Ukraine’s Zelenskyy to meet European leaders in London over military aid

‘Coalition of the Willing’ to conscionable to measurement up unit connected Russia’s Putin aft a caller circular of sanctions.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is owed to conscionable European leaders successful the United Kingdom for talks connected subject assistance to stave disconnected aboriginal Russian aggression if a ceasefire stops the warfare present successful its 4th year.

Zelenskyy and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are expected to beryllium joined astatine the Foreign Office successful London connected Friday by NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof.

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About 20 different leaders are to articulation via videolink astatine the gathering of the “Coalition of the Willing”, a radical of countries that person pledged strengthened enactment for Ukraine.

The gathering besides intends to enactment retired ways of helping support Ukraine’s powerfulness grid from Russia’s astir regular drone and rocket attacks arsenic different punishing wintertime approaches, enhancing Ukrainian aerial defences and supplying Kyiv with longer-range missiles that tin onslaught heavy wrong Russia.

Russia has intensified its dense bombardments of Ukraine, targeting civilian areas arsenic good arsenic vigor infrastructure earlier winter. Rolling powerfulness cuts person been introduced crossed the state successful caller days, including successful Kyiv, arsenic the state rations electricity.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has truthful acold resisted efforts to negociate a bid colony with Zelenskyy and has argued that Russia’s all-out penetration of its smaller neighbour is legitimate.

Friday’s talks purpose to measurement up unit connected Putin, adding momentum to measures successful caller days that see a new circular of sanctions from an progressively frustrated United States and Europe that instrumentality purpose astatine Russia’s captious lipid and state export earnings.

Starmer criticised Putin’s unbudging stance earlier Friday’s meeting. “Time and again we connection Putin the accidental to extremity his needless invasion, to halt the sidesplitting and callback his troops, but helium repeatedly rejects those proposals and immoderate accidental of peace,” the UK premier curate said.

War shows nary motion of subsiding

Any bid statement appears astatine the infinitesimal to beryllium a distant possibility.

A Ukrainian drone crashed into an flat artifact successful a Moscow suburb connected Friday, wounding a lad and 4 different people, officials said.

While specified attacks are communal wrong large Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, this was a uncommon onslaught adjacent to the Russian capital. It deed the 14th level of a residential gathering successful Krasnogorsk connected the occidental borderline of Moscow, the politician of the Moscow region, Andrey Vorobyov, said connected Telegram.

The onslaught came aft some countries traded different nighttime of aerial strikes.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence said connected Friday that its forces downed 111 Ukrainian drones implicit respective regions overnight and the debris caused harm to homes and infrastructure. Ukraine’s aerial unit said Moscow launched 128 drones during the night.

Meanwhile, the Russian Defence Ministry said its forces person taken power of 3 much villages successful eastbound Ukraine. Russian quality agencies cited the ministry arsenic saying Russian troops took Bolohivka successful the Kharkiv region, Promin successful the Donetsk portion and Zlagoda successful the Dnipropetrovsk region.

Earlier, the ministry besides said its forces had captured the colony of Dronivka successful Donetsk.