"At the current stage of the war, it is unmanned aerial vehicles that provide about 60% of all strikes on enemy targets," Syrskyi wrote. The military chief said that in November alone, Ukrainian uncrewed aerial vehicles, or UAVs, carried out over 304,000 missions, striking or destroying roughly 81,500 targets. "Over the past six months, this indicator has been constantly growing," Syrskyi added. Meanwhile, Ukrainian uncrewed ground vehicles, or UGVs, carried out 2,000 missions in the same timeframe, he said.
describing it as weak and decaying and claiming it was destroying itself through immigration. In a rambling and sometimes incoherent interview with Politico, a transcript of which was released on Tuesday, the US president struggled to name any other Ukrainian cities except for Kyiv, misrepresented elements of the trajectory of the conflict, and recycled far-right tropes about European immigration that echoed the great replacement conspiracy theory.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a meeting with Pope Leo XIV at Castel Gandolfo, located outside Rome. According to a Vaticanstatement, the Pope reiterated the need for the continuation of dialogue and "expressed his urgent desire that the current diplomatic initiatives bring about a just and lasting peace." This comes as Zelenskyy continues his tour through Europe to secure support for his country while standing firm in the face of pressure to give away territory to Russia.
While Ukraine president hailed Ireland for standing with his country against Russia, not everyone in Leinster House was in sync with the message By the time Volodymyr Zelensky entered the Dáil chamber, the temperature outside had dropped to 6C as evening drew in across Merrion Square. Over 3,000km away in Moscow, his enemy was preparing to meet with US brokers to discuss the latest, redrafted peace plan aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.
Under its terms, Ukraine would face no meaningful limit on its peacetime military, despite Russian attempts to impose draconian restrictions since 2022. (The only requirement, a cap of 600,000 personnel, probably exceeds the number of active-duty forces Ukraine would maintain anyway.) Moreover, Ukraine would receive a substantial security guarantee from the United States and Europe the strongest in history, even if short of a Nato-style commitment.
Yermak has been substantially involved in the peace talks to bring the war to an end Earlier this week, he was fronting discussions in Geneva with the US secretary of state Marco Rubio Since Zelensky's election victory in 2019, the pair have been inseparable, particularly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff Andrii Yermak resigned on Friday after anti-corruption police raided his home.
Andriy Yermak has served as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's chief of staff since 2020. His resignation from the role comes after his office was searched amid a corruption investigation. Yermak has served as Zelenskyy's chief negotiator amid indirect peace talks between Ukraine and Russia which are mediated by the US (FILE: November 23, 2025) Image: Elodie Le Maou/AFP/Getty Images Andriy Yermak resigned as Ukrainian President's Volodymyr Zelenskyy's chief of staff on Friday.
Women have been involved in Ukraine's drone operations since the early months of the full-scale invasion, but as shortages in the military increase their presence has grown, particularly in FPV (first-person-view) attack units. Casualty figures are not disclosed but widely understood to be high, and Ukraine is becoming reliant on civilians to fill roles that once belonged to trained military personnel.
Zaporizhzhia, a city in southeastern Ukraine, at 8:48 P.M. the night before. About sixteen hours later, after travelling more than five hundred miles, it made a stop in Lviv, where I boarded. Milchenko and I were both bound for Poland. I was going to Kraków, on a hastily planned vacation. Milchenko was en route to Wrocław, where his mother lives. I planned to return to Ukraine in ten days. Milchenko didn't know if he would ever go back.
It was Nawrocki's first trip to Prague since his election in June and came just under a week before a summit of presidents of the so-called Visegrad Group of Central European countries in Esztergom, Hungary, on December 3. The two men were keen to emphasize in the press briefing after their meeting that they were very much on the same page on most of the issues facing Europe, notably the war in Ukraine.
The relationship between Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Donald Trump resembles a grueling tennis match. After months of exchanging blows, the Ukrainian president is cornered at the back of the court, saving points in extremis. The U.S. president wants to claim victory as the man who brokered peace between Moscow and Kyiv. And his strategy involves subduing the weaker opponent until they eventually give in.
