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Ukraine received no early warning from its partners about a Russian missile strike on Kyiv, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Ukraine received no warning from Western partners before a Russian missile attack on its capital, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday, but President Donald Trump said Washington was still sharing intelligence even as he pressured Kyiv to halt attacks on Russian refineries.
The Kremlin says it will comment on the apparent truce, announced by President Trump over the weekend, when "we have anything to say".
Yandex runs Russia’s biggest search engine, so most of its automated traffic comes from its crawler, which reads webpages to build search results. An outage in Yandex’s infrastructure meant the automated requests sent by this "bot" went down too.
Ukraine has severely damaged three of Yandex’s six data centres in the past week, wreaking havoc in a country whose tech ecosystem is centred around one vast, state-aligned company. Launched as a search engine in 1997, Yandex has become Russia’s answer to Google, Uber, Amazon and OpenAI rolled into one.
KYIV, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Ukraine is ready to halt its attacks on Russian oil refineries if Moscow ceases its own strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, noting that any steps to de-escalate the conflict must be mutual and come with real guarantees.
Mykhailo Fedorov told Business Insider that he plans to make the new interceptor drone autonomous by integrating artificial intelligence.
The EU’s draft seven-year budget contains a dedicated Ukraine funding instrument worth up to €100bn. But Le Pen is determined to try to scupper any budget deal by withholding half of France’s contribution.