Ukraine-Russia war latest: Nine killed in Russian strike on bus hours after Moscow and Kyiv peace talks

Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Moderners said that Kiev believes that the next step after the war with the Russian delegation should be a meeting of two nations.

The Moderner told reporters that the first priority in the talks on Friday in Istanbul provided the prisoners of war, and secondly to ensure the ceasefire, adding that the next step should be the leader’s level.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in Ukraine, Serhiy Kyslytsia, said he hoped the nation two leaders would meet “before later.”

The first direct dialogue of Russia-Ukraine in three years was made by good results, Kirill Dmitriev, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s envoy, said late on Friday.

“1. Increases the exchange 2. Fire Options that can work 3. Understanding the position and continuous dialogue,” Dmitriev said, the chief of Russian sovereign wealth of the social media X.

At least eight people were killed and five injured after the Russian attack hit civilians on Saturday Ukraine, the head of the Army region on Saturday.

“Travelers were injured,” Ihor Tkachenko said, Chief of Sumy Military Administration, he said in the Telegram Messaging app.

“Medikaci and rescuers were urgently sent to the scene.”

The attack arrived for hours after Russia and Ukraine held their first direct peace talks in three years.

The European Union works on the new Sanctions to increase pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine, the President of the EU URSULA Von der Leyen said the leaders from all over Europe.

The European Summit of the Political Community, which includes non-EU countries, convened in the Albanian capital Tirana as Russian and Ukrainian negotiators met in Istanbul on the first direct peace negotiations in more than three years.

“He doesn’t want peace, so we need to increase pressure, and that’s why we’re working on a new sanction package,” said Mrs. Der Leyen, referring to Putin.

“This package includes a sanction for Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2. will include the list of multiple vessels of the Russian shade and will include more sanctions in the financial sector in Russia.”

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said earlier in the day when Putin “erred by sending a low level delegation to Istanbul.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that on Friday and Friday talked to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenic and Donald Trump in to start “a” unacceptable “position in Russia in Russia’s peace talks.

After a telephone call, he told reporters in Tirana, Albania: “We just had a meeting with President Zellenic, and then a phone call with President Trump today to discuss events in negotiations today.

“And the Russian position is clearly unacceptable, not the first time.

“So, as a result of that meeting with the president of Zellenic and that invitation with the Trump President, we now carefully harmonize our answers and we will continue to do so.”

Mr. Keir said that the prisoner “is obviously a good thing”, but that “we must be really clear in putting pressure on the recirculation.”

“And I really want to continue to put that pressure, because we must make sure that Putin comes to the table, but his actions this week still show me that he is still not serious about peace.”

On Friday, Ukraine pointed out the support of its Western federations after Kiev and Moscow fail to agree on the first direct talks in more than three years, and Russia is the conditions that the Ukrainian source described as “non-beginners.”

As soon as the conversations ended, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky held a phone call with Donald Trump and the leaders of France, Germany and Poland, his spokesman said.

Mr. Zelensky said robust sanctions should follow if Russia rejects the recircciliaric fire.

Russian demands were “separate from reality and went far beyond everything that previously discussed,” said in the Ukrainian Delegation Reuters.

The source, which speaks of the state of anonymity, said that Moscow issued Ultimatum for Ukraine to withdraw from parts of its own territory to get a truce “and other non-actors and non-constructive conditions.”

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote to X that the EU and the EU’s head of the EU and the EU agreed that “Moscow pressure must be strengthened to achieve a complete and durable truce.”

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose sanctions to Russia if Kremlin will not negotiate peace dealing with Ukraine.

“Honestly, I will (imposed sanctions), if we will not arrange,” said Mr. Trump said Fox News’ Bret Baier in an interview published on Friday.

“This is a released time, we are talking about Turkey and we will see what is happening. This would rouse for Russia because they are now difficult with the economy, oil prices are low.”

Mr. Trump claimed Vladimir Putin is ready to negotiate.

“Putin is at the table,” Mr. Trump said. “He wanted this meeting … I think Putin is tired of this whole thing. And he doesn’t look good, and he wants to look good.”

“I always felt that there couldn’t be a meeting without me because he wouldn’t break the deal on both sides,” Mr. Trump said, which he was supposed to soon intend to intend to soon.

“I have a very good relationship with the path. I think we’ll make a deal. We have to gather and I think we’ll probably schedule it.”

The Australian Foreign Minister on Saturday was convicted by a 13-year-old prison sentence that the Russian court presented the Australian citizen to fight the Ukrainian forces.

Oscar Jenkins, 33, will support the penalty in maximum security prison after the Russian court could declare the trial in the armed conflict, state prosecutors in the part of the eastern Ukraine, which said Russia on Friday.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in a statement that the Australian government “was disgusted at the trial of Sham and a 13-year-old penalty” given to Mr. Jenkins, a previously teacher in Melbourne.

“As a complete member of the Regular Armed Forces of Ukraine, Mr. Jenkins is a prisoner of war,” said Mrs. Wong, a long-term uncle critic of Russia against Ukraine.

“The Australian Government Has Made Clear to Russia That MR Jenkins Afforded to Him as a Prisoner of War. Russia is obligated to treat him in accordance with international humanitarian law, including human treatment,” The Foreign Minister said.

She said the Australian government would work with Ukraine and the International Red Cross Committee to push for Jenkins well-being and release.

Mr. Jenkins supported the Army of Ukraine when the Russia captured him as a prisoner of war, Australian media reported earlier this year. The video recorded at the time showed him, dressed in a combat uniform, wondering if the mercenary, reports said.

The first American Pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, will offer Russia and Ukraine to host their talks with the Broker by the Peace Agreement on the Vatican, said the upper Catholic official.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, State Secretary of St. Sea, told reporters in Rome that the new Pope was ready to offer Vatican as a place of direct conversations between the two sides, if necessary.

“It’s a location offer,” he said.

Leo, earlier known as Cardinal Robert Restoity before his elections last week to succeed in the late Papi Francis as the head of the Catholic Church, called to peace in Ukraine during his first Sunday blessings.

Addressing the world leaders, he echoed a lasting appeal, “never again war again.” He also spoke by phone with President Volodymyr Zelensky.