Source : NEW INDIAN EXPRESS NEWS
In Istanbul on June 2, Russia demanded Ukraine withdraw its forces from areas still under its control, recognise Moscow’s annexation of five Ukrainian regions and renounce all Western military support.
Kyiv is seeking a full ceasefire and a summit between Zelensky, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump to try to break the impasse.
While welcoming POW exchanges, Zelensky said last week said it was “pointless” to hold further talks with the current Russian delegation — who he previously dismissed as “empty heads” — since they could not agree to a ceasefire.
Meanwhile fighting on the front lines and in the skies has intensified.
Russia said on Sunday its troops had crossed into Ukraine’s industrial Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time in its campaign — a potentially key advance given that Moscow has not put forward a territorial claim to that region. war
And Moscow launched a record 479 drones at Ukraine overnight, Kyiv’s air force said on Monday.
The Ukrainian mayor of the western city of Rivne, Oleksandr Tretyak, called it “the largest attack” on the region since the start of the war.
Russia said it had targeted an airfield near the village of Dubno in the Rivne region.
It called the attack “one of the retaliatory strikes” for a brazen drone attack by Ukraine on June 1 against Russian military jets stationed at air bases thousands of kilometres (miles) behind the front line.
Kyiv also claimed responsibility for an attack on a Russian electronics factory overnight, saying it manufactured parts for drones.
Russian officials said the site had been forced to temporarily suspend production after a Ukrainian drone attack.
SOURCE :- NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
