Zelensky met executives from more than 30 major US companies and members of the Economic Advisory Group in New York. He said the meeting resulted in new investment commitments for Ukrainian defense technologies and joint production, along with agreements on energy projects.
Finland has become the 11th country to join Ukraine’s Drone Deal initiative for joint defense production, according to NSDC Secretary Rustem Umerov. Presidents Zelensky and Alexander Stubb signed the agreement in New York. Umerov said Ukraine also agreed to begin work on a Drone Deal with Australia, while documents with another 10 countries are in the final stage. The initiative is intended to exp...
❗️Zelensky rejected media reports that his New York meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was tense, calling it “absolutely positive.” He said they discussed Ukraine’s growing funding gap and European financing linked to legislation in parliament. Zelensky said he explained that the Verkhovna Rada cannot operate as it would in peacetime. The sides agreed financial teams w...
Zelensky said Ukraine is discussing possible energy and maritime ceasefires. Kyiv is ready for both sides to refrain from strikes on energy infrastructure. A separate Black Sea arrangement could cover not only grain and other agricultural exports, but also energy and metallurgy. Zelensky said Egypt, Turkey, the UAE and India are among countries interested in peace and stability at sea because disr...
Russian journalists repeatedly called out to President Zelensky, asking when he would travel to Moscow. Zelensky responded: “On a missile!”
Ukraine and Australia signed a bilateral security agreement, Zelensky says. Australia announced a new $60 million contribution for energy, protective equipment and humanitarian aid, plus new sanctions targeting Russian enablers and shadow fleet vessels. The two sides will also prepare a Drone Deal.
“Putin is patient zero,” President Zelensky told the UN General Assembly in New York, arguing that instability and war are spreading from Russia. He said Putin wants to seize Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipro and other Ukrainian cities and must be stopped. Zelensky also said Putin recently told representatives of the US president that he would capture Donetsk region within several months, calling it roughly ...
Russia lost 248,964 troops on the battlefield in Ukraine from January through August, President Zelensky says. He said Ukraine has video evidence documenting each Russian loss and an archive of drone footage showing thousands of Russian troops being killed in combat zones.Zelensky added Russia seized just over 1,000 km² of Ukrainian territory this year and that Ukraine has already liberated much o...
Finland and Ukraine signed an Agreement on Enhanced Defence and Security Cooperation under the Drone Deal format in New York. The agreement aims to strengthen both countries’ defense capabilities, industrial cooperation and technological development. It enables technology and knowledge transfers, joint research and development, manufacturing and drone technology development, while simplifying admi...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blamed the Biden administration, NATO and Kyiv for Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. He claimed NATO and the Biden administration rejected Moscow’s security proposals in December 2021 and alleged that Kyiv was preparing to seize Russian-controlled areas of Donbas by force. Lavrov said Russia was therefore “forced” to launch what Moscow calls its “sp...
❗️The US has invited Russia to participate in the G20 summit in Miami on December 14-15, Secretary of State Marco Rubio says. Zelensky previously said he was ready to meet Putin in Miami, creating the possibility of a meeting involving Zelensky, Putin and Trump during the summit.
President Zelensky says Ukraine is ready to ensure safe and uninterrupted navigation and food security in the Black Sea if Russia is also prepared to take concrete steps toward de-escalation. He presented Ukraine’s readiness as conditional on corresponding action from Russia.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in New York. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova and UN Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya were also present.
❗️Putin is ready for another meeting with US President Trump if a concrete agreement is reached to hold formal talks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. He added that no such specifics currently exist and reiterated that Zelensky “can come to Moscow,” while saying there are no conditions for a peace track.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says Article 5 is “deliberately ambiguous,” arguing that the Alliance will never specify exactly what would trigger the collective defense provision because it does not want to provide adversaries with that information. On hybrid threats, Rutte said NATO has all the response options it needs, including measures that will remain non-public. He added that responses ...