Ukraine/Russia Update Day 1,365…Trump Ukraine ‘Secret’ Peace Deal Talks with the Russians….

Ok?

Lets get something  straight from the jump…..

The American President Donald Trump IS leaning HEAVILY in Russian President Putin’s favor….

The leak of the Trump admin Peace plan is about Trump’s people working on the ‘deal’ with the Russians….

As he has tried to do before?

Trump & Co. WILL be  ironing out points to be presented to Ukraine President Zelensky…

 

I ‘d bet a money that the ‘deal’ IS gonna involve ….

Ukraine accept giving up Donetsk and Luhansk territories ….

(They actually haven’t made much more progress across the Ukraine in Four years)

That Ukraine NOT becoming a member of NATO…..

Limits of the size and shape of the Ukraine military….

That sanctions be lifted against  Russia….

(Whose war economy IS in the toilet)

That Putin get immunity from war crimes….

And that Donald Trump gets a Nobel Prize?

(No Just kidding?)

 

Ukraine Prersident Zelensky IS in a tough place…..

Putin is sacrificing thousands to men and women from Russia, North Korea, other countries and even capture Ukraine…

Ukraine has seen over 200,000 men leave the country to NOT serve in the war….

While the people of the Ukraine have ‘kept a stiff upper Lip’?

Russian bombing civilian area’s has to wearing them down…

There IS also gonna be pressure on Zelensky to end the War from European Allies whose people seem to be growing tired of the situation…

 

Finally Trump is tired of this whole conflict….

While his Congress supports Ukraine….

Trump has NO use for Ukraine , which bring’s back bad memories for him….

I have always thought that Putin has Something on the American President …

I still feel that way….

Trump will DO almost anything he can to NOT cross Putin…

Why?

This goes back to even before Trump first term when he fought against his own countries Intelligence community in his efforts to ‘hang’ with Putin and the Russians….

Again?

Why?

 

The Trump adinistration has been secretly working in consultation with Russia to draft a new plan to end the war in Ukraine, U.S. and Russian officials tell Axios.

Why it matters: The 28-point U.S. plan is inspired by President Trump’s successful push for a deal in Gaza. A top Russian official told Axios he’s optimistic about the plan. It’s not yet clear how Ukraine and its European backers will feel about it.

Zoom in: The plan’s 28 points fall into four general buckets, sources tell Axios: peace in Ukraine, security guarantees, security in Europe, and future U.S. relations with Russia and Ukraine.

• It’s unclear how the plan approaches contentious issues such as territorial control in eastern Ukraine — where Russian forces have been inching forward, but still control far less land than the Kremlin has demanded.

Behind the scenes: Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff is leading the drafting of the plan and has discussed it extensively with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev, a U.S. official said.

• Dmitriev, who runs Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and is also deeply involved in diplomacy over Ukraine, told Axios in an interview on Monday that he spent three days huddled with Witkoff and other members of Trump’s team when Dmitriev visited Miami from Oct. 24-26.
• Dmitriev expressed optimism about the deal’s chances of success because, unlike past efforts, “we feel the Russian position is really being heard.”

The other side: Witkoff was expected to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday in Turkey but postponed his trip, Ukrainian and U.S. officials said.

• Witkoff discussed the plan with Zelensky’s national security adviser, Rustem Umerov, in a meeting earlier this week in Miami, a Ukrainian official confirmed to Axios.
• “We know the Americans are working on something,” the Ukrainian official said.
• “The president has been clear that it is time to stop the killing and make a deal to end the war. President Trump believes that there is a chance to end this senseless war if flexibility is shown,” a White House official told Axios.

State of play: Dmitriev told Axios the basic idea was to take the principles Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to in Alaska in August and produce a proposal “to address the Ukraine conflict, but also how to restore U.S.-Russia ties [and] address Russia’s security concerns.”….

