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New York Post
9 hours ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Russia's war in Ukraine must end, here's how it could happen
The critics and admirers of America's 47th president disagree on everything and agree on nothing. Some treat his words as gospel; others dismiss them out of hand. But no one can say he hasn't tried to deliver on campaign promises. Donald Trump vowed to end Russia's war in Ukraine — and if there's one line he's repeated again and again, it's this: 'Too many people are dying — thousands each week — in a terrible and senseless war.' 6 Scenes of vast destruction in Kyiv, where a warehouse was one of the many targets hit during one of Russia's largest-ever drone strikes. SERGEY KOZLOV/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Advertisement Moscow's war of choice is truly terrible, but to call it 'senseless' is to miss the point. Russia has been killing Ukrainians for the crime of being Ukrainian since 2014 — predictably, methodically, relentlessly. Russia's war is also criminal, under the very rules of warfare America helped enshrine in 1945. Is it senseless for Ukraine to fight back? A war for survival is immensely costly — but to shield your children from Russian missiles is not a choice; it's a duty. Kyiv has no real options but to resist: Because failure to defend your home is dishonor, followed by annihilation. 6 Russian leader Vladimir Putin has suggested he is serious about ending his nation's war in Ukraine, but has only strengthened his attacks on the nation. POOL/AFP via Getty Images After months of frantic diplomacy, it's finally clear where everyone stands. The White House wants a cease-fire. Ukraine wants peace. Russia wants neither. How do we know? Back in March, Trump dispatched Secretary of State Marco Rubio to demand that Kyiv prove it was serious about ending the war. Within 24 hours, Ukraine not only agreed to halt hostilities in the air and at sea — it offered an unconditional 30-day cease-fire. Advertisement Russia rejected Washington's peacemaking efforts, stonewalled and openly mocked America. Putin mouthed lies about ending the fighting, while unleashing ever more rockets on Ukrainian cities. On Palm Sunday — just 48 hours after Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff met with him — Russia launched its worst attack since 2023: 84 civilians wounded, including 10 children. 6 Pres. Trump dispatched US Sec. of State Marco Rubio to demand serious action from Russia to end its war on Ukraine. REUTERS This week, Russia set a new record by launching nine cruise missiles and 355 of the Shahed drones it sources from Iran, in a single night. Over the preceding three nights, it launched around 900 drones — a grim milestone in a war defined by deliberate cruelty and heinous war crimes. While Trump uses words like Putin is 'playing with fire,' the Kremlin uses rockets to set suburban neighborhoods ablaze. Knowing where we stand inspires little optimism — but it doesn't determine what comes next. Russia chose to invade. Ukraine found the courage to defend itself. But crushing Russia's appetite for war will take more than heroism from Kyiv. It will require resolve from America and every nation that stands for freedom. We can and must give peace through strength a chance! Advertisement If we're serious about protecting US interests, let's get real about the three ways this war could end. 6 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky needs a lasting peace for his nation if Russia's war on Ukraine is to fully end rather than merely pause. AFP via Getty Images The most likely outcome — and the one Washington is drifting toward — is a frozen conflict, otherwise known as a ticking time bomb. A cease-fire is declared, the front line hardens into a de facto border and Putin keeps what he stole. Ukraine loses what it bled for. The West congratulates itself for 'containing the crisis,' and everyone pretends that's a win. What follows is predictable: Moscow prepares for the next invasion. America's credibility circles the drain and the world tilts toward un-security, where fear reigns, prosperity falters, Russia-China alliance hardens hardens and the cost of freedom rises. Advertisement Then there's the most dreadful scenario: We let Russia have its way. A third-rate power with first-rate imperial arrogance, economy the size of Texas and collapsing demographics is handed a victory — not because it deserves one, but because we failed to help Ukraine. We've seen this movie before. In the 1930s, giving Hitler what he wanted didn't end the war — it made it bigger. 