Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is doing his best to try to move past what news outlets called ‘strategic blunder’ by trying to consolidate the control of two anti-corruption offices under his personally selected prosecutor-general, which has presented his administration with the biggest domestic challenge since the start of the war.
Russia carried out its largest aerial attack on Kyiv since the start of the war on Friday as its forces applied new pressure on Ukrainian troops in Kostiantynivka, a strategically important city in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.
As we had forecast, the EU and U.K. would ramp up the Ukraine War.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Berlin last week and the two spoke about how Germany plans to help Kyiv ramp up its war against Russia by pumping Ukraine with €5 billion in new weapons while forming a joint effort to produce long-range weapons.
U.S. President Donald Trump, who vowed to bring the Ukraine War to an end 24 hours after taking office, announced last week that his administration signed a long-term rare minerals deal that will tie Washington to the outcome of the war.
The U.S. sent Ukraine billions in clandestine support for its drone development program since the early stages of Kyiv’s war with the much-larger Russian military, according to declassified documents obtained by The New York Times.
Just weeks before Donald Trump takes office, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration announced that it will pump Ukraine with another $5.9 billion in support.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who campaigned on the promise to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours once he took office, called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, stating that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Kyiv would “like to make a deal and stop the madness.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin last week warned that Moscow has escalation capabilities in Ukraine and its next targets could be a wide range of military facilities and decision-making centers in Kyiv that Moscow could “turn to dust.”
Ukrainian forces last week fired the U.K.-provided Storm Shadow missiles to strike targets inside Russia after receiving permission from the West to use long-range missiles to hit Russian targets.