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Russia's Vladimir Putin told the visiting UN chief Antonio Guterres on Tuesday he still had hope for negotiations to finish the conflict in Ukraine. Earlier, after talks with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Guterres had called for independent probes into "possible war crimes" in Ukraine. Late Tuesday, Russia'southward Gazprom told Poland and Bulgaria it would halt gas supplies from Wednesday. Read about the day's events as they unfolded on our liveblog. All times are in Paris fourth dimension [GMT + 2].
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3:45am: Blasts heard in Russia's Belgorod, regional governor says
A series of blasts was heard in the early hours of Midweek in the Russian city Belgorod near the Ukrainian border, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said, and an ammunition depot in the province was on fire.
Gladkov said no civilians had been hurt by the burn down which broke out at a facility virtually Staraya Nelidovka hamlet. Russia this month accused Ukraine of attacking a fuel depot in Belgorod with helicopters and opening fire on several villages in the province.
The Belgorod province borders Ukraine's Luhansk, Sumy and Kharkiv regions, all of which have seen heavy fighting since Russia invaded Ukraine 2 months ago.
April 27, 12:25am: US offers $x million reward for information on Russian intelligence officers
The U.s.a. on Tuesday offered a reward of up to $10 million for information on half dozen people it described every bit Russian military machine intelligence officers who had conducted cyber attacks affecting disquisitional US infrastructure.
The half-dozen officers piece of work in a cyber-focused unit of measurement of Russia'due south Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) and were involved in a 2022 global malware assail that infected the computers of several private U.S. entities, including a hospital system, the US State Section said.
The 2022 "NotPetya" cyber attack crippled parts of Ukraine's infrastructure and damaged computers in countries across the globe including France, Germany, Italian republic and the United states, causing billions of dollars in estimated impairment.
Russia denies any involvement in the incident.
eleven:44pm: Putin 'has political space' to withdraw from Ukraine, Britain'south Johnson says
Russian President Vladimir Putin has the "political space" to finish his invasion of Ukraine, partly cheers to censorship inside Russian federation, British Prime Government minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday.
"Given the massive Russian backing for what he is doing, given the apparent obliviousness of the Russian media about what is actually happening in Ukraine – the paradox is that Putin has far more political infinite to back downward (and) to withdraw," Johnson told TalkTV.
Russia says that its invasion of Ukraine is a "armed services operation" and has threatened to jail anyone giving a different version of events.
Equally a consequence, Putin could tell the Russian people that the operation launched in Ukraine has been "accomplished", and that information technology has been "technically a success", Johnson said.
Russia has repeatedly warned of the possibility of the fighting in Ukraine escalating into nuclear conflict, every bit the West sends increasingly powerful weaponry to the Ukrainian side. But Johnson insisted that the West did non need to brand concessions despite the nuclear threat.
"People say nosotros have to make a concession, we have to worry nigh what Putin might exercise because of the risk of his defeat," Johnson said. "I think he has got a lot of infinite, he has got a lot of room for manoeuvre."
10:02pm: Gazprom has informed Bulgaria, Poland of halt to gas supplies from Wednesday
Russia'due south Gazprom has informed Bulgarian land gas company Bulgargaz it will halt gas supplies as of Wed, the energy ministry said on Tuesday.
The ministry said that along with state gas companies it has taken steps to find alternative arrangements for the supply of natural gas and to deal with the situation.
It said for the time being no restrictions in the gas consumption in the Balkan country which meets over 90 percent of its gas needs with Gazprom's imports, were required.
Earlier on Tuesday, Polish officials had said Russia is suspending natural gas deliveries to Poland outset Wednesday morning after that land refused a demand to pay for its supplies in Russian rubles
Poland's state gas visitor, PGNiG, said information technology was notified by Russian gas behemothic Gazprom that deliveries through the Yamal-Europe pipeline would stop on Midweek.
Polish Climate Minister Anna Moskwa stressed that Poland was prepared for such a situation after working for years to reduce its reliance on Russian energy sources. She said the country has been effectively independent when it comes to Russian gas for some time.
"At that place will exist no shortage of gas in Polish homes," Moskwa tweeted.
