Ukraine-Russia struggle newest: Putin finds ceasefire deal ‘difficult to accept’ and Zelensky has ‘no trust’ in Russia | EUROtoday

Steve Bannon loves speaking. In reality, he can’t cease. The Trump whisperer has laid out a plan behind the abandonment of Ukraine, particularly for the United States to make a cope with Russia and switch to its actual enemy, China. While Beltway think-tankers apply their high-quality minds to the puzzle of the Trump administration’s diplomacy, Bannon has cheerfully taken to the airwaves, most lately on the podcast of Tim Dillon, a slapstick comedian, to clarify it to the little man.

The brief model goes like this. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is at struggle with the United States. Elites in Silicon Valley and Wall Street bought out the working class and handed the Chinese the keys to wealth. Now, the one strategy to cease China is to chop it off from all capital and expertise. It’s known as decoupling.

Ukrainian forces seem to not be accountable for the city of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk area, based on an open-source intelligence map.

The DeepState battlefield map appeared to indicate that Kyiv’s forces had left the city, amid a Russian offensive to recapture its territory in Kursk.

But DeepState afterwards confirmed that preventing is continuous on the outskirts of the city on Wednesday.

A Ukrainian navy spokesperson for the Kursk entrance declined to remark.

Sudzha is the biggest settlement in a chunk of Russian territory which Ukraine seized final August to behave as a bargaining chip in any future negotiations relating to Moscow’s invasion of its neighbour.

Asked the place Ukraine will draw crimson traces in future peace negotiations, Mr Zelensky mentioned Kyiv won’t ever recognise the territories occupied by Russia.

“This is our fight for independence. We are not going to recognise any territories occupied by Russia,” he mentioned.

“Our people were fighting for it, our heroes fought for that, wounded, killed, many of them, no-one will forget about that.

“This is the most important red line, we will never let anyone forget about this crime against Ukraine.”

Volodymyr Zelensky says his allies within the US ought to have visited Ukraine extra typically, to be able to higher perceive the state of affairs it was in.

“I always said to our colleagues from the United States to come out here to see where there are complexities, where people are living, how they’re fighting our kids, you know, to visit underground schools during the war,” he mentioned.

“It is not easy to understand everything with wealth of different information floating [around] the world, particularly Russian information. “

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said the 30-day ceasefire with Russia could be used to draft a broader peace deal.

Hailing this week’s meeting in Saudi Arabia between US and Ukrainian officials, he said in a briefing that Kyiv supported Washington’s effort to end Russia’s three-year invasion as soon as possible.

The resumption of US military aid and intelligence sharing was very positive, he added.

“Everything depends on whether Russia is willing to do so, to install a truce, or if it is willing to continue killing people,” Mr Zelensky mentioned.

Political correspondent Millie Cooke reports:

Sir Keir Starmer has said the US is an “indispensable ally”, insisting that the two countries are working closely to secure peace in Ukraine.

Despite fallout from Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on the UK overnight on Tuesday, the prime minister said he is “committed to strengthening… relations” between Britain and the US.

“The US is an indispensable ally. We are working together to try to secure a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and I’ve spoken to the president on a number of occasions, including this week,” he added.

Political editor David Maddox reports:

SNP MP Dave Doogan had a closed question on the UK’s relationship with the US.

His follow up PMQ was to point out that when he had asked Starmer last week about whether Trump would cancel military aid to Ukraine, the prime minister said it was “nonsense” and would not happen.

As we know now, Trump did exactly that within a few hours of that answer and cancelled aid and intelligence to Ukraine.

It made the prime minister look foolish, especially as he had said he had received assurance over the phone with the US president.

The issue of trust going forward is also being tested with the latest US tariffs – and clearly Doogan hit a sore point for the PM.