Presidential Office chief Andriy Yermak voiced doubt about leading negotiations with anyone from Russia except President Vladimir Putin, implying only the Russian leader can make real decisions.
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This includes at least seven people injured in drone attacks overnight on May 12, a date from which Kyiv and its allies put forward a demand for a 30-day unconditional truce, a step that Moscow continues to reject.
"When European unity becomes inconvenient, disinformation goes so far as to make a simple tissue look like drugs," the Elysee Palace reacted to a fake story pushed by Russia.
The comments came after Trump urged Ukraine to agree to direct negotiations with Russia, which has invited Kyiv to peace talks in Istanbul on May 15, without first agreeing to halt military operations.
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"There is no point in prolonging the killings. And I will wait for Putin on Thursday in Turkey," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
A Russian drone hit a civilian freight train in Donetsk Oblast on May 12 and injured its driver, Ukrainian Railways said amid Kyiv's calls for a ceasefire.
The number includes 1,170 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
Moscow and Hanoi agreed to negotiate and sign agreements to construct nuclear power plants in Vietnam, the two countries said in a joint statement on May 11.
The sanctions appear to be in response to Russia's rejection of a 30-day ceasefire that the U.K., alongside Ukraine, France, Germany, and Poland, demanded during a visit to Kyiv on May 10.
"We now know for sure that the great fire of the Marywilska shopping centre in Warsaw was caused by arson ordered by the Russian special services," Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on X. "Some of the perpetrators have already been detained, all the others are identified and searched for."
Monday, May 12
The publications' latest report covers the period of February 24, 2022 to May 8, 2025. Since it was last updated at the end of April, 2,857 additional Russian military personnel have been confirmed killed.
Hungary cancelled a meeting planned for May 12 with a Ukrainian delegation on the rights of national minorities, Hungary's Deputy Foreign Minister said on May 11, amid a deepening spying scandal between the two countries.
Three were injured in Russia's Kursk Oblast when the town of Rylsk was allegedly struck by a missile attack on May 11, local governor Alexander Khinshtein claimed.
Two of the three operational Black Sea ports in Odesa Oblast began shipping food exports again, recovering from power outages caused by Russian drone attacks over the weekend, Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) said on Dec. 12.
USPA head Oleksiy Vostrikov said that Chornomorsk and Pivdennyi ports, located outside Odesa, resumed operations while the Odesa port is still closed. According to Vostrikov, the Dec. 10 drone strike led to a complete pause of cargo operations at Odesa and Pivdennyi ports and a partial pause at the Chornomorsk port.
The most recent Russian drone strike on energy infrastructure in Odesa Oblast left nearly the entire region without electricity on Dec. 10. Regional Governor Maksym Marchenko said that some 300,000 people still had no power at home as of Dec. 11.
“Alternative power sources” are being used to keep the ports running, Vostrikov added, but he did not indicate when the Odesa port would start shipping food exports. “It is difficult to predict the situation because we are dealing with an enemy for which there are no principles,” he said.
The power disruptions at the Black Sea ports come amid soaring food prices worldwide, exacerbating hunger in poorer countries. The heightened worries of a potential food crisis were alleviated by a July deal that allowed Ukraine to resume its grain exports via the then Russian-blockaded Black Sea, but the situation is still volatile.
Since the Black Sea Grain Initiative kicked off in August, Ukraine has exported more than 11 million metric tonnes of grain and foodstuffs from its three Black Sea ports.
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