Thursday in Brussels, Volodymyr Zelensky urged Europeans for unity among themselves and with the United States of Donald Trump.
“For us, the real guarantees, now and in the future, are in NATO,” he also said.
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War in Ukraine: a thousand days since the Russian invasion
Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday, December 19, urged Europeans to unity, among themselves but also with the United States of Donald Trump, stressing that transatlantic cooperation was essential to move towards lasting peace in Ukraine. “European guarantees will not be sufficient for Ukraine (…) For us the real guarantees, now and in the future, are in NATO”insisted the Ukrainian president after speaking to EU leaders meeting in Brussels.
Vladimir Putin, for his part, said, during his annual televised question-and-answer session, that he was ready to meet “at any time” US President-elect Donald Trump, who recently called for a ceasefire and negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. Vladimir Putin assured that Russia was ready for “dialogue” with Ukraine, but only on the basis of “ground realities”a way of saying that his country would not return the conquered territories. The Russian president also believed that his country should have launched an attack on Ukraine “earlier” and to have been better prepared for it, ensuring that Russia was “deceived” et “constraint” to launch his offensive.
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Loud explosions were heard this morning in kyiv after a ballistic missile alert.
EXCUSES
During the draw for qualifying for the 2026 World Cup on December 13, Fifa released, obviously unintentionally, a map of Ukraine without Crimea. World football’s governing body has apologized to kyiv.
“FOR TOO LONG”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and US President-elect Donald Trump agreed over the phone that Russia’s war against Ukraine has been going on “for too long”, the German government said in a statement yesterday. “It is essential to embark as quickly as possible on the path to a just, equitable and lasting peace,” the two men also said during their telephone interview, adds the German government.
Chancellor Scholz reiterated that he will continue to support Ukraine in its defense against the Russian war of aggression for as long as necessary. At a summit in Brussels yesterday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Europeans to unity, among themselves but also with the United States of Donald Trump, stressing that transatlantic cooperation was essential to move towards lasting peace in Ukraine.
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The suspected perpetrator of Tuesday’s bomb attack that killed a senior Russian army officer in Moscow, which was claimed by Ukraine, was charged and detained Thursday after appearing in court. This Uzbek national born in 1995 was charged with “terrorist act”, “possession of explosives” and “manufacture of weapons”, reported the press service of the courts of the Russian capital on Telegram. He faces life imprisonment.
On the ground, a Russian strike killed three people in broad daylight in a Ukrainian village near the town of Kupiansk, located in the Kharkiv region in the northeast of the country, Ukrainian authorities said. Three other people were injured in this village of Shevchenkové, the national police said in a press release.
The Russian Defense Ministry on Thursday accused Ukraine of carrying out a strike the day before against a Russian factory using Western missiles, promising that it would not remain “not unanswered”. “These actions of the kyiv regime, supported by its Western supervisors, will not go unanswered”threatened the ministry in a press release.
