Russia denies us that it is trying to “block” Ukrainian peace negotiations

Russia has rejected accusations of the Trump government that it is trying to “park for time”, as negotiations with Ukraine and the US to stop the war males to stop.

The envoy of the Ukraine War, Keith Kellogg, made the accusation on social media platform X on Monday, and urged Russia and Ukraine to agree to a “immediately ceases -the -Fires” and further conversations to end the war.

“Russia cannot continue to store before time while the civilian goals bombard in Ukraine.”

Asked for the comments, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Russia was grateful to the US President Donald Trump’s team for helping facilitating conversations, but that Moscow was not stuck.

“No one slows anything here,” Mr. Peskov said reporters in Moscow.

“We are of course in favor of achieving the goals we are trying to achieve through the special military operation through political and diplomatic resources.

“That is why we are not interested in pulling out something.”

Macron, Putin Hold Call

The denial of the Kremlin came when Vladimir Putin held a “substantial” call on Tuesday with French President Emmanuel Macron, in which the Russian president encouraged the West to accept “new territorial reality” for each stopping.

Ukraine is not willing to admit the territory caught by Russia as part of a peace agreement.

It is the first phone call between Mr Putin and Mr. Macron since the war started in February 2022, and France, a NATO member state, offers military support to Ukraine.

During Tuesday’s call, Mr. Macron’s office said: “The president emphasized the non -repellent support of France for the sovereignty of Ukraine and territorial integrity.”

On Ukraine, Mr Putin repeated his position to Mr. Macron that the war “was a direct consequence of the West’s policy”, of which he said it had ignored Russia’s security interests in recent years “.

Ukrainian drones strike deep in Russia

A lack of diplomatic progress between the US, Ukraine and Russia came as both sides of the three-year war became increasingly turning to drone warfare.

On Monday, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy announced that the domestic production of drones of the country was about to increase in response to the extensive barrage of Russia.

Analysis by the Associated Press showed that Russia had launched a record 5,438 drones in Ukraine in June.

On the same day, Mr. Zenskyy promised to increase the production of drones, three people were killed and 35 others injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on a factory deep in Russian territory.

The strikes were focused in a factory in the city of Izhevsk, about 1,300 kilometers from Ukraine, according to local governor Alexander Brechalov on his telegram canal on Tuesday.

Mr. Brechalov did not mention the intended facility, but a Ukrainian security officer previously told Reuters that at least two long-distance drones operated by the Ukraine security service made the Kupol factory that produced drones and an air weather systems.

A column of black smoke could be seen wavy in heaven from the site of a fire on a cluster of buildings in videos shared by the Ukrainian officer who said that the production facilities and warehouses of the plant had been hit.

Reuters could not verify the claim independently.

Mr. Brechalov said he had informed Russian President Vladimir Putin about the incident.

It follows a similar attack last month in which Ukrainian drones focused on a number of Russian planes, which destroyed 34 percent of the Russian air missile carriers

Russia claims to control the entire Ukrainian region

The invasion of Russia in Ukraine has been raging for more than three years, with Russian troops gaining a number of territorial profit in recent months.

Forces in the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin have focused their fights in four regions in eastern Ukraine.

On Tuesday, Leonid Pasechnik, the Russian -supported head of the eastern region of Luhansk in Ukraine, that “100 percent” of the region was now occupied by Russia.

Luhansk, which has a surface of 26,700 square km, is the first Ukrainian region that has been completely under the established control of the Russian troops since the country has annexed Crimea in 2014.

In September 2022, Mr Putin stated that Luhansk – together with the partially controlled Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions – was included in Russia, a step that West – European States was illegal and that the majority of the world did not recognize.

Ukraine says that the claims of Russia on Luhansk and other areas of what is internationally recognized if Ukraine are unfounded and illegal, and Kiev has promised to never recognize the Russian sovereignty about the areas.

Russia controls almost 19 percent of what is internationally recognized as Ukraine.

North -Korea mourns soldiers killed in Ukraine

The state media of Noord -Korea showed leader Kim Jong Un who draped coffins with the national flag in what the repatriation seemed to be of soldiers who killed the fighting for Russia against Ukraine, because the countries marked a military military treaty.

Mr Kim and Mr Putin signed a strategic partnership treaty in Pyongyang in June last year, which included a mutual defense pact.

In a series of photos that are shown in the background of a gala version by North Korean and visiting Russian artists in Pyongyang, the leader of the country is seen by rows of half a dozen skulls, which she covered with flags and pausing with both hands resting on them.

The scene followed images of North Korean and Russian soldiers who wave their national flags with patriotic notes written in Korean.

Mr. Kim was seen on the gala that apparently was overcome by emotion and members of the audience who wandered tears.

The state of KRT television of Noord -Korea has broadcast the event.

Reuters