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☆ Russia will have to scale back front lines assaults in 6 weeks due to losses, Ukrainian commander says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Russia will have to scale back front-line assaults in a month and a half, per a Ukrainian commander. General Oleksandr Pivnenko told Ukrinform that Russia's offensive capabilities are "not unlimited." download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementRussia will have to scale back its front lines assaults in a month and a half due to battlefield losses, according to a Ukrainian commander. General Oleksandr Pivnenko, the commander of Ukraine's National Guard, made the assessment to Ukrinform on Thursday.

Persons: Oleksandr Pivnenko, Ukrinform, — Organizations: Service, National Guard, Kyiv, Business Locations: Russia, Ukrainian, Moscow, Ukraine

☆ Russia's efforts to copy Ukraine's wildly successful sea drones won't achieve much, expert says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewRussian efforts to copy Ukraine's naval drone success won't help its invasion and may be a waste of resources, a drone warfare expert told Business Insider. Ukraine's homemade naval drones have been instrumental in helping contain Russia's Black Sea Fleet. Patton said Ukraine's drones have been successful as they've been launched against crewed Russian naval assets. AdvertisementA sea drone during a presentation by Ukraine's Security Service in Kyiv region, Ukraine. Even so, it's not clear how much of an advantage naval drones would be in such a war.

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☆ Fashion week to return to Kyiv for the first time since 2022
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The organizers of Ukrainian Fashion Week have announced the event’s 55th season in September will take place in Kyiv — the first time since Russia invaded the country on February 24, 2022. “We still have war in the whole country, and we feel the war in the whole country,” Lisa Ushcheka, head of international communications for Ukrainian Fashion Week, told CNN in a video call. From left to right: Ksenia Schnaider, Ivan Frolov and Julie Paskal backstage ahead of the Ukrainian Fashion Week show during London Fashion Week in February 2023. “Because it’s a historical event, a fashion week taking place in a country where there is a war going on.”For Frolov, the prospect of staging a return show in Kyiv is emotionally overwhelming. I was born in Kyiv and Kyiv is everything to me.

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☆ Don’t help Russia evade sanctions, Ukraine tells Hong Kong
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Nectar Gan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Hong Kong CNN —Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba urged Hong Kong to prevent Russia from using the Asian financial hub to bypass Western sanctions during a visit to the city on Thursday. Kuleba “called on the Hong Kong administration to take measures to prevent Russia and Russian companies from using Hong Kong to circumvent the restrictive measures imposed for Russia’s aggression against Ukraine,” according to a statement from Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry issued after the minister met with Hong Kong leader John Lee. “These restrictive measures are necessary to weaken Russia’s capacity to wage war and kill people in Ukraine,” it added. In a statement, a spokesperson for the Hong Kong government told CNN on Friday that it “implements and strictly enforces” United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanctions. However, international companies based in Hong Kong, including Chinese banks, have generally adhered to US sanctions to avoid any risk of being frozen out of the dollar dominated global financial system.

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☆ China’s hosting Palestinian and Ukrainian delegations this week. But can it play peace broker in global conflicts?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Simone Mccarthy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Hong Kong CNN —China’s top diplomat Wang Yi has had a busy week in which two devastating conflicts have loomed large. Kuleba’s visit was the first time in the nearly 29 months of Russia’s war on Ukraine that a high-level Ukrainian official has visited China. Official statements from Beijing and Kyiv after Wednesday’s Wang-Kuleba talks gave no indication that the Ukrainian diplomat had swayed Beijing toward Kyiv’s vision for peace. Observers say Beijing could, at some point, play a role in any potential future talks, but is unlikely to shift its relationship with Russia. But it was met with some skepticism from observers in the region given the failure of past attempts at unity.

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☆ Defeating Russia's massive 6,600-lb glide bomb may mean risking Ukraine's Patriots if it can't take out the fighter-bombers on the ground
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewRussia has increasingly been striking Ukrainian positions with its new 6,600-pound glide bomb, a highly destructive weapon that is notoriously difficult to defeat. AdvertisementA FAB-3000 glide bomb is seen in this video released on July 14 by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The new FAB-3000 glide bomb's first known combat usage was in June, and it has been used extensively in the weeks since. AdvertisementOnce released from an aircraft, glide bombs have short flight times, generate small radar signatures, and travel on non-ballistic trajectories. AdvertisementA FAB-3000 glide bomb is seen mid-flight in this video released on July 14 by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

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☆ Russia would lose up to 1.8 million troops and take 5 years to capture the 4 Ukrainian regions it wants: UK army chief
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewRussia would likely take up to 1.8 million wounded and dead over five years to achieve its goal of fully capturing four major Ukrainian regions, said the new chief of the British Army. On Sunday, he said the UK must be ready to go to war in three years, per the BBC. AdvertisementAnalysts fear that Russia can outlast Ukraine's defense through its aggressive recruitment drives and a defense manufacturing industry that's kicked into overdrive. Russia has poured 40% of national spending into defense and security, essentially putting its economy on a war footing.

