Russia Ukraine war live: 10 injured in missile attack on Kyiv as Moscow pounds capital

A Kremlin spokesperson claimed any world peace summit on Ukraine that excludes Russia is solely “absurd” and can fail.

Volodymyr Zelensky has known as for a global peace summit to finish the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and earlier this yr Switzerland stated it might host the assembly, and {that a} date and the small print have been being mentioned.

“Can the Ukrainian drawback be resolved with out Russia’s participation? The reply is obvious – it can not,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated in an interview to information outlet Argumenty I Fakty carried out final Thursday, a day earlier than the mass capturing at a live performance corridor outdoors Moscow.

He added: “As a result of Ukraine has been became an instrument within the fingers of the collective West with whose assist it intends, so it appears to them, to place extra strain on Russia, restrain Russia and abandon it to the fringes of improvement. And, ought to they succeed, to complete it off.”

In an unsubstantiated declare, Mr Peskov stated Russia was pursuing its two-year-old battle on Ukraine to guard itself from the West. Russia has repeatedly denounced Ukraine’s peace plans as unworkable because it continues to pound Ukraine with a full-on army offensive.

Mr Peskov reiterated that the plan was unthinkable, and in addition denounced plans mentioned by the European Union and different international locations to take management of earnings from Russian belongings and switch them over to Ukraine.

“I imagine the Europeans perceive that we’ll problem such a choice. That is presumably a query not over a single yr, however fairly a long time,” he stated.

Russia‘s International Ministry says it issued the mandatory paperwork for a Spanish journalist to remain within the nation though the reporter claims he was compelled to go away as a result of his visa was not renewed.

Xavier Colas of the newspaper El Mundo is the newest overseas journalist to have left Russia after visas weren’t continued. The instances come amid a crackdown on media that has intensified since Russia despatched troops into Ukraine in February 2022.

Colas stated he was compelled to go away Russia on Wednesday, a day after authorities refused to resume the visa.

Ukraine wants any edge it could possibly get to repel Russia from its territory. One rising vibrant spot is its small however fast-growing protection business, which the federal government is flooding with cash in hopes {that a} surge of do-it-yourself weapons and ammunition might help flip the tide.

The hassle ramped up sharply over the previous yr because the US and Europe strained to ship weapons and different help to Ukraine, which is up towards a a lot greater Russian army backed by a thriving home protection business.

The Ukrainian authorities budgeted practically $1.4bn in 2024 to purchase and develop weapons at house — 20 instances greater than earlier than Russia’s full-scale invasion.

And in one other main shift, an enormous portion of weapons are actually being purchased from privately owned factories. They’re sprouting up throughout the nation and quickly taking on an business that had been dominated by state-owned corporations.

A privately owned mortar manufacturing unit that launched in western Ukraine final yr is making roughly 20,000 shells a month. “I really feel that we’re bringing our nation nearer to victory,” stated Anatolli Kuzmin, the manufacturing unit’s 64-year-old proprietor, who used to make farm tools and fled his house in southern Ukraine after Russia invaded in 2022.

Ukrainian overseas minister Dmytro Kuleba stated he’s visiting India this week, marking his first ever go to to the Asian nation, only a few days after Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.

“At this time, India celebrates Holi, essentially the most lovely and vibrant spring vacation. I want everybody a cheerful Holi! Standing right here in Kyiv, in entrance of Mahatma Gandhi’s monument, I’m additionally happy to announce that this week I’ll pay my first ever go to to India,” he stated on social media platform X.

He added: “A number of days in the past, president Zelensky spoke with prime minister Modi. My go to will additional strengthen our relationships. Ukraine and India are two massive democracies. I’m sure we’re set to be good companions and associates.”

Missiles focusing on the Lviv area through the early hours of Sunday morning handed near the Polish border, with one getting into its airspace for so long as 39 seconds.

The violation led to the Polish air pressure inserting their F-16 fighter jets on excessive alert, with a warning that elevated noise ranges have been anticipated within the southeastern a part of the nation.

The Russian overseas ministry summoned the Cost d’Affaires of the Australian embassy in Moscow to complain a couple of social media submit condemning the holding of Russian presidential elections on elements of Ukraine Moscow claims to have annexed.

In an unlawful transfer condemned internationally, Russia held voting in its presidential election in Ukrainian territories it says are actually elements of Russia, together with Crimea, which it captured from Ukraine in 2014, and elements of 4 areas it seized following its 2022 invasion.

Opposing the transfer by Russia, the Australian embassy stated: “The holding of the vote on the territory of Ukraine is a flagrant violation of worldwide legislation.”

Russia’s overseas ministry took discover of the feedback made by the Australian envoy and summoned him. Russian officers strongly protested the assertion from Australia and demanded the embassy take the message down.

Vladimir Putin gained 87 per cent of the vote within the sham election held on 15-17 March.

Western governments condemned the election as unfair and undemocratic, whereas China, India and North Korea congratulated the veteran chief on extending his rule by an additional six years.

Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected Vladimir Putin’s newest accusation of Ukrainian involvement in Friday’s terrorist assault in Moscow oblast.

The Russian president lastly acknowledged that the lethal assault at a live performance outdoors Moscow was carried out by Islamist militants, however instructed that it was additionally to the good thing about Ukraine and that Kyiv could have performed a job.

“At this time, Putin was speaking to himself once more, and it was once more broadcast on tv. Once more, he accuses Ukraine. A sick and cynical creature. Everyone seems to be a terrorist to him, apart from himself, though he has been fueled by terror for twenty years already,” he stated.

Mr Zelensky added: “He’s the largest opening for terror. He and his particular providers. And when he’s gone, the demand for terror and violence will disappear with him, as a result of it’s his demand. Nobody else’s.”

Flames have been nonetheless leaping from the Moscow live performance corridor besieged by gunmen when Russian officers started suggesting who was actually accountable. They introduced no proof, solely aspersions and suspicion and counterfactual hypothesis, however in Russia’s eyes the wrongdoer was clear: Ukraine.

The allegations that Ukraine, now in its third yr of preventing after Russia invaded, was behind Friday’s assault that killed at the least 137 individuals, have been the primary salvo in a disinformation battle that has clouded the hearts and minds of individuals making an attempt to come back to grips with the stunning assault.

First got here Dmitry Medvedev, the previous Russian president who was as soon as considered a light reformer however who has turn into a vehement hawk because the begin of the Ukraine battle.

The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Russian Oleg Novitsky and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus reached the area outpost after Saturday’s blastoff from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan that adopted an aborted launch try two days earlier.

Thursday’s tried launch was halted by an computerized security system about 20 seconds earlier than the scheduled liftoff. The top of the Russian area company, Yuri Borisov, stated the aborted launch was triggered by a voltage drop in an influence supply.

After Russian missiles have been launched over Kyiv on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky led a refrain of officers calling for extra air defences to mitigate towards additional assaults.

“Russian terrorists attacked the capital with ballistic missiles,” he wrote on Telegram. “We by no means tire of repeating that Ukraine wants extra air defence. That is safety for our cities and saves human lives. All of us on this planet who respect and shield life should cease this terror.”