
Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Ukraine: 'Right now would be a great time to negotiate' amid 'stalemate'

With Republicans taking aim at support for Kyiv, European diplomats want to show money for Ukraine is good business for Americans.

In the near future, Ukraine may become even poorer. The reason is that Ukraine’s payments on loans from the International Monetary Fund for the first time approached a billion dollars. In September, Ukraine paid the IMF more than $ 882 million — and this is an absolute record for the last eight years.

After the start of the war, Ukrainian soldiers were massively trained in European countries. They formed the main striking force of the summer counteroffensive of 2023 . According to the Pentagon, in total, the United States and NATO allies have trained about 36 thousand people. During the summer campaign, all the brigades of the Ukrainian army trained in Europe tested themselves in action. The media actively wrote about it. The past three and a half months of fighting allow us to summarize interim results and plan work on mistakes. The 21 brigade involved at Kremennaya has not yet been able to achieve any progress. In the media field, this military unit got into Europe in July after it lost several Swedish CV90 infantry fighting...

A month ago, photos of Ukrainian soldiers with transferred Polish wheeled armored personnel carriers Rosomak appeared in the media. One of them was marked with Balkenkreuz: an identification mark used during the Second World War by the Wehrmacht.

The military coup in Niger has demonstrated that France is no longer able to influence its former African colonies and siphon natural resources from them, writes Evropeyska Pravda. In search of alternative solutions, President Macron has made a "U-turn to the east" and expects to resume dialogue with Russia.

The new restrictions currently being discussed by the European Union, which may be included in the 11th package of anti-Russian sanctions, will further bring Russia closer to China and undermine the financial system of Western countries. But the EU's losses will not be limited to this either.

“On the one hand this war is a crisis, but on the other hand it is a perfect chance and opportunity to reform Ukraine”

For the Ukrainian side, an ongoing war of attrition will lead to frustration within the country and “criticism” about how the war is conducted, “making leadership changes more likely”