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☆ Russia would lose up to 1.8 million troops and take 5 years to capture the 4 Ukrainian regions it wants: UK Army Chief
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

☆ Vance’s selection solidifies Trump’s hold over the GOP
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Ronald Brownstein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

It’s just a decisive move toward America First on foreign policy.”Trump’s selection of Vance is one of the clearest barometers of the former president’s tightening hold over the GOP. Those included Christian conservatives, the business community, congressional insiders and traditional Republican foreign policy hawks shaped by Ronald Reagan’s vision of the US as the muscular leader of the free world. Instead, with Vance, Trump chose an acolyte and potential successor who could deepen and extend the direction the former president has set for the party. Vance has been most unequivocal in criticizing the internationalist approach to foreign policy centered on robust alliances. With the selection of Vance, Trump has broadcast his belief that he has conclusively won the internal GOP debate over all aspects of US interactions with the world – foreign policy, immigration and trade.

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☆ Ukraine Presses China to Help Seek End to War With Russia
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Alexandra Stevenson | Constant Méheut | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ukraine’s top diplomat met with China’s foreign minister on Wednesday in talks that signaled Kyiv’s increased willingness to pursue a diplomatic solution to the war with Russia and to have China play a more central role in the effort. “I am convinced that a just peace in Ukraine is in China’s strategic interests,” Dmytro Kuleba said in a statement after a meeting with Wang Yi, the Chinese official, in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. “China’s role as a global force for peace is important.”Mr. Kuleba made clear that Ukraine attached conditions to such negotiations, saying it would only engage Russia when Moscow was “ready to negotiate in good faith.” He added: “No such readiness is currently observed on the Russian side.”Mr. Kuleba is visiting China for the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. His trip comes as Ukraine is slowly losing ground in the war and faces growing uncertainty about the level of support it will have from the West. Moscow and Kyiv briefly held peace talks in the spring of 2022 but they quickly broke down over critical issues.

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☆ Hungary told it can't host EU gathering after the latest clash with Putin ally over Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Hungary has been stripped of the right to host a forthcoming gathering of European Union ministers due to its stance on the war in Ukraine. "We have to send a signal, even if it is a symbolic signal, that being against the foreign policy of the European Union ... has to have some consequences," Borrell told reporters in Brussels on Monday. Borrell said he had made the decision to hold the next gathering in Brussels after almost every EU foreign minister meeting on Monday was critical of Hungary's stated position on Kyiv, Russia and the war in Ukraine. Orban, who's seen as an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has since provoked fury in Brussels by describing EU policy on Ukraine as "pro-war." He nevertheless told reporters that the move was not a "boycotting" of Hungary and that the country would be present at the next gathering.

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☆ Ukraine Strikes Preliminary $20 Billion Debt Restructuring Deal
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Constant Méheut | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ukraine said Monday that it had struck a preliminary deal with a group of international private creditors to restructure more than $20 billion of the debt it owes them, a step that would save the war-torn country billions and preserve funds to support its battered armed forces. The creditors agreed to write off more than a third of the nominal value of the government bonds they hold, which would allow Ukraine to save $11.4 billion over the next three years, the Ukrainian government said. The deal has been approved by the International Monetary Fund, which has made its financial assistance to Ukraine conditional on the country’s ability to reduce its debt. Denys Shmyhal, Ukraine’s prime minister, said in a statement that the deal “allows us to free up resources for our defense, social spending and reconstruction.”The deal was signed with the largest group of creditors, representing about a quarter of private bondholders. Two-thirds of all bondholders must approve the agreement for it to take effect.

