Six die in strikes on Ukraine as Russia shrugs off threat of sanctions and secondary tariffs with reduced US ceasefire deadline
Over the last half hour, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the Finnish Helsinki+50 conference marking the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Helsinki accords.
He said that “Russia keeps launching such attacks, even when the whole world is calling on it to stop the war, a war that Russia started, a war that Russia keeps dragging on, a war that only the Russian leadership wants.”
“We need to fully block Russia’s war machine, cut off its arms industry, limit its energy profits, and finally, put every frozen Russian asset including stolen wealth … to work, defending against the Russian aggression.
It’s time to confiscate the Russian assets, not just freeze them … to use them to serve peace, not war.”
“But if the world doesn’t aim to change the regime in Russia, that means, even after the war ends, Moscow will still try to destabilise neighbouring countries.”
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jul/31/russia-ukraine-war-live-volodymyr-zelenskyy-vladimir-putin-latest-news-updates
Author : Jakub Krupa
Publish date : 2025-07-31 08:27:00
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