9:39pm IAEA says it has agreed with Ukraine to assistance repair damage to Chernobyl
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Tuesday said he had agreed with Ukraine to help repair the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant later it was occupied by Russian troops.
"Information technology is visible that there is damage and we are assessing that," IAEA Director Full general Rafael Grossi told a news briefing in Kyiv after visiting the station.
Thirty-half-dozen years agone, on April 26, 1986, an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction destroyed the reactor in an accident that was initially covered up by the Soviet authorities.
Russian troops took over the site on February 24 of this year, the first day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, taking Ukrainian soldiers prisoner and detaining noncombatant staff.
The occupation lasted until the end of March and raised global fears of nuclear leaks.
Russian federation's temporary takeover of the Chernobyl site was "very, very unsafe" and raised radiation levels but they have now returned to "normal", Grossi said during his visit there earlier on Tuesday.
ix:17pm: US warns non to 'escalate tensions' later on Moldova region blasts
The United States on Tuesday warned confronting attempts to "escalate tensions" after a series of blasts in a Russian-backed separatist region of Moldova, which borders Ukraine.
While stopping short of bankroll Kyiv's contention that Russia was responsible for the incidents in Transnistria, State Section spokesman Ned Cost told reporters: "Nosotros do remain concerned about any potential attempts to escalate tensions."
"We reiterate the Moldovan government'due south telephone call for calm in response to these incidents and we fully back up Moldova'due south territorial integrity and sovereignty," Price said.
The mysterious recent blasts which targeted the state security ministry, a radio tower and armed forces unit came days afterwards a senior Russian commander claimed Russian speakers in Moldova were being oppressed.
Russian forces accept been positioned in Transnistria for three decades subsequently the predominantly Russian-speaking region seceded from the erstwhile Soviet republic, a decision not recognized internationally.
ix:04pm: U.s. says talk of Lavrov's comments on nuclear escalation is irresponsible
The U.s.a. State Department on Tuesday criticized Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's comments about the potential of a nuclear war, saying loose talk about nuclear escalation was the "height of irresponsibility."
Lavrov warned the West on Monday not to underestimate the elevated risks of nuclear conflict over Ukraine and said he viewed NATO as being "in essence" engaged in a proxy war with Russia by supplying Kyiv with weaponry.
8:10pm: Putin agrees to United Nations, Red Cross help to evacuate civilians from Azovstal plant, Un says
Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed "in principle" to UN and International Committee for the Carmine Cross involvement in the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal institute in Ukraine'south Mariupol, the United Nations said in a argument on Tuesday.
"Follow-on discussions will be had with the United nations Role for the Coordination of Humanitarian Diplomacy and the Russian Defense Ministry," Un spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement afterward Putin met with Un Secretary-Full general Antonio Guterres in Moscow.
7:44pm: Putin tells United nations main he however has 'hope' for Ukraine talks
Russian President Vladimir Putin told the visiting Un chief Tuesday that he nonetheless had promise for negotiations to end the conflict in Ukraine.
"Despite the fact that the military operation is ongoing, we however hope that we will exist able to attain agreements on the diplomatic track. We are negotiating, we practise not pass up (talks)," Putin told UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who was visiting Moscow, in televised remarks.
Sitting across from Guterres at a long table at the Kremlin, Putin said efforts at talks with Ukraine had been derailed past claims of atrocities committed by Russian forces in the town of Bucha outside Kyiv.
"There was a provocation in the village of Bucha, which the Russian army had nothing to do with," Putin said. "We know who prepared this provocation, by what ways, and what kind of people worked on it."
Putin told Guterres he was "aware of your concerns about Russia's war machine operation" in Ukraine and ready to discuss it, but blamed the turmoil in the country on an "anti-state coup" that overturned a pro-Russian president in 2014.
Guterres reiterated his call from an earlier meeting with Foreign Government minister Sergei Lavrov (run into 2:02pm, below) for Moscow and Kyiv to work together with the UN to set upwardly aid and evacuation corridors to assist civilians in Ukraine.
6:45pm: Blinken says Putin not 'serious' most Ukraine diplomacy
US Secretary of Land Antony Blinken said Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown no seriousness well-nigh diplomacy to end the Ukraine war, despite a serial of international efforts.
