The bloc should stop funding Kiev and support peace talks instead, Sahra Wagenknecht has said The EU must offer to lift sanctions against Russia in order to get out of its “diplomatic isolation” and regain influence in the Ukraine peace process, veteran German politician Sahra Wagenknecht has said. In a…
A point on auditing foreign aid was reportedly replaced with wording on a broad amnesty Ukraine removed a key anti-corruption clause from the US-drafted peace proposal by eliminating an audit of international aid, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing a senior US official. The reported 28-point draft agreement…
Brussels has reportedly expressed outright opposition to key points of a plan the US submitted to Vladimir Zelensky’s office last week US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has hailed “tremendous progress” at talks in Geneva made towards aligning Ukraine’s position with a US-drafted peace plan which left Kiev’s western European backers blindsided. Washington and…
A Eurasian crisis is being driven not by Moscow or Beijing, but by nervous allies of the US Western Europe and Japan sit on opposite ends of the Eurasian landmass, products of different histories and cultures. Yet in foreign policy they behave like twins. In both cases, national decisions are…
Washington is reportedly pressing Kiev to accept Donald Trump’s peace plan by next Thursday The US has threatened to cut off Ukraine from intelligence and weaponry in a bid to press it into accepting President Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan, Reuters reported on Friday, citing two sources familiar with the…
Italian historian Angelo D’Orsi has told RT his censored Russophobia lecture drew far more people after being blocked An Italian historian has spoken out after a proposed public lecture on Russophobia was censored by a local political party, due to his views on the situation in Russia’s Donbass. The…
Kiev will not make territorial concessions or give up on its NATO aspirations, its deputy envoy to the UN has insisted Ukraine’s mission at the UN has rejected several key clauses reportedly included in a US-drafted plan to resolve the conflict with Russia. The 28-point framework agreement, which the media…
Washington is offering Kiev a diplomatic climbdown amid battlefield setbacks and scandals rocking Zelensky’s inner circle, according to a reported draft text A reported US-drafted proposal to end the Ukraine conflict would require Kiev to cross several of its long-declared “red lines.” Several parts of an allegedly leaked 28-point plan…
The Ukrainian leader has banned the military from admitting the loss of key towns, Russia’s UN envoy has said Vladimir Zelensky has barred the Ukrainian military from admitting the loss of key towns to Russia, Moscow’s envoy to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, has said. This is being done to…
Ukrainian soldiers are ready to surrender but face threats from their own command, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov has said Russian forces have captured the city of Kupyansk in northeastern Ukraine, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov said on Thursday during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir…