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02/02/2025February 2, 2025
US wants Ukraine to hold elections by end of year if possible — report
The US wants Ukraine to hold elections, potentially by the end of the year, especially if , President Donald Trump’s top Ukraine official told Reuters news agency.
Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, said that Ukrainian presidential and parliamentary elections, suspended during the war with Russia, “needs to be done.”
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02/02/2025February 2, 2025
Germany will need to boost defense spending, NATO chief says
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told Germany’s mass-circulation Bild newspaper that Germans have “done a lot right since the war began in Ukraine.”
“But given the size of the German economy, we naturally want them to do a lot more,” Rutte told Bild’s Sunday papers, adding “Germany has to, that will be necessary.”
Germany is Ukraine’s second-largest military backer after the US, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz has refused to budge on two of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s key requests.
One, supplying G to Ukraine and second, inviting it to join NATO quickly.
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02/02/2025February 2, 2025
Russia carried out 1,400 airstrikes this week, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed for more Western support to beat back Russian forces, saying Russia carried out more than on Ukraine this week alone.
“Every day, Russia attacks Ukraine with drones, missiles and aerial bombs,” Zelenskyy said in a statement posted to Telegram.
He added using 50 missiles, nearly 600 drones and more than 760 glide bombs this week.
“Russia will not stop on its own. The world must force it to end this brutal and unprovoked aggression,” Zelenskyy wrote.
“Strengthening our defense is absolutely necessary. We need better protection — air defense systems, long-range weapons and sanctions pressure,” he added.
Zelenskyy said in an interview with the Associated Press on Saturday that leaving Ukraine out of any possible peace talks in the nearly three-year-long war would be “dangerous.”
Zelenksyy’s remarks followed comments Friday made by Trump, who said American and Russian officials were “already talking” about ending the war.
Trump has vowed to end the fighting in Ukraine within six months of taking office, saying Friday that his administration has had “very serious” discussions with Russia.
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