President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the top U.S. diplomat said it is "unrealistic" to expect Ukraine to recover all the land Russia has seized since launching its full-scale invasion nearly three years ago, adding Kyiv will have to make concessions to Moscow to end the fighting.
Russia and Ukraine exchanged 50 prisoners of war, the first swap this year, just hours after Moscow launched a massive attack on Ukrainian energy targets, causing rotating power outages that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said highlighted the need for Western help to strengthen the existing capabilities of Ukraine's air shield.
Meeting his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha in Kyiv today 15 January, Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna underlined that Ukraine and its supporters have made the right decisions in fighting Russia's aggression, and staying the course is the only way forward.
Ukraine's first comprehensive human rights centre was opened in the city of Zhytomyr. Not only will it receive and document complaints of human rights violations, it will also address pressing issues, such as the return of children abducted by russia during the war and the exchange of prisoners of war.
Vladimir Putin held a videoconference meeting on socioeconomic development of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.
Support appears to be growing in the West to fully seize hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of Russian assets that were frozen following Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, amid speculation that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will try to seek a peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv soon after he takes office next week.
While U.S. President Joe Biden views his response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a cornerstone of his foreign policy legacy, critics argue he missed a historic opportunity to help Ukraine win the war.
Russia's nearly three-year invasion of Ukraine has become a "war of attrition" and a "stalemate" that must be ended, Senator Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be secretary of state, told senators at his confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
Officials in western Ukraine said Wednesday a Russian missile attack hit critical infrastructure facilities in the Lviv region, part of a series of attacks that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said included more than 40 missiles and 70 drones.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday that it had foiled plans of Ukrainian military intelligence that promised Russian soldiers $1 million to leave their positions in Gorlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
Operational-tactical aviation, attack drones, missile forces, and artillery struck military airfield infrastructure, personnel concentrations, and enemy equipment in 137 areas.
The United States' official position on the Ukraine conflict must be that it should be brought to an end, Republican Senator Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of state nominee, said on Wednesday.
As a result of the negotiation process, 25 Russian servicemen were returned from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime.
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