Euromaidan Press Staff

Russian drones and artillery knocked out Kherson's heat supply as winter sets in, while Berlin committed fresh funds to help Ukraine restore its battered energy grid.

Trump envoys leave Moscow empty-handed after Putin delays meeting for hours, offers no compromise.

Sweden has allocated $116 million in winter aid to Ukraine, focusing on energy supply and infrastructure repair.

A landmark legal challenge by sanctioned Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman threatens to unravel Western sanctions regimes.

Ukraine's chief of staff stepped down just 24 hours before planned talks with Trump envoys, as leaked US peace plan offers Putin recognition of seized territories.

Putin offers no compromise in his latest address, declaring Russia ready to fight until the last Ukrainian while demanding Kyiv surrender the Donbas and inviting US negotiators to Moscow on Russian terms.

Russia flatly rejects any concessions under US peace plan.

Hours after calling European peace amendments "unacceptable," Moscow launched a double Kinzhal-Iskander strike on the Ukrainian capital - but Ukraine is hitting back in what officials call the "first symmetric winter," with drones destroying Russia's secret laser weapon plane, striking the sole A-50 repair plant for the fourth time, and overwhelming Russian air defenses.

Russia has increased oil discounts to India from $3 to over $7 per barrel in just one month, revealing the mounting pressure from Western sanctions on Moscow's energy revenues.

Ukrainian forces scrambled to contain a Russian breakthrough threatening the strategic city of Huliaipole as Washington delivered an ultimatum: accept peace terms or lose air defense systems protecting civilians from the 1,050 drones and 60 missiles Russia launched this week alone.

Ukraine confronts its "hardest moment" - a US peace plan echoing Kremlin demands, President Zelenskyy's support collapsing to 25% over "Mindichgate," every major power plant now damaged and cities in darkness, and Russian forces deploying new fog-enabled offensive tactics.

Finland's foreign minister warned the Trump-backed peace framework risks "erasing the UN Charter," while ISW analysis concluded the 28-point plan is "fundamentally the same" as Russia's rejected 2022 demands - ceding territory and halving Ukraine's forces while staying silent on security guarantees.

Every catastrophic decision traces to protecting his political future

The Russian missile made with US, German, Chinese parts kills the civilians in a deliberate strike.