Zelensky shuts down anchor’s suggestion that Trump would have stopped Russian invasion
Russia has called flight bans that prevented its foreign minister from heading to Serbia “hostile action”.
A Kremlin spokesperson said such actions could cause problems with the timetabling of high-level diplomatic meetings after Sergei Lavrov was forced to call off his visit.
The foreign minister said: “If a visit by the Russian foreign minister to Serbia is seen in the West as something approaching a threat on a universal scale, then things in the West are clearly pretty bad.”
He said that he would instead invite his Serbian counterpart to visit him in Moscow, adding: “The main thing is no one will be able to destroy our relations with Serbia”.
Meanwhile, the UK is stepping up its delivery of arms to Ukraine with long-range rocket launchers to boost the fightback in the eastern Donbas region.
On the ground, Kyiv has been hit by its first missiles in a month and intense fighting continues in Sievierodonetsk, the main battlefield in the east.
