WITH the city of Pokrovsk falling into Vladimir Putin’s hands, Ukraine is toughening its next line of defence to show the Russian tyrant has won the battle – but not the war. In the

Rather, it is that support will become slower, stingier and more conditional just when Ukraine needs a predictable, multiyear framework to stabilise the front and the economy. Mr Zelensky’s own response captures the ambiguity of this moment.

As Ukrainian troops struggle to defend a key city in Ukraine's east, a widening energy corruption scandal in Kyiv implicates a close associate of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and forces resignations in his cabinet.

According to multiple news outlets, Trump has blessed a 28-point plan to end the war between the two countries. The plan was negotiated by his envoys in conjunction with a top Vladimir Putin confidant.

Don Bacon, along with the bipartisan co-chairs of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, issued a statement rejecting the peace plan as 'unacceptable'

28P offers naught to Ukraine for its years-long struggle of blood, tears, and sweat. It calls the brave nation to accept territorial losses and restrictions on its military size, capabilities, and alliances. In return, it is offered vague security guarantees not materially different from those of the Minsk Agreements.

In past interviews, Zelensky has referred to the DMZ as a conflict-resolution model that Ukraine would follow at its peril. “It would be a dead zone,” he told one of us in March.

U.S. and Ukrainian officials sought to narrow the gaps between them on Monday over a plan to end the war in Ukraine, after agreeing to modify a U.S. proposal that Kyiv and its European allies saw as a Kremlin wish list.

President Donald Trump has given Ukraine less than a week to accept his plan to end the war with Russia, which is widely seen as favoring Moscow.