Russia-Ukraine war latest: Ex-British soldier killed in missile strike on hotel named as Zelensky pays tribute

Former US President Donald Trump has signalled his assist for Ukraine in a dialog with Volodymyr Zelenskiy and mentioned he needs to cease the battle with Russia, the Ukrainian president instructed reporters in an interview posted on his social media.

Republican presidential candidate Trump is locked in a tight-run race with Vice President Kamala Harris within the 5 Nov US election and has threatened US withdrawal from NATO and mentioned he wouldn’t defend allies that didn’t improve their defence budgets.

Ryan Evans, a member of the Reuters staff overlaying the battle in Ukraine, was killed and two Reuters journalists had been injured in a strike on a resort within the japanese Ukrainian metropolis of Kramatorsk, the information company mentioned on Sunday.

Evans, who was working as a security adviser for the company, was killed after a missile struck the Resort Sapphire the place he was staying as a part of a six-person staff on Saturday, Reuters mentioned in an announcement.

Two of the company’s journalists had been being handled in hospital; considered one of them was critically injured, it mentioned.

“We’re urgently looking for extra details about the assault, together with by working with the authorities in Kramatorsk, and we’re supporting our colleagues and their households,” Reuters mentioned.

Evans, a former British soldier, had been working with Reuters since 2022 and suggested its journalists on security world wide together with in Ukraine, Israel and on the Paris Olympics. He was 38.

“We ship our deepest condolences and ideas to Ryan’s household and family members. Ryan has helped so lots of our journalists cowl occasions world wide; we are going to miss him terribly,” Reuters mentioned.

The three different members of the Reuters staff who had been within the resort on the time of the strike had been accounted for and protected, the company mentioned.

President Zelensky expressed condolences to the households and pals of the victims of a Russian missile strike on a resort housing a Reuters movie crew.

In a publish on X, he known as the assault “deliberate”, including: “Right now in Kramatorsk, all the day was spent clearing the rubble after a Russian missile strike. Among the many injured had been journalists – a Reuters movie crew, residents of Ukraine, America, and Britain. A daily metropolis resort was destroyed by a Russian “Iskander” missile.

“Intentionally. Calculated. Seven folks had been injured, and one individual misplaced their life. My deepest condolences to the households and family members.”

Russia has seized greater than $100m (£76m) from Google to fund propaganda supporting Vladimir Putin’s battle in Ukraine, court docket paperwork present.

US court docket fillings, seen by The Telegraph, present bailiffs took the funds from the tech large’s Russian financial institution accounts in 2022, tipping its unit within the nation into chapter 11. 

In accordance with the paperwork, chapter managers handed the funds to Russian TV channels together with the state-owned RT and Tsargrad.

Google’s Russian entity declared chapter in 2022, saying the Kremlin had seized funds.

The US ambassador to Ukraine has condemned the Russian strike on a resort within the japanese Ukrainian metropolis of Kramatorsk.

Ambassador Bridget A. Brink wrote on X:“One other horrible strike by Russia on civilian targets in Ukraine final night time, this time hitting a resort in Kramatorsk and injuring a staff of journalists. We condemn these assaults, for which Russia should be held accountable.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned negotiations had been ongoing with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and Switzerland concerning the second summit on peace in a dialog with Indian journalists.

Zelensky additionally mentioned that he instructed India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi he would assist India internet hosting the second summit on peace however added that Ukraine can’t organise it in a rustic which didn’t signal the communique from the earlier summit.

“However I wish to be frank, and this is applicable not solely to India, however to any state that may be constructive about internet hosting a second summit. We will be unable to carry a peace summit in a rustic that has not but joined the peace summit communique,” Zelensky mentioned.

The Ukrainian president added that he mentioned the entire factors from the communique and former peace summit through the assembly with Modi on Friday.

An FCDO Spokesperson mentioned:“We’re conscious of experiences of a British Nationwide lacking in Ukraine and are looking for extra info from the native authorities”.

In Kramatorsk, Reuters journalists have been pulled from underneath the rubble of a resort destroyed by a missile strike.

The Kramatorsk Metropolis Council citing Oleksandr Honcharenko, the pinnacle of Kramatorsk Metropolis Army Administration reported Russian troops struck a resort in Kramatorsk presumably with an Iskander-M missile, the place Reuters journalists had been staying.

Among the many injured journalists had been residents of Ukraine, the USA, Latvia and Germany.

In accordance with the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Workplace, different international media journalists aged 38, 40, 41 and 46 sustained mine and blast accidents, mind harm, a damaged leg, concussions, minimize wounds and bruises.

Two 32 and 34-year-old ladies who had been of their houses on the time of the assault, had been additionally injured.

One individual was killed in a Ukrainian drone assault on the village of Solovyovka in Russia’s Belgorod area, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov mentioned by way of his channel within the Telegram messaging app on Sunday.