Ukraine, Russia and World War II
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President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are meeting today at the White House in further talks to end the war in Ukraine. Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin Aug. 15, at a summit in Alaska to discuss potential pathways to ...
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Any peace deal in Ukraine must be just and fair – the plan proposed by the US and Russia was neither
It’s no surprise that neither Ukraine nor its allies in Europe were happy with the the US-Russia deal developed by Witkoff and Dmitriev. Apart from looking more like a plan for Kyiv’s capitulation than a credible pathway to peace, it presents some serious problems – both legal and moral.
From the front-line city of Pokrovsk in eastern Donetsk, to Zaporizhzhia in the south, there is little doubt that Russia is making advances. But, battlefield monitors suggest the picture is not quite so bleak for Ukraine as Trump and Putin suggest.
Russia has seen the latest copy of a draft US plan to end the Ukraine war and views some of it positively, but wants a discussion about the other parts, the Kremlin said Wednesday.
Vance is correct. All of those young men from both sides of the battle should never have died, and certainly not because of sheer political hatred. That is the peak of “bonkers” and the ever-lasting shame of all who allowed it to happen.
Ukrainian officials say a missile and drone attack killed dozens, right as the U.S. Army secretary arrived to push for peace talks.
The war in Eastern Europe might be thousands of kilometres away. Nevertheless, Bangladesh too has suffered its consequences
Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow’s relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since the Cold War. It also paved the way for Russia’s full-scale ...