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2025-12-11: Ukraine Roundup

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Hudson Institute (2025-12-11). Course-Correcting The Russia-Ukraine Negotiations Analysis. eurasiareview.com By Peter Rough and Can Kasapoƒülu | Over three years have passed since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his forces to capture the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine. And 21 months have elapsed since Russia began its major assault on the city of Pokrovsk, a critical Ukrainian stronghold in Donetsk. | Battlefield geometry makes Pokrovsk uniquely consequential: reports of Russian advances in the city have produced international headlines for weeks. Should Russian combat formations take control of the city, they will be positioned to assault Ukraine's principal fortifications along th…

Agence France-Presse (2025-12-11). Proposals on territorial concessions by Ukraine sent to Trump, Germany's Merz says. scmp.com German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday that US President Donald Trump had been sent a proposal on territorial concessions Ukraine is ready to make to end its war against Russia. | Merz said the proposal was sent after he and other European leaders had spoken by phone with Trump on Wednesday.

Alina Ramos Martin (2025-12-11). Hungary boycotts meeting on possible Ukrainian accession to the EU. plenglish.com Budapest, Dec 11 (Prensa Latina) Hungarian Minister for European Union (EU) Affairs, János Bóka, announced his abstention from participating in an informal meeting on Ukraine's possible accession to the bloc, the MTI news agency reported.

hindustantimes (2025-12-11). Zelensky's cities engulfed in firestorm as Russia takes revenge after wiping out 300 Ukrainian UAVs. hindustantimes.com Russia has launched another heavy overnight barrage on Ukraine, striking the central city of Kremenchuk and other targets just as Moscow claims to have downed nearly 300 Ukrainian drones in a massive retaliatory exchange. The latest strikes, carried out on the night of December 10—11, hit energy infrastructure, cities and airfields around the Dnipro region, causing fires and fresh damage to local power facilities but, according to early local reports, no casualties.

C. Uday Bhaskar (2025-12-11). Putin's visit to India reveals the anxieties of a changing world order. scmp.com Russian President Vladimir Putin's two-day state visit to New Delhi last week, for the 23rd Russia-India Summit, was heavy on optics, symbolism and multilayered signals, while tangible outcomes were relatively modest. | First and foremost, Putin signalled to the West that Russia is not isolated, despite the US-led criticism of the war his government has unleashed against Ukraine since 2022. In an unusual departure from customary diplomatic practice, three European ambassadors to India — from…

RFE RL (2025-12-11). Ukraine Considers Legal Path To Elections Under Martial Law As US Pushes For Vote. eurasiareview.com President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he held a "substantive discussion" with members of Ukraine's parliament on the possibility of holding an election, amid pressure from the United States to hold a vote despite wartime legal restrictions. | Addressing Ukrainians in a nightly video on December 10, Zelenskyy said strong security guarantees from Kyiv's allies ⚪ especially Washington ⚪ are needed to hold a vote. | "If partners, including our key partner in Washington, speak so much and so specifically about elections in Ukraine, about elections under martial law, then we must provide legal Ukrainian answers to ev…

Mark J Willière (2025-12-11). Trump Furious as Zelenskyy Unveils Europe-Backed Peace Plan That Rejects US Concessions. thinktank.pk As the Russia-Ukraine war drags into its fourth year, Kyiv's latest diplomatic maneuver on December 11, 2025, has sent shockwaves through global capitals. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the submission of a revised 20-point peace framework to the Trump administration — a document honed with European allies to counter what many view as a U.S.-heavy, Russia-friendly …

Zack Linly (2025-12-11). Neo-Nazis March To Little Rock Central High School, One Of The First Schools To Integrate After Brown v. Board. newsone.com

Vijay Prashad (2025-12-11). A Far-Right Tide is Washing Over Latin America. orinocotribune.com By Vijay Prashad — Nov 29, 2025 | The far right in Latin America is angry. Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro and Argentina's Javier Milei always look furious, and they always speak loudly and aggressively. Testosterone leaks from their pores, a toxic sweat that has spread across the region. It would be easy to say that this is the impact of Donald Trump's own brand of neo-fascism, but this is not true. The far right has much deeper pedigrees, linked to the defense of the oligarchical families that have roots in the colonial era across the virreinatos (viceroyalties) from New Spain to Rio de la Plata. Certainly, these…

infobrics (2025-12-11). 'The US should leave NATO' – Republican congressman. infobrics.org Criticism of NATO has been growing among politicians in the US.

UN News (2025-12-11). Afghanistan's Crisis Deepens As Human Rights Recede And Aid Funding Falls. eurasiareview.com By Vibhu Mishra | Afghanistan's worsening humanitarian crisis is being driven by the accelerating erosion of fundamental rights — especially for women and girls — alongside mass displacement, economic decline and shrinking aid, senior UN officials warned on Wednesday. | Briefing the Security Council, Georgette Gagnon, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, and Tom Fletcher, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, said nearly half the population will need protection and humanitarian assistance in 2026. | Women and girls remain "systematically excluded" from almost all a…

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