2025-12-15: Ukraine Roundup

So far today: 2025-12-15 09:04am GMT

ecns.cn (2025-12-15). Insights | Former Belarusian Deputy PM: Chinese modernization solves poverty issues other major powers fail to address. ecns.cn Chinese modernization, which puts people's wellbeing at its center, has achieved what other major powers have not — the eradication of absolute poverty, Anatoly Tozik, former Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus, in a recent interview with China News Network.

ecns.cn (2025-12-15). Insights | Former Belarusian Deputy PM: China's development path ensures capital serves the people. ecns.cn China's development path ensures that "capital serves the people, the ordinary individuals, not the other way around," Anatoly Tozik, former Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus, said in a recent interview with China News Network.

Felix Abt (2025-12-14). Ukraine On The Gambling Table: How The West Misplayed Its Hand OpEd. eurasiareview.com The Dawn of Project Ukraine: Costly American Influence Operations Leading to Regime Change: | U.S. State Department official Victoria Nuland, in charge of Ukraine policy, The overwhelming majority of the population in Donbass and Crimea—ethnic Russians—rejected this "gamble" and oppos…

Staff (2025-12-14). A Tax Deductible Donation in a Time of Crisis. consortiumnews.com The world is in deep crisis: genocides in Gaza and Sudan; nuclear war lurking over Ukraine; civil rights eviscerated across the West and a disinforming media obscuring it all to shield the responsible. CN is here to help. CN at 30…

hindustantimes (2025-12-14). Orban claims EU misled citizens over Russian funds, warns it could trigger chaos; 'A hidden war…'. hindustantimes.com Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned that the EU's plan to expropriate frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine amounts to a "declaration of war." Speaking at a rally in Mohacs, Orban criticized European leaders for misleading citizens about the financial burden of the conflict, arguing that loans and frozen funds ultimately shift costs onto taxpayers. He noted that negotiations over over ‚Ǩ200 billion in Russian reserves have occurred between Russia and the U.S., bypassing Europe. Orban emphasized the legal and financial implications of asset seizures, highlighting the growing tension betw…

newarab (2025-12-14). Ukraine's Zelensky drops NATO ambition as peace talks begin. newarab.com

Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. (2025-12-14). Who's The Dictator? Venezuela's Maduro Or Ukraine's Zelenskyy. popularresistance.org Within the narrow spectrum of establishment punditry, "dictator" functions as a term of opprobrium reserved for governments Washington designates as enemies. By this measure, Maduro is cast as the dictator, while Zelenskyy is sanctified as democratic. | Ronald Reagan's UN ambassador, Jeane Kirkpatrick, wrote about a democracy "double standard" in 1979. A Democrat turned anti-communist neoconservative, she formulated a convenient rhetorical distinction. The so-called Kirkpatrick Doctrine supported "authoritarian" traditional dictatorships and opposed leftist "totalitarian regimes."

The Independent (2025-12-14). Turkish president warns Black Sea should not become "area of confrontation" independent.co.ug ANKARA | Xinhua | The Black Sea should not become "an area of confrontation" between Russia and Ukraine, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday. "The Black Sea should not be seen as an area of confrontation. This would not benefit Russia or Ukraine. Everyone needs safe navigation in the Black Sea," Türkiye's semi-official Anadolu …

Al Bawaba News (2025-12-14). Territory For Peace? Leaked Miami Talks Reveal Shift In US Strategy On Ukraine. eurasiareview.com By Osama Ali | ( In November and December, U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met covertly with Putin's close aide Kirill Dmitriev. A preliminary 28-point draft was shared with senior Ukrainian officials Rustem Umerov and Andriy Yermak after their marathon talks. | Despite…

aljazeera (2025-12-14). Zelenskyy says willing to drop NATO membership bid ahead of peace talks. aljazeera.com The Ukrainian president says Kyiv could drop its long-held ambition of joining NATO in exchange for security guarantees.

| Khadim Afridi | (2025-12-14). Tirah Valley on edge as insecurity, stalled talks leave residents displaced. tribune.com.pk A renewed wave of insecurity over the past two years in the Maidan area of the scenic Tirah Valley of Khyber tribal district has severely disrupted daily life, crippling economic activity and forcing hundreds of families to abandon their homes in search of safety. | According to local sources, business activity across Tirah Valley has come to a near standstill, with markets largely deserted due to persistent fear and uncertainty. The education of children has been badly affected, as most schools have remained closed for nearly a year. Residents say there is also an acute lack of functional health facilities, c…

Melvin Goodman (2025-12-14). Trump Has Trashed the US's Post-WW II Foreign Policy. counterpunch.org Europe should find some incentive to be more assertive and even aggressive in response to Vance's obnoxious references to Europe's "erasure" of its civilization and his appeals to Europe's dangerous neo-fascist parties. Trump added his own abuse, calling the European leaders "weak," and obnoxiously stating that NATO's members now call him "daddy." One of the sad aspects of the NSS is that it treats the European Union as a bigger threat to the United States than either Russia or China. Trump, who makes no sense on any of these matters, believes that the EU was formed to "screw" the United States. More stupidity.

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