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The Trump administration has reportedly called on European nations to outline the number of troops and weapons they are willing to commit to a peacekeeping force in Ukraine amid growing complaints from the continent of being sidelined from negotiations.

Russia said Saturday its forces had captured the village of Berezivka in their latest breakthrough in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, where Ukrainian defenses are creaking.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for the formation of an “Armed Forces of Europe” in a speech delivered before the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday. 

Drone with a high-explosive warhead hit the protective containment shell of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant overnight, Kyiv says.

BRUSSELS, Belgium — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News said he is not ruling out nuclear weapons for Ukraine, and that ultimately it is up to President Donald Trump.

Ukraine’s Defense Ministry is offering new financial and other benefits that it hopes will attract men between ages 18 and 24 to military service, as its short-handed armed forces toil on the front line against Russia’s bigger army in the almost three-year war.

Russian forces targeted Ukraine’s energy and gas infrastructure in a “massive” nighttime missile attack and Ukrainian drones struck an important oil refinery inside Russia, officials said Tuesday, as the almost three-year war rumbled on against a backdrop of renewed diplomatic efforts to end it.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed a new Ukrainian offensive in Russia’s Kursk region and said that North Korean troops were fighting alongside Russian forces there.

Hundreds of sabotaged cars in Germany may have actually been attacked by Russian agents in a plot to discredit Green politics, reports claim.

The Munich summit is a regular forum for global international security discussions which has taken on new significance amid the Ukraine war.

The first Mirage 2000 fighters promised to Ukraine by France’s President Macron arrived on Thursday along with their French-trained crews. 

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday, bringing a new support package for Ukraine.

Russia has experienced around one million casualties in its invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Ukraine would need a million-man army and a nuclear deterrent to prevent future Russian aggression if it doesn’t join NATO, Zelensky said. 

The power of NATO to deter other states from aggression is in “doubt” because its members do not spend enough money on defence, Rutte warns.

“If two (nuclear switchyards) are hit, we are out of supply for a minimum of 30 to 36 hours” said a Ukrainian energy industry expert.

Long-range drones struck one of Russia´s biggest oil refineries for the second time in three days, a senior Kyiv official said Monday.

Russia didn’t say what caused the blast, but the state news cited law enforcement source as saying a bomb was planted in the building.

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.

Competing claims emerged over a deadly attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia’s Kursk region that has been under Ukrainian control for five months, with Ukraine and Russia accusing each other of carrying out the strike.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that excluding his country from talks between the U.S. and Russia about the war in Ukraine would be “very dangerous” and asked for more discussions between Kyiv and Washington to develop a plan for a ceasefire.

At least five people died overnight as Russian drone and missile strikes pounded Ukraine’s towns and cities, local officials said Saturday.

There are reportedly concerns that putting too many troops in Ukraine would leave Europe’s northeast border with Russia perilously unguarded.

Drone blasted hole in apartment building during a nighttime attack, killing at least four people and injuring nine others.

British government can’t afford to fund its military to NATO standard demanded by Trump due to its dwindling economy, it is claimed. 

Western nations deploying troops to Ukraine as peacekeepers would be “absolutely unacceptable to Russia”, their Foreign Ministry complains. 

Rutte warned on Thursday that a Russian victory over Ukraine would undermine the dissuasive force of the world´s biggest military alliance.

Talk about sending peacekeepers to Ukraine’s front lines welcome but won’t work without American boots on the ground, Zelensky says at Davos.

Senior military officer who had the power to rule on whether conscripts were for for service has been arrested over unexplained wealth.

Russia says it welcomes dialogue with America over the Ukraine War, while President Trump warns Vladimir Putin isn’t “doing so well”.

Approximately 150,000 Russians killed in Moscow’s invasion in 2024, making it the deadliest year of the conflict so far, claims Kyiv.

Almost 30,000 attempted border crossings were spotted last year. Most are young men, often from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia.

Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital with a barrage of drones and missiles Saturday, leaving at least four people dead, while industrial sites in Russia were set ablaze by Ukrainian strikes.

Ukrainian police conducted nationwide raids on draft dodger gangs on Friday as the country battles to generate enough conscript soldiers.

UK says it will hand over a rapidly and secretly developed launcher which repurposes stocks of surplus air-to-air missiles to a ground role.

British PM Starmer spoke of “unbreakable bond” as he made an unannounced visit to Kyiv to sign surprise 100-year military treaty with Kyiv.