Ukraine updates: Kyiv poised to sign minerals deal with US

Ukraine and the United States could motion a minerals woody wrong the adjacent 24 hours, Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said.

Earlier, elder Ukrainian officials told the AP, AFP and Reuters quality agencies that Ukraine expects to motion a long-awaited mineral woody with the United States successful Washington connected Wednesday.

Kyiv and Washington planned to motion the statement weeks ago, but a clash betwixt US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy successful the White House disrupted the talks.

This is simply a blog on developments from Russia's warfare successful Ukraine on Wednesday, April 30.

04/30/2025April 30, 2025

Kremlin says Putin is unfastened to Ukraine peace, but warns against haste for deal

President Vladimir Putin is unfastened to bid successful Ukraine and intensive enactment is going connected with the United States, but the struggle is truthful analyzable that the accelerated advancement Washington wants volition beryllium hard to achieve, the Kremlin said.

"We recognize that Washington is willing to execute a quick success successful this process," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, but added that the causes of the warfare successful Ukraine were excessively analyzable to beryllium resolved successful 1 day.

He besides noted that Putin had expressed a willingness for nonstop talks with Ukraine, but that determination had been nary reply from Kyiv yet.

Following the Kremlin's comment, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Ukraine was acceptable for bid talks successful immoderate format if Moscow agreed to an unconditional ceasefire.

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Signs of torture uncover dormant Ukrainian journalist's ordeal successful Russian captivity

Ukrainian writer Viktoria Roshchyna was tortured earlier her decease successful Russian captivity, said the report by media outlets including The Washington Post, The Guardian, Ukrainska Pravda and iStories, citing Ukrainian prosecutors.

In February, Russia returned Roshchyna's emaciated body. Her organs had seemingly been removed successful what whitethorn person been an effort to screen up the origin of her death.

The forensic introspection "revealed galore signs of torture and ill-treatment", the prosecutors were quoted arsenic saying.

These included "a breached rib, cervix injuries, and imaginable electrical daze marks connected her feet," according to Yuriy Belousov, caput of the War Crimes Unit astatine the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's office.

The eyeballs, encephalon and portion of her larynx were missing. Ukrainian authorities fishy that Roshchyna was strangled.

Roshchyna had traveled from Kyiv to Russia via Poland and the Baltic states successful July 2023, and from determination to the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine. According to the journalists' research, she was detained determination astatine the extremity of August.

She was scheduled to beryllium released successful September 2024 arsenic portion of a captive exchange, but was taken disconnected the database astatine the past moment. A period later, Russian situation authorities informed her relatives that Roshchyna had died.

Her assemblage was released successful February arsenic the remains of an allegedly chartless man. Identification was lone imaginable done DNA testing.

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Ukraine is acceptable to motion minerals woody with US

Ukraine and the US could motion a minerals woody wrong the adjacent 24 hours aft the final details are worked out, according to Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said.

The revised statement has go a "real concern deal" that could see aboriginal US assistance arsenic portion of contributions to the fund, helium said successful televised remarks.

Earlier, elder Ukrainian officials told the AP, AFP and Reuters quality agencies that Ukraine expects to motion a long-awaited mineral woody with the United States on Wednesday.

Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko is presently successful Washington to finalize method details of the agreement, the sources said. It wasn't instantly clear, however, whether the Trump medication was besides acceptable to finalize the deal.

The Ukrainian furniture is expected to o.k. the substance of the statement earlier the Washington meeting, aft which it volition beryllium signed by an authorized authorities representative. The statement volition past person to beryllium ratified by the Ukrainian parliament earlier it tin instrumentality effect.

Ukrainian officials anticipation that the signing of the deal, which has been pushed by US President Donald Trump, volition assistance cement softening American enactment for Kyiv successful the warfare triggered by Russia's full-scale penetration much than 3 years ago.

Kyiv and Washington planned to motion the statement weeks ago, but a clash betwixt US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy successful the White House disrupted the talks.

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Welcome to our coverage

Dmytro Hubenko | Jenipher Camino Gonzalez

Welcome to DW's sum of developments from Russia's ongoing penetration of Ukraine on Tuesday, April 29.

Ukraine expects to motion a long-anticipated minerals woody with the United States connected Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin says President Vladimir Putin is unfastened to bid successful Ukraine, but the struggle is truthful analyzable that the accelerated advancement Washington wants volition beryllium hard to achieve.

In this blog, we volition support you updated arsenic the time unfolds.