The White House seized a rare chance to undermine Russia and build up regional allies as it built a coalition to support the Ukrainians.
If Ukraine falls, it will be hard to spin as anything but a debacle for the United States, and for its president.
Ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s return to office, Ukraine’s future course is shrouded in uncertainty as it loses ground to Russia’s far larger military.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday said Donald Trump's return to the White House would open "a new chapter" and reiterated a call for Western allies to send troops to help "force Russia to peace".
In the first trading day after Ukraine ceased the flow of Russian gas and oil, benchmark natural gas prices in Europe surged 4%.
Tensions between Ukraine and Hungary over the war with Russia and the expired gas transit deal continue to increase online.
Ukraine's Western allies will gather with President Volodymyr Zelensky at a US base in Germany on Thursday in their last such meeting before Donald Trump returns to the White House in less than two weeks.
The disgraced former FBI informant who falsely accused President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden of taking a $10 million bribe from Ukraine was sentenced Wednesday to six years in federal prison, according to court records.
Kyiv pays close attention to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s statements about a possible meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, but the main focus is on the U.S.-Ukraine summit preparations after the inauguration in Washington,