"We discussed in detail the logic of further steps and shared our approaches... It is critical that Russia reciprocate Ukraine's constructive steps. So far, it has not. Moscow must understand that rejecting peace comes at a cost," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said.
"I am waiting to see who will come from Russia, and then I will decide which steps Ukraine should take. So far, the signals from them in the media are unconvincing," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
The air raid was announced at around 2:30 p.m. local time, while the explosion sounded around 2:50 p.m. The number of victims killed rose to three, Sumy Oblast Governor Oleh Hryhorov reported at 8:42 p.m.
If confirmed, the decision would mark the first time since Russia's full-scale invasion that President Volodymyr Zelensky is absent, either physically or virtually, from a NATO summit.
The disclosure follows a warning from Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski, who on May 6 said Moscow was carrying out an "unprecedented" interference campaign.
Brazilian President Lula da Silva claimed that Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha had appealed to his Brazilian counterpart, Mauro Vieira, to ask Putin if he was willing to conclude a peace agreement.
Earlier reporting from the Washington Post cited a former Russian official who claimed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Putin’s foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, would represent Moscow in the talks.
The Council of Europe on May 14 approved the creation of a special tribunal to prosecute Russia's top leadership for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, Ukrainian lawmaker Maria Mezentseva reported.
A police expert holds a fragment of a drone with a handwritten inscription reading “For Belgorod. For Luch” after a drone attack in Kyiv on Oct. 17, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)
President of Canadian company Tallysman Wireless Gyles Panther confirmed that his company’s products were found in the Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones that Russia has been using to attack infrastructure in Ukraine, the Globe and Mail reported.
Earlier, Ukraine-based NGO StateWatch and Ukrainian civil society group Independent Anti-Corruption Commission (NAKO) published an investigation finding that Iranian-made Shaheds drones, with the exception of the engine, consist entirely of foreign-made parts.
The NGO identified over 30 EU and American companies whose parts have been used to manufacture Iranian kamikaze drones.
According to the investigation, the components included a “servo drive from the American Hitec USA Group, power elements from the Japanese Panasonic, and ceramic antenna from the Canadian Tallysman.”
Panther said that Tallysman Wireless doesn’t export its components to Iran or Russia, and its distribution network is forbidden from selling any products to sanctioned countries and individuals.
“It is sometimes assumed that we are somehow complicit in this usage. We absolutely are not,” Panther said in an interview with the Globe and Mail. “Tallysman is 100% committed to supporting Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.”
The company said it is now working with the Canada Border Services Agency and other government agencies to determine how the parts made their way to Iran.
The Globe and Mail reported that Tallysman antenna components are not subject to export control as they aren't considered sensitive equipment.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Dec. 5 that the Canadian government is “extremely concerned” about the reports that Canadian-made parts ended up in Iranian drones.
“Even as Canada is producing extraordinary technological innovations here from around the world, we do not want them to participate in Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine or Iran’s contribution,” he said during a press conference.
“That’s why we have strict export permits in place for sensitive technology that are rigorously enforced, and that’s why we will be following up with this company that is fully cooperating to try to figure out exactly how items that were not supposed to get into the hands of anyone like the Iranian government actually ended up there.”
Anastasiya Gordiychuk is a news reporter at the Kyiv Independent. She has previously worked as an associate business and labor editor at The Varsity, where she focused on business and finances. She holds a BA in journalism from the University of Toronto. Her work has also been published in Maclean’s, Global Summitry Project, and the Toronto Observer.
