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Trump when asked if he plans to apologize to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tomorrow for calling him a dictator… #Ukraine️

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Trump: We’re going to be in there (in #Ukraine) “digging our hearts out. We need the rare earths.” Certainly not going to go over well here in Ukraine. Especially when most people here feel they’ve been pushing Russia back from West; that US support was regarded as aid

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#BREAKING: Donald Trump says US will send “workers” to #Ukraine to dig up rare earth elements rather than soldiers. Cuts of UK PM saying, “I don’t like to be talking about peacekeepers until we have a deal.” Makes no commitment to backstop UK in Ukraine

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A Shot Across the Bow: China Signals New Era of Sea Power in the Southwest Pacific thediplomat.com/2025/02/a-sh...

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Now appears that the minerals agreement between US and Ukraine includes no firm security guarantees. According to wording of the text: “The Government of the United States of America supports Ukraine’s efforts to obtain security guarantees needed to establish lasting peace.”

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World Briefing Wed: Trump expects Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington Friday to sign a minerals deal - though security guarantees not assured. Keir Starmer says Britain will “fight for peace in Europe” with a generational increase in defence spending paid www.michaelbociurkiw.com/news/2025/2/...

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World Briefing Tuesday: US resolution calling for a “swift end” to the war in Ukraine passed UN Security Council with the backing of Moscow and Beijing. Trump & Emmanuel Macron have managed to “rekindled the most touchy-feely bromance in world politics.” www.michaelbociurkiw.com/news/2025/2/...

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It’s all over folks: behavior of supposed stewards of candle of free world: US votes w/Russia, N Korea, Iran, 14 other Moscow-friendly countries against resolution condemning RF aggression in Ukraine & calling for return of territory. It passed overwhelmingly www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Thanks to the Trump administration (and its handling of talks with Russia) “a lot of dictators from Moscow to Caracas to Pyongyang to Beijing will think they’ve a free pass to do whatever they like…” #ukraine

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Tune into @cnn.com at the top of the hour (2pm LDN / 4pm Kyiv / 10pm HK & SG). I’ll be live from Odesa #Ukraine speaking to Eleni Giokos on this 3rd anniversary of Russia’s full scale invasion - and as drones threats from Russia continue to disrupt life here..

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World Briefing: Today marks exactly 3 years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Friedrich Merz's CDU/CSU bloc has won the German election; now faces coalition talks. Israeli tanks have moved into occupied West Bank for the first time in decades www.michaelbociurkiw.com/news/2025/2/...

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Heightened state of military readiness along Odesa sea coast I hadn’t seen before. Just in time for another swarm of Russian drones headed this way. Streets and recreational paths almost deserted - folks clearly anxious after last night’s tsunami of drones & ahead of 3rd anniversary of war #Ukraine

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Ukraine President Zelensky on his relationship w/Donald Trump: “It never was in such a best way…It’s not in our rights like presidents to lose partnership between our countries.”

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Zelensky: I wouldn’t of course call President Trump’s words a compliment towards myself. I would be offended if I was a dictator. We will have to live somehow with the US. I am a legally elected president. 73% of people elected me. What’s important for me is what Ukrainians think of me

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#BREAKING: Zelensky says he’s happy to step down if it brings peace & NATO membership to Ukraine. “I am happy, if it is for the peace of Ukraine…If you need me to leave this chair, I am ready to do that, and I also can exchange it for Nato membership for Ukraine."

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World Briefing Sunday (Odesa Edition): Ukraine: Largest Drone Attack Yet on Eve of War’s Third Anniversary. Polls opened in Germany's parliamentary election: conservative CDU/CSU alliance under Friedrich Merz has been consistently polling at first place www.michaelbociurkiw.com/news/2025/2/...

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On the eve of the 3rd year mark of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 267 drones targeted the county - the most in a single day, officials said. Of those, 138 were intercepted

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Odesa Ukraine under attack - another wave of Russian drones…

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Tune into @cnn.com at 09:40am PT / 12:40 ET. I’ll be live from Odesa speaking to Fredricka Whitfield about the latest developments in Ukraine following high level US Russia talks and the European scramble to fill the void

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My article published today in @airmail.news: “There’s a palpable sense that Donald Trump is undermining Ukraine, deepening the gloom.” airmail.news/issues/2025-...

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World Briefing Saturday: The US has signalled that it could leave an international effort to prosecute Russia for invading Ukraine. Fears of Russian disinformation hand in German elections www.michaelbociurkiw.com/news/2025/2/...

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Insulted Italians call for Estonia’s entry in this year’s #Eurovision2025 to be bounced. It’s an issue as slippery as spaghetti! More in today’s World Briefing www.michaelbociurkiw.com/news/2025/2/...

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We can all sleep soundly tonight: “If there’s anyone in this world who can go toe-to-toe with Putin (Russia), that can go toe-to-toe with Xi (China), that can go toe-to-toe with Kim Jong Un (DPRK)… it’s Donald J Trump. He’s the Deal-Maker-in-Chief” - Trump NSC Advisor Mike Waltz

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World Briefing Thursday (Odesa Edition): Ukraine, rest of world try to make sense of Donald Trump’s verbal assault on President Zelensky as key Republicans remain silent. Odesa pummelled for second night by drone strikes www.michaelbociurkiw.com/news/2025/2/...

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The animosity between Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky goes way back to the Trump 1.0 administration. Remember the quid pro quo scandal? I weigh in alongside @sbg1.bsky.social & Julia Ioffe. CNN’s Brian Todd reports www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/w...

