Украйнд болж буй үйл явдлуудын тойм: Сүүлийн үеийн мэдээ мэдээлэл

Ukraine’s defence minister Kyrylo Budanov has said his country’s negotiating position on giving up territory in peace talks is not going to change.

“No one in the world deals with the weak, and international law does not work without strength. To succeed in negotiations, we must be strong on the battlefield and united on the home front,” he said at the Kyiv Security Forum.

“Our ‘red lines’ remain unchanged: we will not recognise any territorial losses, and we are not going to trade our land. Any compromise must, first and foremost, serve Ukraine’s interests,” he said, in a post on X.

One of the main sticking points in talks between Russia and Ukraine so far has been Moscow’s demands that Kyiv forfeit more of its territory in the east, which Ukrainian officials have said is non-negotiable and will not be sacrificed.

Russia has issued a fresh threat and said any European countries that ​accepted deployments of French nuclear-capable strategic bombers would make themselves targets for attack by Moscow’s forces in the event of a conflict.

French president Emmanuel Macron announced plans in March to expand the country’s nuclear ⁠arsenal and said France may allow European partners to host its nuclear-capable aircraft on temporary deployments.

Russian deputy foreign minister Alexander Grushko said in an interview published yesterday that this was part of an “uncontrolled build-up” of Nato’s nuclear potential, which posed a strategic threat ⁠to Russia.

He stressed Moscow’s concern about the ​potential ⁠French nuclear deployments to other European countries. Macron has said Paris is discussing such arrangements with Britain, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, ⁠Sweden and Denmark.

“Clearly, our military will be forced to pay close attention to ​this ⁠issue in the context of ‌updating the list of priority targets in the event of a major conflict,” Grushko told the state media group Russia Today.

“As a result, instead of the ‌declared French strengthening of the defence of their ‌allies – to whom, incidentally, they offer no ironclad guarantees – the security of these countries is in fact being weakened.”

Macron’s initiative is part of a drive by Nato’s European members to take more ⁠responsibility for their own defence, after frequent criticism of the alliance from US president Donald Trump, and in light of his threats to take control of Greenland from Nato member Denmark.

A senior UK diplomat has called for the immediate and unconditional release of OSCE special monitoring mission members, as he condemned Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine.

Ambassador Neil Holland, the head of the United Kingdom’s delegation to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), was speaking at the gathering of OSCE members in Vienna yesterday.

“This month marks four years since our colleagues from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine – Dmytro Shabanov, Vadym Golda and Maxim Petrov – were unlawfully detained by Russia and its proxies. They were detained while carrying out duties mandated by this Council, under a mission established by consensus, including by the Russian Federation,” Holland said.

He added that the continued detention of the members “remains a clear breach of OSCE commitments”.

He also condemned the threats from Russia during a meeting last week.

“This reflects a familiar attempt to intimidate and deter those who support Ukraine’s right to defend itself against an illegal and unprovoked invasion. It will not work,” the diplomat said.

Ukraine has developed interceptor drones that can be ​directed from a distance and are capable of hitting targets hundreds or thousands of kilometres away, defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced yesterday.

“We are launching a new level of ‘small’ air defence. Now, control of interceptors is ⁠possible at a distance of thousands of kilometres,” Fedorov wrote ​on ⁠the Telegram messaging app.

“Today ‌we have a confirmed result – downing a target at a distance of hundreds and thousands of kilometres. Ukraine ‌is the first in the world to ‌systematically scale remote control of interceptor drones,” he said.

Fedorov said the system “increases the efficiency of interception, minimises risks for operators and allows scaling capabilities without ⁠being tied to the front line”.

Ukrainian officials estimated domestic drone production last year at about 4.5 million and capacity has since increased.

Ukraine was ⁠virtually without any capacity to build drones when Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, but now has a thriving industry. Emphasis has been placed on interceptor drones as a more effective – ⁠and more economical – means ​to defend ⁠against drone attacks.

The King’s youngest son, in a rare input on global matters, clarified he was “not here as a politician” but as “a soldier who understands service” and “a humanitarian”, though he did not mention Mr Trump by name.

Responding to the speech Harry made during a surprise visit to Ukraine, the US president told reporters: “I know one thing, Prince Harry is not speaking for the UK, that’s for sure. I think I am speaking for the UK more than Prince Harry.”

“But I appreciate his advice very much,” he added.

The European Union formally approved on Thursday a €90bn (£78bn) loan to Ukraine and new sanctions against Russia, ahead of an ⁠informal summit of the bloc’s leaders in Cyprus which Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky will attend.

The loan is set to cover two-thirds of Ukraine’s financial needs for the next two years. Economists had said Ukraine would start to run out of money by June if the EU loan was not disbursed by then, requiring deep cuts to public services.

“We are on our ⁠way to Cyprus with good news,” European Commission chief Ursula von ​der ⁠Leyen said.

“While Russia doubles down on its aggression, we are doubling down on our support to the brave Ukrainian nation enabling Ukraine to defend itself and putting pressure on Russia’s war economy,” she said.

Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected the idea of a partial EU membership for his war-hit nation.

Germany and France have proposed limited ”symbolic” or ”associate” EU membership for Ukraine as part of a peace deal, which would grant some benefits but exclude voting rights or full access to shared budgets.

“Ukraine does not need symbolic membership in the EU,” Zelensky said, speaking to reporters on his presidential WhatsApp chat on the way to Cyprus.

“Ukraine is defending itself and is definitely defending Europe. And it is not defending Europe symbolically – people are really dying,” he said.

Zelensky added that Ukraine is defending “shared European values” and therefore saying the country deserves full membership in the 27-strong bloc of countries.

Ukraine’s drone wing says it has killed at least 12 officers and injured 15 others in a strike on a command post of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in the Donetsk region on Wednesday.

Unmanned Systems Forces commander Robert “Madyar” Brovdi confirmed the attack yesterday and said Ukrainian forces used FP-2 drones manufactured by the Ukrainian defence company Fire Point.

The drones can carry up to 100kg payloads and are used for medium-range strikes.

The operation, during which operators carried out “eight precision strikes on the target,” was conducted by the Unmanned Systems Forces together with fighters from the 1st Corps of the Ukrainian National Guard’s Azov Brigade, the statement from Brovdi read.

He said the command post hit in the attack is responsible for sabotage operations, building intelligence networks, recruitment, carrying out terrorist attacks and arson, and coordinating Russian proxy forces.

Prince Harry made an unannounced visit to Kyiv and called on Russia’s president Vladimir Putin to end the war – a week after a massive Russian aerial attack on the country – and on ⁠US president Donald Trump to show leadership to help resolve the conflict.

By convention, the British royal family do not speak out on political matters, although King Charles and other senior royals have regularly voiced their support for Ukraine.

But Harry, on his third visit ⁠to the country since the war ​began, ⁠used far more explicit language than any of his relatives have done previously.

“President Putin, no nation benefits from the continued loss of life we ⁠are witnessing. There is still a moment – now – to stop this war, to ​prevent ⁠further suffering for Ukrainians and Russians ‌alike, and to choose a different course,” Harry said in a speech to a Kyiv security forum.

He called on Washington to do more to ‌bring about an end to the war.

“This is a ‌moment for American leadership, a moment for America to show that it can honour its international treaty obligations,” he said.

“Europe has stood up in profound ways,” said the British Army veteran ⁠who served in Afghanistan.

“The task now is to match endurance with speed, solidarity with scale, and commitment with consistency,” he said.