Trump said there was “some progress” in ending the Russian-Ukrainian war and warned to revoke permission for strikes deep into Russia. US President-Elect Donald Trump noted that his team is currently working to end the Russian war against Ukraine, and there is already “some progress.” Trump stressed that “We have ma... #DonaldTrump #LongRangeStrikesOnRussia #NorthKorea #Putin #WarEnding #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
The UK, EU, and US will work to strengthen Ukraine’s position in peace talks with Russia. The UK is focused on ensuring Ukraine is in the strongest possible position in 2025, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said. To do this, the UK plans to use a range of mechanisms, including economic ... #JonasGahrStore #KeirStarmer #RadosławSikorski #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarinUkraine
The EU has changed its position on ending the war in Ukraine and wants to participate in negotiations. Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans has changed his position on peace talks with Russia, saying that Europe should take the initiative in negotiations to end the war in Ukraine before Donald Trump... #AntonioCosta #DonaldTrump #RubenBrekelmans #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
Kallas names the EU’s requirement for discussing peacekeepers being sent to Ukraine. EU High Representative Kaja Kallas said that the bloc’s countries have yet to discuss sending peacekeepers to Ukraine. Kallas believes that peace is needed first. “But Russia does not want... #DonaldTrump #KajaKallas #PeacekeepingMission #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
Trump’s team is actively studying ways to end the war in Ukraine. Discussions are currently underway among Western allies on “how to stop the conflict,” said Trump’s future national security adviser, Michael Waltz. “Before Trump’s inaug... #DonaldTrump #KeithKellogg #MikeWaltz #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
Norway will provide Ukraine with more than $240M to strengthen its maritime defense, and the US will try to spend its remaining aid funds in the coming weeks. Norway has announced an additional NRK 2.7B ($242.38M) donation to strengthen Ukraine’s maritime defense. The funds will go toward protecting civilians from attacks, clearing landmines, and training U... #F16training #Italy #MilitaryAid #Norway #Poland #WarinUkraine #WhiteHouse
Europe has delivered just over 50% of the aid it promised to Ukraine. According to columnist Mark Champion, from the beginning of the Russian invasion in February 2022 to the end of October 2024, Europe has pledged €241B in support of Ukraine, while the US promised €119... #AirDefenseSystems #DonaldTrump #MilitaryAid #OlafScholz #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
The Office of the President explained why Ukraine is not yet ready for negotiations with Russia. Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak said that Ukraine is not yet ready to start any negotiations with Russia, as it does not feel sufficient support from the West to conduct t... #AndriyYermak #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarEnding #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Trump is categorically against strikes deep into Russia, but the Biden team thinks it gives an advantage to Ukraine. US President-Elect Donald Trump is categorically against launching strikes deep into Russian territory. He said that such strikes are escalating the war and making it worse. “This should not hav... #DmytriyPeskov #DonaldTrump #LongRangeStrikesOnRussia #OlafScholz #TaurusMissile #WarinUkraine
Russia continues its devastating attacks on the Ukrainian energy sector, and here is why. The series of Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy sector is part of a campaign aimed at freezing the country in winter, as well as forcing the West to adopt political decisions that are favorabl... #DTEK #energyukraine #Kremlin #RussianAttackonUkraine #UkraineEnergyLosses #WarinUkraine
Ukraine will spend 10 times more on its defense than NATO countries in 2025; the EU is not ready for war with Russia. Next year, Ukraine will spend about 25% of its GDP on defense, which is 900% more than European NATO allies’ average, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said during a keynote speech in Brussels. ... #DefenseIndustryEU #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseSpending #MarkRutte #NATO #WarinUkraine #WeaponsProduction
Ending the war in Ukraine will be Trump’s priority immediately after his inauguration. US President-Elect Donald Trump said that he considers the war in Ukraine a higher priority for him than the conflict in the Middle East. Trump stressed the importance of resolving the conflict betwee... #DonaldTrump #JoeBiden #JohnKirby #MiddleEast #Syria #WarinUkraine
