- American emissary Steve Witkoff will go to Russia “I think next week on Wednesday or Thursday,” Donald Trump said journalists on Sunday evening.
- The American president added that two nuclear submarines he had ordered the deployment following an online argument with former Russian president Dmitri Medvedev were now “in the region”.
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Donald Trump confirmed a visit to his emissary Steve Witkoff in Russia, “Wednesday or Thursday”. A meeting involved after the ultimatum launched by the American president to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to whom he gave “10 days” to put an end to the war in Ukraine.
Witkoff in Ukraine this week
Donald Trump confirmed Sunday the visit of his special envoy Steve Witkoff in Russia “Wednesday or Thursday”, after setting an ultimatum to the Russian president to end the war in Ukraine.
The American president also said that two nuclear submarines he had ordered deployment following an online argument with former Russian president Dmitri Medvedev were now “in the region”.
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A Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire in an oil depot in Sochi, a seaside city in southwest Russia known for welcoming the 2014 Olympic Games, local authorities said on Sunday. “Sochi suffered a drone attack from the kyiv diet that night”
said on Telegram the governor of the Krasnodar region, Véniamine Kondratiev. The debris of a drone touched a “Reservoir of petroleum products, which caused a fire”
he said.
The mayor of Sochi, Andreï Prochounine, said at the end of the afternoon that the fire had been extinguished at the oil depot. According to regional authorities, a woman was injured by drone debris in Sochi, but her life is “Not in danger”
. Air traffic was interrupted at Sochi airport, before resuming a little later, according to the Russian Air Transport Regulation Agency, Rosaviatsia. The strikes against Sochi, located more than 500km from the Ukrainian front, are rare compared to other Russian cities.
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Ukraine has not yet commented on the fire that started overnight from Saturday to Sunday. The country had warned that it would intensify its strikes in Russia in response to the multiplication in recent weeks of Russian attacks against its territory, which have caused the death of dozens of civilians. The Russian Defense Ministry said that three Ukrainian drones had also been intercepted in the Leningrad region, which includes the city of St. Petersburg.
On the Ukrainian side, nocturnal strikes have died and wounded in southern and northeast regions, authorities said. A man was killed on Sunday in Kherson, a major southern city whose Russian troops are very close, when the Russian army bombed a bridge on which he was, according to the office of the regional prosecutor. A missile also wounded in a residential area in Mykolaïv, a southern city, said Prime Minister Ioulia Svyrydenko. Three other people were injured in the Kharkiv region (northeast), she added local authorities also injured in the Zaporijia region in the South.
