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Thoughts are turning to the end of the Ukraine war, with suggestions from war crimes trials to Ukrainian tanks parked in Moscow’s Red Square.

Biden’s top national security aides said that despite the risks, the president felt it was “really important” to take the trip to Ukraine.

The left-wing administration of President Joe Biden will give Ukraine another $500 million in military aid, Biden announced on Monday, standing alongside President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.

President Joe Biden used a secret train trip Monday to journey from Poland into war-torn Ukraine to show Kyiv it has full and open-ended U.S. support.

The Biden administration’s seemingly endless supply of finance and weaponry to Ukraine is starting to wear thin with some Americans, a poll released Wednesday outlines, as domestic problems ranging from the rising cost of living to the porous southern border and free ranging Chinese spy balloons confront sympathetic yet frustrated voters.

Representative Mike Turner (R-OH) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that it is “very disappointing” that those on the “far-right,” like many on the left, do not see the importance of the United States arming Ukraine for its fight against Russia.

In an apparent breach of BBC impartiality rules, a reporter for the public-funded broadcaster embraced Ukrainian President Zelensky in a hug.

Zelensky addressed Parliament, praising ‘the coalition of NLAW’ and thanking the United Kingdom “in advance” for the gift of its warplanes.

The UK is expanding training of Ukraine to “fighter jet pilots”, PM Sunak announced as Zelenskyy arrived in London on a surprise visit.

Ukraine Prez making a surprise trip to London in a bid to get more advanced weapons which will see meetings with parliament and the King.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, who has held his post since the Russian invasion began in February 2022, will be replaced by military intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov to “strengthen military-industrial cooperation,” according to leaders of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People Party. 

Naftali Bennett, the Prime Minister of Israel towards the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, says the West “blocked” a ceasefire he was helping to broker early in the war.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) – A former Israeli prime minister who served briefly as a mediator at the start of Russia’s war with Ukraine says he drew a promise from the Russian president not to kill his Ukrainian counterpart.

Former British premier Boris Johnson has been slammed as a “coward” and a “liar” by Tucker Carlson after backing out of an appearance on his FNC show. 

Moscow has slammed suggestions that the West should send fighter jets to Ukraine, labelling the idea that such a transfer of weapons might not escalate tensions “absurd”.

Ukraine scored 33 out of 100 on corruption in 2022, which puts the country near the bottom third out of 180 countries scored.

Brazil’s radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated on Monday that, if needed, he would be willing to mediate talks between Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) issued an impassioned condemnation on Monday of remarks by a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who accused the institution of being a “promoter of war, murder, and destruction” for ruling in favor of allowing Russian and Belarusian people to compete in its events.

The Russian Foreign Ministry appeared to confirm a visit to Moscow by Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Monday, calling Xi’s presence in the country “the central event in the bilateral agenda for 2023.”

The Ukrainian government has revealed it plans to be a full European Union member-state within two years ahead of a historic Ukraine-EU summit in Kyiv.

Providing new tanks to Ukraine won’t change the reality on the ground of the current conflict with Russia, according to retired Army Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis, who claimed the United States has “no plan” or strategy and warned of the real-world danger of invoking NATO’s “mutual defense” clause, which would trigger a nuclear war.

The Biden administration would not rule out sending F-16s to Ukraine after it announced it was sending 31 Abrams M1A2 tanks to Ukraine.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected the prospect of peace talks with Vladimir Putin while dismissing his Russian counterpart Thursday as a “nobody.”

The government of Russia dismissed the potential on Tuesday of a shipment of dozens of American tanks, promised by left-wing President Joe Biden, to change the momentum of its invasion of Ukraine, suggesting they would “burn just like all the others.”

Ukraine received two power generators gifted by the government of Taiwan on Wednesday and expects over a dozen more in the country in subsequent weeks, a high-profile statement of support from a country Kyiv does not even recognize as a sovereign state.

Nine senior government officials have now been purged in Ukraine as part of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s response to widespread allegations of corruption across his administration.

The White House is set to approve sending advanced M1 Abrams main battle tanks to Ukraine, U.S. officials said Tuesday, reversing a months-long policy of resisting the repeated calls of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for the same.

A string of senior Ukraine government officials were sacked or resigned amidst a flurry of corruption claims Tuesday, with those shown the door accused of taking illicit payments as the Ministry of Defence allegedly signed overinflated military contracts.

Boris Johnson may no longer be UK PM but that has done nothing to diminish his standing in Kyiv, as he makes yet another visit.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) urged the west to send tanks to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after he traveled to Ukraine over the weekend. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at an event on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum on Thursday that he is unsure if his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, is “alive” and does not know who within the Russian government he would have to speak to if he wanted to begin talks with Moscow.

First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska told reporters on Wednesday that her husband, President Volodymyr Zelensky, had used her to send a personal letter to Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.

Ex-prime minister Boris Johnson is urging the West to escalate its military support of Ukraine with tanks, warplanes, and other materiel, confidently asserting that a nuclear war will not happen at the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky used the pulpit provided by the World Economic Forum (WEF) gathering in Davos on Thursday to complain about not obtaining enough main battle tanks from some Western countries to help turn back Russian forces.

Police in Moscow arrested four people on Tuesday for attending a spontaneous memorial to the Ukrainian civilians killed by a Russian missile strike on their apartment building in Dnipro Sunday. 

A helicopter crashed next to a kindergarten on the outskirts of Kyiv, killing several govt ministers aboard, and children on the ground.