Ukraine Live: Trump imposes sanctions on Russian oil giants over Putin’s ‘lack of commitment’

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia’s bombing of Ukraine yesterday, including an attack on a kindergarten, showed that Vladimir Putin “clearly does not feel enough pressure to stop prolonging the war”.

At least six people were killed in the widespread attack by Russia, which also hit a Ukrainian power plant, a kindergarten and other sites.

Mr Zelensky shared a video showing chaos and fear in the northeastern city of Kharkiv after a Russian drone strike on a kindergarten. Emergency workers and distraught parents were seen running through the smoke and debris holding their children.

Three drones fell on the kindergarten, causing part of the school’s second floor to collapse.

Officials confirmed that all 48 children inside were taken to an underground shelter. Scared children were seen holding on to the shoulders of firefighters to save them from the flames.

Zelensky said on X, “Clearly, Russia is becoming more ruthless. These attacks are Russia’s spit in the face of everyone who insists on a peaceful solution.”

US President Donald Trump has pressed Xi Jinping to end the war in Ukraine ahead of next week’s meeting with his Chinese counterpart in South Korea.

Mr Trump said he would like Mr Xi to use his influence on Russia’s Vladimir Putin to stop the fighting in Ukraine. Mr Xi and Mr Putin have forged a close strategic alliance between their countries.

Mr Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he planned to discuss China’s purchases of Russian oil and stopping Russia’s war in Ukraine, now in its third year.

“I would really talk to him about how we end the war with Russia and Ukraine, whether it’s through oil or energy or something else. And I think he would be very receptive.”

“He would now want – I’m not sure he did this in the beginning – he would now want the war to end,” Mr Trump said, referring to Mr Xi.

Sweden has signed a letter of intent to export 150 of its domestically produced Gripen fighter planes to Ukraine, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Christerson said after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday.

The two leaders met for talks in Linköping in southern Sweden and visited Saab, a maker of the JAS 39 Gripen fighter and other equipment.

Kristersen told a news conference that the two countries have signed a long-term cooperation agreement on air defense that includes the possibility of exporting 100-150 newly manufactured Gripen E fighter jets.

“We fully realize it is a long road ahead of us,” Kristersson said, with the Gripen in Swedish livery in the background.

“But starting today we are committed to exploring all possibilities to provide Ukraine with large numbers of Gripen fighter aircraft in the future.”

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky signed a letter of intent to export up to 150 of Saab’s Gripen fighter jets to Ukraine after talks in Linköping in southern Sweden, where the jets are produced.

The Gripen is a fourth generation lightweight single engine supersonic fighter jet. It is a so-called multi-role combat aircraft, designed for missions such as air-to-air combat, aerial bombardment and reconnaissance.

It is seen as a solid low-cost alternative to more expensive fifth-generation aircraft such as the F-35. Gripen, Swedish for the mythological creature griffin, has been in commission since 1996 but has been upgraded several times. The first aircraft of the latest version, the Gripen E, was delivered to the Swedish Air Force in October.

In total, more than 280 Gripens have been built.

Swedish media said the Gripens were used in direct combat for the first time this year, when Thailand deployed the fighter jets in a confrontation with Cambodia.

Previously, the Gripen was used primarily for air policing and was deployed to Poland in 2025 as part of a NATO mission to patrol allied airspace. It was also used to enforce the NATO no-fly zone in Libya in 2014.

Intention meeting between us chairman donald trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin It was halted on Wednesday after Moscow refused to step back from its red lines to end the war in Ukraine.

A senior White House official said reuters that there are”President Trump has no plans to meet with President Putin This comes as Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held “productive talks” but opted for an in-person meeting.

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Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Christerson and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a letter of intent to export 150 of Saab’s Gripen fighter aircraft to Ukraine.

The Gripen is a fourth generation lightweight single engine supersonic fighter jet. It is a so-called multi-role combat aircraft, designed for missions such as air-to-air combat, aerial bombardment and reconnaissance.

It is seen as a solid low-cost alternative to more expensive fifth-generation aircraft such as the F-35.

Gripen, Swedish for the mythological creature griffin, has been in commission since 1996 but has been upgraded several times.

The first aircraft of the latest version, the Gripen E, was delivered to the Swedish Air Force in October. In total, more than 280 Gripens have been built.

Russian drones and missiles exploded at sites across Ukraine on Wednesday, killing at least six people, but the Kremlin tried to revive hopes of another summit with Donald Trump after Washington blocked the plan.

The attacks were massive and targeted at least eight Ukrainian cities as well as a village in the capital Kiev, where one attack set fire to a house where a mother and her six-month-old and 12-year-old daughters were living, regional head Mykola Kalashnik said.

Russian drones also attacked a kindergarten in Kharkiv. One person died and six were injured, but no children were harmed.

James C. Reynolds reports:

Hundreds of hungry and helpless Russian soldiers are being killed by Ukrainian drone In the “Death Zone” of Dnipro DeltaAccording to a report.

The river, surrounded by low marshy islands, is divided between Russian control on the left bank and Ukrainian control On the right side.

Footage shared by the Ukrainian 40th Coast Defense Brigade marine The core shows several floating Russian boats approaching a coastal marsh, which are blown up by a Ukrainian suicide drone.

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