The Latest Breaking News from ISW

In a Truth Social rant, US President Donald Trump criticised Ukraine for not being grateful to his administration following the controversial peace plan to end the war.

The EU is considering a range of options as it tries to work out how to continue to fund Ukraine’s defence against Russia. There are three mechanisms presently under consideration. One is using Russia’s frozen assets to back a loan of €140 billion (£124 billion). Another is borrowing the money…

It comes as the UK sent fighter jets to Poland in a warning to Putin to stay out of Nato territory after repeated incursions

Moscow claims Nato already fighting Russia by backing Kyiv

Ukraine has cut Russia’s refining capacity by a fifth, in a bid to starve it of energy and revenue from exports.

Kremlin intensifying propaganda effort, says ISW, because actual advances are ‘limited and slow relative to high losses incurred’. What we know on day 1,287

The announcement came hours after overnight Russian strikes on energy sites left 60,000 Ukrainians without electricity.

The Russian president allegedly told Donald Trump that he wants all of Ukraine’s Donbas region as part of any deal to put an end to the war. More than 10 years into Moscow's relentless assaults in eastern Ukraine, Russia still does not control all of the Donbas.

Ukraine has publicly rejected any land concession deal with Russia, but some reports suggest it may be open to it.