Ukraine

The Human Rights Council on Wednesday heard gruesome testimony of torture, rape and execution of Ukrainian detainees and soldiers allegedly committed by Russian forces, as a high-level independent probe into Russia’s full-scale invasion delivered its latest mandated report in Geneva.

We know a lot about how to implement a ceasefire, as well as the factors that influence the likelihood that a ceasefire will be successful.   In the case of the Russian war on Ukraine, the US has proposed a 30-day ceasefire, with the hope that it can start a process that can end the war. Ukraine has agreed to the ceasefire, but President Putin raised questions regarding how such a ceasefire will be monitored and how breaches of the ceasefire will be managed. To help answer these questions, a good place to start is by looking at lessons from the long experience of the United Nations (UN) and others with monitoring ceasefires.

U.S. and Russian officials are expected to meet in Moscow to discuss a U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Russia’s war in Ukraine.

OSCE Secretary General Feridun H. Sinirlioğlu met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Tuesday, expressing the organization’s readiness to support a resolution to the ongoing war in Ukraine.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, putting them on a fast-track to deportation. 

The senior Trump allies held talks with Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, a remorselessly ambitious former prime minister, and senior members of the party of Petro Poroshenko, Zelenskyy’s immediate predecessor as president, according to three Ukrainian parliamentarians and a U.S. Republican foreign policy expert. 

The White House has asked the State and Treasury departments to draft a list of sanctions that could be eased for U.S. officials to discuss with Russian representatives in the coming days as part of the administration's broad talks with Moscow on improving diplomatic and economic relations, the sources said. 

On 24 February, the Trump administration tabled its own UN resolution on the Ukraine war to compete with the one drafted by Kyiv and its European backers. More debilitating disputes – including between the U.S. and its traditional allies – may lie ahead at the UN. 

President Donald Trump … is on the brink of clinching a deal that would give the U.S. preferential access to Ukraine’s extensive raw material reserves. But Trump might end up getting less than he bargained for. Estimates of Ukraine’s supposed mineral wealth are based on outdated Soviet-era surveys that didn’t take into account the viability or cost of developing them.

President Donald Trump … is on the brink of clinching a deal that would give the U.S. preferential access to Ukraine’s extensive raw material reserves. But Trump might end up getting less than he bargained for. Estimates of Ukraine’s supposed mineral wealth are based on outdated Soviet-era surveys that didn’t take into account the viability or cost of developing them.