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Ukraine-Russia war latest: US to host Kyiv team for minerals deal talks while Trump demands Putin stop bombing

Trump doesn’t ‘like the bombing’ and has called on Moscow to stop, after 20 were killed in a devastating strike on Kryvyi Rih

Arpan Rai,Alex Croft
Tuesday 08 April 2025 03:42 BST
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Zelensky condemns Russian strikes on hometown: ‘Diplomacy means nothing to them’

A Ukrainian team will visit Washington this week for crunch talks on a minerals deal, the first visit since the deal collapsed in dramatic fashion five weeks ago.

Volodymyr Zelensky was set to sign a framework agreement in late February before he was booted out of the White House, when a furious Donald Trump berated the Ukrainian president for not being thankful enough for US war assistance.

Since then, teams from Kyiv and Washington have been working to hash out a revised agreement - and to rebuild a broken relationship.

Washington has proposed a more expansive minerals deal which could give it access to valuable mineral resources, including titanium, lithium, and uranium, according to economy minister Yuliia Svyrydenko.

But the deal has not yet been agreed by Ukraine and it is unclear exactly how close the two sides are to reaching an agreement.

Meanwhile, Mr Trump has urged Russia to stop bombing Ukraine, after a ballistic missile strike in Kryvyi Rih killed 20, including nine children.,

“We are talking to Russia. We would like them to stop,” Trump told reporters onboard Air Force One. “I don’t like the bombing, the bombing goes on and on, and every week thousands of young people being killed.”

Ukrainian city mourns children killed by Russian missile

Anger and outrage gripped the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday as it held funerals for some of the 20 people, including nine children, killed by a Russian missile that tore through apartment buildings and blasted a playground.

More than 70 were wounded in the attack last Friday evening on Kryvyi Rih.

The children were playing on swings and in a sandbox in a tree-lined park at the time. Bodies were strewn across the grass.

"We are not asking for pity," Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the city administration, wrote on Telegram as Kryvyi Rih mourned.

"We demand the world's outrage."

The UN Human Rights Office in Ukraine said it was the deadliest single verified strike harming children since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. It was also one of the deadliest attacks so far this year.

Angus Thompson7 April 2025 00:00

In pictures: An ilmenite open pit mine in a canyon in the central region of Kirovohrad, Ukraine,

(AP)
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Bryony Gooch7 April 2025 03:02

Russian court reduces sentence of US soldier

A Russian court in Vladivostok has slightly reduced the prison sentence of US soldier Gordon Black, who was jailed last year for stealing $113 (10,000 rubles) from his girlfriend and threatening to kill her, Russian state news agencies reported on Monday.

According to RIA and TASS, which cited court proceedings, the court lowered Mr Black's sentence from three years and nine months to three years and two months.

Maroosha Muzaffar7 April 2025 03:48

Why did Russia escape Trump’s tariffs?

Why did Russia escape Trump’s tariffs?

The U.S. already imposes heavy sanctions on Russia but still did approximately $3.5 billion in trade last year
Bryony Gooch7 April 2025 04:03

Macron urges ‘strong action’ against Russia if it continues to ‘refuse peace’

Days after a Russian ballistic missile killed 20 people in Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky’s home town, French president Emmanuel Macron called for “strong action” if Russia continued to “refuse peace”.

He wrote on X on Sunday: “My thoughts are with the children and all civilian victims of the bloody attacks carried out by Russia, including on 4 April in Kryvyi Rih.

“A ceasefire is needed as soon as possible. And strong action if Russia continues to try to buy time and refuse peace.”

Mr Macron said that although Ukraine accepted US president Donald Trump’s proposal for a full ceasefire, and European nations were also working to broker peace, “Russia is continuing the war with renewed intensity, with no regard for civilians”.

Maroosha Muzaffar7 April 2025 04:15

Restarting Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant would be ‘unsafe’, Ukraine’s nuclear energy chief warns

Restarting the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant — currently occupied by Russia — would be unsafe and extremely difficult under wartime conditions, according to Ukraine’s nuclear energy chief, Petro Kotin.

He warned that restarting even one reactor during the war is “impossible” due to a lack of cooling water, personnel, and power.

If Ukraine regains control, it could take two months to two years to safely bring the plant back online after full demilitarisation and safety checks, the chief executive of Energoatom said, according to The Guardian.

