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Ukraine proposes a three-sto-one Zelenski-Trump-Putin meeting between June 20 and 30
Ukraine proposed this Monday to Russia, at the Istanbul meeting, that a three-way meeting be held between June 20 and 30 with the presidents of Ukraine, the United States and Russia – Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, respectively – to give impetus to peace negotiations.
“This is crucial to advance in the negotiation process,” announced the head of the Ukrainian delegation, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, at the end of the meeting held in the Turkish city.
Zelenski’s willingness to meet with Putin was reaffirmed shortly after by the spokesman for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Guerogui Tiji.
“Our president is ready to meet tomorrow. If Putin says he wants to meet tomorrow, President Zelenski will meet with him tomorrow. We don’t have a problem with that. Unfortunately, the problem is on his side,” Tiji said from Istanbul.
Another key issue of the meeting was the Ukrainian request for a 30-day ceasefire to be declared to advance the talks to achieve peace.
According to Umerov, Ukraine will respond within a week to the conditions presented by Russia to declare that truce.
Umerov regretted that Russia had not delivered the documents with its conditions on the ceasefire and on the resolution of the conflict until the same meeting, despite the fact that Kiev had sent its positions to Moscow in advance and demanded that the Russian side do the same so that this Monday’s meeting already produced results.
“Our teams will take a week to review the documents and then we will be able to coordinate the steps to follow,” said the Ukrainian Minister of Defense.
The Russian chief negotiator, Vladimir Medinski, said that he proposed to Ukraine the steps to take to declare a total ceasefire on the front.
“We have delivered a memorandum that has two parts (…) The second includes the steps for a possible and total ceasefire,” Medinski said in his appearance before the press at the end of the talks.
The Russian negotiator assured that this ceasefire plan, which he described as “detailed”, includes two alternatives.
“The Ukrainian part decided to take it and study it. They will study it and answer. We’ll see,” he said.
In addition, Russia also proposed to Ukraine “concrete ceasefires: two-three days in certain sectors of the front (…) so that the commanders can collect the corpses of their soldiers.”
“This will now be dealt with by our military specialists with the Ukrainians,” he said.
Medinski explained that in certain areas the health situation is dangerous and there is “the danger of an epidemic”, so brief truces would allow these bodies to be quickly buried by the enemy.
In fact, he said that the Russians will unilaterally deliver 6,000 corpses of soldiers and officers in their possession.
Today’s meeting comes after the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) destroyed more than forty Russian fighter jets this Sunday with a drone attack against the enemy rearguard and the derailment of two trains in Russian border regions.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke on the phone last night to address the situation in Ukraine.
In the call, Rubio expressed his sincere condolences for “the civilian victims caused by the blaze of the railway infrastructure in the (Russian) regions of Briansk and Kursk on June 1,” according to a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry.
For his part, Lavrov said that the competent authorities are carrying out a thorough investigation and that the results will be published soon.
“Those responsible will be identified and punished,” the Russian minister promised.
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Magnitude 6.4 earthquake rattles northern Chile, no casualties reported
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck Chile’s northern Atacama region on Friday, causing power outages and minor landslides but no reported casualties, according to official sources.
The quake occurred at 1:15 p.m. local time (17:15 GMT), 54 kilometers south of the city of Diego de Almagro, according to the National Seismological Center.
President Gabriel Boric posted on X (formerly Twitter) that local authorities had informed him “that no casualties have been reported so far.” He also convened the Risk and Disaster Management Committee (COGRID) “to consolidate information and assess the damage.”
Local media footage showed minor landslides in parts of Copiapó, a city located about 800 kilometers north of Santiago.
“As a result of the earthquake, 23,000 customers are experiencing power outages in the Atacama region,” said Miguel Ortiz, deputy director of emergency management at Chile’s National Disaster Prevention and Response Service. He also noted reports of minor debris fall.
State-run mining company Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, stated that its operations in the area had not sustained any damage or injuries.
Chile is one of the most seismically active countries in the world, located at the convergence of the Nazca, South American, and Antarctic tectonic plates.
In 1960, the southern city of Valdivia was devastated by a 9.5-magnitude earthquake — the most powerful ever recorded — killing 9,500 people. In 2010, a magnitude 8.8 quake and subsequent tsunami left over 520 dead.
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U.S. issues new environmental waivers to speed border wall construction in Arizona and New Mexico
The U.S. government announced on Thursday three new environmental waivers that will fast-track construction of the border wall with Mexico in Arizona and New Mexico—adding to a similar waiver granted in April for work in California.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the waivers will speed up the building of about 36 miles (roughly 58 kilometers) of new barrier in the Yuma and Tucson sectors of Arizona and in the El Paso sector of neighboring Texas.
The exemptions lift requirements to comply with several environmental laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which would ordinarily apply to new roads or physical barriers in these areas. According to DHS, the projects “will close critical gaps in the border wall and enhance border-security operations in the El Paso, Tucson, and Yuma sectors of U.S. Border Patrol.”
“These waiver-backed projects are crucial steps toward securing the southern border and reinforcing our commitment to border security,” the department said.
The secretary’s authority to issue such waivers comes from Section 102 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, signed into law by President Bill Clinton. Secretary Noem invoked the same authority in April to accelerate wall construction in California.
U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 23,912 migrants along the Mexican border between February and April 2025, following Donald Trump’s return to the White House on January 20.
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Sheinbaum calls for bilateral effort to combat cross-border criminal activity
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated on Thursday that her administration is seeking to collaborate with the Colombian government to address the activities of criminal groups operating in both countries. This follows reports suggesting the involvement of Colombian nationals in an attack that left eight members of Mexico’s National Guard dead last week in the western part of the country.
“We are looking to collaborate with the Government of Colombia to address any criminal activity involving members of criminal groups in Colombia or, in turn, any member of a Mexican criminal group,” Sheinbaum said during her morning press conference.
Her remarks came in response to statements made by Colombian President Gustavo Petro earlier this week. On Tuesday, Petro claimed that former Colombian soldiers were involved in the deadly attack near the border between the Mexican states of Michoacán and Jalisco, where several armed forces personnel were killed.
“A bomb just exploded against the Mexican army in Michoacán, leaving several dead. The army responded by arresting the suspected perpetrators. Most of them are former Colombian soldiers, and some are still active. The press knows about this, but it hasn’t been widely reported. We are exporting mercenaries to the mafia,” Petro stated.
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