Trained in international relations, Maxim Volovich spent two decades as a diplomat and now covers regional and foreign policy issues as a journalist at Euromaidan Press.
As Washington talks up “tremendous progress” on a Ukraine peace deal, Russia’s maximalist demands and Ukraine’s refusal to abandon core red lines on territory, military size, and NATO membership leave only a narrow and fragile space for compromise.
Ukraine’s military intelligence details a new Iranian-made attack drone now used by Russia to strike frontline regions, exposing its design and the origin of its electronics.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has rejected a US-backed clause to invite Russia back into the G8, signaling there will be no return to “business as usual” with Moscow while its war on Ukraine continues.
Trump's 28-point plan offers Moscow territorial recognition and NATO exclusion it couldn't achieve in 2022 Istanbul talks. The plan arrives as Ukraine's government faces its worst wartime corruption crisis.
A 28-point blueprint backed by US President Donald Trump — not yet officially published — is already reverberating from Kyiv to Brussels and Moscow, even before its details have been formally unveiled.