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A summit of the European Political Community, held in Budapest, saw an attempt by the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to push through the idea of Ukraine’s defeat at an international forum.
The European Political Community Summit, held on November 7-8 in Budapest, Hungary, brought together European leaders to discuss pressing issues, two of which were prominent at the summit: European governments’ joint reaction to Trump’s election and the issue of further support for Ukraine in the war with Russia.
It was expected that the host country, Hungary, might push for the Russian scenario of ending the war, which involves blocking or limiting aid to Ukraine and persuading it to negotiate on Russian terms. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban tried to block EU assistance to Ukraine in December 2023 amounting to €50 billion from frozen Russian assets. Despite Hungary’s resistance, the allocation was agreed upon by the G7 countries.
How do Americans feel about Ukraine’s future under Trump? We hit the streets to ask people for their opinions on the potential impact of Trump’s policies on Ukraine.
The tenth Kyiv International Economic Forum (KIEF) gathered Ukraine’s investors who claim they will support Ukraine, no matter who’s in the White House.
With war insurance promising to become affordable, companies are ready to return to Ukraine’s airports. But only if political and military authorities give the green light.
War insurance can enable civilian planes to fly from Lviv airport already from January 2025, according to Crispin Ellison, senior Marsh McLennan partner, who gave an interview to Kyiv Post during the Kyiv International Economic Forum.
Marsh McLennan, a global leader in risk management services, is working on war insurance for cargo ships transporting grain through Ukraine’s Black Sea corridor. It is also negotiating war insurance for planes potentially flying from Ukraine once the sky is safer for flights.
Ukrainian officials say reason for recent drop off in missile attacks is because Russia is stockpiling them at strategic aviation airfields sufficient to carry out significant strikes if needed.
Russian Z-bloggers (military bloggers) are spreading claims on social media suggesting that Moscow has put an end to mass missile strikes on Ukraine. Ukrainian officials, however, warn that these messages are mere Russian propaganda and advise against trusting them.
One Russian military blogger said on Friday, Nov. 8, that Russia’s strategic aviation had allegedly been “told to relax,” implying that massive missile strikes on Ukraine were over. However, he added that such strikes could be rapidly resumed in response to action by Ukraine’s Armed Forces (AFU) or if Ukraine refuses to negotiate in the future.
According to the report, the remains include 320 defenders from the Donetsk sector and 89 from the Bakhmut sector, with Ukraine retrieving 154 bodies from morgues in Russia.
The bodies of 563 fallen defenders have been returned to Ukraine through repatriation efforts as of Friday, Nov. 8, the press service of Kyiv’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War (POW) reported.
According to the report, the remains include 320 defenders who died in the Donetsk sector and 89 in the Bakhmut sector, with 154 bodies retrieved from morgues in Russia.
The press examines what the election result means for Europe.
In January 2025, Donald Trump will take over as US president. Many Europeans have major reservations about him and surveys show that a large majority of EU citizens would have voted for Kamala Harris. The press examines what the election result means for Europe.
Nightmare scenario for Brussels
Erdogan spoke while returning from a summit in Budapest a day after Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the US election.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday he was confident in the diplomatic efforts of the new Trump administration to help end the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Erdogan spoke while returning from a summit in Budapest a day after Donald Trump's decisive victory in the US election.
In March 2022, amid the war in Ukraine, Ingka Group suspended all retail operations in Russia and Belarus and halted production at its local factories.
Swedish retail giant Ingka Group, owner of IKEA, has sold its final asset in Russia—a distribution warehouse in Esipovo, near Moscow.
This sale marks Ingka's complete exit from the Russian market, according to commercial real estate sources cited by RBC-Russia and representatives of the buyer, Russian businessman Robert Uzilov.
Orbán stated recent events confirm his belief from his July visits to Kyiv, Moscow, and Beijing that “Ukraine is losing the war.”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán warned Friday, Nov. 8, that Europe won’t be able to keep Ukraine’s support afloat if the US withdraws support, especially given that Donald Trump is about to return to the White House.
Hosting a European Union summit in Budapest, Orbán said recent events have confirmed his belief—formed during his high-profile July visits to Kyiv, Moscow, and Beijing—that Ukraine is losing the war.
Yevgeniy Golovchenko, an expert on Russian political communication, talked to EUvsDisinfo about Russian cartoons and how glorifying Russia’s war is one element in a comprehensive propaganda effort.
Yevgeniy Golovchenko, an expert on Russian political communication, talked to EUvsDisinfo about his research, Russian cartoons, the Rybar channel’s Odnazhdy series, and how the glorification of Russia’s war is one element in a comprehensive, all-encompassing propaganda effort. He also talked about how disinformation and manipulation are countered successfully outside Russia.
