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September 4, 2025 11:13 AM

Ukraine’s allies meet amid doubts over guarantees, US backing

Some 30 leaders will hold talks on Thursday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy over future security guarantees to Kyiv if there is a ceasefire with Russia, hoping they have done enough to persuade the United States to back their efforts. The summit, both in person and virtually, of the "coalition of the willing" brings together leaders mostly from Europe, but also Turkey, Australia and Canada. The countries have talked for months at various levels to define their military contributio...

September 4, 2025 10:45 AM

Russia says potential military troops deployment in Ukraine unacceptable

Russia has no plans to discuss any potential foreign military deployment in Ukraine in any format, calling it "unacceptable", foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters on Thursday. She was commenting on remarks by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on plans to send European troops to Ukraine, a move, which was also rejected by Germany. In an interview to the Financial Times on Sunday, von der Leyen said Europe was drawing up "pretty precise plans" for a multin...

September 2, 2025 9:11 PM

Former Ukraine parliament speaker laid to rest after assassination

Ukrainians paid tribute to prominent politician Andriy Parubiy as he was buried on Tuesday after being gunned down in a daytime attack on Saturday, the second assassination in the western city of Lviv in just over a year. As mourners streamed across cobblestone streets, the motives behind the killing of Parubiy, who played a key role in a pro-democracy uprising in 2014 that ousted a pro-Russian president, and later served as parliament speaker, remained unclear. Ukrainian police, who have deta...

September 2, 2025 4:01 PM

Putin says Russia has never opposed Ukraine joining the EU

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Moscow had never opposed Ukraine's potential membership of the European Union, and that he thought it was possible to find a consensus on ensuring the security of both Russia and Ukraine. Speaking in China during a visit, Putin said claims by European leaders that Russia would one day attack deeper into Europe were "hysteria" and "horror stories". In the case of Ukraine in 2022, Russia was forced, said Putin, to react to what he called the ...

September 2, 2025 12:05 PM

Ukrainian drone attack forces hundreds to evacuate homes in Russian city

More than 300 people were evacuated from their apartments overnight following a Ukrainian drone attack on the capital of the Rostov region, the acting governor said on Tuesday. The Russian defence ministry said air defence units destroyed 13 Ukrainian drones over the Rostov region overnight. It did not say how many drones were detected. "An unexploded (drone) shell was discovered in one of the apartments," Rostov region's acting governor, Yuri Slyusar, said on the Telegram messaging app. "As a...

September 1, 2025 2:25 PM

Ukraine suspects Russia involved in killing of former parliamentary speaker, says police chief

Ukraine suspects Russian involvement in the murder of former parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy, the head of the Ukrainian police said on Monday. Parubiy was shot dead in the western city of Lviv on Saturday and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said earlier on Monday that a suspect had been arrested for what he called "a horrific murder" that impacted "security in a country at war". "We know that this crime was not accidental. There is Russian involvement. Everyone will be held accountable befo...

September 1, 2025 11:50 AM

Ukraine vows to retaliate after Russian attacks on power sector

Russian drone attacks on power facilities in northern and southern Ukraine overnight left nearly 60,000 customers without electricity, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowing to retaliate by ordering more strikes deep inside Russia. Three and a half years into the war, Russia and Ukraine have both intensified airstrikes in recent weeks. Russia has targeted Ukraine's energy and transport systems, while Ukraine has been attacking Russian oil refineries and pipelines. "We will continue our acti...

August 29, 2025 9:50 AM

Ukraine’s Zelenskiy says Europe must clearly define security guarantees

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told a group of European leaders on Thursday it was important to produce a clear definition of security guarantees for Ukraine as part of a plan to secure a peace settlement with Russia after 3-1/2 years of war. The virtual meeting with Polish President Karol Nawrocki and the leaders of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Denmark was organised in Poland and followed an overnight Russian attack on Kyiv that local officials said killed 22 people. Zelenskiy said...

August 28, 2025 3:58 PM

The ‘land swap’ that wasn’t: Inside Trump’s frantic dash for Ukraine peace

Shortly after meeting Vladimir Putin in Moscow on August 6, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff delivered major news to Donald Trump: The Russian president was prepared to offer significant territorial concessions to end his war in Ukraine. Following Witkoff's readout to the U.S. president, described by two people briefed on the matter, Trump hailed his emissary's "great progress" and agreed to hold a historic summit with Putin, indicating that a land swap was on the table. But the diplomatic dri...

August 25, 2025 11:25 AM

Canadian PM announces new military assistance for Ukraine

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced new military assistance for war-torn Ukraine, according to a release issued by the Prime Minister’s Office on Monday. The announcement was made in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv during the PM’s official visit. Earlier at the G7 Summit held in June in Canada’s Kananaskis, a total of two billion Canadian dollars ($1.45 billion) was committed for Ukraine, Xinhua news agency reported. Around 835 million Canadian dollars ($603 million) of the tot...