Macron plans to discuss the deployment of a peacekeeping mission to Ukraine with Poland. French President Emmanuel Macron shared an idea for a European peacekeeping mission in Ukraine that could involve 40,000 troops. The mission would become a new safeguard against future Russian attacks... #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #NATOsoldiers #PeacekeepingMission #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
Ukrainians support joining NATO without the occupied territories, but they consider nuclear weapons to be the best security guarantee. According to an Info Sapiens survey, 70.3% of Ukrainians positively assess a scenario in which NATO would invite Ukraine to join with its internationally recognized borders recognized. However, Articl... #Article5 #NATOUkraine #NuclearStatusUkraine #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #WarinUkraine
Ukraine will be able to confront Russia without US assistance during the first half of 2025. However, the likely termination of US aid to Ukraine could become a serious challenge, so Ukraine needs a plan for cooperation with the new US administration, said Minister of Finance Serhiy Marchenko... #G7 #LoanForUkraine #MilitaryAidforUkraine #SerhiyMarchenko #UkraineBudget2025 #WarinUkraine
European leaders discuss ending the war in Ukraine with Donald Trump. Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala spoke with US President-Elect Donald Trump about the war in Ukraine in a phone call. “We discussed Prague’s position on the Russian invasion. I think he is ... #DonaldTrump #PetrFiala #VictorOrban #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
Ukraine is assembling a new Contact Group to end the war. Ukraine is forming a list of partners who will join a Contact Group in order to create a common position on ending the war, said Serhiy Nikiforov, Press Secretary of the President of Ukraine. Nikiforo... #FriedrichMerz #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #SupportUkraine #UkraineContactGroup #WarEnding #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Ukrainians have started trusting Trump more, but overall trust in Western leaders is generally declining. The popularity of future White House President Donald Trump among Ukrainians has increased to 44.6%, according to the results of an Info Sapiens poll. For comparison, 16% trust Trump in France, 30% in... #AndrzejDuda #DonaldTrump #JustinTrudeau #UrsulavonderLeyen #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
Ukraine will continue to receive financial assistance from the countries with which it has signed security agreements. As stated by the Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Ihor Zhovkva, leaders from the countries that have signed security cooperation agreements with Ukraine confirm that they will pr... #IhorZhovkva #KeirStarmer #SecurityAgreement #SecurityGuarantees #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
Russian war spending has hit a new record of $20M per hour. According to the German Institute for International Security Studies, Russia’s spending on “national defense” reached an unprecedented $43.28B in the third quarter. Compared to the s... #DefenseSpendingRussia #RussiaBudget #WarinUkraine
Russia increased the intensity of its air strikes on Ukraine by 300% in the fall. Russia launched more than 6,000 drones and missiles into Ukraine in the fall, 200% more than in the previous three months and 300% more than in the fall of 2023. Over the past six months, an average o... #AirDefenseSystems #DroneAttackOnUkraine #MissileAttackOnUkraine #RussianAggression #WarinUkraine
The fall of the Assad regime might weaken Putin’s position during peace negotiations with Ukraine. The Kremlin has actively supported Assad since 2015, when Russian troops intervened in the Syrian civil war, providing him with military and political assistance. Therefore, the rapid fall of the Assa... #AssadRegime #PoliticalCrisis #Putin #Syria #WarinUkraine
Zelensky will discuss the situation in Ukraine with the EC. An EU summit, the first under Antonio Costa’s European Council presidency, will be held on December 19. “The situation in Ukraine will be at the center of our discussions. We must stay wit... #AntonioCosta #OlafScholz #WarEnding #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
FitchRatings: What awaits the Ukrainian economy and when the war will end. Fitch Ratings predicts a slowdown in Ukraine’s economic growth. In 2024, GDP growth is predicted to reach 4%, facilitated by the normalization of Black Sea trade activity, high government spendi... #FitchRatings #InflationinUkraine #UkraineEconomicForecast #UkraineEconomy #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
Ukraine has narrowed the artillery gap with Russia and will soon gain a technological advantage. The Russian military has lost almost its entire advantage in the number of artillery shells it is able to fire over Ukraine in recent months due to production restrictions and Ukrainian strikes on amm... #ArtilleryShells #Starlink #Starshield #WarinUkraine
