At last week’s Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting in Brussels, newly minted U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that the position of the U.S. government was that Ukraine will not join NATO. Although greeted with horror by some in…
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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… Continue Reading
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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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Armed Neutrality for Ukraine Is NATO’s Least Poor Option
When it comes to securing Ukraine’s future, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, armed neutrality is the worst option for the United States and NATO, except for all the others.
As the Russo-Ukrainian war approaches its third…
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Russian and U.S. officials meet in Saudi Arabia without Ukraine to discuss improving ties and ending war
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Russia and the U.S. agreed Tuesday to start working toward ending the war in Ukraine and improving their diplomatic and economic ties, the two countries’ top diplomats said after talks that…
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Why the British army is so unprepared to send troops to Ukraine
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said that Britain is “ready and willing to contribute to security guarantees to Ukraine by putting our own troops on the ground if necessary”.
While reports suggest these would be “peacekeeping”…
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What might a European military force in Ukraine look like? | Ukraine
European leaders have been asked by the US to provide security guarantees, including a military force, for Ukraine in the event that Donald Trump is able to strike a peace or ceasefire agreement with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
Though…
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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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