EU will provide further funds to Ukraine, von der Leyen says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (R) meets with President of EU Comission Ursula von der Leyen (R) during a bilateral meeting as part of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switerland on January 16, 2024. Ukrainian Presidency | Anadolu | Getty … Read more
Ukraine foreign minister muses about ‘punching’ Russia’s Lavrov Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (not pictured) attend their meeting in Antalya, Turkey March 10, 2022. Turkish Foreign Ministry | Reuters Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, in an interview made public on Monday, said there had … Read more
Swiss President Viola Amherd said Monday, during a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Bern, that her country has offered to organize a peace summit that aims to help bring an end to Ukraine’s ongoing war with Russia. “I confirmed to him that Switzerland is ready to organize a conference,” Amherd said during a … Read more
U.S. military assistance to Ukraine has “ground to a halt,” with Congress yet to authorize the emergency spending requested by President Joe Biden’s administration in late October. In a White House press briefing on Thursday, National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby said Washington had “issued the last drawdown package that we had funding to support.” … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits soldiers at the Kupiansk front line on Nov. 30, 2023, in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Ukrainian Presidency | Anadolu | Getty Images Ukraine is set to pitch its peace plan for ending the war with Russia to allied national security advisors in Switzerland on Sunday, as officials gather in the ski resort … Read more
Canada pledged to support Ukraine with “as much as it takes, for its long as it takes” as Russia intensifies its bombing campaign. But as the war in Ukraine nears its two-year mark, concerns are deepening about a slowdown in western aid. Trudeau “reiterated Canada’s commitment” to Ukraine in a New Year’s Day phone call … Read more
Biden unveils final 2023 Ukraine aid package Biden announces final Ukraine aid package of 2023 04:14 The Biden administration Wednesday announced a $250 million military assistance package for Ukraine. The aid package — the final of 2023 — will include arms and equipment, including air defense munitions, anti-armor munitions, ammunition for high mobility artillery rocket … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and military officials said the country’s forces shot down three Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber aircrafts on Friday on the southern front, hailing it as a success in the 22-month-old war. The Russian military made no mention of the incident. But Russian bloggers acknowledged the loss, and analysts suggested U.S.-supplied Patriot missiles had … Read more
Peace talks without Russia’s participation would be ‘absurd,’ Kremlin says There is currently no basis for negotiations with Ukraine and attempting a peace formula without Russia’s participation would be an “absurd process,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday. “There are currently no prerequisites for peaceful negotiations on Ukraine,” he said, according to Google-translated comments carried … Read more
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday the military had proposed mobilising 450,000-500,000 more Ukrainians into the armed forces in what would mark a dramatic step up of Kyiv’s effort to beat back Russia. The Ukrainian leader told his end-of-year news conference it was a “highly sensitive” issue that the military and government would discuss … Read more
