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Kyiv Post: Kyiv sends a detailed blueprint to Washington, testing Western resolve and Moscow’s flexibility. Zelensky may visit Florida in the coming days, sources tell Kyiv Post.
Euromaidan Press: Russia uses Soviet-era techniques to manipulate Western leaders, said former Ukrainian intelligence chief Mykola Malomuzh. He cited Trump's reversal on Ukraine, from promising Tomahawks to siding with Putin, as "example of special services influence".
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CNN: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a “very good” conversation with US special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner on Christmas Day as negotiations over the terms of a potential peace deal continued.
Ukrainska Pravda: Oleksandr Korniienko, First Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament), has said that the first meeting of the working group preparing legislative proposals on how elections will be organised and held under martial law in Ukraine will take place on Friday.
The Insider: Russian authorities are seeking to conceal information about “gray” imports in order to avoid new sanctions against suppliers of critically important goods — primarily those used by the military-industrial complex.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces struck a market in Kherson and a residential building in Chernihiv on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, causing multiple civilian casualties, local authorities said.
Novaya-Europe: The war in Ukraine has not deterred visitors from Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf Cooperation Council from travelling to Russia — on the contrary, arrivals from the region have increased since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The Insider: Contrary to the optimistic forecasts of 2022, the mass departure of international brands did not lead to rapid growth among Russian clothing manufacturers.
Reuters: Ukraine launched British Storm Shadow missiles and its domestically produced long-range drones to hit several Russian oil and gas facilities, Ukrainian military and security officials said on Thursday.
France 24: Moscow has made a "proposal" to France concerning the case of researcher Laurent Vinatier, who has been imprisoned in Russia since June 2024, the Kremlin said Thursday. Vinatier was sentenced by a Russian court to three years in prison for allegedly failing to register as a "foreign agent" but faces fresh allegations of spying.
The Guardian: The Mariupol Drama Theatre, destroyed in a Russian airstrike in 2022 while hundreds of civilians were sheltering in its basement, is to open its doors again, with Russian occupation authorities heralding the reconstruction as a sign of renewal, while former actors at the theatre denounced the reopening as “dancing on bones”.
Reuters: Poland sent fighter jets to intercept a Russian reconnaissance aircraft flying near its airspace over the Baltic Sea and said dozens of objects entered from Belarus overnight, warning the incidents during the holiday season may signal a provocation.
RBC-Ukraine: The transcript of the conversation between Putin and former US President George W. Bush shows that the Kremlin leader was asking for Russia to be accepted into NATO, the press center of the US National Security Archive reports.
Reuters: Russia has pushed back by "several years" a plan to reach an annual liquefied natural gas output target of 100 million tons, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told state TV on Thursday, citing the effect of Western sanctions on its energy industry.
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