Global asset manager BlackRock will coordinate investment in rebuilding Ukraine’s economy, Kyiv announced on Wednesday. Following a meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, the government confirmed that the Wall Street titan agreed to coordinate “the efforts of all potential investors and participants in the reconstruction of our country.” As a result…
Zelenskyy, BlackRock Announce New Investment Initiative to Rebuild Ukraine
With Infrastructure in Tatters, Ukraine Looks to Allies for Air Defense Weapons
Ongoing Russian strikes have taken their toll on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, causing rolling power outages and crippling transport in several parts of the country. “Naturally, shortages persist,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a Dec. 26 video address. “Blackouts are continuing.” He went on to assert that roughly 9 million people throughout Ukraine currently lack…
Russia’s Lavrov: Either Ukraine Fulfills Moscow’s Proposals or Our Army Will Decide
Moscow’s proposals for settlement in Ukraine are well known to Kyiv and either Ukraine fulfils them for their own good or the Russian army will decide the issue, TASS agency quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying. “Our proposals for the demilitarization and denazification of the territories controlled by the regime, the elimination of…
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Moscow to Ban Oil Exports to Nations That Impose Price Cap
Moscow will follow through with its threat to ban oil exports to countries that agree to impose a price cap on Russian oil. President Vladimir Putin announced his government’s long-awaited response to a Western-backed price cap on his nation’s crude exports on Dec. 27. The Russian leader signed an order banning the supply of oil and…
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Moscow Rejects Ukraine Proposal for UN-Mediated Peace Talks
Russian officials have soundly rejected a proposal by Ukraine’s foreign minister to convene a peace summit between the two warring parties sometime in February. Leonid Slutsky, head of the Russian State Duma’s international affairs committee, described the proposal—under which Russia would have to submit to a “war-crimes tribunal”—as “a smokescreen.” “Ukraine still isn’t ready to…
Ukraine Wants UN-backed Peace Deal With Russia, but on One Condition: Officials
A top Ukrainian official said on Monday that the country wants a United Nations-backed peace summit to end the war with Russia by February 2023 but only if Moscow faces a war crimes tribunal in an international court first. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told the Associated Press in an interview that Ukraine will do whatever it can…
Russia Says It Shot Down Ukrainian Drone Near Air Base
KYIV, Ukraine—The Russian military reported Monday that it shot down a Ukrainian drone approaching an air base deep inside Russia, the second time the facility has been targeted this month. Russia’s Defense Ministry said debris killed three servicemen at the Engels air base, which houses Tu-95 and Tu-160 nuclear-capable strategic bomber planes that have struck…
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