Winning the Economic and Financial War in Ukraine. In advance of expected talks upon Trump’s presidency in early 2025, “land for peace” has become the catchphrase uttered by those who want a quick end to the war. Central among the innumerable c... #EconomicWar #FinancialWar #FinancialWarinUkraine #MarkMcNamee #RomanSulzhyk #WarinUkraine
The US will urge the EU and NATO to play a more active role in supporting Ukraine. On February 12, a meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine Defense (Ramstein) took place under Britain’s chairmanship, and additional official meetings are currently ongoing, during which Pentago... #KeithKellogg #MarcoRubio #NATO #PeacekeepingMission #PeteHegseth #Ramstein #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
Denmark has analyzed the Russian Federation’s ability to launch a regional war against Europe. Danish military intelligence claims that if the war in Ukraine is stopped or frozen, and if NATO is unable to rearm, Russia will be prepared for a large-scale war in Europe within five years. The repo... #DefenseIndustryRussia #Denmark #NATO #RussianAggression #WarinUkraine
Britain will spend £4.5B on military aid to Ukraine this year, while Ukraine’s allies exceed their €40B pledge. UK Defence Secretary John Healey announced £4.5B ($5.6B) in military support for Ukraine, which includes the delivery of more than 10,000 drones by the end of March, with many already delivered over t... #GreatBritain #JohnHealey #MarkRutte #MilitaryAidforUkraine #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
The US will push Europe to buy more American weapons for Ukraine while working to revive Lend-Lease. The Trump administration will encourage its European allies to buy more US-made weapons for Ukraine ahead of possible peace talks with Russia to improve Kyiv’s negotiating position. US officials... #DonaldTrump #JoeWilson #KeithKellogg #LendLease #MunichSecurityConference #UScongress #USweapons #WarinUkraine
Ukraine can fund its defense in the war if adequate Russian sanctions are in place. As former US Deputy Secretary of State James Glassman noted, the US and the EU “did not pressure” Russia on the issue of sanctions because they overlooked the fact that Ukraine can replace... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #JamesGlassman #RussianProducts #SanctionsAgainstRussia #WarinUkraine
Zelenskyy will consider negotiations with Putin to end the war in 2025 if Ukraine receives strong security guarantees. President Zelenskyy stated that peace talks between Ukraine and Russia are feasible if Kyiv receives security assurances from its Western partners. He stated that he would be open to any negotiation f... #MikeWaltz #PeaceTalks #Putin #SecurityGuarantees #WarEnding #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Using drones helps Ukraine to restrain the Russian offensive despite its shortage of military personnel. In some areas along the front, the number of Russian troops exceeds those of the Ukrainian military tenfold, but the Russians cannot advance quickly because the Ukrainian defenders in these regions co... #DefenseTechnology #DroneProduction #FPVdrones #OleksandrSyrskyy #Pokrovsk #UkrainianDrone #WarinUkraine
Can Ukraine use the Kursk region to bargain for its occupied territory? Zelenskyy says Trump has no plan to end the war. The Telegraph believes that US President Donald Trump’s statements concerning his intention to take control of the Gaza Strip may indicate that to end the war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin will hav... #CriticalMetals #DonaldTrump #Kursk #OccupiedTerritoriesOfUkraine #PeacePlan #Putin #WarEnding #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Ukraine is trying to gain a strong negotiating position before talks begin. Six months after the Kursk operation was launched on February 6, Ukrainian soldiers began new assaults in the Kursk region, advancing around five kilometers from the city of Sudzha in a day and taking... #KremniyEl #Kursk #NorthKorea #OilRefinery #PeaceTalks #RussiaOilRefineryDamages #Sudzha #WarinUkraine
Ukraine is preparing to deploy laser weapons against Russian UAVs and has significantly reduced Ukraine’s artillery disadvantage. Ukrainian mobile fire groups will soon be equipped with laser weapons to counter Russian Shahed UAVs, said Vadym Sukharevsky, Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Unmanned Systems Forces. Ac... #ArtilleryShells #DefenseTechnology #LaserWeapons #OleksandrSyrskyy #UkrainianDrone #WarinUkraine
The Trump administration has changed its approach on how to end Russia’s war against Ukraine. The new Trump administration has realized the complexity of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and that it will take longer to resolve than they initially thought, according to sources in the US and Ukrai... #DonaldTrump #KeithKellogg #MikeWaltz #PeaceTalks #Putin #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
Between minimal and zero: Kellogg evaluates Ukraine’s chances of regaining its nuclear status. US Special Envoy Keith Kellogg stated that Ukraine’s likelihood of reclaiming its nuclear weapons is “slim and none.” “Let’s be honest, we know that’s not going to ... #DonaldTrump #KeithKellogg #MunichConference #NATO #NuclearStatusUkraine #PeacePlan #SecurityGuarantees #WarinUkraine
