Ukraine latest: Trump vows to go ahead with more sanctions after Putin attacks

US President Donald Trump has said he is ready to push ahead with a new round of sanctions after Russia targeted the main government building in Kyiv for the first time since the Ukraine war began in 2022.

Trump was asked by reporters whether he is ready to move to the “second stage” of sanctions against Russia, and he replied yes.

However, Trump did not specify what he envisions as the “second stage” of sanctions against Russia, New York Post reported.

U.S. President Donald Trump told European leaders that countries in the continent must stop buying Russian oil, claiming that it is helping Moscow fund its war against Ukraine, a White House official said.

Trump joined a call of the “Coalition of the Willing” countries, led by French President Emmanuel Macron, who were meeting in Paris on security guarantees for Kyiv in the event of a peace deal with Russia.

He struck a combative tone amid slow diplomatic progress to end the fighting and emphasized that Europe must stop purchasing Russian oil that is funding the war – as Russia received 1.1 billion euros in fuel sales from the EU in one year,” the official said.

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American and Ukrainian officials have reportedly been mulling over a plan for American air and satellite surveillance assets to monitor a future Korea-like demilitarized area separating Ukrainian-controlled and Russian-controlled territory within Ukraine’s borders as part of a possible peace plan.

Citing multiple persons familiar with the plan, NBC News reported on Friday that the so-called “buffer zone” would be an as-yet undetermined “large demilitarized area” within Ukraine.

The United States would reportedly “take the lead in watching the buffer zone” because American drone and satellite capabilities give the U.S. a leg up in surveillance matters but the monitoring effort would also involve “other countries” with which the U.S. would coordinate.

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Direct drone hits struck a nine-storey residential building in Kyiv’s Sviatoshynskyi district and a four-storey residential building in Darnytskyi district.

“I just have no more words left to express what I feel towards Russia,” said Olha, a 77-year-old Kyiv resident whose apartment was damaged. She did not give her last name.

“Although I’m an ethnic Russian myself, from outside Moscow. And I’ve never thought my people would be capable of this.”

President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned the wave of Russian strikes across the country that has killed four people and left more than 44 injured.

“Tragically, across Ukraine four people have been killed and more than 44 injured. Our first responders and emergency services are still dealing with the aftermath of the attack around the country,” he said in a post on X.

The report, based on 200 documented cases of recently returned children and young people, found that 41 per cent were forced to take part in weapons training or join paramilitary youth movements such as Yunarmiya.

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Ukraine attacked the Druzhba oil pipeline in Russia’s Bryansk region, inflicting “comprehensive fire damage”, the commander of its drone forces, Robert Brovdi, said on messaging app Telegram on Sunday.

Reuters could not independently verify the reports. There was no immediate comment from Russia.

The transit pipeline delivers Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia, which continue to buy energy supplies from Russia, even after other European Union nations cut ties following its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

A spokesperson for Hungarian refiner MOL said that crude oil deliveries to the country were running on schedule.

Slovak Economy Minister Denisa Sakova said in a Facebook post that oil supplies to Slovakia were unaffected.

Kyiv says its strikes on Russian energy targets, in response to Moscow’s continued attacks on Ukraine, aim to undermine the adversary’s overall war effort.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that he spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron after Russia’s biggest wartime air strike on Ukraine.

“We coordinated our diplomatic efforts, next steps, and contacts with partners to ensure an appropriate response,” Zelensky said on the Telegram app.

Ukrainians in forensics suits unloading thousands of bodies of their fallen countrymen from refrigerated vehicles makes for a depressing spectacle.

But in the three and a half year long war between Russia and Ukraine, the repatriation of the dead might be one of the rare, all-too-brief moments of co-operation between the two warring countries.

The International Committee of the Red Cross, has a caseload of 154,200 people missing from both sides of the frontline as of August, whose fate or whereabouts remain unknown. It is expected it will take decades for families to receive answers about their loved ones.

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