WSJ: US pitches Russian gas through Ukraine’s pipelines as Moscow’s incentive for an energy truce
Kyiv let Russian transit expire in January 2025. The EU’s full ban on Russian pipeline gas starts in autumn 2027.
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Kyrylo Budanov
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Guns fall silent around Russian-occupied Oleshky so its starving residents can get aid, but Russia’s guarantees remain secret
Ukraine’s ombudsman says both sides are keeping to the deal, while the US first lady’s adviser says Newsmax will send reporters to watch whether residents can leave freely.
Ukraine-NATO AI built to forecast Russia’s front-line drone attacks from past data and weather is ready to plug into the army
Drone types, areas, time windows: the model was tested on real data. A second tool ranks artillery plans and is now in trials.
Ukraine warns of “a new type of humanitarian crisis” as Russia aims at its biggest cities
Even border and frontline oblasts are further along on resilience plans than the capital, Zelenskyy says.
“I will continue to work just as productively”: former intelligence chief Budanov shrugs off third Russian arrest order as an acknowledgment of his effectiveness
A Moscow court accuses him of prohibited methods of warfare.
Ukraine put its own peace proposals on the table as two US envoys reached Kyiv for the first time
Security guarantees topped the Ukrainian list, and the day's diplomacy ran in consecutive sessions that widened to include three European governments' security chiefs.
Putin calls Zelenskyy’s airspace warning “state terrorism” as shares in Russia’s national airline fall 5%
European and US airlines already avoid Russian airspace, while carriers from China, Turkey, and Gulf states continue using it.
Two officers, 101 soldiers—Ukraine’s newest homecoming from Russian cells
The group spans four years of the war, from the fall of Mariupol to captures made only months ago.
He fought for Ukrainian independence until a Soviet chocolate-box bomb killed him. Now Ukraine plans to honor him permanently
Ukrainian leader Yevhen Konovalets’ remains returned from Rotterdam after 88 years and are set for temporary reburial at Ukraine’s National Military Memorial Cemetery.
Important step during war: Zelenskyy meets his 2019 election opponent Poroshenko face-to-face for first time in years
The shift follows Kyrylo Budanov's January appointment to head the President's Office.
Ukraine offers African nations cooperation across eight sectors from food security to digitalization
Ukraine pledged equal partnership with Africa, where Russia recruits fighters from 36 countries.
Ukraine anti-corruption agencies serve suspicion notice to ex-Presidential Office head Yermak over alleged $10M laundering
Andrii Yermak was once the most powerful official in Ukraine after Zelenskyy himself.
The arms Ukraine outgrew in two years are now its potential export catalogue
Budanov listed older FPVs, 2022-2023 long-range drones, sea drones, and bombers as candidates for sale to Asia and Africa.
“A surprise for the enemy”: Budanov says the next stage of warfare will be defined by autonomy as drone numbers hit their ceiling
Head of Presidential Office says both sides have maxed out current drone control tech; AI is next.
Russia shed its skin three times — tsarist, soviet, oligarch — but imperial beast inside never died, Budanov says
Russia's imperial core must be ripped out and carved it into nations, or the world never sleeps safe, he stresses.
Ukraine’s chief negotiator tells Davos: China is “absorbing” desperate Russia (INFOGRAPHIC)
Budanov’s framing signals how Kyiv plans to leverage its position in peace talks.
Ukraine’s former chief spy and now presidential chief of staff reveals direct talks with Trump team in Miami ahead of Davos
Budanov confirms Ukraine is in active negotiation process, asks allies to unite.
BREAKING: Zelenskyy appoints Ukraine’s spy chief Budanov as his new head of presidential office
It follows the dismissal of Andriy Yermak over the backdrop of searches by the NABU at Yermak's residence as part of an investigation into embezzlement at Energoatom.
Why Russia’s war machine may have peaked: new ISW assessment says Moscow can’t build momentum due to lack of reserves
With no extra troops to shift across sectors, Russia keeps trading one front for another, exposing dangerous vulnerabilities.
Budanov: Russia recruited 403,000 soldiers in 2025, will aim higher next year
Contract soldiers remain main manpower source as Kremlin raises payments to fill ranks.