6 Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin in Munich i 1938, where their historic act of appeasement paved the way for World War II and Germany's imperialistic power grab. Getty Images The third scenario — called the best case by some — is that we finally step up, arm Ukraine properly to push Russia back. We've got the means. What's missing is backbone. Ukraine regains ground, Crimea stays in legal limbo, and Putin claims victory anyway — because tyrants who control the script never admit defeat. But even this feel-good outcome would fall far short of justice. If stolen children aren't returned, if mass graves and beheaded POWs are ignored, if war criminals are drinking champagne in Moscow instead of facing judgment in The Hague — then what exactly will we have won? What's not even on the table is the one path history tells us brings lasting peace: The aggressor is defeated, disarmed and held to account. That means full restoration of Ukraine's borders, reparations and prison for those who ordered and carried out atrocities. Not to punish the Russian people — but to give them a chance at finally breaking free from a system built on oppression, violence and conquest. This version of peace — just, durable and enforced — is the one worth aiming for. And yet, somehow, it's not even part of the conversation. 6 As far as Pres. Trump is concerned, the killing must end in Ukraine. He recently declared that Putin has gone 'crazy' as his tenor against the Russian leader becomes increasingly critical. AP Last weekend, Trump said Putin 'has gone absolutely CRAZY!' But madness isn't the problem — impunity is. Russia's war makes perfect sense to Putin, that's why he is waging it. Advertisement The real insanity is pretending that angry words or half-measures will stop him. Andrew Chakhoyan is an academic director at the University of Amsterdam and previously served in the US government at the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
RTÉ News
5 days ago
- Politics
- RTÉ News
Three people injured in Russian attacks in Ukraine's south, officials say
Russian drone attacks injured three people in Ukraine's south and southeast overnight, Ukrainian officials said. Two people were injured in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Governor Serhiy Lysak said. "Air defence forces were working during the night in the Dnipropetrovsk," he said on the Telegram messaging app, adding that five drones had been shot down over the region. The attack sparked a fire in a private house and an outbuilding in one district of the region and destroyed an agricultural enterprise, a private house, and a car in another. Nikopol district also came under FPV, artillery and drone attack, Mr Lysak said. A 59-year-old man was injured in a morning drone attack on the southern city of Kherson, the military administration said. In the northeastern city of Sumy, a drone strike sparked a fire in a building of an industrial enterprise. A later airstrike damaged at least seven private and one two-storey buildings and cars in another area, the military administration said. There were no casualties, it added. Russia, which began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, did not immediately comment on the reports. Meanwhile, the governor of Ukraine's Sumy region on the Russian border said yesterday that Russian forces had captured four villages as part of an attempt to create a "buffer zone" on Ukrainian territory. Russia's military and Russian military bloggers have in recent days reported captured villages in Sumy, which has come under frequent Russian air strikes for months. Sumy Region Governor Oleh Hryhorov, writing on Facebook, listed four villages inside the border that he said were now held by Russian forces - Novenke, Basivka, Veselivka and Zhuravka. He said their residents had long been evacuated. "The enemy is continuing attempts to advance with the aim of setting up a so-called 'buffer zone,'" he wrote. Ukrainian forces, he said, "are keeping the situation under control, inflicting precise fire damage on the enemy". Mr Hryhorov said fighting was continuing around other villages in the area, including Volodymyrivka and Bilovodiv - two settlements that Russia's Defence Ministry had earlier said were now held by Moscow's forces. Russian reports in recent days had said that Moscow's forces had taken control of villages in the region. Ukraine's State Emergency Services reported that one person was killed when Russian forces shelled an area of Sumy region west of the captured villages. Sumy region is opposite Russia's Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces launched a large cross-border incursion last August. Moscow says Ukrainian troops have been ousted from Kursk, but Kyiv says its forces are still active there. Ukraine's popular military blog Deep State had said at the weekend that Russian forces had for the first time "been able to take up positions" along a line of border villages. A Russian missile strike on the region's main city, also called Sumy, killed 35 people on Palm Sunday last month. Deep State on Monday said Russian forces had launched attacks further east near Vovchansk in Kharkiv region, where it had launched an earlier incursion in May 2024.
