Ukraine aid

Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with missiles and drones early Saturday morning, killing one person and wounding 27 others, a day before talks between Ukraine and the U.S., local authorities said.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was meeting the French, German and British leaders in London on Monday as Kyiv’s European allies try to strengthen Ukraine’s hand in thorny talks on a U.S.-backed plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

France has agreed for the first time to provide Ukraine with fighter jets, as part of an deal struck between President Emmanuel Macron and President Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris on Monday.

A ceasefire in Ukraine is unlikely to be brokered before the spring, President Alexander Stubb of Finland said.

Russia rejected the notion of Western security guarantees for Ukraine on Friday, after more than two dozen countries pledged to join a “reassurance” force to deploy in the wartorn country after any eventual peace deal with Moscow.

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff met with European leaders in Paris on Thursday to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine, as allies seek to ensure long-term military support for the war-torn nation and secure continued American backing after the conflict ends.

European leaders descended on Washington, DC, on Monday in an expression of solidarity with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of peace talks with U.S. President Trump. However, critics noted that despite the bluster from Brussels, Europe sent more money to Russia for energy than it did to Kyiv in aid last year.

Ukrainian activists called for more protests against a law they say weakens the country’s anti-corruption bodies. The legislation has also drawn rebukes from European Union officials and international rights groups.

Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine will need at least $40 billion per year from Western allies to ensure that it can keep up the fight against Russia and has called for additional pressure from the Trump administration on Moscow.

Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday evening that Ukraine will “never cede” the occupied territories to Russia while expressing doubts about the Trump-led efforts to bring peace and suggesting the President is naive about Vladimir Putin.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that his country has only received around $76 billion in aid from the United States despite America authorising around $175 billion to support the war-torn country.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he will again call on allies to boost its air defenses at this week’s meeting in Germany, as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes over later this month with a vow to end the almost three-year war quickly.

President Joe Biden on Monday announced a military aid package for $2.5 billion for Ukraine, and vowed to continue “surging” aid for the remainder of his time in office.

A cross country survey in Europe has found that support for a forever war in Ukraine is falling, perhaps not coincidentally given President-Elect Donald Trump’s demands that the Europeans pay for their own defence. 

The Department of Defense (DOD) has announced another nearly $1 billion in a new “assistance package” for Ukraine, bringing the total military aid provided by the U.S. to more than $62 billion since Russia’s February 2022 invasion.

Speaker Mike Johnson said on Wednesday that there should not be more aid for Ukraine ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Russian President Vladimir Putin approved budget plans, raising 2025 military spending to record levels as Moscow seeks to prevail in the war in Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has suggested that the “hot war” with Russia could end if Kyiv is guaranteed protection under a “NATO umbrella” while the country seeks to regain territories currently controlled by Moscow “diplomatically”.

Most Americans oppose giving U.S. military aid to Ukraine, according to a poll conducted days after President Joe Biden reportedly authorized Ukraine’s use of American Army Tactical Missile System missiles inside Russia.

Officials in Germany were provided with intelligence detailing a Ukrainian plot to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines months before the attack took place, but the warnings were ignored and no preventative measures were taken, an investigation has claimed. 

Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden has reportedly approved the use of long-range American missiles by Ukraine to strike within the Russian mainland, in a move which may escalate the conflict two months before President-Elect Donald Trump comes into office with a mandate for seeking a peace settlement to the war.

Marking 1,000 days since Russia invaded neighbouring Ukraine, the leaders of the G7 nations committed to supporting Kyiv for “as long as it takes”.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that he is convinced that if Donald Trump is sent back to the White House, he will immediately bring about a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine, with or without the help of the European Union.

France will begin supplying Ukraine with ‘kamikaze’ drones in the next few weeks to use in its battle with Russia, the French defence minister announced Wednesday.

Populist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has thrown a wrench into globalist plans to extend funding for the Ukraine war in an apparent bid to give Donald Trump negotiating leverage should he return to the White House.

Samantha Power, the Biden-Harris administration’s USAID administrator, posted a tone-deaf video Friday explaining “how Americans are helping Ukraine keep the lights and heat on” — as nearly 700,000 American homes and businesses suffer from power outages in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday will visit the Pennsylvania ammunition factory before meeting with Kamala Harris.

Ukraine admitted that it is actively using American-made bombs to strike within Russia’s Kursk region amid its counter-invasion.

Germany is planning to halt future aid to Ukraine amid Berlin’s budget struggles, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reports.

Ukraine’s newly arrived F-16 fighter jets were put on display by President Zelensky, who said the planes will boost the country’s war effort.

Ukraine has sunk a Russian submarine and hit a Russian airfield in the past 24 hours amid a surge in long-range attacks on Russian targets.

Vitali Klitschko suggested that Zelensky hold a referendum to secure “popular legitimacy” for either ending or continuing the war with Russia

Western leaders backed Ukraine’s demands that Russia return all occupied territories as the basis for any potential peace agreement.

A U.S. State Department-tied Ukrainian outlet has published an “enemies list”, which includes former President Trump and Breitbart News.

The Netherlands said Ukraine will be free to use F-16s to attack targets within Russia as the Kremlin has warned of “fatal consequences”.

Zelensky claimed if Donald Trump tries to force Ukraine into accepting a peace deal with Russia he would become a “loser” president and would risk sparking a Third World War.