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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday he would have the chance to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Munich Security Conference this week. Rubio is leading a large US delegation to the annual security and defence talks in the Bavarian capital, which will run through Sunday. Follow our liveblog for the latest developments.
Rubio says he will have chance to see Ukraine’s Zelensky in Munich
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he would have a chance to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at this week’s Munich Security Conference.
Rubio, who is leading a large US delegation this week to the annual defence and security forum this week, made the comment to reporters before leaving Washington.
Russian air attack knocks out power, heat to thousands of Ukrainians
Russia pounded Ukraine with drones and ballistic missiles overnight on Thursday, further battering
its energy system and leaving tens of thousands in the capital Kyiv and the cities of Dnipro and Odesa without heat, power and water, officials said.
Russia has intensified its winter campaign of strikes on Ukraine’s power grid, plunging major cities into long periods of cold and darkness in freezing temperatures.
In Kyiv alone, around 3,500 apartment buildings were without heating on Thursday after the latest attack knocked out supplies to nearly 2,600 high-rises, on top of the 1,100 already affected by previous strikes, said Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
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French President Emmanuel Macron said he does not expect to speak with his Russian counterpart President Vladimir Putin in the coming days, insisting that European nations first need to agree on what they want from Moscow.
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Britain and its allies have pledged some €30 billion in military aid for Ukraine, British defence minister John Healey told a press conference after a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group.
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Norway announced it was buying a “large volume” of French glide bombs as part of a bilateral agreement to support Ukraine militarily against Russia’s invasion.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP, Reuters)
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