Ukraine-Russia war latest: Moscow strike kills 4 in Dnipro as Zelensky cautioned against ‘concession’ to Putin
Russian air strikes killed at least four people and injured 21 others in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region on Saturday.
Ukraine’s Air Force announced that the country had come under attack from 10 Russian drones, of which eight were shot down over the Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson regions.
The drones were fired after Volodymyr Zelensky suggested he would temporarily cede Ukrainian territory to Russia in exchange for joining Nato.
“If we want to stop the hot phase of the war, we need to take under the Nato umbrella the territory of Ukraine that we have under our control,” Mr Zelensky told Sky News. “We need to do it fast. And then on the occupied territory of Ukraine, Ukraine can get them back in a diplomatic way.”
The UK’s former ambassador to Russia, Sir Tony Brenton, warned that a Nato membership for Ukraine is “frankly going to be very, very difficult”.
He added: “That is actually quite a major concession, because the longer term could be a very long time indeed,” he said, adding: “[Putin] will say to himself, ‘Ah, they are feeling weak, I can press for more.’ That is a danger if we go into this.”
