Ukraine war briefing: No energy ceasefire until Russia stops, Zelenskyy confirms after Trump claim

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Ukraine war briefing: No energy ceasefire until Russia stops, Zelenskyy confirms after Trump claim

TL;DR

  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed Ukraine will not halt attacks on Russian energy targets unless Russia also stops, and the US guarantees it, refuting Donald Trump's claims of a ceasefire.
  • A NATO fighter jet shot down a drone in Lithuania near the Belarusian border.
  • A Russian attack on a farming warehouse in Pryluky, Ukraine, killed three people and injured seven.
  • Prosecutors in Germany have charged a German-Ukrainian woman with acting on behalf of Russian intelligence.
  • A member of the UK armed forces was killed in a crash in Ukraine.
  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed Ukraine's prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, amid a bribery scandal.