Persons: Denys Shmyhal, Olena Bilan Organizations: International Monetary Fund, Dragon Locations: Ukraine, Kyiv

☆ World leaders react to Biden’s exit from the 2024 US presidential race
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Lex Harvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau arrives for a meeting at the 2024 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit in Washington, DC on July 11, 2024. “Many strong decisions have been made in recent years and they will be remembered as bold steps taken by President Biden in response to challenging times,” Zelensky said on X. “We will always be thankful for President Biden’s leadership.”President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky during a press conference on July 15, 2024 in Kyiv, Ukraine. But he has increasingly clashed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over humanitarian aid and the mounting civilian death toll of the conflict. Israeli President Isaac Herzog speaks to the media following a meeting with US President Joe Biden at the White House on July 18, 2023.

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☆ Biden Shepherded Europe on Ukraine and NATO. What Happens Now?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Matina Stevis-Gridneff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

European leaders have been relying on President Biden to guide them through some of the continent’s darkest days in decades. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, they found in him a shepherd of sorts, who worked with them to unite behind Kyiv and shaped the response to Russia’s aggression. Mr. Biden urged his European counterparts to impose sanctions on Russia quickly, and his administration lent expertise on how to do so in lock step with the United States. He pushed European allies to get it together when it came to defense and to commit to spend more on NATO.

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☆ Global leaders react to 'true friend' Biden dropping out of U.S. presidential race
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Lee Ying Shan | In Ying-Shan-Lee | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called Biden "a true friend" and a "partner to Canadians." "I've known President Biden for years. To President Biden and the First Lady: thank you," Trudeau wrote in an Instagram post. Biden's "difficult" decision was acknowledged by Polish President Donald Tusk and Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala as driven by the larger interest of the U.S."Dear President @JoeBiden. "We will always be thankful for President Biden's leadership.

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☆ Ukraine war: European nations turn to conscription as threat of wider war with Russia grows
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Radina Gigova | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Several European nations have reintroduced or expanded compulsory military service amid Moscow’s mounting threat, part of a range of policies aimed at boosting defenses that are likely to be scaled up even further. Compulsory military service was reintroduced on January 1 this year, after being abolished in 2006. In the UK, the Conservatives floated the idea of military service in their ill-fated election campaign. In Lithuania, for instance, opinions about military service among students vary, said Paulius Vaitiekus, president of Lithuania’s National Students’ Union. However as an alliance we do not prescribe mandatory military service,” Dakhlallah said.

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☆ Psychedelic therapy with ketamine aims to ease PTSD for Ukrainian soldiers coming back scarred from front-line fighting
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Ella Sherman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewAdministered ketamine is being used in concert with therapy to treat Ukrainian veterans who experience post-traumatic stress disorder from fighting on the battlefield. AdvertisementA study published earlier this year focused on the treatment of depression among veterans using ketamine taken through an IV. The doses provided at least partial relief to many of the test subjects and after six weeks of ketamine infusions, depression scores dropped significantly. "Soldiers, for them, it's natural to consider themselves like a strong man," Matrenitsky said, explaining that the effects of the ketamine therapy allow individuals to overcome defensive barriers over their emotions. In partnership with Heal Ukraine Trauma, Matrenitsky along with other healthcare professionals have teamed up to form the Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy initiative in hopes of educating Ukrainian therapists on Ketamine-Assisted Therapy.

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Former US President Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “not to believe the ‘fake news’” that his possible reelection would help Russia, the Ukrainian president’s press secretary said Saturday. The two also talked about the latest Russian attacks on Ukraine and “agreed in principle” to hold a joint meeting, he said. The phone call between Trump and Zelensky marked their first conversation since the former president left the White House, and came the day after Trump formally accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for president. Trump’s newly minted running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, is a staunch critic of sending support to Ukraine. Trump on Friday said he “had a very good phone call” with Zelensky, while the Ukrainian president said he wished Trump “strength and absolute safety in the future,” and “noted the vital bipartisan and bicameral” US support for Ukraine.

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☆ Trump and Zelensky speak by phone as Ukraine worries about U.S. backing.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Constant Méheut | More About Constant Méheut | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Former President Donald J. Trump and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, spoke over the phone late this week amid mounting concern in Kyiv that a second Trump administration would spell the end of American support in Ukraine’s fight against Russia. Ukrainian officials worry that if a re-elected Mr. Trump kept to his vow to end the war quickly — he has suggested that he could end it in one day — it would allow Russia to keep the territory it occupies and leave it in a position to attack Ukraine again. In a social media post about the call, which took place on Friday, Mr. Trump said that, as president he would “bring peace to the world and end the war that has cost so many lives.” He said both Russia and Ukraine “will be able to come together and negotiate a deal that ends the violence.”Mr. Zelensky said in a statement on Friday that he had underlined in the call “the vital bipartisan and bicameral American support for protecting our nation’s freedom and independence.” He said he and Mr. Trump had agreed “to discuss at a personal meeting what steps can make peace fair and truly lasting.”