Russia has sacrificed hundreds of thousands of people to seize 20% of Ukraine. Was it worth it? Foreign affairs analysts note that Russia currently controls approximately 20% of Ukrainian territory, a significant portion of which is in complete ruin. Too few people are left in the occupied terri... #OccupiedTerritories #Putin #RussianEconomy #WarinUkraine
The battle for eastern Ukraine: Ukrainian minerals can only be extracted after the war ends. US President Donald Trump has said that he will offer Ukraine military assistance in exchange for access to Ukraine’s rare earth metals and other minerals. However, the problem is that most of t... #DonaldTrump #MiningIndustry #MiningUkraine #OccupiedTerritories #ukrainiannaturalresources #WarinUkraine
Zelenskyy is open to talks with Putin; Trump has had “very constructive talks” regarding Ukraine. President Zelenskyy stated he is prepared to sit down at the negotiating table with President Vladimir Putin if it is the only path to peace. “We will definitely pursue this option to meet with ... #DonaldTrump #PeaceTalks #Putin #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarEnding #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
The Trump administration will present its plan to end the war in Munich. US allies expect the Trump administration to unveil a long-awaited strategy to conclude Russia’s war on Ukraine at the Munich Security Conference in Germany next week, reported Bloomberg. The proposal... #Germany #KeithKellogg #MunichSecurityConference #PeaceTalks #WarEnding #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Starmer pledges unprecedented military aid for Ukraine this year and states that Britain will play a “full role” in the peace process in Ukraine. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has indicated that the UK will provide more military support to Ukraine in 2025 than in the three previous years. The UK had previously announced plans to deliver u... #GreatBritain #KeirStarmer #PeacekeepingMission #PeaceTalks #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
The Russian military’s push into Ukraine slows by almost half, as it continues to suffer heavy losses. In January 2025, the Russian military occupied 430 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory, according to ISW. In November last year, Russian troops captured 725 square kilometers of Ukrainian land, b... #Kursk #OccupiedTerritories #RussianlossesWar #RussianOffensive #WarinUkraine #WarLosses
Trump is preparing “meetings and talks” with Russia, Ukraine, and its allies to bring about the war’s end. President Zelenskyy confirmed that Donald Trump and his administration have already scheduled meetings and negotiations with Ukraine, Russia, and other parties concerning the conflict. “We are p... #DonaldTrump #PeaceTalks #Putin #WarEnding #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Zelenskyy: Ukraine has received only 43% of the military aid that the US has approved. Ukraine has received only $76B out of almost $177B in approved US military assistance. “We received it not in money, but in weapons – we received weapons worth more than $70B. This is a signific... #NATO #Pentagon #RussianAggression #USmilitaryAid #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
The Trump team has held “serious discussions” with Russia on ending war in Ukraine; Kellogg expects peace within months. US President Donald Trump said his administration has already held “very serious” talks with Russia regarding the war in Ukraine and that he and Russian dictator Putin could soon take R... #DonaldTrump #KeithKellogg #PeaceTalks #Putin #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
Marco Rubio: The war has reached a stalemate, and neither side will accomplish its ultimate goal, but the US will continue to support Ukraine. Neither Ukraine nor Russia will achieve their best-case scenario in ending their conflict; both sides will need to make concessions, said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He added that both parties ... #DonaldTrump #MarcoRubio #PeaceTalks #SupportUkraine #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
Zelenskyy: NATO membership remains Ukraine’s primary objective, and its military could provide value for the Alliance. President Zelenskyy noted that without security guarantees from allies, any agreement concluded with Russia will only delay the country’s future aggression. NATO membership remains Ukraine’... #DonaldTrump #NATO #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #UkrainianSoldiers #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Ukraine and Russia have each intensified their air attacks: Russian energy facilities are under constant fire, and Ukrainian civilians are taking cover. On January 31, the Ukrainian military targeted the Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka facility in the Volgograd region. With a design capacity of 14.8 million tons, this refinery is one of the ten large... #Kstovo #Odesa #Poltava #RussianAggression #RussiaOilRefineryDamages #Sibur #Volgograd #WarinUkraine