The Ministry of Finance states that Ukraine has the resources to fight Russia in 2025. Although European allies are concerned that the US will cease providing aid to Kyiv after Donald Trump enters office, the EU is confident that Ukraine will soon receive a $50B loan to be repaid with p... #DonaldTrump #LoanForUkraine #RussianAssetsProfits #SerhiyMarchenko #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
Ukraine’s partial NATO accession is technically possible; the question is the political will of Ukraine’s allies. Technically, the accession of part of Ukraine to NATO is possible and would have precedent, following the examples of Germany before its unification and certain islands co-owned by France and the UK t... #Article5 #Germany #JensStoltenberg #NATO #WarEnding #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
NATO is discussing scenarios for ending the war in Ukraine through negotiations. The governments of some NATO member states are talking about different scenarios that include security guarantees for Ukraine but also seek to avoid provoking Russian President Putin. According to sou... #MarkRutte #NATO #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
By the end of Biden’s presidency, the US will have transferred all $61B in previously allocated aid. As stated by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the US plans to exhaust Ukraine’s funding that has been approved by Congress by the end of Joe Biden’s presidential term. The Biden admin... #AnthonyBlinken #Bradley #JoeBiden #MilitaryAid #NASAMS #PatriotSystems #Pentagon #WarinUkraine
The Russian army is planning an attack on Kherson and crossing the Dnipro River. Russian troops are probably planning an attack on Kherson and have gathered 300 boats to cross the Dnipro River, said the head of the Kherson regional military administration, Oleksandr Prokudin. The ... #Kherson #KinburnSpit #RussianAggression #RussianOffensive #WarinUkraine
Which NATO member states are against inviting Ukraine to the Alliance? There is no consensus among NATO members on the issue of extending an invitation to Ukraine, and several countries still oppose it, writes Le Monde. Opponents of Ukraine’s invitation include at ... #Hungary #JoeBiden #NATOexpansion #NATOUkraine #WarinUkraine #XavierBettel #Zelenskyy
Rutte warns Trump of threats to the US if Ukraine is forced to sign an favorable peace deal. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said that the US would face a “dire threat” from China, Iran, and North Korea if Ukraine has to make concessions in order to end the war with Russia. In a... #China #DonaldTrump #Iran #MarkRutte #NorthKorea #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarinUkraine
The Biden administration urgently wants to provide Ukraine with billions of dollars worth of weapons; Kellogg supports the move. US representatives from the Biden administration say that their increased efforts to provide Ukraine with weapons at the end of Biden’s term, along with the president’s authorizations for ... #DonaldTrump #JoeBiden #KeithKellogg #USmilitaryAid #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
Putin will not agree to the Trump team’s proposed “peace plan,” but the Kremlin may reconsider it under certain conditions. Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, who is under Western sanctions, said that Putin is likely to reject the peace plan proposed by Trump’s recently appointed special envoy for Ukraine, Keith K... #DonaldTrump #KeithKellogg #Putin #VictoryPlan #WarinUkraine
Ukraine will not agree to any alternatives other than NATO membership, although it will not receive an invitation soon. Ukraine will not agree to any other options, such as surrogates or substitutes for full NATO membership, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stressed on the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Budapest ... #BudapestMemorandum #NATO #SecurityGuarantees #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
Two European countries are discussing the deployment of troops on the contact line in Ukraine. According to an anonymous senior NATO official, the United Kingdom and France are considering various options to guarantee Ukraine’s security if peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow are launched ... #France #GreatBritain #NATO #NATOsoldiers #SecurityGuarantees #WarinUkraine
Ukraine needs air defense systems to protect 20 facilities; the UN discusses protection of the Ukrainian energy sector. President Zelenskyy said that Ukraine needs additional air defense systems to protect 20 more special facilities from Russian air attack. Meanwhile, on December 2 the UN discussed the problems of prot... #AirDefenseSystems #AndriiSybiha #EnergyInfrastructure #MiroslavJenča #RussianAggression #WarinUkraine
The $6.5B allocated by the Biden administration for Ukrainian military aid will pass to the Trump administration: What will he do with it? On the first day of his presidency, Donald Trump will have billions of dollars at his disposal to arm Ukraine. More than $6.5B remains within the presidential drawdown authority, which allows the US p... #DonaldTrump #FrozenConflict #JoeBiden #Pentagon #USmilitaryAid #WarinUkraine