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☆ Facing difficult frontline reality and the prospect of Trump in the White House, Zelensky hints at negotiations with Russia
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Zelensky suggested Moscow should send a delegation to the next peace summit that he hopes to hold in November. Kyiv is currently facing the double whammy of a difficult frontline situation and political uncertainty over the level of future support from Ukraine’s closest allies. Trump and Zelensky spoke on Friday in what Trump called a “had a very good phone call”. Putin said Russia would end its war in Ukraine if Kyiv surrendered the entirety of four regions claimed by Moscow: Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. Despite being considerably bigger and stronger than Ukraine, Russia has not managed to fulfil its territorial goals – even when Kyiv was receiving only limited help from the West.

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☆ Trump says he had ‘a very good phone call’ with Zelensky, discussed Russia-Ukraine war
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Kristen Holmes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump said he “had a very good phone call” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday. It also comes amid concerns in Europe about what Trump’s policy toward the Russia-Ukraine war would be if he were to win the presidential election in November. “President Zelenskyy of Ukraine and I had a very good phone call earlier today. Trump and Zelensky also have their own history. Last week, when Zelensky was in the US, he said that “everyone is waiting for November,” including Putin.

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☆ Europe has shown it's less afraid of calling Putin's bluff than the US and getting Ukraine what it needs to fight Russia
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Many European countries have also given more as a proportion of their GDP than the US has. AP Photo/Peter DejongIn early 2023, France became the first Western country to promise to send Ukraine Western armored combat vehicles. European countries have also led in letting Ukraine use Western weapons to hit military targets in Russia. But there are still hangups, and some European countries want partner support for Ukraine to go much further. He said that for most Americans, "if you ask them to name five European countries, they probably wouldn't be able to do it."

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However, Russia and Belarus are exceptions due to the invasion of Ukraine,” a Hiroshima city government spokesperson told CNN. Envoys from Russia and Belarus haven’t attended since Hiroshima excluded them in 2022 following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February that year. Russia used Belarus as one of the launch pads for its assault and later moved some of its tactical nuclear weapons there. “As a city of international peace, Hiroshima city needs to invite all nations, regardless of whether they are at war or not,” said Kunihiko Sakuma, president of Hiroshima Hidankyo, an atomic bomb survivors’ advocacy group. Hiroshima authorities said they only send invitations to countries with embassies in Japan and have never invited Palestinian representatives to the ceremony.

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☆ Putin Counted on Waning U.S. Interest in Ukraine. It Might Be a Winning Bet.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Anton Troianovski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Vladimir V. Putin’s strategy for defeating Ukraine can be summed up in one revealing moment in his February interview with the former television host Tucker Carlson. Addressing the possibility of heightened U.S. involvement in Ukraine, the Russian leader asked Americans: “Don’t you have anything better to do?”After several tumultuous weeks in American politics, Mr. Putin appears closer than ever to getting the answer he seeks. President Biden, Ukraine’s most important ally, is engulfed in the biggest political crisis of his tenure, with calls from fellow Democrats to withdraw from the presidential race. Former President Donald J. Trump, favored in the polls, has picked as his running mate one of the loudest critics of American aid to Kyiv. And at the Republican National Convention Thursday night, Mr. Trump renewed his pledge to end the fighting and channeled Mr. Putin in warning of “World War III.”

Persons: Vladimir V, Tucker Carlson, “, Putin, Biden, Ukraine’s, Donald J, Trump, ” Organizations: Ukraine, Republican, Convention Locations: Ukraine, Kyiv

JD Vance speaks at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, on July 17. Will Lanzoni/CNNMany of America’s closest allies were already dreading the prospect of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now that the former president has picked JD Vance as his running mate, they potentially have a lot more to worry about. By choosing Vance, Trump has sent a clear signal that, if elected, his America-first foreign policy will be back in force. His nomination puts an end to the hopes by some of America’s allies that Trump might soften his foreign policy stance if reelected.

Persons: Vance, Will Lanzoni, America’s, Donald Trump’s, JD Vance, Trump, ” Organizations: Republican National Convention, CNN, Trump, NATO, Labour, Munich, Conference, East Locations: Milwaukee, America, Ohio, Ukraine, Russia, United Kingdom, East Asia, China

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