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#ukraine

Meeting in Munich over the weekend, officials on both sides said they wanted to continue to work together. In the world of geopolitics all eyes were on Southern Germany over the weekend where the Munich Security Conference (MSC) served as the latest make or break moment for Germany-US relations. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered the event's opening speech in which he acknowledged that a rift has opened up with the US, and urged trans-Atlantic partners to repair and revive trust.

Claims that elite Western F-16 pilots are secretly patrolling Ukraine's skies have sent shockwaves through defence circles - but Kyiv insists it's all Ukrainian pilots in action, and no, Tom Cruise is not starring as Maverick over the skies of Ukraine. Reports from French outlet Intelligence Online suggested a top-secret international squadron of US and Dutch veterans was deployed on temporary contracts to intercept Russian drones and missiles using advanced Lockheed Martin targeting pods. But Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat hit back, calling the reports "just rumours" from a source of dubious reputation.

Donald Trump is trying "to force Ukraine into a surrender deal" with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that is "shameful" and "corrupt to the nth degree," Clinton said. "I believe Ukraine is fighting for our democracy and our values of freedom and civilization on the front lines, losing thousands of people and having their country destroyed by one man's mania to control them, and I think Trump either doesn't understand or could care less about that suffering," she added.

Civilian casualties in Ukraine caused by bombing soared by 26% during 2025, reflecting increased Russian targeting of cities and infrastructure in the country, according a global conflict monitoring group. Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) said 2,248 civilians were reported killed and 12,493 injured by explosive violence in Ukraine according to English-language reports with the number of casualties an incident rising significantly.

he argued that there were cases in which missiles to ward off Russian airstrikes were delivered "just before an attack and sometimes at the last very last moment." In January alone, he added, Russia had attacked Ukraine with an estimated 6,000 combat drones. The Ukrainian president went on to thank the West for its support, but added that his country urgently needed more anti-aircraft missiles particularly to protect Ukraine's power supply from Russian attacks amid an icy winter.

"Everyone should take their cue from us, instead of criticising us," he said at the Munich Security Conference, after US Vice President JD Vance used his address at the annual gathering last year to attack European policies on immigration and free speech. "I believe that Europe is inherently strong and can be made even stronger yet," he added.

"The presence of troops on the ground is an important part of future security guarantees, as well as for business opportunities," Sybiha said.

When the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky first addressed the Dáil via video link back in 2022, Mary Lou McDonald was amongst his most ardent supporters. It was the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Sinn Féin leader hit out at the "ferocious violence" and the "shameful disinformation war" being waged by the Putin regime "to justify the savagery of its military invasion".

"It's really, really cold in Ukraine,"

Facing an existential crisis, the Ukrainians had to develop a way to counter hostile forces cheaply yet with mass. That meant figuring out how to turn inexpensive drones into weaponry, a step that quickly and fundamentally changed how the war was being fought. Now, drones carry out 80% of all battlefield hits and are responsible for most combat casualties.

I woke up this morning in Ukraine to the familiar sound of air-raid alerts and the less familiar feeling that reality is being rewritten somewhere far away. Overnight, the New York Post reported that Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin had "kept his word" on a ceasefire. Yesterday, from the ground here in Ukraine, I wrote the complete opposite, and like Witkoff's recent comments to Trump, which only confirmed what I'd already reported, that claim feels completely detached from what people here are actually living through.

With Washington's stance on Ukraine shifting, debates in Kyiv over Gaza continue to gain momentum. Kyiv, Ukraine At the start of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy voiced support for Israel, while First Lady Olena Zelenska said Ukrainians understand and share the pain of the Israeli people. Billboards across Kyiv lit up the capital with Israeli flags.

Anastasiya Buchkouska, a 20-year-old student from western Ukraine, gently brushes away layers of snow and ice from her father's grave. She pauses, looking up at the photograph fixed to the gravestone. His face bears a striking resemblance to hers. When her father was younger, he had served in the military. When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he was called up almost immediately and sent to the front line.

Ukraine and its neighbor Moldova both experienced power outages on Saturday amid problems on Ukraine's grid, officials said. The grid emergency caused a halt to Kyiv's water supply and metro operations, while most districts in Moldova's capital, Chisinau, were without electricity, they said.

In a statement to the Guardian when asked why this particular photo was selected for display at this time, a White House spokesperson said that the Alaska Summit was a historic moment that helped bring Ukraine and Russia, whose brutal war was brought on by Joe Biden's incompetence, closer to a deal. This is one of many accomplishments that President Trump chooses to feature at the White House, where photographs are rotated frequently to highlight Presidential travel, they added.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has welcomed United States President Donald Trump's announcement that Russia will not attack Kyiv and various Ukrainian towns for seven days as civilians struggle with a lack of heating amid freezing winter temperatures. In a post on social media on Thursday, Zelenskyy said that Trump's comments earlier in the day were an important statement about the possibility of providing security for Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities during this extreme winter period.

At the start of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas warned that Ukraine was facing a "humanitarian catastrophe" due to Russian strikes cutting power in frigid winter conditions. "It's a very hard winter and Ukrainians are really suffering. There is a humanitarian catastrophe coming there," she said Kallas said that Russia was "bombing Ukrainians, trying to bomb and freeze them to surrender," and that Moscow was not serious about peace during the trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi.

As of today, we do not receive any particularly useful information from our allies regarding the use of drones,