A senior advisor of President-elect Donald Trump said that Ukraine must be “realistic” about its war goals, adding that the peninsula of Crimea, which is occupied by Russia, was “gone.”
Bryan Lanza, a Republican Party strategist who spoke to the BBC on November 9, said that the Trump administration will ask President Volodymyr Zelensky to present a realistic vision for peace.
“When Zelensky claims that we will only stop these fighting and there will be peace only when Crimea is returned, then we have some news for President Zelensky. Crimea has gone,” he said.
In 2014, Russia invaded and illegally annexed the Crimea Peninsula.
The Ukrainian leadership has publicly stated that it intends to restore the country’s 1991 borders. This includes the liberation and parts of Donbas occupied since 2014 by Russia.
Lanza did mention the Donbas in the interview but said that the return of Crimea “was not the goal of the United States.”
Lanza said that despite the fact that U.S. soldiers have never been deployed in Ukraine and Kyiv has never requested this, Ukraine would be on its own if it wanted to “have American soldiers fight to reclaim Crimea.”
Trump’s victory over Democratic candidate and Vice-President Kamala Harris at the Nov. 5, presidential election has added further uncertainty for Ukraine, which is struggling to envision its future.
“If we win, before Jan. 20 and before I take the presidency… long before then, I think we can work out something good for both sides,” Trump told Zelensky, standing next to him in New York, in September.
It is unclear why Russia would pause in the current phase, given that its forces are at their peak offensive in 2024. They also have the resources necessary to continue pushing forward.
On Nov. 9, Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov stated that Russia was “ready” to listen to Trump’s proposal but added that “there would be no simple solution.”
A senior adviser to Donald Trump said that Ukraine needed to be “realistic,” in its goals for war, and added that the peninsula of Crimea, occupied by Russia, was “gone.”
British defense intelligence estimates that Russia has suffered more than 696,00 losses since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
The memorandum will establish over 100 industrial park across Ukraine, affecting the lives of 2,5 million citizens and helping to create “hypermodern” cities.
“The dialogue between the President Zelensky, and President-elect Trump, has already been established,” Sybiha stated in Kyiv during a press conference held with Josep Borrell, chief diplomat of the European Union.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced on November 9 that Ukraine had attacked seven Russian regions, including Tula Oblast, with 50 drones. Moscow claimed to have shot down all 50 drones including two that were over Tula Oblast located south of Moscow.
Syrskyi stated that the targets included more than 4,000 Russian soldiers, 129 artillery pieces, and 221 radio equipment.
According to the Telegraph, the U.S. will supply weapons to Ukraine in order to prevent Moscow from relaunching the war. The sources said that in exchange for the weapons, Ukraine would agree to not pursue its ambition to become a member of NATO for 20 years.
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The claim comes at a time when Ukraine has intensified efforts over the last few months to strike deep into Russia with homemade drones. These drones have been targeting airfields, oil refineries, and arms depots to weaken Russia’s combat capabilities.
Borrell said in a post on X that EU support was always his “personal priority”, and should remain at the top of the agenda for the bloc.
The report comes after Ukraine’s Air Force announced that Russia attacked Ukraine with 51 drones overnight, and that the southern Odesa Oblast served as the “epicenter.”
This includes 1,660 casualties that Russian forces have suffered in the last day.
“We still get quite a bit of LNG via Russia and from Russia,” she told Donald Trump in a telephone call. “And why not substitute it with American LNG which is cheaper and brings down our prices?”
Anton Sopov, 21 and Stanislavrau, 28 were found guilty of the murder of a family of nine people, including two children in the occupied Donetsk Oblast. This is a rare case where Russian authorities have held their own troops accountable for crimes committed in Ukraine.
The Russian General Pavel Klimenko (47) led the 5th Donetsk Motorized Rifle Brigade. The brigade was accused of torturing pro Kremlin U.S. Blogger Russell Bentley to death.
Russian authorities are seeking to sentence Dr. Nadezhda Bkanova, a pediatrician from Lviv in Ukraine, to six years in prison for criticizing Russia’s actions against Ukraine during a private meeting.
The Sumy Oblast Military Administration reports that on November 8, Russia attacked 12 communities within Sumy Oblast, injuring 8 people.
According to Ukrainian officials interviewed by The Guardian on November 7, the relationship between the U.K.
Reuters reported that the “small number” of contractors would not be involved in combat operations, and they will be stationed far away from the front lines.
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