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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
An image from the site of the attack in Vinnytsia Oblast on March 14, 2024. (Serhii Borzov / Telegram)
The death toll in a Russian drone attack in Vinnytsia Oblast on the evening of March 14 has risen to two as another person died in the hospital, Governor Serhii Borzov said.
Three more people injured in the attack that hit a residential building remain in the hospital, according to Borzov's update on Telegram.
The deceased resident was a 53-year-old woman, according to Ukraine's National Police. Her 52-year-old husband was killed in the attack the day before. The couple's 26-year-old son was rescued from under the rubble and is being provided with medical care, police said.
Vinnytsia Oblast lies in the central-western part of Ukraine, some 300 kilometers (180 miles) from the front line.
This is the fourth Russian attack that hit a residential building over the past week.
The March 12 missile strike against a nine-story apartment building in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, killed five residents, and injured 50, including children.
A total of two people were killed and seven wounded as a result of an airstrike on a residential building in Myrnohrad, Donetsk Oblast, on March 13. On the same day, a drone attack on a five-story apartment building in Sumy killed three people and injured at least 12.
Daria Shulzhenko
