Ukraine Breaking News Today Live on 04-05-2025

Now that Russia’s naval presence in Syria is in jeopardy, Moscow is trying to establish another warm water port. It has long had its sights on the Red Sea.

In April 2023 a war broke out in Sudan between the National Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, its impact has been devasting on so many levels, millions were displaced and thousands were killed. But this war is fueled by many external actors seeking to advance their agendas in the country.

Recently Russia almost secured an agreement to build a naval base on Red Sea east of Sudan. The West should prevent this step as it will pose a serious threat to the regional interests and the stability of world trade in Red Sea area.

Our goal is to produce Hollywood quality hits at the cost of $20,000 per show. We can make this happen – CEO and Co-Founder of Holywater

Short-form video series and films could be the next big thing. One Ukrainian startup aims to take on its giant Chinese competitors with innovative technology.

New forms of media consumption are always met with incredulity. When YouTube first launched could you predict gaming streamers or ASMR videos? Do you remember a time before ‘Netflix and Chill?’

Images showed Kim pointing to the bullseye of a target, crouching alongside heavily camouflaged soldiers, and smiling and waving to troops.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has test-fired a newly developed sniper rifle, state media said Saturday, as he inspected special forces whose training he said bolstered “actual war capability for guaranteeing victory.”

Such units are among the thousands of troops that South Korea’s spy agency says Pyongyang has deployed to Russia to support Moscow’s war against Ukraine.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) claimed responsibility for a drone strike on a munition plant in Russia’s Samara region in the early hours of Saturday in a comment to Kyiv Post.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said it struck the Promsintez munitions plant in Chapayevsk, Russia’s Samara region, using drones in the early hours on Saturday, April 5. 

Earlier, Russian state media TASS said the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) “attacked an industrial enterprise in the Samara region” but claimed no casualties, citing the region’s governor, Vyacheslav Fedorishchev. 

“Such a strong country, such a strong people – and such a weak reaction,” Zelensky said.

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday slammed the US embassy in Ukraine for what he called a “weak” statement that did not blame Russia for a missile strike that killed 18 people.

The criticism came as US President Donald Trump has pushed for a partial ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine while seeking a thaw in ties with Moscow.

Russia’s Friday missile strike on President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown killed 18 civilians, including nine children, as a missile struck a children’s playground.

Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown, has announced a half-week mourning period after a deadly Russian missile strike that killed 18, including nine children. 

The mourning will last from Monday til Wednesday, between April 7 and April 9, a local official said. 

The visit to Kyiv by the French and British military chiefs came on the same day as a Russian ballistic missile strike on Zelensky’s home city killed at least 18 people, including nine children.

British and French military chiefs traveled to Kyiv this week to discuss strengthening the Ukrainian army and ways to support the war-torn country after any end of hostilities with Russia, France’s Thierry Burkhard said on Saturday.

On Friday, Burkhard and British Chief of the Defence Staff Tony Radakin held talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky and Defense Minister Rustem Umerov.

On March 30, Trump told NBC that he was “very angry, pissed off” after Putin questioned the legitimacy of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

On March 28, 2025, Vladimir Putin, against whom an arrest warrant has been issued by the International Criminal Court for war crimes against Ukrainian children, had the gall to challenge the legitimacy of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to negotiate a peace agreement, and to propose replacing him by a transitional government with the rather obvious inference that Kyiv’s governing authorities should ultimately be subservient to the Kremlin.

Putin’s perfidious reasoning stems from the fact that Ukraine’s scheduled 2024 Presidential elections have been postponed because of Russia’s genocidal war.

The court dismissed the case earlier since it said the US president had no “reasonable grounds” to seek damages. The fees snowballed into the current figure after he refused to pay the initial fees.

A court in the UK has ordered US President Donald Trump to pay £626,000 (about $821,500) to a British private investigation firm that released reports alleging Trump of Russian ties in 2016. 

The reports, known as the Steele dossier, is a collection of memos commissioned by a US firm to British private investigation firm Orbis Business Intelligence to investigate Trump’s alleged ties to Moscow.

The Trump administration on Friday said it accidentally told some Ukrainian refugees they needed to leave the US immediately because their legal status was being revoked.

The Trump administration on Friday said it accidentally told some Ukrainian refugees they needed to leave the US immediately because their legal status was being revoked, telling CBS News the message was sent by mistake.

Some Ukrainians who had entered the US under the Biden administration following Russia’s invasion of their homeland received emails this week telling them that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would be terminating their legal protections, according to advocates and a notice obtained by CBS News.

The world in focus, as seen by Canadian leading global affairs analyst Michael Bociurkiw in a quick review of the biggest news in international media today.

