last week, General Keith Kellogg, Trump’s envoy to Ukraine in the conversations for the fire, criticized in an interview with Fox News the Russian offer, characterizing it as “absurd”. Kellogg said that “what the president wants is a permanent and complete fire, by sea, air, earth and infrastructure, for a minimum of 30 days.” He added that “the president in this is completely successful, and that is where we want to arrive.”
Also on Tuesday, Ukraine and Russia carried out an important exchange of prisoners of war, with the mediation of the United Arab Emirates, authorities of both parties said. For noon, 205 Russian soldiers had been released in exchange for the same number of Ukrainians, said the Russian Ministry of Defense. Last month, in an exchange of similar prisoners, a total of more than 500 soldiers from both parties was released.
Ukraine has been increasing the manufacture of long -range explosive drones, a measure to counteract the missiles and Iranian design drones that Russia has been launching since its invasion of 2022.
Most are light ships that look like small airplanes, some propelled by chainsaw motors. They fly through winding routes to avoid aerial defenses and, if they get it, at the last moment they throw themselves against their goals to detonate dozens of kilos of explosives of great power.
