Category: 1. Ukraine
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Ukraine’s arteries: trains are the country’s lifeblood
On November 4th 2024, the eve of America’s presidential election, Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, addressed a room full of railway workers. “Your movement is the movement of all Ukraine,” he told them. “You connect every… -
After Munich, It’s Time for Europe to Do the Unthinkable
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And as my geopolitical gurus taught me, one must always think the unthinkable, as Europe must do now.
It’s too early to tell who the real winners and losers from the second Trump…
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Northern lights: How a Nordic-Baltic coalition of the willing can do even more for Ukraine
Summary
- With EU consensus becoming increasingly harder to achieve, Ukraine needs to explore more opportunities for bilateral cooperation.
- The Nordic-Baltic 8 (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia,…
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Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating
Ukraine has not been invited to a key meeting between American and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia this week to decide what peace in the country might look like.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine will “never accept”…
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Top Russian, U.S. officials to hold talks on ending the Ukraine war without Kyiv
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Senior American and Russian officials, including the countries’ top diplomats, will hold talks on improving their ties and negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin said Monday, in…
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European leaders gather for emergency meeting over fear Trump is isolating EU allies
PARIS (AP) — European leaders sought to form a united front Monday at emergency talks in Paris, called after a U.S. diplomatic blitz on Ukraine which has thrown a once-solid alliance into turmoil and left the Europeans…
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Why Vladimir Putin is as close as he’s ever been to getting what he wants out of Ukraine
It started with a series of unexpected comments from Donald Trump’s new Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Before negotiations over how Russia’s war in Ukraine might end had even begun, he publicly announced the United States saw the prospect of…
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[2025-02-17] Ranking Member Shaheen, Senators Tillis and Bennet Visit…
KYIV—Today, ahead of the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Michael Bennet (D-CO)…
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EU-funded modular clinics benefit 50 000 Ukrainians
In 2024, 11 modular primary care clinics and one modular station for emergency medical teams (EMS) were installed in the Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa and Sumy regions in Ukraine. This project, implemented by WHO in partnership with the…
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What Munich means for Ukraine peace talks
What Munich means for Ukraine peace talks – Atlantic Council