Ukraine, Donald Trump and war
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On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that Russia had taken the Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk, marking the culmination of a 20-month campaign. Ukraine denied the town had fallen, saying that its troops were still in control of the north.
The Kremlin says any peace deal must cede to Russia the entire eastern Donbas region, including territory Ukraine still controls — a nonstarter for Kyiv.
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In the early months of the invasion, in 2022, the Russians tried to suffocate Ukraine’s economy by imposing a naval blockade of its ports. About 20 million tons of grain got stuck in the port city of Odesa, causing global food prices to spike and raising fears of famine in parts of Africa and the Middle East that rely on supplies from Ukraine.
Russia wants all of the Donbas, and more. Ukraine is loath to cede any land to Moscow, let alone areas Kyiv’s forces control. The US is pushing for an end to the war. Here’s a look at the tense issue of territorial control in Ukraine,
Russian forces have advanced on several fronts recently. President Vladimir V. Putin signaled after talks with U.S. officials that he was not budging from demands.
As Ukraine's allies co-ordinate their stance against Russian aggression, NATO's chief has warned they must prepare for a war on a scale seen by previous generations. Follow the latest.
A leaked document from the Russian Ministry of Defense revealed on Monday that the Russian Federation’s casualties in Ukraine in 2025 total more than 281,550. The report provided a breakdown of Russian deaths and injuries by each Russian military group ...
Gerard Toal in the past received funding from the US National Science Foundation and the Research Council of Norway. Instead, Trump is said to have aggressively pushed Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms to end the war and surrender all of the Donbas ...
Vladimir Putin’s alleged secret daughter has apologized for her father’s war in Ukraine, after she was confronted in Paris by a Ukrainian journalist whose brother was killed in a recent Russian airstrike.