#USA - Biden's Geopolitical Handover | Wall Street Week

21 December 2024

President Joe Biden will hand over the Oval Office to Donald Trump — and along with it, the geopolitical challenges of trade with China, tensions in the Middle East and instabilities in democracies around the world.

#war #ukraine #russia #laser - A look at Ukraine’s claim: Can the country produce a laser weapon? How would it work? | DW News

19 December 2024

This week, the commander of Ukraine's drone forces revealed that they possess a laser weapon that can shoot down airborne targets more than 2 kilometres away. According to experts, such a weapon could be effective against low-flying drones like the Iranian Shahed-136 that Russia uses in its war against Ukraine.

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#Ukraine - Russia's Black Sea Fleet: Ukraine's navy says Russia has pulled back its ships

16 December 2024

The Ukrainian navy is reporting that Russia has pulled it's Black Sea Fleet back to the Sea of Azov.

Since the War in Ukraine began, Ukraine's navy has sunk or destroyed at least a quarter of the fleet.

Targeted attacks by Ukraine have killed a large number of the fleet's commanders. In November, a Russian commander in charge of missile batteries for the fleet was assassinated. In eastern Ukraine, Russian forces are advancing on several fronts. Russian forces are within one-and-a-half kilomters of the town of Pokrovsk -- a vital road and rail junction.

For months, the strategic town has been the focus of Russia’s attempts to take the region. The Russian Ministry of Defence said its forces also took control of two villages in the Donetsk region. Al Jazeera's Alex Gatopoulos has more from Kyiv on the withdrawal of Russia's Black Sea Fleet.

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#putinswar #russsia #ukraine - NATO warplanes scrambled as Putin launches enormous blitz on Ukraine with 93 missiles & 200 drones

13 December 2024

NATO warplanes were scrambled as Vladimir Putin's bombers launched an enormous blitz on Ukraine. The Russian tyrant launched 93 missiles and some 200 drones overnight in strikes that has left the country freezing. Read more https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3226899...

#Ukraine #europe - European allies mull sending peacekeepers to Ukraine • FRANCE 24 English

13 December 2024

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Thursday chose not to join a potential initiative discussed among some European countries to send peacekeepers to Ukraine. With Donald Trump's January inauguration looming, Ukraine's European allies look to map out its long-term support for Kyiv, anticipating that Russia will opt to extend its war into one of attrition.

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#Ukraine - Is this America's plan to end the war in Ukraine? | Analysis by Michael Clarke - Sky News

9 December 2024

President-elect Donald Trump has said he can end the war in Ukraine in one day. This is unlikely. But with his recent appointment of a retired general to be his envoy in the region, we now know a bit more about how America could approach negotiations. Michael Clarke offers his analysis.

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Will Donald Trump broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal?

#Ukraine - US unveils $988 million aid package for Ukraine including rockets and drones • FRANCE 24 English

8 December 2024

The United States unveiled a $988 million aid package of new arms and equipment to Ukraine for its ongoing fight against Russia's invasion.

Story by Florent Marchais.

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#Putinswar - 'Don't make Ukraine your Afghanistan', ex Nato chief warns Trump: Euro News

6 December 2024

Former NATO Secretary General of NATO and Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen spoke exclusively to Euronews on the impending arrival of President Donald Trump and his impact on the Ukraine war and NATO.

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Lavrov and Blinken trade blame for Ukraine war escalation at OSCE meeting in Malta

#Russia - Watch CNN’s full interview with Russia´s Deputy F0reign Minister: CNN

4 October 2024

CNN's Fred Pleitgen sat down for a wide-ranging exclusive interview with Sergei Ryabkov, Russia's deputy foreign minister.

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#BucharestSummit - 'Ukraine has been on a path to NATO membership, alongside Georgia, since the 2008 Bucharest Summit' • FRANCE 24 English

3 December 2024

Ukraine has insisted that NATO membership would be the only "real guarantee" for its security, but foreign ministers from the alliance sidestepped Kyiv's push for an invite ahead of Donald Trump's return to the US presidency.

For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, FRANCE 24's Yinka Oyetade welcomes Dr Gavin Hall, NATO expert and Teaching Fellow in Political Science and International Security at the University of Strathclyde. He says that although the formal position of NATO is to be open to a Ukrainian membership, it's uncertain whether every member is willing to accept it into the alliance.

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#news - NATO chief answers questions on Ukraine: Daily Express

3 December 2024

Press conference by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte ahead of the meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Brussels.

