
‘Peace Deal by Christmas’: Trump Ultimatum for Zelensky
The U.S. president says Kyiv must face battlefield realities—while blasting European leaders for prolonging the conflict with empty rhetoric and failed policies.

The U.S. president says Kyiv must face battlefield realities—while blasting European leaders for prolonging the conflict with empty rhetoric and failed policies.

Details still have to be refined, the Ukrainian president said, and must provide guarantees against a future Russian invasion.

Critical energy and transport infrastructure targeted in intensified attacks, Ukraine says.

Although Trump said Putin “wants to end the war,” after peace talks Russia’s president said that he rejected the current compromise.

Orbán argues that the EU’s political elite is using the war in Ukraine as a pretext to accelerate a federalist project that restricts national sovereignty.

Reports suggest that children taught to “destroy Japanese militarists” and met with North Korean veterans responsible for seizing a U.S. spy ship in 1968.

Beijing visit sees the French president tell his Chinese counterpart that France and China must overcome their “differences.”

The European Commission is scrambling to overcome Belgian resistance to a Ukraine reparations loan that would tap immobilised Russian assets—and likely harm any ongoing peace initiatives.

With Rubio absent, his European colleagues aim to buy enough U.S. weaponry for Ukraine to keep fighting—despite peace negotiations.

France will instruct China to “refrain from providing any means, by any means, to Russia to continue the war,” according to the French Presidency.