Ukraine-Russia war latest: Harris sets terms for Putin peace talks as Kyiv faces hypersonic missile attack

Kamala Harris has said Ukraine will need to be in the room for any peace talks to negotiate a solution toend the Russian invasion.

“Ukraine must have a say in the future,” she told CBS News during an interview on 60 Minutes.

Asked if she would meet Vladimir Putin one-on-one to negotiate peace, she Democratic presidential hopeful said: “Not bilaterally without Ukraine, no… There will be no success in ending that war without Ukraine and the UN charter participating in what that success looks like,” she said.

Putin’s forces yesterday launched a hypersonic missile barrage at Kyiv, hours after a Ukrainian strike started a fire at Moscow’s largest oil depot in occupied Crimea.

Ukrainian troops were forced to down at least two eight-metre long Kinzhal missiles fired at Kyiv while anotherhit an airfield 170 miles further west in Starokostyantyniv. The Kh-47M2 Kinzhal is a nuclear-capable, Russianair-launched ballistic missile, described as a “next-generation” weapon by Putin in 2018.

In the Donbas, Russian forces have entered the outskirts of the eastern Ukraine frontline city of Toretsk, Ukraine’s military said last night.

Russia’s defence ministry claimed on Tuesday it had taken control of Zolota Nyva, a settlement in eastern Ukraine.

The update was reported by the state TASS news agency and has not been independently verified.

Zolota Nyva is in the region of Donetsk, where many of Russia’s assaults are focussed. It is around 90 kilometres west of Donetsk city.

Deepening ties between Iran and Russia are destabilising both the Middle East and the rest of the world.

Matthew Miller, the US State Department spokesperson, said:  «So certainly we see the deepening ties between Iran and Russia as something that’s incredibly