The crashed plane near Washington had Russians on board. The plane crash involving an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk helicopter occurred on January 29, Bloomberg reports. In particular, Trump expressed his condolences to all those who lost friends and relatives in the disaster.
The president is reluctant to send more aid to Ukraine, let alone U.S. troops; nor does he want Ukraine admitted to NATO. As for overseeing an eventual ceasefire and guaranteeing Ukraine’s security — without which an armistice would be meaningless, given Moscow’s neo-imperialist ambitions — he sees that as Europe’s problem.
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections in 2024 did not come as a surprise in Kyiv. Instead, Ukrainian authorities are now focused on building institutional ties with the incoming administration and closely monitoring appointments to foreign policy positions.
NATO has said its pledge for tens of billions of dollars in security aid for Ukraine will be fulfilled by the end of 2025. The alliance announced on Wednesday that 40 billion euros ($41.6 billion) which had been agreed by the bloc's 32 members during its Washington, D.C. summit last July would be sent to Kyiv this year.
Even putting aside the security and moral reasons for supporting a free Kyiv, which are immense, backing Ukraine is a financially sound decision for the United States.
Officials say a Russian drone has blasted a hole in an apartment building in northeastern Ukraine during a nighttime attack that killed at least six people and wounded nine others
Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine's Deputy PM, made the corresponding statement at a press briefing in Belgium on Jan. 30. According to state news agency Ukrinform, Stefanishyna said that the date for the next Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting had not been discussed,
Any attempt to get Ukraine into Nato will run into a “buzz saw” in Washington unless Europe pays for it, a top diplomat for Donald Trump has said.
An international affairs consultant discusses the status of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and how the new Trump Administration might help secure peace.
A Russian drone struck a multi-storey apartment building in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy early on Thursday, killing nine people and injuring 13, including a child, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
President Donald Trump is emphasizing that targeting Russia’s oil revenue is the best way to get Moscow to end its nearly three-year war against Ukraine.
TRUMP: UKRAINE PEACE PUSH ‘UNDERWAY’: Appearing via video link at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, yesterday, President Donald Trump called the war in Ukraine “an abso ...