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• Ukraine plans to seek nearly $44bn from Russia for the damage linked to an increase in climate-warming emissions from the ongoing war, a government minister told Reuters. The move marks the first time a country is claiming damages for such an increase in emissions, including from the fossil fuels, cement and steel used in fighting the war, and from the destruction of trees through resultant fires. “A lot of damage was caused to water, to land, to forests,” said Pavlo Kartashov, the country’s deputy minister for economy, environment, and agriculture. “We have huge amounts of additional CO2 emissions and greenhouse gases,” Kartashov said in an interview on the sidelines of the Cop30 climate summit in Brazil.

• A Russian missile strike wounded at least 32 people in Ukraine’s Kharkiv overnight, its governor said early Wednesday, the third such attack on the eastern region in three days. Moscow has been intensifying its daily drone and missile barrages in recent months, targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and hitting a number of civilian sites ahead of winter. Kharkiv governor Oleg Synegubov said at least 32 people were wounded in the latest overnight attack, including two children and an 18-year-old girl.

• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will head to Turkey on Wednesday seeking to revive the United States’ involvement in diplomatic efforts to end the Russian invasion. Zelenskyy said he wanted to reinvigorate frozen peace talks, which have faltered after several rounds of Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul this year failed to yield a breakthrough. Moscow has not agreed to a ceasefire and instead kept advancing on the front and bombarding Ukrainian cities. Zelenskyy will meet his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara on Wednesday, he told reporters at a press conference in Madrid on Tuesday.

• The United States on Tuesday approved a $105m sale to Ukraine to upgrade and sustain Patriot missile defences, as Russia keeps pummelling its smaller neighbour. The state department said it informed Congress of the deal for parts, training and services on the Patriots, which Ukraine relies on to shoot down incoming missiles. “The proposed sale will improve Ukraine’s ability to meet current and future threats,” a state department statement said.

• Poland has identified two people responsible for an explosion on a railway route to Ukraine, prime minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday, claiming that they were Ukrainians who collaborated with Russian intelligence and that they had fled to Belarus. The blast on the Warsaw-Lublin line, which connects the Polish capital to the Ukrainian border, followed a wave of arson, sabotage and cyber-attacks in Poland and other European countries since the start of the war in Ukraine.

• Spain will provide Ukraine with a fresh military aid package worth 615m euros ($710m) to support its fight against Russia’s invasion, Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez announced on Tuesday. Speaking at a Madrid press conference alongside visiting Zelenskyy, Sanchez said that around 300m euros of the package would be allocated to “new defence equipment”. “Your fight is ours,” Sanchez said, adding that Russian president Vladimir Putin’s “neo-imperialism” seeks to “weaken the European project and everything it stands for”.

• During his trip to Spain Zelenskyy made also took the opportunity to view Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica”, a move laden with symbolism. Among the last century’s most famous paintings, “Guernica” depicts the horrors of war – specifically the bombardment of civilian targets. The enormous, black-grey-and-white painting features screaming women, flailing horses and a gored bull. Picasso used them to represent the bombing by Nazi and fascist Italian war planes of the town named Guernica in 1937, during Spain’s Civil War….

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ISW….Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 18, 2025

1. Russian forces are struggling to focus on a single decisive objective in the Pokrovsk direction and instead continue simultaneous attempts to close the encirclement of the wider Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad pocket while also attacking within both towns.
2. Russian forces are trying to employ their new offensive template in the Siversk and Slovyansk-Lyman directions to set conditions for an advance on Ukraine’s Fortress Belt from the northeast and east.
3. Russian military commanders continue to order Russian forces to commit war crimes on the battlefield.
4. Ukrainian forces reportedly conducted an ATACMS missile strike against military targets within Russia.
5. Ukraine continues to collaborate with its European partners on the joint production of interceptor drones.
6. Russian forces conducted a series of missile and drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of November 15 to 16 that appeared to target the regional headquarters of major Ukrainian broadcasters.
7. Polish officials attributed the recent sabotage attacks against a Polish railway to Russian security services.
8. Ukrainian forces recently advanced in western Zaporizhia Oblast. Russian forces recently advanced in Pokrovsk and in the Dobropillya tactical area.

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