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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.
"We cannot allow NATO's military infrastructure to get that close to our borders," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.
This week, the world watched in anticipation for Russia’s Victory Day parade after President Volodymyr Zelensky commented that he could not guarantee the safety of those attending. Meanwhile, the European Union moves one step forward to banning Russian gas from the European continent. It is also revealed this week that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fallen out of step with the White House.
"(Russian) President (Vladimir) Putin... doesn't want to have a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine, but rather wants to meet on Thursday, in Turkey, to negotiate a possible end to the bloodbath. Ukraine should agree to this, immediately," U.S. President Donald Trump said.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to to Antalya, Turkey, for a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting from May 14–16, where he is expected to address the war in Ukraine and push for stronger Allied defense commitments.
Preliminary findings suggest that one of the men killed the other before taking his own life.
Western leaders dismissed the Kremlin's proposal for talks in Istanbul on May 15 as insufficient.
The Kremlin said the leaders held a detailed discussion about the Russian initiative and Erdogan expressed full support, reiterating Turkey’s readiness to provide a venue and assist in organizing the negotiations.
Erdogan told Macron that international cooperation is critical for initiating peace negotiations and the "sensitive implementation" of Ukraine’s recovery and reconstruction processes, the Turkish Presidency reported.
The pope said he was praying to God to grant the world the "miracle of peace."
Ushakov’s comments follow Russian President Vladimir Putin's May 11 invitation for direct talks with Ukraine in Istanbul starting May 15.
The assault began around 2 a.m. on May 11, with Russian forces deploying 108 Shahed-type attack drones and decoy UAVs from multiple directions, Ukraine’s Air Force said.
Zelensky called a ceasefire the essential first step toward ending the war.
The number includes 1,310 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
The governors of Russia's Belgorod and Kursk regions claimed Ukraine attacked Russia with multiple rocket launchers, mortars, and drones, killing one and injuring three residents on Sept. 2.
Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the Belgorod region, said in a series of Telegram posts that Ukrainian forces shelled the village of Urazovo, killing one and injuring two other people.
According to Gladkov, the attack damaged 20 houses in the village.
He also claimed a drone was downed in the region, with the falling debris causing light damage to houses on the ground. No casualties were reported.
The Russian Defense Ministry also claimed on Sept. 2 that Russian air defenses had downed Ukrainian loitering munition over the Belgorod region, without providing details on the damage.
Gladkov also reported that a Ukrainian drone dropped two explosives on the village of Doldoe, causing damage to the communication line.
Both Urazovo and Dolgoe sit near the border with Ukraine. Russian forces use the Belgorod region to attack the Ukrainian areas across the border daily.
Roman Starovoyt, governor of the Kursk region, claimed on Sept. 2 that Ukrainian shelling injured a woman in the village of Uspenovka and damaged power lines and houses in Tyotkino village.
Both settlements sit right on the border with Ukraine’s Sumy Oblast, which has been subjected to daily Russian attacks across the border.
Russian governors haven’t provided any footage or photos of the claimed aftermath. The Kyiv Independent couldn’t verify the claims.
Multiple isolated drone attacks have occurred within Russian soil since Moscow unleashed its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February last year.
These attacks appear to primarily focus on disrupting the infrastructure that supports the logistics of the Russian military. Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for most of these attacks.
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