Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, arrived on April 2 and met with presidential envoy Steve Witkoff at the White House, US media reported. Witkoff, a former investment banker who has taken the lead on the administration’s contacts with the Kremlin, invited Dmitriev to the United States last week, US officials quoted by Reuters said. Several of Europe’s top diplomats, commenting during the second day of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels on April 4, urged allies to put more pressure on Moscow to come to an agreement. Earlier, Zelenskyy sharply criticized what he called a “weak” US response to a Russian air attack that hit a playground, killing at least 20 people, half of whom were children. In February, the Kremlin and the White House, as well as Ukrainian authorities, announced the framework for a limited cease-fire that would restrict attacks on energy infrastructure such as power plants, transmission lines, and substations.
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“We are counting on our agreements with the president of the United States, who promised to help with the search for additional “patriots,” he said, referring to the US missile-defense system. The Ukrainian president said the attack was further evidence that additional pressure on Moscow is required to broker a cease-fire for the war. “Unfortunately, the response from the US Embassy is surprisingly disappointing – such a strong country, such a strong people, and yet such a weak reaction,” he wrote. But Zelenskyy slammed the statement for failing to call out Annual IT Conference 2018 in Dnipro Russia by name, something which Brink — who was appointed by former President Joe Biden — regularly did in statements before President Donald Trump came to office.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia had launched more than 1,460 guided aerial bombs, nearly 670 attack drones, and more than various 30 missiles over the past week. Overall, Russia fired nearly two dozens missiles at Ukrainian targets and more than 100 programmer drones, authorities said. Russia hit the Ukrainian capital with a ballistic missile and dropped a powerful “glide” bomb on a city east of Kharkiv, further undermining efforts to cement a cease-fire between Moscow and Kyiv.
- A day of mourning has been declared for April 6 over the tragedy in Kryviy Rih, Ukrainian officials said.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to the United States on April 6 to meet with President Donald Trump for discussions on Iran and new US trade tariffs, the Israeli leader’s office said.
- “I think with the Trump administration, we are now in a realm of thinking about what is possible, what can really work, and how we can find a long-term solution,” Dmitriev told CNN following talks with members of President Donald Trump’s administration in Washington.
- Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, arrived on April 2 and met with presidential envoy Steve Witkoff at the White House, US media reported.
- But Zelenskyy slammed the statement for failing to call out Russia by name, something that Brink — who was appointed by former President Joe Biden — regularly did in statements before Trump came to office.
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The package will bring German assistance since the start of the Russian invasion to Ukraine to 7 billion euros, he said. “Just before I arrived, there was another attack on the energy infrastructure…The Russian side had supposedly indicated that they would no longer target energy facilities — in fact, the exact opposite happened,” Baerbock said. France and Britain have expressed a willingness to send troops as part of a so-called coalition of the willing to monitor a potential cease-fire. The Ukrainian leader told a joint news conference with Baerbock that he was awaiting “more concrete” answers from allies on their readiness to participate.
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“We are at another turning point. New global barriers arise, investments are being redirected, powers around the world are carving up new spheres of influence,” von der Leyen emphasized in a speech on April 4. Trump, other US officials, and Netanyahu have defended Israeli military actions in the territory, which came after a deadly incursion into Israel by the Hamas movement, which is considered a terrorist organization by the United States and European Union. A day of mourning has been declared for April 6 over the tragedy in Kryviy Rih, Ukrainian officials said. Moscow claimed the attack, late on April 4 — which Kyiv said involved the usage of a cluster munition — was on a military gathering. French President Emmanuel Macron also has taken a leading role in the effort to create what he calls a “reassurance force” to Ukraine after any end to the war that has turned increasingly deadly following Russia’s full-scale invasion of February 2022. In early March, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the formation of a “coalition of the willing” to establish a military mission to Ukraine, although progress has been slow and many questions remain.
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Kallas’s predecessor, Josep Borrell, last met with the leaders of the two Balkan countries in September 2023 but failed to strike a final agreement. Trump, who recently expressed frustration with the pace of cease-fire talks and with Russian President Vladimir Putin, mentioned the war on April 2 at the end of a speech announcing sweeping tariffs against EU countries, Canada, Mexico, and other US trading partners. However, the United States is no longer chairing the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, known as the Ramstein group, which coordinates military support for Kyiv. The United Kingdom chaired the last meeting of the group in February, and the next one tentatively scheduled for April 11 could be co-chaired by the UK and France. Trump’s announcement of stiff tariffs on almost every country around the world — which EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic on April 3 called “unjustified” — have exacerbated fears that economic growth could slow even further.