"We've seen no sign to date that President Putin is serious about meaningful negotiations," Blinken told the Senate Foreign Relations Commission.
While the U.s.a. would support Ukrainian efforts to end the state of war diplomatically, Blinken said: "Our purpose is to brand sure that they have within their hands the ability to repel the Russian assailment and, indeed, to strengthen their paw at an eventual negotiating table."
Blinken was opening three days of testimony to Congress later a surprise visit alongside Defense force Secretary Lloyd Austin to Kyiv on Lord's day where the tiptop The states officials met President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Blinken hailed what he saw on the trip and said that the U.s.a. was speeding up arms deliveries, with the process now oftentimes taking only 72 hours later Ukraine sends requests.
6:10pm: Germany confirms plans to transport Ukraine tanks, in policy shift
Germany said Tuesday it would send anti-aircraft tanks to Ukraine, in a articulate switch in Berlin'southward cautious policy on military backing for Kyiv that was welcomed past the United States.
The government has agreed to sign off the delivery of used Gepard anti-shipping tanks, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht told an international meeting of defense ministers at the Usa Ramstein airbase.
The move comes after heavy criticism of Chancellor Olaf Scholz for refusing to directly send heavy weapons to Ukraine, despite announcing a "turning indicate" in German defence policy in response to Russia's invasion.
U.s. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said the pledge to send "some fifty Chetah anti-aircraft systems", the English name for the weapons, was "especially welcome".
5:19pm: United states Defence force Secretary says US, allies to run across monthly on arming Ukraine
The U.s. and its allies volition meet one time a month to hash out Ukraine'southward defense force needs to boxing invading Russian troops, U.s. Defence force Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday.
"Today's gathering will go a monthly Contact Grouping on Ukraine's self-defence force," he said following the first session of a weapons elevation with officials from around 40 countries at the United States' Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
4:53pm: French republic 24'south Gulliver Cragg on the fallout over blasts in Transnistria, Moldova
four:08pm: Putin, Erdogan discuss humanitarian corridors in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday discussed Moscow's efforts to ensure the rubber of civilians during its war machine operation in Ukraine, the Kremlin said.
According to a Kremlin statement, the leaders in a telephone call talked about "efforts made by Russia on a constant basis to ensure the safety of peaceful civilians, including the organisation of humanitarian corridors".
This came every bit UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during a visit to Russian federation Tuesday urged Moscow and Kyiv to work together to set up aid and evacuation corridors.
The Kremlin said Erdogan asked Putin about the besieged southeastern port city of Mariupol.
The Russian leader told him that "the city is liberated and gainsay operations are not going on there".
iii:09pm: About 5.iii one thousand thousand flee Ukraine war as refugees, up more than 32,000 since Monday
Nearly v.3 one thousand thousand Ukrainians have fled the state since Russia launched its invasion two months ago, the United Nations said on Tuesday, warning that three one thousand thousand more were expected to follow this year.
In total, 5,264,767 people have fled Ukraine as refugees since February 24, according to the latest data from the Un refugee agency, UNHCR.
That marks an increase of 32,753 over Mon'southward figure.
While the outflow has slowed significantly since March, UNHCR said Tuesday (meet eleven:31am, below) that it now projects that three million more Ukrainians could go refugees by the cease of the year.
two:02 pm: Guterres says Russia, United nations take 'very different' views of events in Ukraine
Speaking to reporters in Moscow later holding talks with Russian Strange Government minister Sergei Lavrov, United nations Secretary-Full general Antonio Guterres said he had "very frank" discussions with Lavrov. He too admitted that Russia and the Un had "two very different versions" of what is happening in Ukraine.
"According to Russia, it is a 'special armed services operation' with limited objectives. According to the Un in line with resolutions passed by the General Associates, Russian federation's invasion of Ukraine is a violation of its territorial integrity and against the charter of the Un," Guterres said.
He likewise called for the establishment of a humanitarian contact group that would bring together representatives of Russian federation, Ukraine and the UN to "expect for opportunities for the creation of humanitarian corridors" in parts of Ukraine.
"The sooner we terminate this war the better for the people of Ukraine, for the people of the Russian Federation and for those far beyond," he said.
