Germany Merz promises to help Ukraine produce long -range missiles

New Chancellor in Germany Friedrich Mertz said Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky that Berlin would help Kyiv produce long -range missiles to defend himself against the Russian attack.

“We want to talk about production, and we will not publicly discuss the details,” he said, when asked by journalists in Berlin when Germany put Kiev with his rockets.

Merz took the post earlier this month, promising to increase German support for Ukraine, and this week stated that “no more” restrictions on the weapons provided by the Western Allies Kyiv.

The calf has a range of 500 km (310 miles) and can reach deeper into the Russian territory than other long -level missiles.

Despite the fact that the Mertz did not refer to a calf named during his press conference with the Ukrainian leader, he said that “Memorandum of Understanding” on long-range missiles would be signed by German and Ukrainian defense ministers later on Wednesday.

The Kremlin warned that any decision to stop the range of missile ranges that Ukraine can use will be a rather dangerous change in policy that will harm the efforts to achieve a political transaction.

However, the Merz has since emphasized that the decision to limit the range of western allies a month ago.

Volodimir Zelensky called for negotiations aimed at achieving the war settlement to include three leaders – “Trump -Putin -I” – though he added that he was ready for any format.

Kremlin’s press -secretary Dmitry Peskov did not dismiss the idea, but said that such a meeting could only take place after “specific agreements” between “two delegations”.

Despite the fact that Ukraine and Russia this month held their first direct negotiations for more than three years in Istanbul, low -level officials participated in the meeting, and they were able to agree only on the exchange of prisoners last weekend.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested on Wednesday that the date of further negotiations would be announced in the “quite the closest future”, but made it clear that Moscow is seeking “neutral, unregistered status of Ukraine”.

This week, US President Donald Trump noted that his patience wore his patience when Russia did not move forward with further negotiations.

He accused Vladimir Putin of “playing with fire” after the death strike of the Russian missile, which killed 13 Ukrainians, including children. However, Russian officials suggested that Trump was insufficiently informed about the context of the conflict.

The President of Ukraine urged Washington to impose sanctions in the Russian banking and energy sectors. He said he discussed the issue with Trump, adding that the US president “confirmed that if Russia did not stop, the sanctions would be imposed.”

Despite the permanent diplomatic maneuvers, Ukraine’s military reported one of their largest drones on Russian purposes today on Wednesday, while Zelensky said Russia launched more than 900 drones over the three -day period, ending on Monday morning.

On the ground, the defense of Ukraine was strengthened by the Russian attack in the northeast.

Zelensky said that Moscow “recruited” more than 50,000 troops along the Sami Front, where Russian troops confiscated several villages across the Ukrainian border, trying to create what Putin calls “buffer security zones”.

Governor Sami Ole Grikharov said that Russian troops had confiscated four villages, and that the fighting continued near other settlements in the area.

The war, which for the fourth year, took tens of thousands of lives and left most of Ukraine to the east and south in ruins. Moscow controls approximately one fifth of the country’s territory, including Crimea, which it annexed in 2014.

Zelensky accused Moscow of delaying the peace process and stated that they should still provide the promised memorandum of peaceful conditions after the negotiations in Istanbul. Sands insisted that the document was in its “last stages”.