Ukraine war updates: Drone strikes strike St. Petersburg Russia rejects U.S. arms handle talks

Ukraine war updates: Drone strikes strike St. Petersburg Russia rejects U.S. arms handle talks


Ukraine specific the Russian town of St. Petersburg with a drone assault overnight, Ukraine’s minister of strategic industries, Oleksandr Kamyshin, advised a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, in accordance to Interfax information company.

Russia claimed on Thursday that Ukraine had attacked quite a few places of the region with drones, like the northwestern Leningrad location for the initially time.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday night urged allied nations around the world to make sure that sanctions towards Russia are entirely enforced.

“The terrorist condition manufactures weapons, together with missiles. There are dozens of vital elements in every of them that ended up created abroad, quite a few of which were manufactured by organizations from the free entire world,” he said in a post on X.

A Ukrainian soldier looks at the sky immediately after hearing the sound of a close by drone, at the Bakhmut frontline, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on January 13, 2024. 

Ignacio Marin | Anadolu | Getty Photographs

“Blocking sanctions evasion loopholes means virtually blocking terror. I am grateful to all of our companions who comprehend this, as effectively as everyone all over the globe who supports our relevant efforts.”

Moscow on Thursday rejected U.S.-Russian arms command negotiations owing to U.S. assist for Ukraine, which Washington recommended forged question on the likely for a new treaty restricting the two adversaries’ strategic nuclear arsenals.

Russian Overseas Minister Sergei Lavrov informed a information conference that the U.S. experienced proposed separating the problems of Ukraine and the “strategic security” discussion all-around arms command, but that Russia thought of the West’s backing of Ukraine as a “hybrid war” from Moscow, in accordance to Reuters.



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