Ukraine War Watch Thread

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Zelenskyy debunks Russia's claim it occupied Kupyansk with in-person visit

https://www.euronews.com/2025/12/12/zel ... rson-visit

finally, some really good news from ukraine

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US tells Ukraine it must withdraw from Donetsk region for peace deal, says person familiar with talks

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us ... r-AA1SoqTW

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US offers Ukraine security guarantee in bid to break peace-talks deadlock

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us ... r-AA1SoLwE

Guarantees from Europe would be more reliable honestly.

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EU agrees €90bn loan for Ukraine as Putin tells BBC the West is 'making Russia the enemy'

19 December 2025

— European Union leaders have struck a deal to give Ukraine a €90bn (£79bn; $105bn) loan after failing to agree on using frozen Russian assets valued at €210bn

— This EU loan is about two-thirds of the €135bn that Kyiv is thought to need to stay afloat over the next two years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce8np3pnljdt

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Nearly half of Americans don’t support Trump’s Russia-Ukraine efforts

https://thehill.com/policy/internationa ... mp-russia/

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"Trump’s compromise peace in Ukraine is a strategic opportunity for Europe"

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-pres ... ty-europe/

Weird ass article. Imagine criticizing Europe for wanting to give Ukraine security guarantees lmao

Also imagine whitewashing the new NSS

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A new report warns that combined war casualties in Russia's war on Ukraine could soon hit 2 million

Source: AP

By KAMILA HRABCHUK
Updated 8:07 AM CST, January 28, 2026

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A new report warns that the number of soldiers killed, injured or missing on both sides of Russia’s war on Ukraine could hit 2 million by the spring, with Russia suffering the largest number of troop deaths recorded for any major power in any conflict since World War II.

Tuesday’s report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies came less than a month before the fourth anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24.

As the war grinds through another bitterly cold winter, Russian strikes hit an apartment block Wednesday on the outskirts of Kyiv, killing two people. Nine others were injured in attacks in the Ukrainian cities of Odesa and Kryvyi Rih and the front-line Zaporizhzhia region.

The CSIS report said Russia suffered 1.2 million casualties, including up to 325,000 troop deaths, between February 2022 and December 2025.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukrai ... 55da69dedc

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This is fucking stupid. For what?

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NYT- Ukraine Says U.S. Is Increasing Pressure for a Deal as the Midterms Loom

One of the thorniest points in the negotiations is land. The United States is pushing Kyiv to make concessions on the eastern region of Ukraine known as the Donbas. Mr. Zelensky said bluntly last week that Mr. Putin had asked Mr. Trump to give him the territory. Describing Mr. Putin’s request, Mr. Zelensky said: “Likely something like: Give me all of Donbas, and I’ll end the war. That’s the short version.”

Mr. Zelensky said that the United States had again suggested that Ukraine withdraw from the part of the Donbas that Kyiv still controls and that the area be turned into a “free economic zone.”

But “neither Ukraine nor Russia has ever been enthusiastic about the idea,” Mr. Zelensky said. Ukraine’s longstanding proposal, he added, has been for both armies to withdraw an equal distance from the front line.

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