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1+ hour, 30+ min ago (279+ words) Kyiv Post Delivers Exclusive and In-Depth News and Opinions on Politics, Economics " Get Your Daily News Brief Direct from Ukraine Today! ISW Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 3, 2025 Latest from the Institute for the Study of War. Key Takeaways from the ISW: - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged that Russian President Vladimir Putin's theory of victory and negotiating tactics assume that Russia can outlast the West and Ukraine in a war of attrition. - Kremlin officials continued to refuse to publicly discuss the outcomes of the December 2 US-Russia meeting, as ISW previously forecasted. - The Kremlin is reigniting narratives that Odesa City is a Russian city. - Russian forces achieved the tactical breakthrough northeast and east of Hulyaipole in mid-November 2025, likely in part by concentrating and committing a force grouping comparable in size to the one operating in the Pokrovsk-Dobropillya direction. - The 5th CAA's…...

3+ hour, 28+ min ago (1090+ words) A rare moment of moral unity in Congress recasts Russia's mass transfer of Ukrainian children as an identity-erasure campaign " and signals growing pressure on the White House to harden US policy. WASHINGTON, DC " It's not often that Capitol Hill drops its partisan armor. But on Wednesday, senators and representatives from both parties did just that as they confronted some of the most disturbing testimony of the war: Russia's systematic abduction, re-education, and militarization of Ukrainian children. What began as a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing quickly became something closer to a bipartisan indictment " of Russia's tactics, and potentially of any future diplomatic effort that doesn't prioritize the children's return. The tone was unmistakable: this wasn't a policy consultation. It was a moral red line being drawn in real time. Subcommittee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-SC) kicked off the testimony with unfiltered indignation....

3+ hour, 32+ min ago (352+ words) Russia's worsening budget pressures, shrinking reserves and new US sanctions on Rosneft, Lukoil create a key opening for allies to tighten limits on Moscow's war financing, KSE Institute wrote. Russia's deepening fiscal and economic problems create a favourable moment for Ukraine's allies to intensify sanctions pressure and further constrain the Kremlin's ability to finance its war." In October, Russia's oil export earnings continued to decline " to $13.1 billion (vs. $13.5 billion in September), KSE Institute wrote in the November edition of its Russia Chartbook: "Serious Vulnerabilities on the Eve of New US Sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil.The average export price fell to around $54 per barrel " above the updated price cap but still significantly below global benchmarks. The new US sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, which came into force in November, could increase vulnerabilities: a further widening of the discount and a…...

4+ hour, 48+ min ago (944+ words) A policy advocate tells Kyiv Post that legal Ukrainian workers are being hurt not by immigration law but by a stalled federal paperwork system. WASHINGTON DC " A fast-building paperwork crunch inside the federal bureaucracy is pushing tens of thousands of fully vetted Ukrainian parolees out of the American workforce " not because they broke any rules, but because the government failed to keep pace with its own. More than two years after the launch of Uniting for Ukraine (U4U), the humanitarian parole program created to offer safe refuge to Ukrainians fleeing Russia's invasion, thousands of legal workers admitted under the program are seeing their employment authorization documents expire without timely renewal. Employers, facing strict compliance requirements, are pulling workers off schedules the moment those cards lapse " shattering the fragile stability of families who arrived in 2022. These are families who passed extensive background…...

7+ hour, 4+ min ago (1156+ words) US special envoy Steve Witkoff will meet the head of Ukraine's national security council, Rustem Umerov, for talks in Miami on Thursday, the White House has confirmed. The meeting comes after Witkoff spent almost five hours with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday, negotiations which the Kremlin said produced "no compromise" on ending the war in Ukraine. US President Trump said the talks - also attended by his son-in-law Jared Kushner - were "reasonably good", but added that it was too soon to say what would happen because "it does take two to tango." Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybhia said Russia must "end the bloodshed", and accused Putin of "wasting the world's time". When asked by a reporter whether Witkoff and Kushner believed Putin genuinely wanted to end the war, Trump said: "[Putin] would like to end the war. That…...