Russia has said it intends to restart the plant when conditions allow, but experts have raised serious safety concerns, especially given the degraded infrastructure, risk of mines, and untrained staff.

In February this year, Alexey Likhachev, head of Russian nuclear operator Rosatom, said it would be restarted when “military and political conditions allow”.

Maroosha Muzaffar7 April 2025 04:30

Ukraine sending a team to Washington next week to discuss new draft of minerals deal

Ukraine will send a delegation to Washington next week to negotiate a new draft agreement that could give the US access to Ukraine’s valuable mineral resources, including titanium, lithium, and uranium, economy minister Yuliia Svyrydenko told the Associated Press.

The draft, submitted by the US after weeks of silence, is more expansive than an earlier framework and could require approval by Ukraine’s parliament, she said.

The talks follow earlier tensions, including a contentious Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump, US vice president JD Vance, and president Volodymyr Zelensky.

Critics argue the deal risks undermining Ukraine’s sovereignty and EU membership prospects.

Ms Svyrydenko stressed that the US draft reflects only one side’s position and is not final. “What we have now is a document that reflects the position of the US Treasury legal team. This is not a final version, it’s not a joint position.”

The Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump, US vice president JD Vance (not pictured here), and president Volodymyr Zelensky
The Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump, US vice president JD Vance (not pictured here), and president Volodymyr Zelensky (AFP via Getty Images)

She said that Ukraine is preparing to define its red lines, especially over control of a proposed joint fund to manage revenues from natural resources.

“It’s clear that the full parameters of this agreement can’t be discussed online,” Ms Svyrydenko said. “We need to sit down with the teams and continue the conversation in person.”

Maroosha Muzaffar7 April 2025 04:58

Russia excluded from tariffs because of ongoing peace negotiations, White House official says

Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council at the White House, said Russia was excluded from the US tariff list because of ongoing peace negotiations with Ukraine.

US president Donald Trump “made the decision not to conflate the two issues”, Mr Hassett told ABC News, stressing that “it’s not appropriate to throw a new thing into these negotiations right in the middle of it. It’s just not”.

He warned that adding tariffs could disrupt diplomacy. “Would you literally advise that you go in and put a whole bunch of new things on the table in the middle of a negotiation that affects so many Ukrainian and Russian lives? No, no.”

Trump’s new tariff policy imposed tariffs on nearly all major US trading partners, including a 10 per cent duty on Ukraine, but excluded Russia, Belarus, North Korea, and Cuba.

Ukraine’s economy minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said the tariffs are “difficult, but not critical” for Ukraine.

Maroosha Muzaffar7 April 2025 05:23

Putin does not want to end the war, Zelensky says

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian attacks from the Black Sea on Sunday show why Moscow is refusing an unconditional ceasefire.

He said that “they want to preserve their ability to strike our cities and ports from the sea”.

He said that a ceasefire at sea is crucial for security and peace, suggesting Vladimir Putin does not want to end the war.

Zelensky says Putin doesn’t want to end the war
Zelensky says Putin doesn’t want to end the war (SPUTNIK/AFP/AFP via Getty Images)

“He is looking for ways to preserve the option of reigniting it at any moment, with even greater force.”

Maroosha Muzaffar7 April 2025 05:32

Trump asks Russia to stop the war: ‘I don’t like the bombing’

US president Donald Trump renewed his call for a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war on Sunday, urging Russian president Vladimir Putin to stop the violence.

“We are talking to Russia. We would like them to stop,” Trump told reporters onboard Air Force One.

“I don’t like the bombing, the bombing goes on and on, and every week thousands of young people being killed.”

His comments come after president Volodymyr Zelensky called on the West to amp up pressure on Russia after it launched its latest deadly air raid on Kyiv.

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters while in flight on Air Force One, en route to Joint Base Andrews on 6 April 2025
US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters while in flight on Air Force One, en route to Joint Base Andrews on 6 April 2025 (AFP via Getty Images)

“Putin does not want to end the war, he is looking for ways to preserve the option of reigniting it at any moment, with even greater force,” Zelensky said in his evening address yesterday.

“That’s exactly why all forms of pressure on Russia must continue: strengthening our ability to defend ourselves, maintaining sanctions, and ensuring that diplomacy – any conversation with Moscow – leaves them no opportunity to kill.”

Maroosha Muzaffar7 April 2025 05:55

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