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The Kremlin said on Wednesday it continued to monitor statements by US president Donald Trump regarding sanctions against Moscow, but that Russia had acquired immunity to such measures thanks to long experience. Trump said on Tuesday the US would start imposing tariffs and other measures on Russia in 10 days if Moscow showed no progress towards ending its more than three-year-long war in Ukraine. “We have been living under a huge number of sanctions for quite a long time, our economy operates under a huge number of restrictions,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “Therefore, of course, we have already developed a certain immunity in this regard, and we continue to note all statements that come from President Trump, from other international representatives on this matter.”

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that he had approved key principles for large-scale weapons agreements with the US. “These are large-scale agreements, which I discussed with President [Donald] Trump, and I hope very much that we will be able to implement them all,” Zelenskyy said in his evening video address to the nation, adding that it would strengthen both countries. He provided no specifics.

Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv early on Thursday killed six people, including a six-year-old boy, the Ukrainian capital’s military administration said. More than 40 people were wounded, government officials said earlier, with damage caused to the children’s ward of a hospital as well as a school and kindergarten. The strikes targeted at least 10 locations around Kyiv, the military administration said on Telegram. Ukraine’s top diplomat called for “maximum pressure” on Russia after the attacks.

Ukraine’s domestic security agency has detained an air force officer on charges of having spied for Russia by leaking the location of prized F-16 and Mirage 2000 fighter jets, officials said on Wednesday. The unidentified officer, a flight instructor holding the rank of major, stands accused of helping Russia carry out airstrikes by providing coordinates and suggesting strike tactics, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said in a statement.

More than 200 Kremlin critics including former political prisoners voiced outrage on Wednesday at the visit of a high-ranking Moscow delegation to Switzerland, accusing Europe of hosting “war criminals” despite the invasion of Ukraine. Opponents of Russian leader Vladimir Putin fear that, more than three years into Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, some western powers and institutions are at risk of normalising relations with Moscow.

The delegation, led by Valentina Matvienko, speaker of Russia’s upper house of parliament, arrived in Geneva on Sunday for the three-day gathering of global parliamentarians. Matvienko and two other Russian participants attending are under EU and international sanctions. “While Geneva hosts war criminals Matvienko, Tolstoi and Slutsky, Russian troops continue to launch missile strikes on Ukrainian cities. Civilians, children and women are dying,” the signatories said.

Trump said on Wednesday that he would impose a 25% tariff on goods from India, plus an additional trade tax, beginning on Friday, because he says India’s purchasing of Russian oil is extending the war in Ukraine. He added that India had “always bought a vast majority of their military equipment from Russia, and are Russia’s largest buyer of ENERGY, along with China, at a time when everyone wants Russia to STOP THE KILLING IN UKRAINE”.

There has been a significant rise in child casualties in Ukraine in recent months as Russia indiscriminately targets heavily populated civilian areas, with 222 children killed or injured between March and May this year and 2,889 in total since the start of the invasion. Given the delay in verifying deaths, the UN says the true number is likely to be much higher.

Moldova’s pro-European president Maia Sandu on Wednesday accused Russia of seeking to meddle in the September national elections, warning that Moscow was planning “unprecedented” action to “get its people into the next parliament”. Sandu, a vocal critic of Russia, in particular since the start of its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, has repeatedly accused Moscow of political interference in the former Soviet republic that lies between Ukraine and the EU and Nato member Romania.