7+ hour, 30+ min ago (401+ words) Ukraine will return to the United States to continue peace talks following negotiations between a delegation from Washington and Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Andriy Sybiha, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, said on Wednesday. According to Ukrinform, Sybiha said that there had been a phone call between the head of the Ukrainian delegation, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Rustem Umerov, and US special envoy Steve Witkoff, after talks in the Kremlin yesterday. Speaking to reporters in Brussels, Sybiha said: "Since it was a telephone conversation, for security reasons, it's difficult to imagine that the details of this meeting were discussed." "Representatives of the American delegation said that, in their assessment, the talks in Moscow were important for the peace process and invited the Ukrainian delegation to continue our discussions in the US soon." Sybiha also said that the head of the…...

8+ hour, 14+ min ago (542+ words) The challenge demonstrates Hungary's growing rift with other EU members as the bloc prepares for a future without Russian gas, revealing deepening tensions with the bloc. Hungary said it plans to launch an immediate legal challenge against the EU's decision to phase out Russian natural gas imports by 2027 The statement by Hungarian Foreign Minister P'ter Szijj'rt" came shortly after Prime Minister Viktor Orb'n said Budapest would keep buying Russian gas during his meeting with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin on Friday. According to Szijj'rt's Wednesday statement on X, Budapest will contest the measure as soon as it is formally adopted. "As soon as the RePowerEU plan is formally adopted, we will immediately challenge it before the [European Court of Justice]. Legal proceedings will start without delay," he wrote. "Preparatory work is already underway. We will do everything necessary to defend Hungary's…...

9+ hour, 50+ min ago (413+ words) The Kremlin aide who took part in Tuesday's negotiations with US representatives claimed the US has promised to factor in Moscow's positions. Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said Wednesday that Ukraine's NATO membership bid was "one of the key questions" in Tuesday's negotiations with the US in Moscow. Ushakov, who took part in Tuesday's talks with Washington's Russia envoy Steve Witkoff and adviser Jared Kushner, also claimed the US team had agreed to factor in the Russian positions presented at the meeting, according to Russian state media Ria Novosti. Ushakov confirmed at a press briefing that Kyiv's NATO membership " the blocking of which remains an official Kremlin war goal and also listed in the current peace draft " was discussed but gave no details, according to AFP. Ushakov also claimed that recent Russian battlefield gains influenced the talks. "The progress and nature…...

10+ hour, 2+ min ago (350+ words) Italy's foreign minister on Wednesday said that it would be "premature" to take part in a NATO program to buy US weapons for Ukraine in light of ongoing diplomatic efforts. "If we reach an agreement and fighting ceases, weapons won't be needed anymore," Antonio Tajani told reporters in Brussels on Dec. 3, according to Bloomberg. "Other things such as security guarantees will be needed." His comments suggested Giorgia Meloni's government could be recalibrating its Ukraine strategy amid depleted funds and internal strains within the coalition, Bloomberg reported. Italy maintains that it remains committed to supporting Kyiv, but it has become the first European nation to openly argue that additional arms deliveries should pause while ceasefire discussions are active. The stance marks a notable reversal from October, when Rome had expressed openness to joining NATO's Procurement Assistance for Ukraine (PURL) program, which…...

10+ hour, 7+ min ago (854+ words) Until a few years ago, the US and European powers worked closely together to encircle Russia and bring Eastern Europe and large parts of the former Soviet Union under their control. But now the axis of conflict is shifting. The rivalry between the US and Europe is increasingly coming to the fore. The robbers are fighting over the spoils. Trump's effort to strike a deal with Putin over the heads of the Europeans and Ukraine is meeting with bitter hostility in European capitals. "The Europeans now are paying the price for not having invested in military capabilities over the last years," explains Claudia Major of the German Marshall Fund, an authoritative voice on European foreign policy. "The Europeans are not at the table, because, to quote Trump, they don't have the cards." The European powers are doing everything they can…...