Sweden will provide a large aid package to the Ukrainian defense forces; Lithuania mulls allowing troops to be deployed to Ukraine. Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson announced that the country has agreed to deliver its largest aid package to Ukraine to date, valued at SEK 13.5B ($1.23B). This marks Sweden’s 18th military p... #Lithuania #MilitaryAidforUkraine #NATOsoldiers #PalJonson #PeacekeepingMission #RaimundasVaikšnoras #Sweden #WarinUkraine
PACE adopts a resolution on peace in Ukraine. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution, Europe’s commitment to a just and sustainable peace in Ukraine, which is the main document to emerge from the 202... #CompensationForUkraine #PACE #PeaceTalks #RussiaWarCrimes #SanctionsAgainstRussia #WarinUkraine
Europe is ready to increase defense spending. Most EU countries that are also NATO members are likely to agree to increase the defense spending target at the Alliance’s June summit, European Council President Antonio Costa said. An informal... #AntonioCosta #DefenseSpending #EUdefense #NATO #RussianAssetsConfiscation #RussianCentralBank #WarinUkraine
Ukraine successfully conducted another drone strike on Russia’s oil infrastructure. On January 29, the Ukrainian military reported that it had successfully hit a Russian oil refinery and a pumping station on a crucial crude pipeline as Kyiv intensifies its assaults on the aggressor&#... #AttackOnRussia #Kstovo #LongRangeStrikesOnRussia #LukOil #NORSI #OilRefineryRussia #UstLuga #WarinUkraine
Zelenskyy: Putin fears negotiations and wants the war to drag out. On January 28, Putin issued a new statement regarding negotiations with Ukraine. The Russian dictator said that he was not ready to sign a peace treaty with the Ukrainian President because he is ̶... #PeaceTalks #Putin #RuslanStefanchuk #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Scholz and Rutte advise NATO and the EU to arm themselves. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, commenting on a new underwater cable damage incident in the Baltic Sea, remarked on the danger posed by the Russian shadow fleet and stressed the need to increase defens... #DefenseSpending #DonaldTrump #EUdefense #MarkRutte #NATO #OlafScholz #WarinUkraine
Analysts have identified the advantages Ukraine would gain from receiving frozen Russian assets in their entirety. Confiscating $300B in frozen Russian assets would provide Ukraine with a better opportunity to win the war, the most critical issue for the country today, according to Bill Browder, head of the Britis... #DonaldTrump #RussianAssetsArrested #RussianAssetsConfiscation #SupportUkraine #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
Trump might guarantee Ukraine’s security through US peacekeepers under certain conditions. According to Bloomberg, the Trump administration is ready to deploy US troops in Ukraine as part of a post-ceasefire peacekeeping mission, but only under certain conditions. In exchange for the deploy... #DonaldTrump #MarkRutte #NATO #PeacekeepingMission #SecurityGuarantees #UkraineReconstruction #WarinUkraine
The US wants to provide Ukraine with weapons using frozen Russian assets, and Europe will pay for it. The US President’s Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, said that the US is mulling the possibility of purchasing American weapons for Ukraine using frozen Russian assets. “... #AmericanWeapons #KeithKellogg #MarkRutte #RussianAssetsArrested #SupportUkraine #USmilitaryAid #WarinUkraine
Ukraine wants the EU and the US to participate in the negotiations to end the war. “Regarding the structure of the negotiations: I hope Ukraine, America, Europe, and the Russians will be there. I want Europe to take part because we will be members of the European Union,”... #AndriyYermak #PeaceTalks #Putin #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarEnding #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
More weapons in exchange for lowering the mobilization age: Zelenskyy identifies the prerequisite for negotiations with Russia. The US may put forward a condition for the provision of additional military aid to Ukraine – lowering the mobilization age for men. President Zelenskyy has refrained from raising the conscription age,... #MobilizationUkraine #PeaceTalks #USmilitaryAid #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
The Russian elite has begun considering peace talks with Ukraine, but there is a nuance. Economic difficulties are prompting some of the Russian elite to believe that the conflict in Ukraine must be resolved through negotiation. This week, US President Donald Trump said that levying addit... #DonaldTrump #PeaceTalks #Putin #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #SanctionsAgainstRussia #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
Ukraine and its allies are discussing the deployment of up to 50,000 peacekeepers. As reported by Politico and the FT, current talks are focused on forming a deterrent force pulled from five to six different European countries that would guard the line of contact in the event of a c... #MariaZakharova #NATOsoldiers #PeacekeepingMission #WarEnding #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
