Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Sunday it was not up to Russia to decide on potential security guarantees for Ukraine that Kyiv seeks from Western allies for when the war ends.
US Vice President JD Vance rejected suggestions Moscow is slow-walking a potential peace deal in Ukraine, saying Russia has made “significant concessions” to Donald Trump over its demands for ending the war.
Under Donald Trump’s presidency, US engagement with Africa is shrinking along a handful of key issues such as controversial deportation deals, punitive trade tariffs and strategic grab of critical minerals across the continent. The result is a continent caught in the crosswinds created by US exhortative policies.
Under Donald Trump’s presidency, US engagement with Africa is shrinking along a handful of key issues such as controversial deportation deals, punitive trade tariffs and strategic grab of critical minerals across the continent. The result is a continent caught in the crosswinds created by US exhortative policies. This phenomenon is creating various fault lines along …
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday said any presence of European troops in Ukraine would be “absolutely unacceptable”, as Kyiv’s allies worked on security guarantees for the country. “This would be absolutely unacceptable for the Russian Federation,” Lavrov said in response to a journalist’s question about security guarantees.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that he could meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin but only after his country had received security guarantees, and mentioned Switzerland, Austria or Turkey as possible venues. “We want to have an understanding of the security guarantees architecture within 7–10 days. And based on that understanding, we aim to hold …
Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Thursday, Moscow’s largest attack in weeks after US-led efforts to halt the Kremlin’s invasion.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday accused European leaders of making “clumsy attempts” to change US President Donald Trump’s position on Ukraine. “We have only seen aggressive escalation of the situation and rather clumsy attempts to change the position of the US president,” he said.
The White House said that the United States will not deploy military forces on the ground in Ukraine. White House Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a press conference that the United States could help coordinate and possibly provide other security guarantees to its European allies.
The United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries have started formulating security options for Ukraine, following President Donald Trump’s pledge to help protect Kyiv under any agreement to end the Russian war. Reuters reported that American and European military planners have begun mulling post-conflict security guarantees for Ukraine.
