“Ukraine – Russia”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet US President Donald Trump in Washington on Friday to sign an agreement on sharing his country’s mineral resources, Trump has said.

Zelensky has described the bilateral deal as preliminary, and said he wants further agreements which include US security guarantees to deter renewed Russian aggression.

But Trump said the US would not provide guarantees “beyond… very much”, saying the responsibility should instead fall to Europe.

Trump also seemingly ruled out the prospect of Ukraine becoming a Nato member – one of Zelensky’s long-held ambitions.

Ukraine and America are on the “one-yard line” of a minerals-for-security deal despite Ukraine’s President Zelensky’s furious unleashing last week on Treasury Secretary Bessent about the size of the purported arrangement.

“It looks like we’re getting very close. The deal is being worked on and we’re I think getting very close to getting to an agreement where we get our money back over a period of time,” President Trump said Monday during a White House press briefing with French President Macron.

KYIV – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not ruling out sending Canadian troops to Ukraine as part of a possible peace deal.

Trudeau is in Kyiv with a dozen other world leaders to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

He began the day announcing that Canada will provide $5 billion in aid to Ukraine using funds from seized Russian assets.

An interesting history of NATO’s eastern expansion dating back to Clinton.

Just watch this 10-minute video.
The more people wake up to what’s really happening in Ukraine and Europe, the better.
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Volodymyr Zelensky is willing to “immediately” step down as president of Ukraine in exchange for peace or the country being granted Nato membership.

On Sunday, the Ukrainian president told a press conference in Kyiv: “If there is peace for Ukraine, if you really need me to leave my post, I am ready…I can exchange it for Nato.”

Mr Zelensky added that he was focused on Ukraine’s security now, not in 20 years’ time, saying that it is not his “dream” to remain president for a decade.

The White House national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said on Friday that the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was expected to sign a minerals agreement with the United States imminently, as part of broader negotiations to end the war with Russia.

“Here’s the bottom line: President Zelenskyy is going to sign that deal, and you will see that in the very short term,” Waltz said during remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

The statement comes amid an increasingly public dispute between Zelenskyy and Donald Trump, with Waltz telling Fox News this week that the Ukrainian leader needed to “tone it down” and sign the proposed agreement.

My interest and concern regarding the war in Ukraine come naturally. My mother was born in Ukraine, and her story of harrowing flight from her village with her mother and brother in the middle of a snowstorm in the dead of night, pursued by a squad of White Russians and Ukrainian irregulars, remains fresh in my mind.

My father was born in the Russian oblast (administrative division) of Georgia near the border of South Ossetia, Stalin’s home region, and was the spitting image of the Russian tyrant — short, muscular, with a heavy mustache, a tendency to violence, and, like Stalin, played the piano. A racketeer who had the mayor of Montreal in his pay, he kept an enemies list and occasionally acted on it. In some sense, a domestic version of the Russia-Ukraine conflict occurred in my own home.

Watch this Rubio interview on recent encounters with Zelensky, he must be suicidal.

VIDEO: Marco Rubio Confirms Snakelike Behavior Of Zelensky During Negotiations & Peace Talks

ALSO, White House Warns Zelensky’s Best Option Is To Immediately Flee To France

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And just like that, we are back in 2017. Donald Trump, the President of the United States, is posting ridiculous hyperbole on his socials and mouthing off from Mar-a-Lago, as he always has.

In the last 24 hours, however, the global political and media classes have gone back to gnashing their teeth and wailing in the way they did in Trump’s first term. It’s disgraceful! It’s sub-literate! He’s Vladimir Putin’s puppet! He’s reckless and utterly out of control! And that, of course, is the point.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky needs to return to the negotiating table and strike a deal on US access to Ukraine’s critical minerals, White House national security adviser Mike Waltz has said.

On Wednesday, Zelensky rejected US demands for a share of its rare earth minerals – a “deal” Trump said would reflect the amount of aid the US had provided to Ukraine during its war with Russia.

The comments, made at a White House briefing on Thursday, overshadowed a meeting in Kyiv between Zelensky and Keith Kellogg, the US chief envoy to Ukraine.

Volodymyr Zelensky is “despised” by the Ukrainian people and is “feeding off the dead bodies” of his countrymen, Elon Musk has claimed.

Parroting criticisms voiced by Donald Trump, Mr Musk wrote on X that Mr Zelensky’s approval ratings had slumped and accused the Ukrainian leader of rigging online opinion polls and the media to boost his popularity, without citing evidence.

“If Zelensky was actually loved by the people of Ukraine, he would hold an election,” the tech billionaire said. “He knows he would lose in a landslide, despite having seized control of ALL Ukrainian media, so he cancelled the election.

The Trump administration is stepping up its push for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to hand mineral rights worth hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S., after Zelensky’s initial rejection of the demand fueled President Trump’s escalating broadsides against Ukraine’s leader.

The White House called Zelensky’s refusal to sign a deal it proposed and his criticism of Trump unacceptable, a day after Zelensky said Trump is living in a “disinformation” bubble and Trump countered by calling Zelensky a dictator.

“They need to tone it down and take a hard look and sign that deal,” Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz said Thursday of Ukraine’s leadership on Fox News.

Private Ri had the kind of dreams common to young men from educated families — to go to university, study and support his sick parents. Instead, he spent a decade as a conscript of the North Korean People’s Army.

Even as a skilled sniper in an elite unit, he endured extreme cold and harsh discipline. In ten years he did not once see his parents face to face. And, months from being discharged, he found himself sent to a place of unimaginable hardship — the front lines of Kursk, fighting alongside Russian soldiers against Ukrainian forces.