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January 13, 2025
- Ukraine central bank predicts inflation to rise in first months of 2025
- Ukraine offers coal aid to frozen Transnistria as Russian halts gas to breakaway Moldova’s region
- UK to finance production of air defense, long-range weapons in Ukraine, Umerov says
- Frontline reportFrontline report: Ukrainians decimate Russian armor column in Kursk “like sitting ducks” as bodies litter frozen fields
- Danish Intelligence: Russia forged letter to spark Trump’s Greenland purchase bid
- Pro-Russian candidate wins Croatian presidential elections with 77% of vote
- Volyn exhumations in Ukraine of Polish victims to begin in April, media reports
- Russia takes 12 Ukrainian war orphans to Moscow for brainwashing tours
- “Let’s meet at Ukraine border and discuss Russian gas,” Slovak PM says. “Come to Kyiv on Friday,” Zelenskyy replies
- Nazi symbols found after attack on Ukrainian refugees’ home in German town
- Ukrainian intelligence unmasks network of 79 Russian weapons behind drone attacks
- Bloomberg: Three tankers with 2M barrels of Russian oil stranded off China as US sanctions bite
- Forbes: Russians pray in Kursk as 33-ton Ukrainian Bradley meets them in church battle
- Russia’s war on culture and freedom of speech: 145 Ukrainian artists, 95 journalists killed since 2022
- Ukraine invites foreign partners to revolutionize military equipment with Western tech
- Ukrainian soldiers repel North Korean assault in Kursk Oblast, eliminate 18 fighters
- German Defense Minister denies reports of Scholz blocking € 3 billion weapons package for Ukraine
- “Latest cars and five-star hotels”: Polish defense minister links Ukrainian refugee wealth to public “war fatigue”
- “Empire is over”: Boris Johnson tells Putin to accept end of Russian Empire in Baltics, Ukraine
- Russia’s secret $ 250B war fund threatens economic collapse, ex-Bank of America vice chairman says
- Blinken: Biden to hand over “strongest possible position” on Ukraine to Trump administration
- Serbia proposes hosting Trump-Putin talks?despite ICC obligations to arrest Putin on its territory
- Russian troops advance in strategically important Chasiv Yar and Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast – DeepState
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1054: Engels airbase fire continues for fifth day, destroying massive fuel reserves
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1053: North Korean soldiers captured in Ukraine
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1052: US announced extensive Russian oil sanctions, while UK to discuss potential deployment of peacekeepers to Ukraine
Supporting Ukraine is in Trump’s interest
Trump's drive to broker peace in Ukraine exposes a stark paradox: America's global power rests on the very aid he has threatened to cut.
15 Russians raped her for false confession – Ukrainian mother gets 18-year sentence after years of torture in secret Russian prison
A Russian kangaroo court against Ukrainians inadvertently revealed the chilling torture practices at the Izolyatsia "death factory” treated as “entertainment” by her captors.
Ukrainian public figures to world leaders: Do not appease evil
The appeal urges global leaders to reject concessions to Russia, emphasizing Ukraine's existential struggle and the need to defeat aggression to secure global democracy, peace, and order
Blinken praises how US handled Ukraine war, but were all calls “right”?
His latest interview with the NYT is filled with self-praise on how the Biden administration managed the Russo-Ukraine war. But a critical assessment shows a slightly different picture of what has happened over the years.
The book Russia doesn’t want you to read: 20 wartime narratives by Euromaidan Press
Two years. Two journalists. Hundreds of voices – in an exclusive book. Our team uncovers the faces of Ukraine's resistance that Russia never expected. The book reveals how Ukrainian society has transformed from within during the largest interstate war of the 21st century.
Frontline report
Why is Ukraine losing ground? Mobilization crisis and command failures exposed
Ukraine's military problems can no longer be ignored as mobilization failures and systemic issues lead to mounting territorial losses
Russia’s human loss/fighting area ratio exceeds all modern conflicts except Korean War
Russian forces are losing up to 1,500 soldiers per day in 2024 while gaining minimal territory, marking the least efficient force-to-territory ratio in modern military operations.
The end of an era: Russia loses its gas grip on Europe
Moscow's most potent leverage over Europe – its gas pipelines – has finally run dry, and there's no turning back the clock.
Putin’s Syrian defeat can crumble under Trump’s Ukraine peace bargain
While Assad's fall has shuttered Russia's global power, Trump's plans to abandon NATO could hand Putin an even greater prize in Ukraine.
Think 2024 was wild? Eight global forces will make 2025 even more turbulent
From middle-income traps to migration crisis, a guide to how Ukraine and democracies must navigate coming instability
Ukraine, territory of sincerity: where we live despite it all
For Ukrainian writer and filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk, home is a Kyiv apartment where coffee brews by candlelight and people fall asleep with dog food in their pajama pockets, in case the missile comes—but it’s the only place she wants to be.
Yes, Ukraine can win the war – ex-minister decodes victory plan
Zelenskyy's plan and Ukraine's victory are completely realistic, says Andriy Zagorodnyuk. But there is a crucial caveat — the current paradigm must be changed.
Evergreens
Ukraine’s IT Army now aids drone strikes on Russian oil refineries
Once focused on disrupting Russian banks and businesses, Ukraine's volunteer hacker group is now shifting to Russian military targets, from Starlinks to CCTV cameras during long-range drone raids
Ancient Ukrainian sword stole the show in Usyk’s victory over Fury, angering Russia
Oleksandr Usyk's unanimous victory over Tyson Fury secured more than his championship titles. By raising Hetman Mazepa's 300-year-old saber, he reignited the legacy of a Ukrainian leader cursed by Russia for seeking independence.
It’s ten years of Russia’s war against Ukraine, not two
Years of futile negotiations over Ukraine should dispel any illusions – intelligence proves Putin spent the last decade preparing for exactly this war, with aims far beyond Ukraine.
Analysis
Russia lost more heavy equipment in Pokrovsk than in Stalingrad
The 13-month battle for Pokrovsk has become one of history's costliest armored engagements, with Russia losing more tanks than any European nation currently possesses.
West doesn’t get Russia’s goals, can hand Moscow victory in Ukraine, warns analyst
Western leaders pushing for peace in Ukraine miss Russia's true objective: political control rather than territorial gains, warns Anders Puck Nielsen, analyst at the Royal Danish Defense College.