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Three main takeaways from U.S.-Russia talks in Riyadh as shared w/ BBC World. U.S. apparently forgot to tell RF to cease fire. U.S. side sound led less like diplomats & more like a ‘cheerleader squad’ for DJT. Did Mr Rubio even bother to insist RF side cut ties w/ Iran 🇮🇷 DPRK 🇰🇵, US arch enemies?

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#BREAKING: Odesa Ukraine under massive attack. Waves of Russian drones for second night in a row after U.S.-Russia talks held. That’s what happens when Moscow sees no red lines that’ll be enforced by Washington

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One minute brief: a summary of what happened after high level Russian-U.S. talks in Riyadh. No signs of imminent peace here in Odesa. Instead a tsunami of Iranian-built Russian drones targeting Odesa, Kyiv, other regions

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World Briefing Wednesday (Odesa Edition): Donald Trump appears to have cast doubt on Zelensky’s legitimacy. US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia gave the Kremlin geopolitical optics it craved. Russia pounds Ukraine cities. Pope Francis has "bilateral pneumonia" www.michaelbociurkiw.com/news/2025/2/...

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Due to a Russian drone attack on Odesa, there is no electricity, water, and heating in many houses in a densely populated area of the city. Hospitals, clinics, and social infrastructure facilities were left without heat, mayor says

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Happening Now: Loud explosions heard in Kyiv and Odesa. Waves of drones headed to several regions. More than half the country under air raid alerts. Just hours after Russia-US talks ended in Riyadh. Appears US team forgot to tell other side to cease their fire?

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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky criticising the meeting in Riyadh between US & Russian delegates as talks about Ukraine "without Ukraine". For lasting peace, he says "it is important not to make any mistakes". Negotiations must represent all parties - America, Europe & Ukraine, he says. - BBC

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BREAKING: Putin aide Yuri Ushakov after 4.5hrs of talks in Riyadh: Putin will decide when contact w/US on Ukraine will start. Two sides agreed to talk about Ukraine & discussed conditions for a Putin-Trump meeting. Summit may happen in Middle East but unlikely take place next week - TASS

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High-level Russian-US talks in Saudi Arabia: so far Ukrainians feel they’re being treated by the Trump administration the way a slum landlord might treat his tenants. His payback proposal is basically ‘pay up now; feed your kids later.’ My CNN interview with John Vause

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Senior Trump administration representatives will meet with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia to discuss ending the war in Ukraine. An erratic Trump, desperate for the foreign affairs win which has so far alluded him, is likely to agree to terms unfavourable to Kyiv www.cbsnews.com/video/what-c...

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World Briefing Tues (Odesa Edition): High stakes US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia today. Alibaba founder Jack Ma’s attendance at a so-called private enterprise forum called by President Xi Jinping suggests he’s been rehabilitated after being in cold storage www.michaelbociurkiw.com/news/2025/2/...

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Good to be back on CBS News. Spoke to anchor Lindsey Reiser about imminent high stakes talks between Russia & US in Saudi Arabia. The fear here in Ukraine is that Donald Trump, eager for a foreign affairs win that’s alluded him so far, could give Moscow too many concessions that don’t favour Kyiv

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UK and European leaders arriving for what I’m referring to as the Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) Summit, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron. Already Warsaw and Berlin have thrown cold water on Keir Starmer proposal for sending troops to Ukraine

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#BREAKING Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky says Kyiv won’t recognize any agreements made without its participation. Statement comes as Russian and US foreign chiefs prepare to meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss normalization and ending the war in Ukraine

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World Briefing Monday (Odesa Edition): U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to meet Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov tomorrow in Saudi Arabia. First known high-level, in-person contact between Washington and Moscow since Russia’s full-scale invasion www.michaelbociurkiw.com/news/2025/2/...

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#BREAKING: Confirmed - US Sec of State Marco Rubio to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov tomorrow in Saudi Arabia, aiming to “restore the entire complex of Russia-U.S. relations” and possible settlement of war. Yuri Ushakov, the Kremlin’s chief foreign policy advisor, also attending

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Amid a brutal and prolonged cold snap, emergency power outages to be introduced in Ukraine today in some oblasts. Officials say due to Russian attacks on energy infrastructure

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Ironic, is it not, after insisting that Ukraine has to have a seat at the peace negotiation table at every step of the way, Emmanuel Macron decides to host a summit of European leaders without Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

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#BREAKING: European officials in meeting with US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth say they expect tens of thousands of U.S. troops will be pulled out of Europe. They also fear Moscow in a position to own 1/5 of Ukraine & to prepare to take the rest in a few years’ time www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/u...

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As Donald Trump and his team continue to refer Russian President Vladimir Putin as a man of peace & work to rehabilitate his intl standing, apocalyptic images coming out of Mykolaiv Ukraine from a massive overnight Russian attack. Some 100K without power in sub-zero temperatures #MSC2025 #MSC

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“It’s pretty bad” - prospect of US pulling support for Ukraine. They’re the lead in providing targeting intel to Kyiv. Their Patriot defense systems protect cities like Odesa. My message to European leaders: “Words don’t stop Russian missiles the way Patriots do.” #MSC #msc2025

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World Briefing Sunday (Odesa Edition): Bumpy road to Ukraine’s peace to be discussed at meetings in Paris and Saudi Arabia. Russia builds new HQ for nefarious activities while China looks to disputed waters for resource exploration base www.michaelbociurkiw.com/news/2025/2/... #MSC2025 #msc

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“Judging by the rounds of applause Volodymyr Zelensky received at #MSC2025, he’s certainly learned the ingredients of the Kool-aid the Europeans like to drink…” me on BBC World Television speaking to presenter @kyliepentelow.bsky.social #msc #Ukraine

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