Amongst growing concern for the thousands of people trapped in Mariupol, Guterres said the Un was ready to act.
"Thousands of civilians are in dire need of life-saving humanitarian help, and many take evacuated," Guterres told the news conference.
"The United nations is ready to fully mobilise its man and logistical resources to assistance save lives in Mariupol," he said, calculation that coordination with the Red Cross could allow those holed upward inside the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol to exit.
12:54 pm: Russian rockets flew over Europe's biggest nuclear power plant:Ukraine
Ukraine's state-run atomic energy company said Russian missiles flew at low altitude over the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant – Europe's largest – on Tuesday.
Energoatom issued its latest warning about the risks caused past the state of war with Russia on the 36th anniversary of the world'southward worst nuclear accident at the now defunct Chernobyl plant, in what was then Soviet Ukraine.
The company said cruise missiles had flown over the Zaporizhzhia plant during an air strike that local regime said hit a commercial building in the southern metropolis, killing at least one person.
"Missiles lying at a low altitude directly over the site of the ZNPP (Zaporizhzhia nuclear ability establish), where there are 7 nuclear facilities with a huge corporeality of nuclear cloth, poses huge risks," Petro Kotin, Energoatom's interim primary, said.
"After all, missiles could hitting i or more than nuclear facility, and this threatens a nuclear and radiation catastrophe around the world," he was quoted as proverb in a statement issued by Energoatom on the Telegram messaging app.
Energoatom said Russian troops, who take occupied the constitute since March 4, were keeping heavy equipment and armament on the site.
12:36 pm: More blasts in Moldova's breakaway Transdniestria region, about Ukraine
Constabulary in the Moldovan separatist region of Transdniestria said two explosions Tuesday forenoon in a radio facility shut to the Ukrainian border knocked 2 antennas out of service.
The incident occurred in the small boondocks of Maiac, roughly 12 kilometres (7 miles) west of the border, according to the region's interior ministry. It came a day afterward several explosions were reported to take striking a security edifice in the city of Tiraspol, the region'south capital.
No one was hurt in Tuesday'due south explosions, officials said. The two antennas were used for broadcasting Russian radio shows.
Transdniestria, a strip of country with about 470,000 people between Moldova and Ukraine, has been under the control of Moscow-backed separatist authorities since 1992.
Russia bases nigh 1,500 troops there, nominally as peacekeepers, but concerns are high that the forces could be used to invade Ukraine.
A senior Russian military official, Rustam Minnekayev, said last calendar week that Russian forces aim to accept full command of southern Ukraine, saying such a motion would open the fashion to Transdniestria.
The United states has warned of simulated flag operations in Transdniestria.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday said the explosions in Transdniestria was a cause for serious business concern and that Moscow was post-obit the events closely.
12:06 pm: Un main in Moscow calls for Ukraine ceasefire 'as before long equally possible'
UN Secretarial assistant-General Antonio Guterres has arrived in Moscow for the highest-profile diplomatic mission to Russian federation since the start of the Ukraine invasion.
His schedule includes meetings with President Vladimir Putin and Strange Minister Sergei Lavrov before the United nations primary heads to Kyiv.
Speaking at the start of talks with Lavrov, Guterres called for a ceasefire "as presently as possible" and stressed the need to exercise everything possible to end the state of war in Ukraine.
"We are extremely interested in finding ways in lodge to create the atmospheric condition for constructive dialogue, create the weather for a armistice as presently every bit possible, create the conditions for a peaceful solution," Guterres said.
Minimising human suffering in Ukraine was the top priority, he added.
11:31 am: UN expects 8.three meg refugees from Ukraine this year
The Un refugee agency (UNHCR) is expecting around 8.3 1000000 people to flee Ukraine this yr, revising upwardly its previous projection, according to a spokesperson.
More than 12.7 million people have fled their homes in Ukraine during the by two months, including 7.vii million people who are internally displaced and more than 5 one thousand thousand who accept fled over borders, UNHCR spokesperson Shabia Mantoo told a Un news conference.
UNHCR had previously planned for some 4 million refugees in the firsthand aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, but this was surpassed last month.
