We are accelerating work on security guarantees for Ukraine, British Defense Minister John Healey said yesterday, commenting on the conversation between US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, who announced the start of negotiations to end the war.more
Russia is planning a three-stage negotiation process to end the war, with a key point including elections in Ukraine, the New York Times reported yesterday, citing a person involved in the talks with the Russians. President Trump has also spoken of the need for elections.more
The UK supports US President Donald Trump's drive to end the war in Ukraine and London's priority is to ensure it is in the strongest possible negotiating position, the UK Foreign Office said yesterday.more
US President Donald Trump said yesterday that he spoke by phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. "He wants to make peace," Trump wrote on the social media platform Truth Social.more
Danish Military Intelligence (FE) yesterday presented three scenarios of the threat to Europe from Russia after its war with Ukraine ends. They assume that the United States will not support European NATO countries and that these countries will not strengthen their defenses sufficiently.more
Volodymyr Zelensky reported that US President Donald Trump does not yet have an official plan to end Ukraine's war with Russia. The Ukrainian president added that he himself already knows the outline of such a plan, because some issues were discussed with Washington even before January 20, the day of Trump's inauguration.more
US President Donald Trump said yesterday that discussions on Ukraine were going ‘quite well’ and that he had talks scheduled on the issue ‘with various parties’. He also announced that he would ‘soon’ impose tariffs on EU goods, and threatened that something ‘very powerful’ would happen if the US did not reclaim the Panama Canal.more
Russian leader Vladimir Putin stated yesterday that he has always had a good, pragmatic but also trusting relationship with President Donald Trump. He added that he was ready to engage in talks with the US and reiterated Trump's view that there would be no war if he were in the White House in 2022.more
The ‘100-year partnership’ agreement between the two countries, signed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, allows for the deployment of British military bases on Ukrainian territory, according to the European Truth portal.more
US President Donald Trump stated yesterday that he is likely to impose additional sanctions on Russia. He also said he was considering whether to continue sending arms to Ukraine and added that he was ready to meet with Vladimir Putin whenever the Russian president wanted.more
Ukraine's State Border Service reported that in 2024, the country's citizens crossed the country's borders 30.11 million times, and 2 per cent of travellers (around half a million people) have not returned to their homeland, Ukraine's Opendatabot reported on Wednesday.more
Donald Trump will want to bring about a ceasefire in Ukraine as soon as possible after becoming US President, but Russian leader Vladimir Putin is unlikely to agree to this, according to Kurt Volker, former US Special Representative for Ukraine.more
US President-elect Donald Trump does not know how to end the war in Ukraine for the time being, and has no immediate intention of ending aid to Kyiv, the UK's Financial Times wrote yesterday, citing anonymous sources.more
A coalition of countries led by the UK and Latvia has pledged to provide 30,000 FPV drones to Ukraine, AFP reported, quoting a statement from the UK defence ministry. The group, which formed in 2024, has already drawn up an order worth £45 million.more
French President Emmanuel Macron met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer late last night and the main topic of their conversation was the situation in Ukraine, a British government spokesperson reported.more
Russia is amassing and distributing resources to enable it to wage war in Ukraine until 2027, the head of the Centre for Combating Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, Andriy Kovalenko, said, as quoted by the UNIAN agency today.more
In 2024, Europe experienced flash floods and forest fires. There were massive protests by farmers. There was a rise in the influence of anti-system parties in many countries, as well as in the EP. The government in the UK changed, there was a political crisis in France, and in Germany the government coalition collapsed.more
Family and friends hold grave fears for an Australian man captured by Russian soldiers while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region.
Australian officials have urged Russian counterparts to adhere to humanitarian obligations in their treatment of 32-year-old Melburnian Oscar Jenkins.more
Russian air defences downed an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people, four sources with knowledge of the preliminary findings of Azerbaijan's investigation into the disaster told Reuters on Thursday.
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The United Kingdom will send a £225 million ($286 million) military aid package to Ukraine, focusing on bolstering its navy and air defense capabilities.more
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in a telephone conversation with US President-elect Donald Trump, stressed that allies must stand together to support Ukraine, the British prime minister's office said in a statement yesterday evening.more
Donald Trump's team has been in talks with the White House and Ukrainian representatives in recent days about ending the war, NBC News reported yesterday. However, the station reports that so far the new team has not presented a concrete plan.more
I would not say that we are at war with the United States, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with right-wing columnist Tucker Carlson. He added that the main condition for ending the war is Ukraine's neutral status and suggested that Russia could provide it with security guarantees.more
In the first 10 months of 2024, more Ukrainian soldiers have deserted than in the first two years of the war, the Financial Times reported. According to the British newspaper's sources, conscripts are also fleeing training abroad, including in Poland.more
If Russian leader Vladimir Putin vassalises Ukraine, he will not stop there, in which case the security of Britain, France, Europe, transatlantic security would be at risk, British MI6 intelligence chief Richard Moore warned in Paris yesterday.more