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Outgoing US President Joe Biden spoke for the first time the elections and the disastrous Democratic defeat, which many party leaders blame on the elderly leader. Biden said he would facilitate an orderly transition and reminded Americans that many of his administrations economic policies have yet to fully kick in - including the some one-trillion-dollar invested in infrastructure. Speaking to his supporters, Biden said: "Remember, a defeat does not mean we are defeated. We lost this battle. The America of your dreams is calling for you to get back up...The American spirit endures….We are going to be OK...but we need to keep the faith.’
US president-elect Donald Trump has chosen Susie Wiles, his 2024 campaign manager, as his White House chief of staff, in the first major appointment to his new administration. On the foreign policy side, names being floated included former CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former US ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker and former Fox News contributor and former US ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell.
Ukraine wants to pump up the housing industry, make it ready for post-war investments, set transparency and fair rules on the market, head of the state mortgage company said.
International financial institutions, including the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), in negotiation to potentially guarantee Ukraine’s state mortgage loans, Chairman of the Ukrainian Financial Housing Company “Ukrfinzhytlo” Ievgen Metsger said.
The final decision will be forthcoming during the next year, which may make the guarantee available before the war ends, he added. The surety could be provided within Ukrfinzhytlo’s “Bridge Financing” financial product– Ukrfinzhytlo converts the mortgage loans Ukrainian banks gave into a financial instrument to attract international financial institute’s (IFI’s) guarantees.
Latest from the British Defence Intelligence.
Was the amount aid to Ukraine a factor triggering the collapse of the German coalition?
Germany will be able to provide most of the €4 billion pledged to Ukraine despite the collapse of the coalition government, sources from the budget committee told Reuters.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz dismissed Finance Minister Christian Lindner on Wednesday and announced a January confidence vote, plunging Germany into political turmoil following Donald Trump’s U.S. election win. The collapse of Scholz’s coalition leaves him likely heading a minority government.
Kyiv is scrambling to pressure its allies for more support in its fight against Moscow following Trump’s victory in US presidential election, which has raised doubts about future US assistance.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday said it would be "unacceptable" for Europe to offer the Kremlin concessions to halt its invasion of Ukraine, after Moscow demanded the West enter direct talks on ending the war.
Kyiv is scrambling to up the pressure on its allies for more support in its fight against Moscow following Donald Trump's victory in this week's US presidential election, which has raised doubts about future US assistance.
Russian forces launched another massive air assault early morning on Friday, Nov. 8, exploiting combat drones and missiles to target residential areas across Ukrainian cities.
Russian forces launched another massive air assault early morning on Friday, Nov. 8, exploiting combat drones and missiles to target residential areas across Ukrainian cities.
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AFP looks at some of the Trump allies in the running.
US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday made the first appointment of his new administration -- naming a chief of staff -- with other key jobs set to be filled in the "days and weeks ahead," according to his team.
"There are some people that will be returning (from Trump's first term)," senior Trump aide Jason Miller told Fox Business on Wednesday. "And there'll be some new people joining the mix."
Unconfirmed reports say Ukrainian special operators backpacked a bulky laser designator into a Russian border region and used it to take out a vital piece of Russian hardware.
Ukrainian special forces operators infiltrated into Russia carrying the bulky elements of a Cold War-era laser designation system before calling in precision-guided artillery projectiles on a critically important Russian air defense radar, Ukrainian news reports said on Thursday.
The cross-border raid reportedly in support of Ukraine’s three-month-old invasion of Russia’s Kursk region used an equally aged weapon to make the attack – a US M712 Copperhead 155mm laser-guided howitzer rounds – which had not previously been reported as being used in combat in Ukraine’s war with Russia.
While acknowledging the president-elect as a “strong” leader Belarus says it will nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize if he brings an end to the war in Ukraine.
The Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko stated that his country would submit a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in respect of the newly elected US president Donald Trump if he manages to end the war in Ukraine. He made the promise during his visit to the wood-splitting championship.
“Trump, of course, is power. No matter how I personally feel about him, he's a tough guy. It was hard to believe he could win. They shot at him, pressured him, wanted to imprison him, and so on, but he bulldozed through,” Lukashenko said.
Latest from the Institute for the Study of War.
Key Takeaways from the ISW:
Putin would welcome a call from the US President-Elect; Russian drone strikes in Zaporizhzhia and Odesa kill at least four; NATO chief looks forward to speaking to Trump about North Korean threat.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Thursday publicly congratulated Donald Trump on his presidential election victory and said he would welcome a phone call any time from the American leader to discuss a conclusion to the war in Ukraine.
Speaking at a forum at Moscow-based think Valdai Discussion Club, Putin explained that he had not yet called Trump himself because, after all, he insisted that the West stopped speaking to Russia, not the other way around.