NATO states that Russia lacks the potential for a breakthrough on the front. The US Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Christopher Cavoli, believes that Russia currently lacks the military potential for a large-scale breakthrough on the front. At the World Economic Forum... #ChristopherCavoli #Davos #NATO #Pokrovsk #RussianOffensive #UkraineCounteroffensive #WarinUkraine
Trump instructs Kellogg to end war in Ukraine in 100 days. US President Donald Trump has instructed his special envoy for the Russia and Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, to end the war in 100 days. According to the WSJ, Kellogg will advise Trump on negotiations, but ... #DonaldTrump #KeithKellogg #NATO #PeaceTalks #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
US State Department: We want to end the war against Ukraine so that it does not happen again; Trump threatens Russia with tariffs and sanctions. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Donald Trump’s promise to end the war will become an official priority of US foreign policy. “We do not want the conflict to end and then resume... #DonaldTrump #MarcoRubio #PeaceTalks #SanctionsAgainstRussia #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
Zelenskyy: Ukraine must first receive strong security guarantees from the US and American peacekeepers to end the war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that any effective peacekeeping force deployed in Ukraine must include US troops. He added that European allies do not have enough soldiers to deter Putin ... #DonaldTrump #PeaceTalks #Putin #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #WarEnding #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Trump officially becomes US president: He promises to end all wars and states that Putin is destroying Russia, but does not mention Ukraine. Donald Trump was sworn in, officially becoming the 47th president of the United States. After taking office, he said that he would focus on ending all wars in the world and building “the stronge... #DonaldTrump #Putin #TrumpInauguration #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
The Senate approves the new US Secretary of State; Rubio says that Ukraine and Russia must both agree to concessions to end the war. A few hours after US President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Senate confirmed Marco Rubio for the post of US Secretary of State. He becomes the first Cabinet official of the new administratio... #DonaldTrump #MarcoRubio #PeaceTalks #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
Zelenskyy in Davos: We need a diplomatic solution to end the war. It is necessary to achieve a diplomatic means to end the war, but whether the peace will be stable and fair depends on what this diplomacy and security guarantees turn out to be, said President Zelens... #Davos #NATO #SecurityGuarantees #WarEnding #WarinUkraine #worldeconomicforum #Zelenskyy
Macron: Ukraine needs to be provided with the means to survive and the ability to negotiate from a position of strength. The war in Ukraine “will not end tomorrow or the day after tomorrow,” French President Emmanuel Macron said in his address to the French military. According to him, the West’s key ta... #CaesarHowitzers #EmmanuelMacron #France #SAMP/T #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
The Biden administration’s priority was never Ukraine’s victory, only its survival. When the full-scale Russian invasion began, US President Joe Biden identified three key goals for the American response. Ukraine’s victory was not mentioned among them. In fact, the wording used by th... #JoeBiden #MilitaryAidforUkraine #NATO #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
Experts believe that the time has come for Trump to make Putin pay for Ukraine’s restoration. US President Donald Trump can force the aggressor country, Russia, to pay for the restoration of Ukraine by using the $300B in frozen Russian assets. Scholars from the Hoover Institution and the Ameri... #DonaldTrump #Putin #ReparationsForUkraine #RussianAssets #RussianAssetsConfiscation #WarinUkraine #WarLosses
Trump vows to stop the war, orders a phone call with Putin in the first days after the inauguration; the Russian dictator is ready to engage in dialog. US President Donald Trump has promised to end the war in Ukraine and prevent World War III. “I will end the war in Ukraine. I will stop the chaos in the Middle East. I will prevent World War III... #DonaldTrump #PeaceTalks #Putin #TrumpInauguration #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
What does Putin hope to achieve in peace talks with Trump? Ivana Stradner, a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, believes that Moscow sees potential in peace talks to achieve its long-standing goal of subjugating Ukraine, rather than reaching... #DonaldTrump #NATO #PeaceTalks #Putin #RussianAggression #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
