KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Donald Trump this week falsely blamed Ukraine for starting the war that has cost tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives, causing outrage and alarm in a country that has spent…
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US figures do not support Trump claims on Ukraine spending
President Donald Trump on Wednesday repeated a claim that the United States has spent $350 billion on Ukraine’s war — a figure that far eclipses the amount recorded by the Department of Defense and the interagency oversight group that tracks…
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US views of Ukraine aid, NATO and European defense in 2025
U.S. and NATO flags wave in Washington, D.C., on July 8, 2024, ahead of that year’s NATO summit. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images) Americans remain largely divided along partisan lines over U.S. aid to Ukraine, nearly three years after…
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Ukraine-Russia Peace: Neutrality for Territory
It was exactly eight years ago when Ukrainian political elites faced a similar question to today: What to do if the United States elected a president who wants a deal with Russia on Ukraine?
At the time, I proposed ideas including a…
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Ukraine’s Daunting Choice: Trading Its Land and People for Future Security
Wars are almost always about land. Ukraine’s determined and heroic defense of its sovereign territory against horrific Russian aggression attests to that fact. As we noted in an earlier article in War on the Rocks, restoring Ukraine’s…
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Amid Russia war, Ukraine building US$1.4 billion holiday resort in Carpathian Mountains
Ukraine might be fending off a full-scale Russian invasion but a brand new holiday resort is taking shape in the western Carpathian Mountains.
It will offer 25 hotels with more than 5,000 rooms, in a ski area kitted out with lifts and a range of…
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Trump wants Ukraine’s rare earth elements and Zelenskiy is willing to ‘sign an agreement’ | International
Among the many aggressive proposals that Donald Trump has tabled since he returned to the White House in January, there is one that is not of his own making. The Republican president has reiterated that the condition for maintaining support for…
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Zelenskyy: Europe cannot guarantee Ukraine’s security without America | Volodymyr Zelenskyy
If Donald Trump withdraws US support for Ukraine, Europe alone will be unable to fill the gap, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned, on the eve of what could be his most consequential diplomatic trip since Russia’s full-scale invasion three years…
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The End of War and the Price of Russian Occupation
From afar, the situation Ukraine faces after three years of full-scale war with Russia seems clear. Over the past 12 months, Moscow has intensified its assault on civilian populations, sending drones, missiles, and bombs in almost daily attacks…
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In the Shadow of the Minsk Agreements: Lessons for a Potential Ukraine-Russia Armistice
As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches the three-year mark, neither party has been able to inflict a decisive military blow on its opponent to end the war on its terms. There are increasing discussions in both Kyiv and…
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