Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump says conflict could lead to world war and Putin ‘has really let me down’

Poland wants to benefit from Ukraine’s knowledge and skills regarding drone warfare, Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz has said as Warsaw and Kyiv announced the creation of a joint operational group for unmanned systems.

“We want to benefit from your knowledge and skills, and we want Polish companies, both public and private, to be able to participate in this together,” Kosiniak-Kamysz said during a news conference in Kyiv.

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree this week on the country’s accession to the Eurasian Development Bank, a Russian-backed alternative to the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development.

The decree signed on Tuesday provides for Uzbekistan to pay $168.411 million from its state budget for EDB membership, becoming the bank’s seventh member and third largest shareholder, with a stake of 10%.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that he visited Ukraine’s frontline Donetsk region.

Zelenskiy said on X that he had met soldiers taking part in fighting to recapture land near Dobropillia after Russian troops made rapid advances in the area in August.

“Step-by-step, the warriors are liberating our land: since the start of the operation, 160 square kilometres (62 square miles) and seven settlements have been reclaimed,” he added.

Trump added that they are sending “lots of weapons to Nato”, as he met Sir Keir Starmer for talks at Chequers.

“Nato is paying for those weapons in full, but we’re sending them, and we’re doing a great job at getting them what they need, and we appreciate the fact that they’re taken care of, because the United States is into that war for 350 billion dollars and just really very sad.

“Just got out of control.”

Russia’s foreign ministry said that Japan’s new sanctions against Russia were unfriendly and would not go unanswered.

Japan last week expanded its sanctions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, targeting additional individuals and entities and lowering the price cap on Russian oil.

“Japan’s latest unfriendly actions will not go unanswered,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters.

“But our response will be well thought out and based on national interests. We will continue to take appropriate countermeasures, including those of an asymmetric nature,” Zakharova said.

Sir Keir Starmer has said the UK and US are working together to put pressure on Vladimir Putin to get him to agree to a peace deal with Ukraine.

“We have discussed today how we can build our defences, further support Ukraine and decisively increase the pressure on Putin to get him to agree a peace deal that will last,” Starmer told reporters.

Donald Trump has said Putin ‘really let him down’, as he met Sir Keir Starmer for talks at Chequers.

“The one that I thought would be easiest would be because of my relationship with President Putin. But he’s let me down. He’s really let me down,” the US President said.

“You thought were going to have an easy time or a hard time and it turns out to be the reverse.”