"The scale of the crunch, definitely the rapidity of people fleeing, we have not seen in contempo times," said Mantoo.
Syrian arab republic remains the source of the biggest electric current refugee crisis in the world, with half dozen.8 1000000 people having fled, she added.
10:57 am: France determined to 'deepen support' for Ukraine: foreign government minister
French Strange Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has stressed France's "determination to go along and deepen" its "support to Ukraine in all areas".
In a statement released after his meeting Mon with Ukrainian Strange Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Le Drian said the two ministers discussed the state of affairs in the besieged port city of Mariupol. Le Drian "reiterated French republic's request for the costless movement of civilians and gratis access for humanitarian assistance in Mariupol, as in the remainder of Ukraine", the argument noted.
French republic is delivering Caesar cannons with a range of 40 kilometres (25 miles) to Ukraine and is among 40 countries attending the Ukraine Defence force Consultative Group meeting hosted past the U.s. at the Ramstein Air Base of operations in Germany.
J'ai souhaité confirmer à monday homologue ukrainien @DmytroKuleba que la French republic maintiendrait son appui déterminé à l'Ukraine face à la guerre à laquelle elle est confrontée : assistance financière, sanctions, équipements de défense, lutte contre fifty'impunité. pic.twitter.com/9OgtKltUar
— Jean-Yves Le Drian (@JY_LeDrian) Apr 26, 2022
10:32 am: 'Putin never imagined that the earth would rally behind Ukraine': US defence chief Austin
Opening the gathering of representatives of more than 40 countries at Ramstein Air Base of operations in Germany, United states Defence force Secretary Lloyd Austin called on members of the Ukraine Defense force Consultative Group to arrive at "a mutual and transparent understanding of Ukraine's near-term security requirements because we're going to move sky and earth so that nosotros can come across them".
Austin, who is chairing the meeting at the US air base of operations, said Kyiv had done "an impressive job defending its sovereignty confronting Russia's unprovoked invasion", adding: ""Ukraine's valor and skill volition go down in military machine history."
"Ukraine has at present beaten back the Russian armed forces for 62 days. Your resistance has brought inspiration to the gratis world and even greater resolve for NATO," said Austin. "Ukraine clearly believes that it can win, then does anybody here," he said, calling on participants to step up efforts to help Ukraine defend itself.
Here's a clip of Austin's opening remarks at the meeting:
ten:02 am: Russian due southhelling in Kharkiv, rocket attacks in Zaporizhzhia
Russian forces are shelling Kharkiv, the country's second-largest metropolis, as they fought to take full control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, according to Ukraine's General Staff.
Russia's defence force ministry on Tuesday said its forces struck two ammunition depots in Kharkiv.
In the expanse of Velyka Oleksandrivka, a village in the Kherson region largely controlled by Russians, Ukrainian forces destroyed an ammunition depot and "eliminated" more 70 Russian troops, the General Staff said.
The governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai, said on the messaging app Telegram that the Russians had shelled civilians 17 times over the previous 24 hours, with the cities of Popasna, Lysychansk and Girske suffering the most.
Four people died and nine more were wounded on Monday in the Russian shelling of the Donetsk region, its governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Telegram. He said a 9-yr-one-time girl and a xiv-year-erstwhile boy were among those killed.
In the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, two rockets hit commercial premises on Tuesday, killing one person, according to local authorities.
Russian federation is attempting to take full command of the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which comprise the Donbas in Ukraine's industrial heartland, and found a land corridor to Crimea.
The U.s. meanwhile has been rushing more than weaponry to Ukraine and said the aid from Western allies is making a departure in the 2-month-erstwhile state of war.
09:07 am: UN's Guterres to come across Putin in Moscow
United nations Secretarial assistant Full general Antonio Guterres is due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow later on today for talks expected to focus on the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has urged Guterres to press Russian federation for an evacuation from Mariupol, where an estimated 100,000 people are trapped in the port urban center while a contingent of Ukrainian fighters hold out confronting Russian forces at the Azovstal steel found forth with hundreds of civilians.
Kuleba on Monday told The Associated Printing that he was concerned that by visiting Moscow, Guterres could exist vulnerable to falling into a Kremlin "trap" in the war.
