The grinding war pitting Ukraine against its Russian invaders has escalated ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration. President Joe Biden is rushing out billions more in military aid before U.S. support for Kyiv’s defenses is thrown into question under the new administration.
French President Emmanuel Macron, center, President-elect Donald Trump , right, and Ukraine ’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy leave after their meeting at the Elysee Palace, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024 in Paris. Rescue workers walk in front of a car and a building destroyed by a Russia n strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine , December 6, 2024. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy talks during his meeting with the Chairman of the German Christian Democratic Party Friedrich Merz in Kyiv , Ukraine , Monday, Dec.
Biden and his senior advisers, however, are skeptical that allowing freer use of the longer-range missiles will change the broader trajectory of the war, according to two senior administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations., means it will leave office having given Ukraine the tools it needs to sustain its fight against Russia for some time, the officials said.
Trump, who has long spoken favorably of Putin and described Zelenskyy as a “showman” wheedling money from the U.S., used that moment to call for an immediate ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia.Trump’s supporters call that pre-negotiation maneuvering by an avowed deal-maker. His critics say they fear it shows he is in Putin’s sway.
In Kursk, Hummer, the Ukrainian commander, said he notices Russian artillery strikes and shelling easing up since the U.S. and its European allies loosened limits on use of longer-range missiles. Ukraine’s supporters fear that the kind of immediate ceasefire Trump is urging would be mostly on Putin’s terms and allow the Russian leader to resume the war when his military has recovered.
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