from Norway, where he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other officials.
Russian drones struck an area near Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv overnight, killing two people, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said on Telegram on Wednesday.
He added that the attack hit private houses and caused other damage. Eleven people also suffered stress reactions.
Hello and welcome to our live coverage.
Follow us for the latest updates from the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Prosecutors in Paraguay have raided the brokerage arm of the collapsed digital bank Ueno and recovered torn-up documents. Images released by prosec...
Here's your AnewZ Daily Brief for the 10th of November, bringing you five developments that highlight the growing pressure on U.S. President Do...
Three contract workers have died after inhaling gas during maintenance work at a Tata Electronics factory in Tamil Nadu, southern India. The facili...
The gunman who allegedly killed six people in Poland’s unprecedented mass shooting in central Kraków on Saturday has died in hospital, police said early Monday. The attacker had demonstrated advanced military-style marksmanship skills, according to a spokesperson for the shooting club he attended.
Monday marks the second of two days of national mourning in Poland as police bolstered security after six people were killed in a mass shooting in Kraków.
Russia and Ukraine are set to return to Abu Dhabi on Tuesday for a fourth round of U.S.-brokered peace talks, with European participation, security guarantees and territorial disputes expected to shape the negotiations.
Nvidia has launched an independent investigation into whether its chief executive, Jensen Huang, was targeted in a foreign intelligence operation, following allegations that a businesswoman with whom he had a relationship passed information to Beijing.
A Russian overnight attack on energy infrastructure in Ukraine's eastern Dnipropetrovsk region left more than 600,000 people without electricity on Sunday, 8 November, Ukrainian energy company DTEK said.
Prosecutors in Paraguay have raided the brokerage arm of the collapsed digital bank Ueno and recovered torn-up documents. Images released by prosecutors showed shredded papers, including what appeared to be fragments of due diligence reports and emails.
Here's your AnewZ Daily Brief for the 10th of November, bringing you five developments that highlight the growing pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump, from tensions in the Middle East and controversy in Silicon Valley to political setbacks at home and difficult diplomacy over Ukraine.
Three contract workers have died after inhaling gas during maintenance work at a Tata Electronics factory in Tamil Nadu, southern India. The facility manufactures components for Apple's iPhones.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s approval rating has stayed near the lowest level of his political career, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Monday, as concerns over rising prices continue to weigh on his Republican Party after last week’s midterm elections.
The EU’s top diplomat says Moscow has shown no goodwill ahead of Abu Dhabi talks, while France unveils a G7-backed network linking 14 ports against drug trafficking.
You can download the AnewZ application from Play Store and the App Store.
What is your opinion on this topic?
Leave the first comment