Category: Updates
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11/21/2025 — Any serious Ukraine peace plan must address Putin’s imperial ambitions

From: Atlantic Council By Mykola Bielieskov This week has seen a flurry of diplomatic activity around a new US peace plan to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. White House officials stated on Thursday that the plan had been developed by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff over the past month based on input from both…
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11/21/2025 — Editorial: It’s time for Zelenskyy to choose Ukraine over reelection

Every catastrophic decision traces to protecting his political future BY EUROMAIDAN PRESS STAFF The contract is broken The Mindich scandal exposed more than $100 million stolen from Ukraine’s nuclear operator Energoatom. It exposed the gap between the country Ukrainians are building and the government Zelenskyy is running. When Russia invaded, Ukrainians made an unwritten deal with Zelenskyy:…
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11/21/2025 — Back from captivity: Ukrainian children abducted by Russia share their stories 

From: EuroNews By Giorgia Orlandi & Sasha Vakulina — For the first time since Russia’s all-out war, a delegation of Ukrainian children formerly abducted by Russian forces met the press in Rome on Wednesday. A senior official from Zelenskyy’s office said Ukraine wants to formalise the Vatican’s role as mediator to help secure the release of civilians. In…
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11/21/2025 — Ukraine banned from Nato, Russia readmitted to the G8 and territory ceded: what’s in Trump’s draft plan

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he expects to discuss the plan – which was reportedly drafted by Russian and US officials – with Trump From: The Guardian by Guardian staff and agencies Donald Trump’s latest plan for ending the war in Ukraine would see territory ceded to Russia, Russia readmitted to the G8 and Ukraine banned from…
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11/21/2025 — The Secret Peace: Chamberlain’s Ghost Walks Through Washington
From: Douglas Landro While rescue workers in Ternopil sifted through ashes, a different kind of devastation was unfolding in luxury hotels and secured conference rooms thousands of kilometers away. The war’s most dangerous weapon wasn’t falling from the sky—it was being drafted in Microsoft Word, and it bore the unmistakable stench of Munich 1938. American…
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11/21/2025 — “You make known to me the path of life…”

From: Ira Kapitonova Day 1366 You make known to me the path of life;in your presence there is fullness of joy;at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.Psalm 16:11 During dark times, after the terrorist attack on Ternopil and Lviv, after very few hours of electricity a day, God still shows up if we’re ready to…
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11/19/2025 — OIL CRASH: Russia’s Economy Cannot Recover (video)

From: Jason Jay Smart — Russia is entering a financially catastrophic phase as oil prices collapse toward thirty six dollars per barrel, shattering the foundation of the Kremlin budget and exposing the economic weakness behind its war. A petrostate that depends on high energy profits cannot sustain a long conflict when its main source of…
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11/19/2025 — Finland’s president urges Europe to hold its nerve as he warns no ceasefire likely soon in Ukraine

From: AP BY EMMA BURROWS HALVALA, Finland (AP) — A ceasefire in Ukraine is unlikely before the spring and European allies need to keep up support despite a corruption scandal that has engulfed Kyiv, President Alexander Stubb of Finland told The Associated Press. Europe, meanwhile, will require ‘’sisu,’’ a Finnish word meaning endurance, resilience and grit, to get…
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11/19/2025 — Two Ukrainians working for Russia behind rail sabotage, Polish PM says

From: BBC by Adam Easton,Warsaw correspondent and Jaroslav Lukiv Two Ukrainian citizens who long worked for Russian intelligence have been identified as the suspects behind two acts of sabotage on Poland’s rail network, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said. One suspect had already been convicted in absentia of acts of sabotage in Ukraine, Tusk told parliament. On…
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11/19/2025 — Vladimir Putin fears entering Russian history as the man who lost Ukraine

From: Atlantic Council By Peter Dickinson The invasion unleashed by Vladimir Putin almost four years ago has often been called unprovoked, but nobody can say it was entirely unexpected. On the contrary, the full-scale invasion of 2022 was merely the latest and most extreme stage in a prolonged campaign of escalating Russian aggression aimed at preventing…