Ukraine
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By Adam Parsons, Sky News Europe correspondent There is no disguising this now. Plenty of Europe’s most prominent politicians are deeply rattled by what they’ve heard from those at the top of the Trump White House and worried about the consequences. Emmanuel Macron, inevitably, has come to the fore, once again positioning himself as the continent’s…
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Russia has what it needs to fight on in Ukraine for at least another year, according to experts at a leading security research organisation. Moscow’s forces are slowly but steadily advancing in what has become a war of attrition, the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said. “Attrition being such an important factor on…
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Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump agreed that “the time has come for our countries to work together” during their phone call, the Kremlin has said. Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the Russian president invited Trump to visit Moscow and expressed readiness to receive American officials in Russia. “The topic of Ukraine settlement was also discussed. President Trump…
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Donald Trump says his phone conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy “went very well”. “He, like President Putin, wants to make PEACE,” the president posted on social media. “We discussed a variety of topics having to do with the War, but mostly, the meeting that is being set up on Friday in Munich, where Vice President JD…
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Both sides thanked the United Arab Emirates for their ‘humanitarian mediation efforts.’ Ukraine carried out a prisoner swap with Russia on Wednesday that saw 150 of its fighters returning home, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on his Telegram page. Footage posted by Zelenskyy showed jubilant prisoners, many wrapped in Ukrainian flags, getting off buses and being…
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The State Department ordered a sweeping freeze Friday on new funding for almost all U.S. foreign assistance, making exceptions for emergency food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt. The U.S. provides more foreign aid globally than any other country, budgeting about $60 billion in 2023, or about 1% of its overall budget. Secretary…
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The leader of Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria has travelled to Moscow since the suspension of Russian gas deliveries via Ukraine, says Moldova’s president. Transnistria has suffered widespread power cuts since 1 January when Russia’s Gazprom suspended gas exports to the region over an alleged $709m (£582m) debt, a figure fiercely disputed by Moldova’s pro-Western…
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New Delhi’s foreign ministry says one Indian apparently recruited by the Russian army has been killed, while another is receiving treatment for injuries at a hospital in Moscow. It said Narendra Modi’s government has “strongly taken up” the matter with the authorities in Moscow and with the Russian embassy in New Delhi. The ministry also…
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Moscow says it has downed six US-made ATACMS and six UK-made Storm Shadow missiles fire by Ukraine. The Kremlin said the missiles were all aimed at the Bryansk region of Russia, but were all shot down successfully. “The actions of the Kyiv regime, supported by its Western curators, will not go unanswered,” the defence ministry…
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has held further discussions with Emmanuel Macron about the possibility of deploying Western troops to Ukraine to safeguard a potential peace deal with Russia. Speaking of the security guarantees required for such a peace to be implemented, Zelenskyy said: “As one of these guarantees, we discussed the French initiative to deploy…
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At an annual conference today, Moscow-based journalist and Sky News correspondent Ivor Bennett asked the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, about how Donald Trump will affect potential peace negotiations. Lavrov says the Kremlin will study any peace initiative for Ukraine put forward by Washington once the president-elect takes office next Monday. The Russian diplomat also…
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In the face of renewed sanctions placed on Russia by Joe Biden during his final days in office, Russian statesman, Sergei Lavrov says outgoing Democrats have a history of “spoiling the whole thing” at the end of their terms. He says this was the case at the end of Barack Obama’s presidency before the first…
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Here’s what you need to know about the Russia-Ukraine war at the start of this year… Ukraine launches new Kursk offensive The biggest story of the year so far came yesterday, when Moscow’s defence ministry said Ukraine had launched a new offensive in Russia’s Kursk region. In a statement, Moscow said efforts to destroy the…
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Incoming president Donald Trump is “strong and unpredictable”, and those qualities could help him end the war in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. “The ‘hot’ stage of the war can end quite quickly, if Trump is strong in his position,” Zelenskyy told Ukrainian television. “I believe [Trump] is strong and unpredictable. I would very much…
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Ukraine must be “realistic” when it comes to territorial disputes as a potential peace deal with Russia looms, Emmanuel Macron has said. This marks the first time the French leader, a keen ally of Kyiv, has suggested that Ukraine should consider a position beyond seeking to regain all territory seized by Russia. Russia currently holds…
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More than 51,000 households have been left without gas and 1,500 apartment buildings have no heat in Moldova’s pro-Russian separatist enclave, authorities report. Transnistria, a mainly Russian-speaking separatist region along the Ukrainian border, had received Russian gas via Ukraine for decades, using it to generate electricity. But that gas was cut off along with flows…
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