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#Putinswar - Why Russia Invaded Ukraine: Russia’s Endless Appetite for Imperial Expansion | Oleksiy Goncharenko: Helsinki Commission

3 December 2024

September 28, 2022: Seven months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Oleksiy Goncharenko spoke at a side event hosted by the U.S. Helsinki Commission at the OSCE Warsaw Human Dimension Conference.

Goncharenko discussed Russia’s pattern since 2000 of waging wars of imperial aggression against its neighbors, colonizing those neighbors, and then using conquered populations to wage further wars of conquest. Oleksiy Goncharenko is a member of the Ukrainian parliament and the president of PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees, and Displaced Persons.

#Russia - Ukraine ceasefire may be too late to save Putin from economic collapse: Times Radio

2 December 2024

"The way that Trump has been talking up until this point is that he can just force it through an agreement, whether Putin likes it or not." Without the lifting of sanctions and the isolation of Russia from the world economy, ending the war in Ukraine won't do much to lift the economic and political pressure from Putin's regimes,

The Times' Maxim Tucker tells Frontline on #timesradio

#NATO #Ukraine #Russia - Zelensky calls for NATO to protect parts of Ukraine's territory • FRANCE 24 English

30 November 2024

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Friday for NATO to offer guaranteed protections to parts of Ukraine controlled by Kyiv in order to "stop the hot stage of the war."

Zelensky also implied he would be willing to wait to regain the almost one-fifth of his country that Russia's army has seized, if such a deal could offer security for the rest of Ukraine and end the fighting.

#NATO #Ukraine #Russia

Europe - needs to wake up to 'reality of Russia's threat', expert says • FRANCE 24 English

29 November 2024

Russia unleashed its second big attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure this month on Thursday, triggering deep power cuts across the country. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on Russia's war on Ukraine,

FRANCE 24's Nadia Massih is joined by Peter Zalmayev, Director of the Eurasian Democracy Initiative.

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#Putinswar - War in Ukraine: Putin says barrage 'response' to West-supplied missiles • FRANCE 24 English

28 November 2024

A massive aerial bombardment of Ukraine's energy facilities was in response to Kyiv striking Russian territory with Western-supplied missiles, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.

Pledging Moscow would always respond to Ukraine's use of US-supplied ATACMS missiles, Putin said his military was considering a strike on the heart of Kyiv in retaliation to any future attacks.

For more, FRANCE 24 journalist, Andrew Hilliar.

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#Live - Russia Vs Ukraine Conflict LIVE Updates | Pentagon Briefing LIVE | Russia Strikes Ukraine | N18G

27 November 2024

Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder holds media briefing. 

NATO pledged support for Ukraine at talks in Brussels Tuesday after Russia's attempt to "intimidate" Kyiv's backers by firing an experimental hypersonic intermediate-range missile last week. 

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#Putinswar #ukraine - Flight MH17: Who's Responsible? | Preview

25 November 2024

A decade since the passenger flight MH17 was shot down, the guilty - convicted in absentia - remain protected in Russia.

This Al Jazeera report investigates the last 10 years of evidence and Putin's direct involvement in the incident. Since 2014, investigators operating out of the Netherlands have been gathering evidence to claim justice for the victims and their families. Elliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat - an Amsterdam based research group that does open-source investigation - states: "we were able to show definitively that the missile launcher came from Russia...and the exact route that was taken on the day." Digna Van Boetzaeler, chief prosecutor on the case, shows how social media implies the hit was a mistake originally celebrated by Russian troops who were convinced they'd hit a Ukrainian warplane;

"After the plane was shot down, 65,000 tweets were sent out from the troll factory in St Petersburg saying #Ukraine , Kyiv and I." Since then, Russian media have changed their tune - claiming that MH17 was shot down by a Ukrainian military jet. Higgins raises an interesting point: "Perhaps if the world had reacted to MH17 at the time, there wouldn't have been such a permission structure for Putin to invade Ukraine in 2022."

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#Russia - Putin’s ‘foolish’ threats may trigger Nato response: Times Radio

22 November 2024

Putin’s threats to target the UK are bluff and bluster as he cannot rely on any restraint form Nato members if lines are crossed, says Russian politics and security expert Dr Jenny Mathers.

#Ukraine - First-Ever ATACMS Strike in Russia, Explained | WSJ

19 November 2024

Ukraine fired long-range U.S. missiles inside Russia for the first time despite Moscow’s threats of retaliation. The attack hit an ammunition storage facility near the Russian city of Karachev and is the first such assault to use long-range, NATO-made arms. WSJ’s Alistair MacDonald explains why the Kremlin sees this as a major escalation.

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