The Moscow trip comes a day after Guterres met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, where the UN chief joined the Turkish leader in stressing the urgent need for "effective access through humanitarian corridors" to evacuate Ukrainian civilians and deliver aid to communities impacted by the war.
Guterres and Erdogan "reaffirmed that their common objective is to end the war as shortly every bit possible and to create conditions to cease the suffering of civilians," said UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric.
During the meeting, Erdogan also said Turkey would continue to piece of work closely with the United nations to terminate the humanitarian crunch in Ukraine.
08:44 am: Donor community, not NATO, supplying arms to Ukraine: UK
The wider international customs, non NATO, is providing military back up to Ukraine, said British armed forces minister James Heappey, responding to Russian Strange Minister Sergei Lavrov's assertions that the Western alliance was "in essence" engaged in a proxy state of war with Russian federation.
"The donor community is, not NATO," Heappey told Sky News when asked nearly Lavrov'south comments.
"The donor effort is something that has been brought together past countries that are yep, many of them are from NATO, but others are from beyond ... information technology is not NATO that is doing the military assist," said Heappey, calculation that he did not think there was an "imminent threat" of escalation in Ukraine.
Before Lavrov said the risks of nuclear conflict should not be underestimated, only Heappey dismissed the warning every bit "bravado".
"Lavrov's trademark over the course of fifteen years or so that he has been the Russian foreign secretary has been that sort of bravado," Heappey told the BBC. "What the West is doing to support its allies in Ukraine is very well calibrated ... Everything we practise is calibrated to avert straight confrontation with Russia."
08:31am: Germany to supply Gepard anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine: media
Germany volition pledge to supply Gepard anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine, German language daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported, without citing its sources.
The newspaper said German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht was set to offering the weapons at the US-hosted meeting at Ramstein Air Base.
The Gepard anti-aircraft arrangement is considered the cornerstone of the German military'due south air defence force capability.
08:19am: Russian offensive continues 'without much progress on the footing'
Reporting from Kyiv, FRANCE 24'due south Gulliver Cragg says the Russian offensive continues in the Donbas region and in southern Ukraine, but without much progress on the ground. Russian forces are targeting railways, noted Cragg, "because they recollect this is how weapons are being supplied to Ukrainian forces". The targeting comes as the US hosts a key meeting at Federal republic of germany's Ramstein Air Base aimed at getting European partners to offer more military assistance to Ukraine.
07:17am: Russia trying to encircle Ukrainian positions in e: Uk military
Russia is probably attempting to encircle heavily fortified Ukrainian positions in the country's east, co-ordinate to the latest British military update.
In an intelligence update posted on Twitter, Britain's Defence force Ministry said the Ukrainian city of Kreminna has "probably fallen" and there was heavy fighting s of the urban center of Izium, every bit Russian forces attempt to advance towards the cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk from the north and e.
"Ukrainian forces have been preparing defences in Zaporizhzhia in preparation for a potential Russian attack from the south," said the defence ministry in its regular military intelligence bulletin.
07:10am: US hosts talks at Ramstein Air Base
Following a weekend trip to Kyiv, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin is holding talks focused on arming Ukraine.
U.s. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said a key goal of the talks was to synchronise and coordinate mounting security assist to Kyiv that includes heavy weaponry, like howitzer artillery, likewise armed drones and ammunition.
"The adjacent several weeks will be very, very critical," Milley told reporters en route to Deutschland. "They need continued back up in club to be successful on the battleground. And that's really the purpose of this briefing."
06:12am: Russia's Lavrov warns of 'real threat' of Globe War III
Russia has warned of the "existent" threat of World War Iii breaking out, ahead of a Tuesday coming together between the U.s.a. and allies over sending further arms to war-torn Ukraine.
Moscow's invasion of its neighbour has triggered an outburst of back up from Western nations that has seen weapons pour into the country to help it wage state of war against Russian troops.
Merely Western powers have been reluctant to deepen their interest, for fear of sparking a conflict against nuclear-armed Russia.
Speaking to Russian news agencies, Moscow's Foreign Government minister Sergei Lavrov warned the risk of a World War III "is serious" and criticised Kyiv's approach to floundering peace talks.
