Ukraine-Russia War Live: Trump says Putin told North Korea to support “justice reasons”

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said on Sunday that their power systems were successfully synchronized with the continental European power grid a day after cutting decades-old energy ties between Russia and Belarus.

The long-standing complex switch away from the grid of the previous Soviet Empire’s Overlord was designed to more closely integrate the three Baltic countries with the European Union and increase the energy security of the region. Masu.

“We did that!” Latvian President Edgars Linkevix said in a social media X post.

After disconnecting on Saturday from the IPS/UPS network, which was founded by the Soviet Union in the 1950s and is now operated by Russia, the Baltic countries have made a high-voltage transmission line that crosses the border in eastern Latvia, about 100 meters from the Russian border. Reduce and hand over. The chopped pieces of wire will be brought to enthusiastic bystanders as a memento.

Kaja Kallas, head of foreign policy for the EU, was called Switch earlier this week as “The Winning for Freedom and European Unity.”

The Baltic region is on high alert after the shutdown of power cables, communications links and gas pipelines between Baltics and Sweden or Finland. It was all thought to be caused by ships that dragged their anchors along the seabed following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia denied involvement.

Poland and Balticus deployed naval assets, elite police forces and helicopters after Finland’s submarine power link to Estonia was damaged in December, but Lithuanian troops protect land connections with Poland I started training to do so.

Analysts say when energy prices skyrocket, they could push Baltic science electricity prices to levels that cannot be pushed against the level they saw Baltic science prices.

The Russian troops have repelled three Ukrainian counterattacks in the Kursk region overnight, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on Sunday that state communications agency TASS quoted.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said Ukrainian forces attempted to counterattack west of the Kursk region, near the villages of Uranok and Cerkaskaya Konoperka on Thursday, but were repelled by Russian forces.

Askold Krushelnycky witnesses a Russian ballistic missile strike in a southeastern city, speaks to residents who have not been kept from reciting and have decided not to surrender to Putin

The conflict in eastern Ukraine began in 2014 after the Ukrainian Maidan revolution and Russia annexed Crimea, and Russian-backed separatists fought against the Ukrainian forces.

Putin sent thousands of troops to Ukraine in 2022 to protect Ukraine Russian speakers and described the “special threat to Russia” as a potential Ukrainian membership in NATO. “A military operation.”

Ukraine and its western supporters, led by the US, said the invasion was an imperial-style land and it had vowed to defeat the Russian army.

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to end the war and that he wants to meet Putin to discuss it, but the date and venue of the summit is still publicly known. Not there.

While Vladimir Putin is open to discussing Ukrainian peace deals with Trump, he excludes major territorial concessions and claims that Kyiv is abandoning his ambition to join NATO.

Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward reported in his 2024 book, War, that Trump had seven in-person conversations with Putin after leaving the White House in 2021.

Asked if that was the case in an interview with Bloomberg last year, Trump said: “If that’s the case, that’s clever.” The Kremlin refused to report Woodward.

Trump told the New York Post that he “has always had a good relationship with President Putin” and that he has concrete plans to end the war. However, he did not disclose further details.

Russian envoy to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya said on Sunday that Russia was waiting for a “appropriate signal” from Washington about contact with Moscow, state news agency Ria Novosti reported.

Russia is ready for consultations with the US over Ukraine “on the basis of equality,” and its interests will be taken into consideration, said Nevenzia, who serves as a permanent representative of the UN.

Russian forces controlled the settlement of Olikovo Basilivka in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, the TASS state-run news agency reported on Sunday, citing the Ministry of Defense.

Independents were unable to review battlefield reports.

Russia has yet to see positive steps from the US administration, as stated by the permanent representative of the United Nations in Geneva.

“We are ready to maintain a smooth relationship of cooperation with the US administration,” Gennady Gatilov said according to Ria Novosti.

“We’ll be ready to do this within the framework of a disarmament conference,” he was quoted as saying. “So far, we have not seen any positive progress in Geneva in this regard.”

The conference was an international disarmament forum meeting in the city of Switzerland, negotiating many major multilateral weapons restrictions and disarmament agreements, including the shortage of nuclear weapons.

After Donald Trump took office as US president last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown that he sees Trump’s second term as an opportunity for a new era in relations between the US and Russia.

“Of course, we are closely monitoring the rhetoric and first steps of representatives of the new US administration,” Gatyrov said. “I’ve said a lot, especially since January 20th, so I expect Americans to move from words to action.”