US ‘destroying’ world order: Ukraine 

Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine's ambassador to the UK and former military chief, has said that the United States is ‘destroying’ the current world order.

The Ukraine’s ambassador has also warned that Russia’s next target could be Europe.

“It’s not just the ‘axis of evil’ and Russia trying to revise the world order, but the US is finally destroying this order,” Zaluzhnyi said, speaking on a panel at British think tank Chatham House on Thursday.

Criticising the new Trump administration’s way of handling foreign policy, Valerii Zaluzhnyi said the White House had ‘questioned the unity of the whole Western world’.

Kyiv has made attempts to mend relations with Washington in recent days, after the US paused its military aid to Ukraine and intelligence sharing in a bid to bring Zelensky to the negotiating table.

The Ukrainian envoy added that talks between the US and Russia - the latter of which was ‘headed by a war criminal’ in President Vladimir Putin - showed the White House was making ‘steps towards the Kremlin, trying to meet them halfway’.