"It is real, yous tin't underestimate it," Lavrov said.
FRANCE 24'southward Vedika Bahl brings us a epitomize of Monday's events:
04:36am: Force per unit area mounts on Germany's Schroeder over Russia ties
Pressure level was growing Monday inside Frg's Social Democratic Party (SPD) to expel their former leader and ex-chancellor Gerhard Schroeder over his apparent refusal to renounce his business ties with Russia.
Schroeder, who is a lobbyist for Russian gas and has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, sparked fresh outrage following remarks in an interview with the New York Times published this weekend.
Unrepentant over his business concern links with Russia, he told the paper: "I don't do mea culpa. It's non my thing."
SPD co-president Saskia Esken was asked in an interview with state radio whether Schroeder should quit the party.
"I call up he should," she replied. The party was currently examining 14 motions to take its quondam leader expelled, she told journalists later, calculation that the terminal conclusion would come down to the party's arbitration torso.
But she also told journalists: "He makes his coin working for Russian state businesses … Gerhard Schroeder has for many years been a businessman, and nosotros should terminate seeing him as a former honourable leader, a former chancellor."
Thomas Kutschaty, another senior party figure, was equally scathing.
"He has to choose," he told Welt Television receiver. "Either he keeps supporting Putin, or he is a member of the Social Democrats, but the two are non uniform.
FRANCE 24's Joseph Slap-up reports:
03:10am: United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland to lift all tariffs on Ukrainian imports
All tariffs on goods coming to Britain from Ukraine under an existing free merchandise deal will exist axed to help the Ukrainian economy, the British authorities announced on Monday.
London said tariffs would be reduced to zero and all quotas removed following a direct asking from Ukraine'due south President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying the move would provide a boost for Ukrainian businesses involved in primal exports such every bit barley, honey, tinned tomatoes and poultry.
"Nosotros stand unwaveringly with Ukraine in this ongoing fight and will work to ensure Ukraine survives and thrives equally a free and sovereign nation," said British International Trade Secretarial assistant Anne-Marie Trevelyan.
Britain said currently the boilerplate tariff on Ukrainian imports was about 22 percent. It said the planned change had been offered on a non-reciprocal basis, but Kyiv was likely to match the British action.
Additionally, the British government said information technology would also impose further export bans on products to Russian federation, including cash, maritime goods and applied science, and energy-related goods. Last week, information technology ramped upwards sanctions on luxury appurtenances including caviar, silvery and diamonds.
01:59am: US hosts Ukraine talks in Germany as war enters disquisitional phase
The United States will host an expected gathering of more than forty countries on Tuesday for Ukraine-related defence force talks that will focus on arming Kyiv so it can defend confronting an unfolding and potentially decisive Russian onslaught in the east, U.s.a. officials said.
Us Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin is holding the result at Ramstein Air Base of operations in Germany following a weekend trip to Kyiv where he pledged additional back up to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's war effort.
US Army Full general Marker Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said a primal goal of the talks was to synchronize and coordinate mounting security assist to Kyiv that includes heavy weaponry, similar howitzer arms, as well armed drones and armament.
"The adjacent several weeks will exist very, very critical," Milley told reporters travelling with him. "They need connected support in order to exist successful on the battlefield. And that'southward really the purpose of this conference."
12:17am: Russia says NATO engaging in 'proxy' state of war in Ukraine, arms shipments legitimate targets
Deliveries of Western weaponry to Ukraine mean that the NATO alliance is "in essence engaged in war with Russia" and Moscow views these weapons every bit legitimate targets, Russian Strange Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview aired on Monday.
"These weapons will exist a legitimate target for Russia's armed forces acting within the context of the special operation," Lavrov told state television in an interview posted on the foreign ministry's website.
"Storage facilities in western Ukraine have been targeted more than than once (by Russian forces). How can it be otherwise?" Lavrov said. "NATO, in essence, is engaged in a war with Russia through a proxy and is arming that proxy. State of war ways war."
(France 24 with AFP, AP and REUTERS)
Source: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220426-live-russia-s-lavrov-warns-of-world-war-iii-risk-as-us-hosts-talks-on-arming-ukraine
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