Ukraine to present detailed peace plan this year as Russia warns US on drone flights

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaking during a press conference with Slovenian president Natasa Pirc Musar in Kyiv on Friday. Photograph: Shutterstock, as Moscow accused the United States of stepping up military drone flights over the Black Sea and increasing the risk of a direct clash betweenthis month. About 80 countries attended, but Russia was not invited and China stayed away; Kyiv says it wants to forge global consensus around proposals before inviting Moscow to a future summit.

Russia says any peace talks without its involvement are pointless and insists that any settlement must accept its occupation of a swathe of eastern and southern Ukraine, including areas that its invasion force does not control. The Kremlin also demands that Ukraine abandon its ambition of joining Nato.

Moscow’s defence ministry said on Friday that it “notes the increased intensity of flights of US strategic drones over the Black Sea, which carry out reconnaissance and target designation for high-precision weapons supplied to the armed forces of Ukraine by western states, to strike Russian targets. Moscow said last weekend that the US bore responsibility for a missile attack on the occupied Ukrainian region of Crimea that reportedly killed four people and injured more than 100. It alleged that Ukraine’s military used US-supplied rockets in the strike.

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