{"id":770626,"date":"2026-06-30T20:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/770626\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T20:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:45:09","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-putin-expects-us-negotiators-in-moscow-fuel-rationing-in-siberia-as-crisis-bites-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/770626\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Putin expects US negotiators in Moscow; fuel rationing in Siberia as crisis bites | Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vladimir Putin says he expects US negotiators to come to Moscow, once Washington had reached an agreement with Iran over the Middle East conflict. \u201cWe expect that after all the events are over, after the active phase on the Iranian track has passed, we will see the arrival of those representatives of the US administration with whom we have already met in Moscow repeatedly,\u201d the Russian president told Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin. \u201cWe are ready to continue negotiations and ready to continue negotiations and discuss all the details.\u201d Putin was responding to a question on the state of Russian-US relations after the G7 summit in France, when Donald Trump said Russia should \u201cmake a deal with Ukraine\u201d. On Wednesday, the US President said his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy was doing well in the war against Russia, having previously said he lacked the \u201ccards\u201d to win.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s president acknowledged \u201ca certain shortage\u201d of fuel after Ukrainian retaliatory strikes on energy infrastructure sparked by his invasion of the country. \u201cAs for strikes against critical infrastructure in general, and energy infrastructure in particular, of course these attacks on our infrastructure facilities create problems, that\u2019s obvious,\u201d said Putin<\/a> in an interview published by the Kremlin on Sunday. \u201cRight now we\u2019re observing a certain shortage, but it\u2019s not critical.\u201d The priority now was to improve air defences and protect fuel supplies, particularly in Russian-occupied Crimea, he said. Fuel deliveries to the Black Sea peninsula by land and sea will be increased, Putin said.<\/p>\n

A governor in Siberia announced that drivers will be allowed to buy no more than 50 litres (13 US gallons) of fuel per vehicle per day at state-run Rosneft fuel stations in the province. Igor Kobzev, the governor of the Irkutsk region, made the announcement as fuel shortages spread across Russia. Russia\u2019s deputy prime minister Alexander Novak said Moscow was actively reviewing fuel export agreements to avoid compromising domestic needs.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy said his forces had struck two oil refineries inside Russia over the weekend. A drone strike that sparked a blaze at a refinery in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, a town in Russia\u2019s Krasnodar region, killed one person in Slavyansk and wounded another in a nearby village, local authorities said. Zelenskyy also claimed that another Russian refinery, in the Yaroslavl region around 700km (435 miles) from the Ukrainian border, was hit during the night-time strikes. There were no immediate reports from Russian authorities about the strike on the Yaroslavl refinery. Local governor Mikhail Evraev reported on Sunday morning that some roads between Moscow and the region\u2019s capital, Yaroslavl, were temporarily closed due to \u201can enemy attack by Ukrainian drones\u201d. Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram: \u201cEach [strike] means a reduction in the resources that fuel the Russian war machine, and another step toward peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Russian attack killed two people in Zaporizhzhia \u2013 a city in southern Ukraine \u2013 and injured 16 others, including two children, said regional administration head Ivan Fedorov. In Russia\u2019s border region of Belgorod, Ukrainian drone strikes killed one person and injured another earlier on Sunday, according to the acting local governor, Alexander Shuvayev. Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said its forces shot down 213 Ukrainian drones during the night, including over Russia, occupied Crimea and the Black and Azov seas. Meanwhile, Russia attacked Ukraine with 142 long-range strike drones and eight missiles overnight, according to the Ukrainian air force. Of those, 125 drones and seven missiles were struck down, the air force said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin says he expects US negotiators to come to Moscow, once Washington had reached an agreement with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-770626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}