Last Sunday the Ukrainian secret services allegedly attempted to kill Vladimir Putin with an explosive drone.
Although the ambush failed, the attempt was reportedly kept secret by the Russian authorities.
Bild writes it.
In the afternoon of April 23, a UJ-22 drone with a range of up to 800 km and carrying "30 blocks of C4 explosives, for a total weight of 17 kg" was allegedly launched from Ukraine.
The target would have been the industrial park of Rudnevo, near Moscow, where there could have been a visit from Putin.
However, the drone crashed 20 km earlier.
It is not clear whether Putin's visit to the site ever took place.
"We are currently investigating more than 80,000 cases of possible war crimes. The number of crimes is high, mainly due to the fact that hostilities are held in urban areas".
Thus the Ukrainian attorney general, Andriy Kostin, during a hearing in the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee.
“The Russians target critical civilian infrastructure during the winter to starve and freeze the population. They deport minors and subject them to forced adoption and re-education, these are signs of a campaign of persecution targeting the very existence of the state Ukrainian,” the prosecutor explained.
First telephone conversation between the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky.
"I had a long and meaningful phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping. I believe that this call, as well as the appointment of Ukraine's ambassador to China, will give a powerful impetus to the development of our bilateral relations," he wrote on Twitter. Ukrainian president.
"Dialogue and negotiation are the only viable way out", according to the Chinese president.
"There are no winners in a nuclear war," Xi said.
In addressing the nuclear issue, "all stakeholders should remain calm and sober, truly focus on the future and destiny of themselves and all mankind, and jointly manage and control the crisis," Xi added, in the report. of the state CCTV network.
"Mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity is the political basis of China-Ukraine relations."
President Xi Jinping said "China-Ukraine relations have gone through 31 years of development and reached the level of strategic partnership," Xi added in a report by the state-run CCTV network. "I appreciate President Zelensky's repeated emphasis on developing relations and cooperation with China and I thank Ukraine for providing great assistance in the evacuation of Chinese citizens" in 2022.
According to UNIAN reports, after the phone call Zelensky appointed Pavel Ryabikin as ambassador of Ukraine to the People's Republic of China.
"We are happy that Xi and Zelensky have spoken. We have been asking for China to listen to the Ukrainian perspective for some time": thus the spokesman of the American Security Council, John Kirby, in a briefing with the
press
.
"We can't know if this phone call leads to anything. It's up to Ukraine and Zelensky to decide whether they want to sit at the peace negotiating table," he underlined.
"We would welcome the pope with open arms,
Ukraine is with the pope for peace
. Our invitation is still valid, it is a permanently open invitation, it can come at any moment".
The Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, told Skytg24.
"I don't know why he hasn't come yet: we have talks with the Vatican and the invitation hasn't been rejected, but we still don't have an official date for a visit from the Pope", he added, saying he is convinced that "people in Ukraine they would appreciate it very much and would be happy to welcome the Pope in this dark period".
