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The US is apparently "confident" Zelensky will sign it.
Another issue that was discussed by the US officials and Ukraine is exchange of drone technology.
EU official said that if Russia fired 800 drones a once at NATO, (which its doing in Ukraine) the latter would run out of munitions on a few weeks. What happened with the Russian drones in Poland is a warning sign. Only 16% of them were shot down. Also the cost ratio with multimillion euro aircraft against $10000 drones is unsustainable. Russia is believed to be producing 5000 drones a day as of June 2025.
Like any country, Ukraine has had it's issues with corruption, especially as an ex Soviet satellite state. The Ukrainian people have struggled against this, Yanukovych was a famous example, they took to the streets to oust him. The country has literally spilt blood to purge itself of corruption - and Zelensky has been making efforts at tackling it, which is significantly more challenging whilst being invaded.
Russian propaganda paints Ukraine as highly corrupt (something it physically spent decades pushing) - and Putin apologists, such as yourself, latch onto that narrative. Seizing on any opportunity to concern-troll any news about Ukraine corruption and minimize significant efforts the country has made to tackle it.
Zelensky has been an excellent leader, he still enjoys strong support, he didn't flee when the country (like your friend Putin did when Prighozhin went on his jaunt to Moscow) and Ukraine has been making genuine efforts to tackle corruption.
Just tell Trump it'll take 50 days to complete a proper analysis on every point in the plan. When that expires declare another 50 days to draft a response, playing him at him.own game. There is no peace with Putin just a strategic.
It woukd be about the time that the EU steps up and declares the US plan not viable.
Ireland did exist as a state in 1921. It was declared in 1916, the Dail was elected in 1919 and immediately implemented a constitution. De Valera was able to openly tour the US raising money for Ireland. The whole nature of the conflict with the UK was the existence of Ireland as a state.
Ireland in 1921 could have chosen to fight on to the last Irish person, having every city and town a ruin rather accept the King as head of state. Some still insist that is what should have been done. It is demanded that the Ukrainians must fight on to the last man rather than concede on any point. When we know from our own experience of dealing with a vastly more powerful neighbour that we have not done the same.
oh well (or or-well!) I don't think you are too concerned at all. You got interested again after "positive" news of latest American disgrace and effort to bully Ukraine into a very bad peace (or more likely a ceasefire) deal.
Zelenskyy, from foreign affairs pov, and how he has played the terrible hand he has been dealt with Ukraine being invaded and targetted for destruction has been a very good politician & leader of a democracy in a crisis.
He remains one of those, and has not devolved into a Tsar (like Putin has changed himself into over the decades while gulag-ing or killing anyone who disagreed), or become a budding wanna-be King, like the US has inflicted on itself and the rest of us now.
Is dark hints of Ukrainian leadership's "fat bank accounts abroad" not a bit funny in the context of Russia and its corrupt system and money they have washed through the West over the years (still ongoing in context of sanctions evasion and funding of the war e.g. recent story https://www.rte.ie/news/crime/2025/1121/1545079-money-laundering/ ).
Worming in talking point of Ireland being a net contributor to the EU as well, and casting that as some negative vs a positive development…🙄Money aiding Ukraine is money very well spent IMO.
But Ireland didn't exist as a state in 1921. We had zero sovereignty as we were under British rule and had been for 800 years. Ukraine is a sovereign, independent state since August 1991. Any scenario where a modern European country has to cede territory to its hostile and fascist leaning neighbour and at the point of a gun seems outrageous - we're back to Munich 1938 again.
This isn’t a peace plan, it’s Russias terms of surrender for Ukraine.
Trump is like an old mafia boss performing a shake down on a business he wants to take over.Hopefully Zelenskyy tells him to go fcuk himself and Europe stands up.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy struck a defiant note on Saturday as the country commemorated the “great famine” that Soviet leader Josef Stalin imposed on Ukraine in the early 1930s, which led to millions of deaths.
“We all know how and why millions of our people died, starved to death, and millions were never born. And we are once again defending ourselves against Russia, which has not changed and is once again bringing death,” Zelenskyy said in a post on Telegram marking Holodomor Memorial Day.
“We defended, defend, and will always defend Ukraine. Because only here is our home. And in our home, Russia will definitely not be the master,” Zelenskyy added.
The cynic in me wonders if this is just a deflection in response to some of his Reform buddies being exposed for taking on Russian gifts and just being all round useful idiots for the Kremlin.
Old Nigel himself was a regular visitor to RT News back in the day too. My gut tells me that his heart isn’t exactly in this statement and he’ll turn pro-Russian as soon as he thinks he can get away with it.
One of his party members being convicted of taking russian bribes would do that.
meanwhile in the land of the cross…
strange times indeed when Farage is talking sense….
That’s quite a lot of Georges Crosses on the profile. Kind of suggests a a certain bias to their posting. It’s a similar kind of bias when one posts in support of the Russian Federation (as “RF” as their friends call them) and then leaves out all of the instances where the Russians bomb children in their beds.
