Pjotr Sauer

Russia

Russia and Ukraine Reporter at The Guardian

Reporter @Guardian covering Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia. Write to me: [email protected]

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Zelenskyy challenges Putin to meet in person for peace talks | Ukraine

3 days ago | businessandamerica.com | Shaun Walker |Pjotr Sauer

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has challenged Vladimir Putin to meet in person for peace talks in Istanbul on Thursday and urged Russia to accept a 30-day truce, in a dramatic turn after a weekend of diplomatic flurry. His comments came after Donald Trump pressed him to agree “immediately” to Putin’s offer of negotiations this week with Russia. Zelenskyy upped the stakes by suggesting the enemies meet “personally”.
Zelenskyy challenges Putin to meet in person for peace talks

3 days ago | aol.co.uk | Shaun Walker |Pjotr Sauer

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has challenged Vladimir Putin to meet in person for peace talks in Istanbul on Thursday, in a dramatic gambit after a weekend of diplomatic flurry. His comments came after Putin rejected a demand from Ukraine and European allies to sign up to a 30-day ceasefire, but said Russia was ready for direct negotiations with Ukraine. Putin said delegations from the two countries should meet on Thursday in Turkey.
Chinese troops march with Russian forces as Xi joins Putin for Victory Day parade

5 days ago | theguardian.com | Pjotr Sauer |Shaun Walker

Russian troops fighting in Ukraine marched together with Chinese forces on Moscow’s Red Square to mark the 80th anniversary of of Nazi Germany’s defeat, in a Victory Day celebrations marked by greater spectacle than in recent years. After several scaled-back Victory Day celebrations – with reduced military displays and few foreign guests – the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, on Friday addressed the largest parade since his 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Xi hails ‘confident’ China-Russia ties as Putin welcomes ‘dear friend’ to Kremlin

6 days ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Amy Hawkins |Pjotr Sauer

Xi is expected to sign several cooperation agreements with Putin during his four-day visit. Xi is expected to sign several cooperation agreements with Putin during his four-day visit. Photograph: Evgenia Novozhenina/ReutersXi Jinping and Vladimir Putin exchanged warm words in the Kremlin on Thursday during a grand ceremony welcoming the Chinese leader for his 11th visit to Russia, ahead of a military parade to mark 80 years since the end of the second world war.
Xi Jinping begins four-day Russia visit after Ukrainian drones attack Moscow

1 week ago | aol.co.uk | Amy Hawkins |Pjotr Sauer

Xi Jinping arrived in Moscow on Wednesday for the start of a four-day visit during which he will attend Russia’s military parade commemorating the anniversary of the end of the second world war, known in Russia as Victory Day. The Chinese leader’s trip has coincided with mass Ukrainian drone attacks on the Russian capital. Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said Russia’s air defence units destroyed at least 19 Ukrainian drones overnight. Xi was greeted on arrival in Moscow with a military band.
Ukrainian drones target Moscow for second night as foreign leaders arrive

1 week ago | aol.co.uk | Pjotr Sauer

Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow on Tuesday as the first foreign leaders landed in the capital ahead of a major military parade marking the end of the second world war. Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, said Russian air defences shot down two drones en route to the capital on Tuesday evening. It was the second consecutive day of Ukrainian drone attacks, following two waves that temporarily shut several Moscow airports.
Ukrainian drones target Moscow for second night

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Pjotr Sauer

Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow for the second night in a row, forcing the temporary closure of the capital’s airports, Russia’s military reported. The consecutive attacks came ahead of Moscow marking this week the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union and its allies over Germany in the second world war.
Explosive sex toys and cosmetics: the story behind the DHL parcels plot

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Pjotr Sauer |Shaun Walker

On a frosty November morning last year, a broad-shouldered man with short grey hair staggered, exhausted, into a small guesthouse on the outskirts of Bosanska Krupa – a quaint Bosnian border town where ancient stone bridges span the emerald-green waters of the Una River. Alexander Bezrukavyi had been on the run for more than three months, pursued by European security services who accused him of working for Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU.
Inside Taganrog: beatings, electrocution and starvation at prison where Ukrainians were tortured

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Shaun Walker |Manisha Ganguly |Artem Mazhulin |Pjotr Sauer |Lucy Swan

Some weeks after being detained as she attempted to leave a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine in January 2023, Yelyzaveta Shylykwas given a polygraph test. As her interrogators attached the lie detector’s wires to her, they calmly issued a threat about what would happen if she failed the test: “You’ll go to a place where you’ll regret being born.”That place, she would later find out, had a name: Sizo number 2, a pre-trial detention centre in the southern Russian city of Taganrog.
Putin declares 72-hour May ceasefire in Ukraine war to mark WW2 anniversary

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Pjotr Sauer

Vladimir Putin has declared a three-day full ceasefire in the war with Ukraine next month to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union in the second world war. The Kremlin said the 72-hour ceasefire would run from the start of May 8 to the end of May 10, and Russia called on Ukraine to join it as well. “All hostilities will be suspended during this period,” the Kremlin said in a statement.