
EU and Ukraine
Hungarian veto on aid to Ukraine
Will the European Union find a way to help Ukraine after Hungary vetoes the issuance of Eurobonds to support the war-torn country

Will the European Union find a way to help Ukraine after Hungary vetoes the issuance of Eurobonds to support the war-torn country

Although the negotiations on the plan to end the war in Ukraine are ongoing, the guns have not yet fallen silent on the front. Moscow announced the capture of the cities of Pokrovsk and Vovchansk, while Kiev, on the other hand, claims that the fighting for the mentioned cities is still ongoing and accuses Russia of propaganda.

After five hours of negotiations between Trump's special envoys and Vladimir Putin in Moscow on the peace agreement for Ukraine, there was no significant progress. The USA was represented by two New York businessmen

Donald Trump's peace plan for Ukraine foresees that Kiev will hand over to Russia the territories it holds under its control, and even more. "How can you leave us," Ukrainians from Donbas cried. About 200.000 people still live in parts of the Donetsk region still controlled by Kiev

According to an unnamed US official, the Ukrainians have accepted Washington's peace plan to end the war. Previously, the President of Ukraine stated that Ukrainians are faced with the choice of losing their honor or losing their alliance with America

Many of the ideas outlined in the 28-point peace plan for Ukraine were rejected in previous talks by Ukrainian and European officials as concessions to Russia. US President Donald Trump, however, is not giving up

The fate of the war, as well as the future geopolitical order of Eastern Europe, are being shaped behind closed doors in the agreements between Washington and Moscow - without the presence of Ukraine and essentially without the participation of the European Union

Heavy fighting in the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region, has been going on for more than a year, and in recent months it has spilled over into the streets.

With the support of Iran and China, Russia slowly increased its drone production capacity and in September 2024 had the ability to use about 1000 of these aircraft per month. At the end of last year, an attack was recorded in which as many as 188 drones were used, while in May of this year, in one case, as many as 500 of these aircraft were sent to Ukrainian targets. It is estimated that at the end of the summer, the Russian army reached the ability to use as many as 6000 larger drones per month. If we take into account the annual production of around one million small and micro FPV drones, the only limiting factor becomes the number of operators, not the number of drones
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned the participants of the 80th General Assembly of the United Nations that no one in Europe is safe because of Russia, but also that the UN has not taken anything more than a statement for decades

Ukraine allocates 31 percent of GDP to the military budget. In Russia, 32,5 percent of state money goes to the army and the war in the neighboring country

In Yevfremova Street 46 in the center of Lviv, on Saturday August 30, the life line of Andrij Parubi (pictured) painfully intersected with the course of the very tragic events of the drama whose actor was as: Galician Ukrainian nationalist, keeper of the memory of the Ukrainian Uprising Army 1941-45. and to the Ukrainian Galician Army in 1918/9; as a company commander during the Orange Revolution in 2004 and on Maidan in 2014; the secretary of the National Security Council who encouraged the formation of volunteer battalions and approved the Anti-Terrorist Action in Donbas 2014/5; the president of the Verkhovna Rada, who advocated breaking up with the "Muscovites", promoted the Ukrainian language and church autocephaly, and advocated Ukraine's entry into the EU and NATO

Russian President Vladimir Putin invited his Ukrainian counterpart to come to Moscow for a meeting

Different voices are heard in Donbas: some would sacrifice the region to save lives, others say it would mean betrayal and repeating history. But everyone agrees that they don't trust Putin

At least 13 people died in Kyiv, including three children, after a massive Russian bombardment on the night of August 27-28. This is a war with many stakeholders, but little concrete progress

The negotiators in Anchorage were supposed to untie the Gordian knot in which three decades of Russian-Ukrainian conflicts, a bloody war between brothers and a dangerous diagram of American-Russian relations are entangled, the sinusoids of which sharply wave: the collapse of the USSR, the denuclearization of Ukraine (1994), the negotiations on the Black Sea Fleet (1991-1997), the expansion of NATO (2004-2010), Euromaidan, Crimea, insurgencies and anti-terrorist operations in Donbass, Minsk I and II (2013–2015), war in Ukraine, failed negotiations
US President Donald Trump pointed out that France, Germany and Great Britain are among those who "want to have soldiers on the ground".

European heads of state and government rushed to Washington to be with Volodymyr Zelensky during his talks with Donald Trump about the price of peace in Ukraine. There is a fear that Trump and Putin have agreed on something that does not suit either the Ukrainians or the Europeans

The presidents of the United States of America and Russia will sit at the same table. Is this a step towards ending the three and a half year war in Ukraine

Russia's attack on the port of Ismail in Ukraine forced Romania to raise two F-16 fighter jets due to the proximity of the conflict and issue a warning to the Romanian population

The National Anti-Corruption Office of Ukraine revealed systematic embezzlement of funds from military contracts for the procurement of drones. Among those arrested is a deputy of the party, while the government is trying to restore the trust of the public and the EU

United States President Donald Trump has announced that he will shorten the deadline he gave Russia for progress in ending the war in Ukraine

The Ukrainian delegation at the peace talks in Istanbul proposed a direct meeting between President Zelensky and Putin. Russia is silent for now, while Kiev emphasizes the importance of involving international leaders
The delegations of Russia and Ukraine met on Wednesday (July 23) in Turkey in the third round of peace talks.

The European Union's latest package of sanctions against Russia includes lowering the G7 price limit for Russian crude oil to $47,6 per barrel. In the EU, they are talking about the "strongest" punitive measures so far

"We are allocating 100 billion euros for Ukraine," said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after the meeting of the College of Commissioners.

Reconstruction of the Ukrainian Government - Denis Shmigalj is no longer the prime minister.