That seems pretty damned biased and not neutral at all. Unless of course…Bricky…you can provide an argument as to why such a position could be called “neutral”
It can and will survive. Keep in mind that the AFU managed to hold back the main thrust of the initial 2022 invasion with considerably less than they have access to now. This was also back when pretty much everyone had written off Ukraine and believed the Russian BS that the country would be taken in 3 days. Russia was in a lot better shape back then too.
4 years later Ukraine is now in a full war footing with nearly the entirety of European NATO supplying them. A US withdrawal would of course make things very difficult, and would likely rule out any kind of large counter-attack, but they are still facing a cack-handed Russian meatwave crawl across the Dombass that the Cauldron Club are trying their damnest to big up as some kind of success.
As I’ve mentioned before and will again now, the war is about outlasting the Russians and even without US support this is achievable. It would be a damn sight better with the US, but right now they can’t be relied upon. At least not until grownups attain power there again.
Incorrect, the Czechs had begun construction of their equivalent of the French Maginot line in the Sudetenland after WW1. They lost almost all these fortifications in the Munich appeasement.
I say if they cut them off from starlink and let's say intelligence information provided be massive setbacks to Ukraine. I honestly wish Europe would get off the fence here properly. I wonder can Ukraine not invite the Polish military into their territory and Poland accepts it and states we need to provide air cover etc. For our forces that are stationed there, not attacking Russia but if anything came there way they would blow it out of the sky. If a lot more European countries did this would help Ukraine out so much. You only need 1 or 2 brave countries to do this and the rest will follow.
It's not clear to me that Ukraine will be able to survive if American support is completely withdrawn at short notice.
Well said-
No. Ireland didn't have to give up what was never under it's rule. Ukraine was twenty years as an independent, unified nation before the Ruzzian demands began. It's as if Britain started demanding Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan because they're part of Ulster.
What do you think that 'the grown ups' will proceed to do for President Zelensky.
MAGA = Morons are Governing America.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyx9xnpll8o
The adults are about to enter the conversation, and this is what Zelensky is buying time for, ‘yes mr bigly Trump, oh what big hands you’ve got, yes we will give very, very, big attention to your peace plan. BTW, some very big words in that peace plan, many even multi syllable. Showing great cognitive ability by you, mighty President.’
And then Zelensky will discuss with the grown ups at the G20 how much Ukraine is sacrificing for Europe, and that Europe needs to stand with Ukraine.
Sir Ben Wallace, former Defence Secretary of the UK, says that for the first time in his lifetime, Europe is about to outspend the United States on military equipment (3 minutes in).
so I guess the hundreds of drones that already flew (uninterrupted) to Moscow over the last year or so don’t count….. or maybe Russia are bluffers
The Bohemian Forest (Šumava) in the Sudetenland is partly Alpine. But the Czech border defences were now in German hands with the ceding of the region to Germany, and it did not bring peace it just whetted Hitlers appetite and belief noone would stand in his way.
The fact that 90% of the population were ethnic Germans does not alter the fact that it had never been part of Imperial Germany. It was part of the Kingdom of Bohemia which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire before WW1.
Thanks Comrade! Haven't been able to tick 'Da Bomb!' off my vatnik bingo card for months!
Appeasement may have been in the history books but geography wasn't on the curriculum if you think Sudetenland had any proximity to the Alps, there were also no defences there given that over 90% of the population was native German
Russia works on the 'One Man, One Vote' system - and Putin is that man!
BBC report on the former Reform UK Welsh leader Nathan Gill Russian bribe case is on now. An ex Yanukovych era politician in Ukraine, Oleg Voloshin was involved. A woman close to Voloshin was photographed with Nigel Farage. Farage denies knowing what was going on.
Also report on Belgian MEPs receiving cash payments in return for positive statements about Russia. Exiled Ukrainian pro Russian oligarch, Victor Medvedchuk, is said to be behind it. Putin is the godfather of one of his children.
The people who live there would probably face the kind of oppression Russia is subjecting the people of the occupied territories to. Rewarding the people that invaded Ukraine and destroyed Mariupol and countless other towns, committed the Bucha massacre, banned the Ukrainian language which was spoken by a large minority in Donbass before the invasion - far more than speak the Irish language in Ireland. These areas are the most fortified region in Europe. Giving them up would be like the Czechs losing the Alpine fortresses in the Sudetenland in 1938 which happened in the Munich Agreement.
The phrase "Russia is expected not to invade" more countries is eerily similar to the phrase "This is my last territorial demand' that Hitler signed at Munich. Its important the history of all of this is thought in our schools. Appeasement was in the history books when I was in Secondary School.
DW are saying Merz spoke to Trump, and that while they will discuss the plan, they will also discuss the counter plan Europe has drawn up with Zelensky.