Trump is studying Ukraine’s Victory Plan; Kyiv offers Washington a deal that is hard to refuse. US President-Elect Donald Trump’s team is studying the Ukrainian Victory Plan, which implies that there will be no capitulation of Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian president, the war in Ukrai... #DonaldTrump #investments #MineralDepositsUkraine #VictoryPlan #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
In November, Russia lost the most soldiers in a month since the beginning of the war; how is the aggressor’s economy reacting? During November, the Russian army suffered its largest military losses in Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale war, with 45,720 soldiers. The Ukraine Defense Forces also destroyed 307 Russian... #MobilizationInRussia #RubleFall #RussianEconomy #WarinUkraine #WarLosses
A “temporary concession” of the occupied territories in exchange for security guarantees could be an option for ending the war – Stoltenberg. Former NATO Secretary General and next Chairman of the Munich Security Conference Jens Stoltenberg believes that a “temporary concession” of Ukraine’s occupied territories to Russia ... #JensStoltenberg #NATO #SecurityGuarantees #TerritorialConcessions #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Zelenskyy is considering halting the war in exchange for Ukraine’s invitation to NATO, and the occupied territories will be returned diplomatically. President Zelenskyy said that the allies should offer NATO membership to the unoccupied portion of Ukraine to end the “hot phase of the war.” He believes that the occupied territories can ... #Crimea #DonaldTrump #NATO #OccupiedTerritories #Putin #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
What does the peace plan from Trump’s special envoy entail? Donald Trump’s special representative for the Russia-Ukraine war, Keith Kellogg, outlined his plan for ending the war back in April in an article for the America First Policy Institute. The plan... #DonaldTrump #FrozenConflict #KeithKellogg #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarinUkraine
After the latest massive Russian attack on Ukraine’s energy system, Biden promises further support; Ukraine faces long power outages during winter. US President Joe Biden, after the Russian air attack on November 28, made a statement promising further support for Ukrainians. “This attack is outrageous and serves as another reminder of the u... #AirDefenseSystems #ElectricityDeficitUkraine #JoeBiden #MissileAttackOnUkraine #UkraineBlackout #WarinUkraine
The Ukrainian energy system has once again come under a massive assault by the Russian Federation. On the morning of November 28, Russia attacked energy facilities throughout Ukraine, leaving hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians without electricity, Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko said. As a res... #EnergyInfrastructure #GermanGalushchenko #MissileAttackOnUkraine #Naftogaz #RussianAggression #WarinUkraine
The Economist provided its assessment of Ukraine’s losses during the full-scale war. Ukraine’s military losses during the war could range from 60,000 to 100,000 dead with about 400,000 more soldiers wounded. “More than 0.5% of the pre-war male population of fighting age (1... #RussianTroops #UkrainianSoldiers #WarinUkraine #WarLosses #Zelenskyy
NATO members condemn the attack on Dnipro; Rutte calls Ukraine a priority for the Alliance. A NATO-Ukraine Council meeting was held at NATO headquarters in Brussels, where the parties discussed Russia’s use of a new ballistic missile. NATO members confirmed their support for Ukraine an... #DidierReynders #FarahDakhlallah #MarkRutte #Oreshnik #UkraineNATOCouncil #WarinUkraine
Russia plans to use Kursk as a bargaining chip, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces prepare for large-scale battles. Russia wants to reclaim the Kursk region prior to Donald Trump’s inauguration in order to deprive Kyiv of an essential piece of leverage in peace talks. Ukrainian fighters are facing intense att... #ATACMS #DonaldTrump #Kursk #NorthKorea #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #StormShadow #WarinUkraine
Borrell: The EU has failed to provide Ukraine with everything it needs to counter Russia. EU has struggled to make progress this year on a fair settlement of the war against Ukraine, said EU High Representative Josep Borrell. He recalled that this year, the EU had allocated €122B in aid to... #JosepBorrell #MilitaryAid #RobertHabeck #SupportUkraine #TaurusMissile #WarinUkraine
Europe is again backing down on sending troops to Ukraine, reversing its position. Recently, Le Monde published an article stating that discussions had resumed in Europe about sending troops to Ukraine, primarily from the UK and France. Against this background, the British Foreign S... #AntonioTajani #HannoPevkur #NATOsoldiers #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine #WesternTroops