Korea Herald
5 days ago
- Politics
- Korea Herald
Ukrainian governor says Russian forces capture four villages in Sumy
The governor of Ukraine's Sumy region on the Russian border said on Monday that Russian forces had captured four villages as part of an attempt to create a "buffer zone" on Ukrainian territory. Russia's military and Russian military bloggers have in recent days reported captured villages in Sumy, which has come under frequent Russian airstrikes for months. Sumy Region Gov. Oleh Hryhorov, writing on Facebook, listed four villages inside the border that he said were now held by Russian forces -- Novenke, Basivka, Veselivka and Zhuravka. He said their residents had long been evacuated. "The enemy is continuing attempts to advance with the aim of setting up a so-called 'buffer zone,'" he wrote. Ukrainian forces, he said, "are keeping the situation under control, inflicting precise fire damage on the enemy." Hryhorov said fighting was continuing around other villages in the area, including Volodymyrivka and Bilovodiv -- two settlements that Russia's Defense Ministry had earlier on Monday said were now held by Moscow's forces. Russian reports in recent days had said that Moscow's forces had taken control of villages in the region. Ukraine's State Emergency Services reported that one person was killed on Monday when Russian forces shelled an area of Sumy region west of the captured villages. Sumy region is opposite Russia's Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces launched a large cross-border incursion last August. Moscow says Ukrainian troops have been ousted from Kursk, but Kyiv says its forces are still active there. Ukraine's popular military blog DeepState had said at the weekend that Russian forces had for the first time "been able to take up positions" along a line of border villages. A Russian missile strike on the region's main city, also called Sumy, killed 35 people on Palm Sunday last month. DeepState on Monday said Russian forces had launched attacks further east near Vovchansk in Kharkiv region, where it had launched an earlier incursion in May 2024. (Reuters)
NDTV
5 days ago
- Politics
- NDTV
Ukraine Says Russian Forces Capture 4 Villages As War Intensifies
Kyiv: The governor of Ukraine's Sumy region on the Russian border said on Monday that Russian forces had captured four villages as part of an attempt to create a "buffer zone" on Ukrainian territory. Russia's military and Russian military bloggers have in recent days reported captured villages in Sumy, which has come under frequent Russian air strikes for months. Sumy Region Governor Oleh Hryhorov, writing on Facebook, listed four villages inside the border that he said were now held by Russian forces -- Novenke, Basivka, Veselivka and Zhuravka. He said their residents had long been evacuated. "The enemy is continuing attempts to advance with the aim of setting up a so-called 'buffer zone,'" he wrote. Ukrainian forces, he said, "are keeping the situation under control, inflicting precise fire damage on the enemy". Hryhorov said fighting was continuing around other villages in the area, including Volodymyrivka and Bilovodiv -- two settlements that Russia's Defence Ministry had earlier on Monday said were now held by Moscow's forces. Russian reports in recent days had said that Moscow's forces had taken control of villages in the region. Ukraine's State Emergency Services reported that one person was killed on Monday when Russian forces shelled an area of Sumy region west of the captured villages. Sumy region is opposite Russia's Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces launched a large cross-border incursion last August. Moscow says Ukrainian troops have been ousted from Kursk, but Kyiv says its forces are still active there. Ukraine's popular military blog DeepState had said at the weekend that Russian forces had for the first time "been able to take up positions" along a line of border villages. A Russian missile strike on the region's main city, also called Sumy, killed 35 people on Palm Sunday last month. DeepState on Monday said Russian forces had launched attacks further east near Vovchansk in Kharkiv region, where it had launched an earlier incursion in May 2024.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Ukrainian governor says Russian forces capture four villages in Sumy
(Reuters) -The governor of Ukraine's Sumy region on the Russian border said on Monday that Russian forces had captured four villages as part of an attempt to create a "buffer zone" on Ukrainian territory. Russia's military and Russian military bloggers have in recent days reported captured villages in Sumy, which has come under frequent Russian air strikes for months. Sumy Region Governor Oleh Hryhorov, writing on Facebook, listed four villages inside the border that he said were now held by Russian forces -- Novenke, Basivka, Veselivka and Zhuravka. He said their residents had long been evacuated. "The enemy is continuing attempts to advance with the aim of setting up a so-called 'buffer zone,'" he wrote. Ukrainian forces, he said, "are keeping the situation under control, inflicting precise fire damage on the enemy". Hryhorov said fighting was continuing around other villages in the area, including Volodymyrivka and Bilovodiv -- two settlements that Russia's Defence Ministry had earlier on Monday said were now held by Moscow's forces. Russian reports in recent days had said that Moscow's forces had taken control of villages in the region. Ukraine's State Emergency Services reported that one person was killed on Monday when Russian forces shelled an area of Sumy region west of the captured villages. Sumy region is opposite Russia's Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces launched a large cross-border incursion last August. Moscow says Ukrainian troops have been ousted from Kursk, but Kyiv says its forces are still active there. Ukraine's popular military blog DeepState had said at the weekend that Russian forces had for the first time "been able to take up positions" along a line of border villages. A Russian missile strike on the region's main city, also called Sumy, killed 35 people on Palm Sunday last month. DeepState on Monday said Russian forces had launched attacks further east near Vovchansk in Kharkiv region, where it had launched an earlier incursion in May 2024.
