Sweden has allocated the largest military aid package for Ukraine worth more than $1 billion. Meanwhile, in the United States, a helicopter collided with a passenger plane. Read more about what happened on Thursday,

With U.S. military aid to Ukraine in doubt, Zelensky hopes to convince Trump to get the Europeans on side for confiscating Russia’s frozen assets.

Yes, by all means, Secretary of State Marco Rubio should be “realistic” about Ukraine. Let’s win.

Even putting aside the security and moral reasons for supporting a free Kyiv, which are immense, backing Ukraine is a financially sound decision for the United States.

Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections in 2024 did not come as a surprise in Kyiv. Instead, Ukrainian authorities are now focused on building institutional ties with the incoming administration and closely monitoring appointments to foreign policy positions.

NATO has said its pledge for tens of billions of dollars in security aid for Ukraine will be fulfilled by the end of 2025. The alliance announced on Wednesday that 40 billion euros ($41.6 billion) which had been agreed by the bloc's 32 members during its Washington, D.C. summit last July would be sent to Kyiv this year.

Any attempt to get Ukraine into Nato will run into a “buzz saw” in Washington unless Europe pays for it, a top diplomat for Donald Trump has said.

Many Europeans are latching onto wishful thinking about how Trump will address the war in Ukraine, instead of preparing for more realistic scenarios. The post Europe Can't Wishcast Away What Trump Means for Ukraine Policy appeared first on World Politics Review.

Ukraine’s future hinges on critical U.S. support—at stake: a German-style peace or a Georgian-style nightmare.

President Donald Trump is emphasizing that targeting Russia’s oil revenue is the best way to get Moscow to end its nearly three-year war against Ukraine.

The future that Zelensky and many of his countrymen have in mind is one in which Russia is defeated. But in rallying the world to the fight, the implication Biden embedded in his own goals was that defending Ukraine against Russia is not the same as defeating Russia. So it is not surprising if that goal remains far from Zelensky’s reach.

TRUMP: UKRAINE PEACE PUSH ‘UNDERWAY’: Appearing via video link at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, yesterday, President Donald Trump called the war in Ukraine “an abso ...