Ukraine has claimed to have struck a Russian industrial facility producing fuel for missiles, as Moscow says it has foiled several assassination plots on senior officers.
Kyiv said on Thursday that its air force had had carried out a strike in Russia’s Rostov region on a factory which was used to produce solid fuel for ballistic missiles used in attacks on Ukraine.
The Russian president said that Slovakia “would be happy to provide their own country as a platform for negotiations”.
He added: “We are not opposed, if it comes to that. Why not? Since Slovakia takes such a neutral position”.
Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico visited the Kremlin this week and is said to have suggested his country for talks.
Putin said he was resolved to end the war, as it comes to the three-year mark early next year. Incoming US president Donald Trump has also said he wants to bring an end to the fighting.
It did say what damage was caused in the attack or give an exact date, but said it had been struck in the past few days.
It comes as Russia claimed it had foiled several Ukrainian plots to assassinate senior officers and their families using bombs disguised as power banks or document folders.
The country’s Federal Security Service said it had arrested four Russians accused of helping plan the attack, just weeks after a high-ranking oddicer was killed outside his Moscow apartment by a bomb attached to an electric scooter.
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