Ukraine imposed sanctions on three Chinese companies on Friday, saying that they were involved in the production of advanced Iskander missiles. The list of sanctions, which also includes Russian companies, appoints Beijing Aviation & Aerospace Xianghui, Rui Jin Machinery and Zhongfu Shenying Fiber Xining, all recorded in China.
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on X: “Today we have extended our Ukrainian sanctions against nearly a hundred additional entities – natural and legal people – most of whom are involved in the production of these missiles – iskanders – like those who have struck our Kharkiv. Many of these entities are Russian, but unfortunately, some also come from China. “On Thursday, Zelenskyy accused China of providing artillery and barrel powder, which Beijing denied.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Trump administration was ready to abandon his efforts to negotiate a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia “in a few days”. “We are not going to continue with this company for weeks and months. So we must determine very quickly now, and I speak of a few days, whether or not it is in the coming weeks,” Rubio said in Paris after meeting European and Ukrainian leaders on Friday.
According to Rubio’s comments, Donald Trump said the United States was ready to “transmit” the negotiation of a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine unless a regulation is “very quickly”. The American president refused to give a “specific number of days” when the United States stopped trying to negotiate a truce. “But quickly. We want to do it. ” When asked if Russian president Vladimir Putin was in a standstill, Trump replied: “I hope no.”
The Guardian obtained the memorandum of understanding signed by Ukraine and the United States for a mineral agreement. He plans to create a joint investment fund between the two countries and presents a deadline of April 26 to finalize negotiations. The document recognizes the “significant financial and material support” that Washington has given kyiv since the Russian invasion on a 2022 scale.
The United States is ready to recognize Russian control of the Ukrainian Crimea region as part of a broader peace agreement between Moscow and kyivBloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the issue. According to Bloomberg, the people said that a final decision on the issue had not yet been made and that the White House and the State Department had not responded to a comment request.
A Russian missile attack against the city in the northeast of Kharkiv killed a man inside his house and injured at least 112 others, including nine children on Friday. Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrii Sybiha, said Russia launched four missiles in Kharkiv, including three ballistics and bearing grunt warheads. Zelenskyy later added that the Iskander missiles were used in the attack. “This is how Russia started this Good Friday-with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, shahed,” he said on X.
A strike of Russian drones early Friday hit a bakery in northern Ukraine where traditional Easter cakes were in preparation, killing a manSaid Ukrainian officials. Images shared by the Ukrainian emergency services – which declared that it had been filmed on the scene of the strike in the city of Sumy – showed platforms of Easter cakes covered with gray dust and a broken window nearby. The person killed was a local businessman who was at the bakery to recover his order when the drone struck at 5 am, according to Sybiha.
Russia and Ukraine will carry out a new exchange of prisoners on Saturday by the United Arab Emirates, a source close to negotiations told Reuters. Nearly 500 Russian and Ukrainian prisoners and 46 injured soldiers will be exchanged in the last exchange to be publicized by Abu Dhabi. The exchange will involve 246 prisoners on each side, said the source.
Kyiv said on Friday that he had received the bodies of hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers killed during battles with RussiaThe second repatriation of this type in the space of three weeks. “Following repatriation activities, organizations of 909 Ukrainian defenders broke down were returned to Ukraine,” said the registered office for the treatment of prisoners of war, a government agency, in a press release on social networks.
A 19 -year -old Russian activist was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison after using poetry and graffiti from the 19th century to protest against the conflict in UkraineFriday, according to a Reuters witness to the Saint Petersburg court. Darya Kozyreva was found guilty of having “discredited” the Russian army several times after having presented a poster with lines of Ukrainian worms in a public square and gave an interview to Sever.realii, a Russian Radio Europe Libre service.
