The Coalition of the Willing for Ukraine meets this Monday, August 24 — the 35th anniversary of Ukrainian independence — under the joint chairmanship of Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz and Andy Burnham. The meeting comes at an urgent moment: fighting is intensifying on the ground and Moscow is preparing a new mobilization, while in Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelensky has just ruled out holding elections in wartime.
Dollars, and more dollars! According to exclusive information published by Politico, Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov will present an emergency aid request for $20 billion on June 18 at the next meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in the Ramstein format.
Half way through the fifth year of the war in Ukraine it is reasonable to ask why it has lasted so long. Why has Russia not crushed Ukraine quickly as expected, it is after all a much bigger country with a far greater population and industry to call on?
One week after Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin is traveling to China for a 48-hour official visit aimed at strengthening the comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation between Russia and China.
The United Kingdom government has denied Moscow’s claim that the UK and France have been secretly working on providing Ukraine with a nuclear weapon. The French government has issued a denial through its Moscow Embassy.
Between geopolitical calculations, Russian economic resilience, and diverging interests, the conflict is bogged down in a war of attrition that neither side seems willing to end.
The Kremlin leader will meet with the US president on August 15 in Alaska to decide the fate of Ukraine. Trump no longer wants to finance this war. Putin no longer wants NATO missiles “on his doorstep.” Europe, ruined, no longer matters.
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine took on a new dimension after Ukraine attacked Russian bombers. The exchange of prisoners, dead or alive, is not so simple. As for diplomacy, it has been relegated to the sidelines. Facts and comments.
The Ukrainian attack by Russian bombers on June 1 has given a new direction to this civil war between two fraternal peoples, but perhaps not in the way we might think. Explanations and analysis by Robert Harneis.
More than 40 military aircraft were hit in what is being described as “Russia’s Pearl Harbor”. The risk of all-out war cannot be ruled out if NATO or European countries are involved in this operation.
On the night of Monday May 5 to Tuesday May 6, Ukraine launched more than a hundred drones on Russian territory, targeting Moscow in particular and disrupting the operation of a dozen airports, Russian authorities said three days before the commemorations of the victory over Nazi Germany.
Truce negotiations between Russia and Ukraine are taking place in Riyadh under the aegis of the United States, without Europe. But lasting peace will only be achieved when Moscow is assured that NATO is no longer a threat to the Russian Federation.
