Live news: US reportedly urging Ukraine to talk to Russia

By Mersiha Gadzo

Published On 6 Nov 20226 Nov 2022

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• The US is privately encouraging Ukraine’s leaders to drop their public refusal to engage in peace talks unless President Vladimir Putin is removed from power, the Washington Post reports.
• The newspaper cites unnamed sources as saying the request by American officials was a calculated attempt to ensure Kyiv maintains the support of other nations.

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• 25m ago (08:26 GMT)Intense fighting underway in Bakhmut: AJE CorrespondentAl Jazeera’s Assed Baig reporting from Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine has said that the strategic city of Bakhmut, in the country’s Donetsk Oblast, has seen some of the most intense fighting over the last few months.“If [Russian forces] take it, the roads give them access to other parts of the country. Some of the footage that we’ve been seeing is of Ukrainian forces still in that city, but the buildings around them have taken a real battering… no electricity, water or gas,” Baig said.“Some of the members of the Wagner group, that private company linked to the Kremlin, have said that Russian forces have begun to enter the city. Although it’s very difficult to independently verify which side is correct, and the fighting is so intense it’s difficult to get access to the city, because it’s too dangerous.“But we’re also hearing alongside artillery fire, there’s a lot of trench fighting going on as both sides try to fortify their positions, also getting ready for the winter.”
• 43m ago (08:08 GMT)Taiwanese man dies fighting in Ukraine warA Taiwanese man who volunteered to fight in Ukraine has died on the battlefield, Taipei’s foreign ministry has said, believed to be the first person from the island killed in the conflict.The ministry said a Ukrainian field commander had confirmed the death of 25-year-old Tseng Sheng-kuang, who was serving with a battalion of volunteer soldiers.A cause of death was not given by the ministry but Taiwan’s semi-official Central News Agency (CNA) said he was injured during combat in the eastern city of Luhansk and died from blood loss.
• 1h ago (07:43 GMT)Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 256Click here to read up on the situation as it stands on Sunday, November 6.A Soviet-era Ukrainian car is seen next to a destroyed apartment building after Russian shelling in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine [Andriy Andriyenko/AP Photo]
• 1h ago (07:40 GMT)Iran drones: Tehran confirms supply to Russia before warIran’s top diplomat has admitted that Tehran supplied Russia with drones being used to hit Ukraine, but he claimed they were sold to Moscow before the current conflict began.Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian added that Tehran “won’t be indifferent” if Russia has proven to have used its aerial vehicles in the Ukraine conflict. Kyiv has said Russia is using the drones to target cities and energy facilities.Al Jazeera’s Assed Baig reports from Kryvyi Rih, in southern Ukraine.https://www.youtube.com/embed/I-TniKy2Dcw?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1
• 1h ago (07:22 GMT)Gazpom says shipments to Europe via Ukraine stable at 42.6 mcmRussia’s Gazprom has said it will ship 42.6 million cubic metres (mcm) of gas to Europe via Ukraine on Sunday, in line with recent days.Advertisement
• 1h ago (07:21 GMT)‘Kremlin continues to escalate this war’: US state departmentResponding to the report by the Washington Post, a state department spokesperson said: “We’ve said it before and will say it again: Actions speak louder than words. If Russia is ready for negotiation, it should stop its bombs and missiles and withdraw its forces from Ukraine.“The Kremlin continues to escalate this war. The Kremlin has demonstrated its unwillingness to seriously engage in negotiations since even before it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.”
• 1h ago (06:55 GMT)US said to prod Kyiv on talksThe US is privately encouraging Ukraine to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia, the Washington Post has reported, as the State Department said Moscow was escalating the war.The newspaper cited unnamed sources as saying the request by American officials was not aimed at pushing Ukraine to the negotiating table, but a calculated attempt to ensure Kyiv maintains the support of other nations.US and Ukrainian officials acknowledged that Zelenskyy’s ban on talks with Putin had generated concern in parts of Europe, Africa and Latin America, where the war’s effects on costs of food and fuel are felt most sharply, the Post said.“Ukraine fatigue is a real thing for some of our partners,” it quoted an unnamed US official as saying.
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