Strategic Bargain
The new US-Ukraine minerals agreement, months in the making, marks a defining moment in the war’s third year ~ not just for Kyiv, but for Washington and its global standing.
The new US-Ukraine minerals agreement, months in the making, marks a defining moment in the war’s third year ~ not just for Kyiv, but for Washington and its global standing.
Russia has declared a state of emergency in the port city of Novorossiysk in the Krasnodar region on Saturday, claiming an attack by Ukraine that damaged apartment buildings in a residential complex.
After a second consecutive night of deadly Russian air attacks – against the capital Kyiv on April 23 and the eastern Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad on April 24 – a ceasefire in Ukraine seems as unrealistic as ever.
As the war in Ukraine grinds through yet another year, a renewed push for diplomacy has emerged from the West, driven in large part by a desire for stability and a strategic pivot.
There is a 'very good chance' of Russia and Ukraine reaching a deal this week, US President Donald Trump said expressing optimism even as Russian President Vladimir Putin's "Easter Truce" expired, with both Russia and Ukraine accusing each other of violating it.
Ukrainian military commander-in-chief General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, offering his blunt assessment of the current status of the war, said in an interview: “Just like in the first world war, we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate.
Dose the Seine, in Paris, stink? Well, an unambiguous answer to that is that it can be odoriferous, intermittently but unmistakably.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has questioned Donald Trump's claim that he could end Russia’s war against Kiev within 24 hours if he is re-elected in 2024.
Medvedev is of the view that a new world order is emerging in which Russia along with China and India would play key roles. Ukraine, unlike the Russian army, does not have the skills or the training to fight in severe wintry conditions. If the war continues Ukraines misery would multiply. The Putin-Medvedev assertion is well within the Primakov doctrine formulated after the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a unipolar world.
Russian investigators detained two male suspects, claiming they were Russian military from the Far East