Stock market turmoil deepened on Friday, as China hit back at tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump, raising the likelihood of an extended trade war and damage to the global economy. All three major stock indexes in the US plunged more than 5%, with the S&P 500 dropping almost 6%, capping the worst week for the US stock market since 2020. In the UK, the FTSE 100 plunged almost 5% - its steepest fall in five years, while Asian markets also dropped and exchanges in Germany and France faced similar declines. The global stock market has lost trillions in value since Trump announced sweeping new 10% import taxes on goods from every country, with products from dozens of countries, including key trading partners such as China, the European Union and Vietnam, facing far higher rates. China responded to Trump on Friday by hitting US goods with import taxes of 34%, curbing exports of key minerals and adding American firms to its blacklist, describing Trump’s actions as “bullying” and a violation of international trade rules. Other countries appear to be hoping they will be able to negotiate deals, despite conflicting signals from the White House about its appetite for talks - BBC

• Donald Trump’s tariff blitz could have a severe impact on Laos’ economy and threaten its growing trade relationship with the U.S, according to economic experts. Imports from Laos will face both a 10 percent universal tariff applied to all imports, and a 48 percent reciprocal tariff. For years, Laos has worked to expand its export base, with the U.S. emerging as a key trading partner. The country’s main exports to the U.S.include footwear, wood furniture, textiles, and electronics components. However, with the newly imposed tariff rates, Lao businesses might face a significant drop in orders from American buyers. Lao coffee, one of the country’s signature exports, could also take a significant hit. The United States has been a growing consumer of high-quality Lao coffee, but the added cost from tariffs could push buyers toward alternative suppliers such as Colombia. Laos may now be forced to look toward regional trade partners, particularly China, which has already been increasing its influence in Laos through major infrastructure projects, including the Laos-China Railway - The Laotian Times

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The anti-Ukrainian position of billionaire Elon Musk, who owns Starlink via his space firm SpaceX, has prompted concerns about over-reliance on Statlink devices in Ukraine.

Berlin has reportedly funded Kyiv’s access to French satellite provider Eutelsat’s services.

Eutelsat, which provides satellite internet connection, is the world’s second-largest low-orbit satellite operator and serves as a potential alternative to the US’s Starlink services that are being used on the Ukrainian front to sustain battlefield communications. 

Trump’s protectionist policies and general volatility could transform the nature of the EU-US relationship, accelerate multipolarisation, and end the hegemony of the US dollar, analysts said.

The US president’s decision on Wednesday to impose blanket 20% tariffs on EU goods – as well as a minimum 10% levy on all other imports – will reduce eurozone GDP this year by much less than it will US output, according to several studies released on Thursday.

Moreover, Trump’s protectionist policies and general volatility could prompt radical changes in the global economy that might transform the nature of the EU-US relationship, accelerate multipolarisation, and end the hegemony of the US dollar, analysts said.

Last week, Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s Office said the “main version” in the plane crash investigation is “human error.”

There is no evidence of “unlawful interference” with a DHL plane that crashed in Lithuania last November, and pilot error is thought to be behind the incident, Lithuanian officials have said.

Amid heightened concerns over Russian hybrid attacks in Europe, the Boeing 737-400 cargo jet operated by Spain’s Swiftair crashed as it came into land at Vilnius airport on November 25.

The Ukrainian president said meetings on Western troop deployments in Ukraine would go into the next few weeks following the historic talks on Friday in Kyiv.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that the UK-led “Coalition of the Willing” group on troop deployments to Ukraine will have regular meetings in the coming weeks to work out the details. 

A British and French delegation visited Kyiv on Friday, April 5, and met with senior Ukrainian officials to continue talks on sending a European peacekeeping force in the first meeting of its kind in Ukraine. 

The attack on Ukraine has brought to attention an old question of whether scientists should remain silent on matters of politics and war.

There is a largely unspoken credo among scientists that politics is something you stay away from, unless of course you are sufficiently famous or have a Nobel Prize. In those cases, you can take on the aura of a sage, drifting into matters political with a whiff of wisdom. Albert Einstein’s political diversion into what humanity was to do with its newly discovered powers of nuclear destruction didn’t tarnish his scientific reputation; somehow it seemed fitting.

However, the origin of this, in my view erroneous, tenet, is rooted in a confusion about how we do science and the extent to which scientists should take an interest in the consequences of their discoveries.

The urgent need to develop state-of-the-art battlefield tech – a constantly moving target in the crucible of Ukraine – continues to run into hurdles.

Opportunities and investment have surged for European defense startups since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, industry players say, with shifts by governments and investors shaking up a sector long a byword for ponderous development.

Research published in February by the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) and market analytics firm Dealroom found that venture capital going into European “defense, security and resilience” startups leapt 30% in the two years to 2024, reaching $5.2 billion.