MILAN – Ukraine is inching closer to obtaining Swedish Gripen fighter jets as part of its year-long quest to acquire the fourth-generation aircraft type, which is designed to operate from austere airstrips.
Ukrainian and Swedish officials…
Category: 1. Ukraine
-
From illusion to real peace: Trump’s test in Gaza and Ukraine | Donald Trump
United States President Donald Trump styles himself as a peacemaker. In his rhetoric, he claims credit for his efforts to end the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Yet beneath the grandstanding lies an absence of substance, at least to date.
The problem…
Continue Reading
-
Up First from NPR : NPR
European leaders meet with Ukraine’s president with billions in frozen Russian assets on the table as the European Union and United States impose new sanctions on Moscow. Courts could rule this week on key legal challenges to President…
Continue Reading
-
Up First from NPR : NPR
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
A MARTÍNEZ, HOST:
European leaders came up with a plan to hand Russian assets to Ukraine.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
They meet Ukraine’s president to decide on that proposal after U.S. peace efforts went…
Continue Reading
-
Ukraine and EU cheer Trump’s sanctions on Russian oil – POLITICO
The U.S. slapped sanctions on Russia’s two biggest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, and their subsidiaries in an attempt to pressure Russia to take ceasefire negotiations more seriously.
“I just felt it was time,” Trump said less…
Continue Reading
-
Journalist Olena Hubanova, cameraman Yevhen Karmazin killed in Kramatorsk
Journalist of the Freedom TV channel Olena Hubanova and cameraman Yevhen Karmazin were killed in a Russian Lancet drone strike in Kramatorsk.
The head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, Vadym Filashkin, reported this on Telegram, according to…
Continue Reading
-
Spain joins NATO initiative to buy US weapons for Ukraine
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Thursday morning that Madrid has been studying a contribution to a NATO scheme to jointly procure and deliver US weapons to Ukraine.
Spain is “a country committed to the Atlantic Alliance and…
Continue Reading
-
Putin, Trump, and Zelenskiy: Three incompatible speeds for negotiating peace | International
No one wants the war in Ukraine to last 100 years, said renowned American political scientist George Friedman at a conference in Kyiv on October 16. But the protagonists are racing at different speeds to end it. Speeds that are incompatible.
Continue Reading
-
Bloc announces new Russia sanctions package – DW – 10/23/2025
Skip next section EU Council President refers to Ukraine as ‘future EU member’October 23, 2025
EU Council President refers to Ukraine as ‘future EU member’
European Council President Antonio Costa welcomed Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy to…
Continue Reading
-
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is out of month-long blackout — Hrynchuk
Repair crews have completed work on one of the external power lines supplying the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
According to Ukrinform, Minister of Energy Svitlana Hrynchuk reported this on Facebook.
“Energy workers have restored power supply to the…
Continue Reading