Joe Biden invited Donald Trump to the Oval Office I plan to have a discussion with you on Wednesday. Why does the next president say “the United States should not leave Ukraine?'' Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said Sunday that the two men will discuss what's happening in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He told CBS' Face the Nation: “President Biden will have an opportunity over the next 70 days to make his case to Congress and the incoming administration. The US should not leave UkraineLeaving Ukraine would mean further destabilization of Europe. ” Sullivan said the White House aims to spend the money. $6 billion left in Ukraine by Trump's inauguration. President Trump will not be inaugurated until January. Sullivan said the White House aims to “put Ukraine in the strongest possible position on the battlefield and ultimately in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table.”
Luke Harding reports that Ukraine has launched the largest ever drone attack on Moscow. Meanwhile, Russia targeted Ukraine overnight with more Shahed suicide drones than it had ever used before. “Last night Russia launched a record number of 145 Shahed and other drone attack aircraft against Ukraine,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday.
Russia said 34 Ukrainian attack drones targeted Moscow on Sunday, the largest attack on the capital since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Moscow region governor Andrei Vorobyov called it a “massive” attack. it is forced Three airports temporarily closedA 52-year-old woman was injured and two houses were set on fire in the village of Stanovoe in the Moscow region, officials said. Russia announced that its air defenses had shot down 70 drones, almost half of them over Moscow and the rest in western Russia.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said it was a “success.” Targeted an ammunition dump near the Russian city of Bryansk. Video showed multiple explosions coming from a warehouse on military land. I saw a fire burning in the night sky.
According to a report in the Washington Post, US President-elect Donald Trump speaks by phone with Vladimir Putin So he told the Russian president not to escalate the war against Ukraine. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said it was not informed of the meeting between Trump and Putin in advance and could not support or oppose it afterwards. President Trump has boasted that he can mediate an early end to the war.
Ukrainian politicians express tentative hope for Trump's return Doesn't necessarily lead to rapid and humiliating forced peaceDan Sabbag writes from Kyiv. Ukrainian opposition lawmaker Oleksiy Goncharenko said: “I don't think Trump's victory is a disaster. Ukraine is now his business and if the negotiations turn into a disaster, Joe has decided to withdraw from Afghanistan.'' Like Biden's decision, it's going to be his. This is a guy who loves winning.”
Britain is considering all options regarding Trump's approach to Ukrainesaid the Secretary of the Treasury, writes Jessica Elgot. Darren Jones told Sky News: [British commitments to Ukraine]. That's why we give them £3 billion a year. This is a difficult decision given the financial situation here in the UK, but it is the right decision for us. ”
Britain's Chief of Defense Staff told the BBC on Sunday: Admiral Tony Radakin says Russia is paying an “extraordinary price” for Putin's wars. And October was the worst month of losses since the conflict began in February 2022. ”Russia is at risk of 700,000 casualties. “The great pain and suffering the Russian state has to endure because of Putin's ambitions,” he said, adding that the only gain was “a small increment of land.” The cost of the war, which he called more than 40% of public spending on defense and security, was also a “huge waste” for Russia.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer joins French President Emmanual Macronin Paris for Armistice Day services in France A pointed show of European unity After Trump's reelection, Ukraine and defense issues are on the agenda of closed-door talks between the two leaders, writes Jessica Elgot.
