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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kremlin finally speaks out on CIA director’s mysterious visit to Moscow
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Russian president Vladimir Putin and Syrian president Ahmed al- Sharaa on Wednesday spoke by phone and discussed deepening political dialogue and cooperation in trade and other areas, the Kremlin said. In Kryvyi Rih, a steel-and-mining hub in central Ukraine and president Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown, two were injured as missiles hit an industrial facility and three more were wounded in Zaporizhzhia, officials said.
It said in a statement that the two leaders had noted the importance of an August 9 memorandum of understanding to settle the future of Russia's bases at Tartus and Hmeimim after 18 months of negotiations. “All I can tell you is that there have been contacts via the security services,” he said, adding: “These contacts often continue even during the most difficult periods in bilateral relations.
“However, it is still too early to say to what extent this will, overall, help to steer our bilateral relations out of the profound crisis in which they currently find themselves,” he said. Mr Burnham travelled to Kyiv on Monday for his first overseas trip since taking office last month and said London and Paris would provide long-range missile technology to Ukraine.
Kyiv authorities, who earlier issued a drone attack alert, said on Telegram that debris had fallen in the courtyard of a residential building and damage was being clarified. Explosions were heard in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, a Reuters witness said, as Russia was hitting Ukraine with drones and missiles in the early hours today.
Security experts were said to have told the prime minister to be ready for a ‘direct response’, according to the Daily Mail. Ukraine's Armed Forces separately issued a ballistic missile alert for Kyiv.
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- “All I can tell you is that there have been contacts via the security services,” he said, adding: “These contacts often continue even during the most difficult periods in bilateral relations.
- “However, it is still too early to say to what extent this will, overall, help to steer our bilateral relations out of the profound crisis in which they currently find themselves,” he said.
- Explosions were heard in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, a Reuters witness said, as Russia was hitting Ukraine with drones and missiles in the early hours today.
- Kyiv authorities, who earlier issued a drone attack alert, said on Telegram that debris had fallen in the courtyard of a residential building and damage was being clarified.
- Ukraine's Armed Forces separately issued a ballistic missile alert for Kyiv.
- In Kryvyi Rih, a steel-and-mining hub in central Ukraine and president Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown, two were injured as missiles hit an industrial facility and three more were wounded in Zaporizhzhia,…
- Russian president Vladimir Putin and Syrian president Ahmed al- Sharaa on Wednesday spoke by phone and discussed deepening political dialogue and cooperation in trade and other areas, the Kremlin said.
- It said in a statement that the two leaders had noted the importance of an August 9 memorandum of understanding to settle the future of Russia's bases at Tartus and Hmeimim after 18 months of negotiations.
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- The Independent — source text fetched for this pass link