Ukraine…Russia Day 1413…Post War European Troop Deployements Question…..Ukraine F-16’s Update

The Ukraine President has been given ‘Security’ promises?

But he’s looking for SOLID ones…..

A Trump US security guarrantee could be full of holes

The Brits and French are ready to send their troops in for NON-Combat duties after the War ends…..

Zelensky wants a ‘promise’ that EU or even NATO troops IN Ukraine, away from the front, could move to fill -in any written ‘security guarrantee’ like one NATO has among its members….

And?

The Ukraine economy is actually holding up with growth….

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he has received no “unequivocal answer” from European allies about how they would defend Ukraine if Russia attacked again after a peace deal was reached. On Tuesday, European leaders and US envoys announced they had agreed key security guarantees for Kyiv, including a European multinational force that would be deployed if a ceasefire could be reached. But when asked if he was sure that European allies would step in and defend his country in the event of another Russian invasion, Zelensky said on Wednesday he had no “clear” answer on that.
“I personally very much want to get a very simple answer: yes, if there is aggression again, all partners will give a strong response to the Russians. And that’s the exact question I put to all our partners. And so far I haven’t received a clear, unequivocal answer,” Zelensky said. He said there was “political will” from Kyiv’s allies to “give us strong security guarantees”. “But until we have such security guarantees – legal ones, backed by parliaments, backed by the United States Congress – we cannot answer this question.”
UK prime minister Keir Starmer said British MPs will have the opportunity to vote on the final number of troops deployed to Ukraine should a peace deal be reached, Peter Walker reports. Downing Street could not say, however, whether the Commons vote, which would take place before deployment, would tie the government’s hands should MPs reject the prospect of British boots on the ground.
British troops would “conduct deterrent operations and to construct and protect military hubs”, Starmer told parliament on Wednesday. “The number will be determined in accordance with our military plans, which we are drawing up and looking to other members to support. So the number I will put before the house before we were to deploy.”
During the session in the Commons, the Conservative MP Ben Obese-Jecty said that “the presence of boots on the ground in Ukraine was a red line for Putin, and I worry that this potentially might be a stick that he beats us with in order to push back on any peace deal.”
Russian strikes late on Wednesday knocked out power supplies almost entirely in two regions of south-eastern Ukraine, the energy ministry said. “As a result of the attack, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions are almost completely without electricity,” the ministry said on Telegram. Ukraine’s prime minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, said impending snowfalls and temperatures plunging overnight to minus 20C were likely to compound disruptions to power and heating.
Russia attacked two seaports in Ukraine’s Odesa region on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring eight others, Ukrainian officials said. Ukraine’s seaport administration said the attacked ports were Chornomorsk and Pivdennyi, both key export arteries for Ukraine’s commodity-heavy economy. “This is yet another attack by a terrorist country on port infrastructure that is involved in ensuring global food security,” deputy prime minister, Oleksiy Kuleba, said.
Ukraine’s foreign currency reserves grew to a record high of $57.3bn at the start of January as the country continues to draw substantial flows of foreign support, the central bank said on Wednesday. Ukrainian military spending surged from around $7bn in 2021, the last year before the invasion, to a record of more than $70bn last year. The government depends heavily on financial aid to pay for humanitarian and social spending, as well as defence….

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ISW...Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 7, 2026

The US Coast Guard seized two oil tankers with links to Russia for attempting to bypass US sanctions against Venezuelan oil.
US, Ukrainian, and Coalition of the Willing officials continued talks in Paris on January 7, and details of the potential security guarantees for Ukraine are beginning to emerge.
Russian forces are likely unable to simultaneously replace losses suffered in Ukraine and build out their strategic reserves.
Ukrainian forces recently advanced in the Kharkiv and Pokrovsk directions. Russian forces recently advanced in Sumy Oblast and in the Hulyaipole direction.

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Daily Kos grunt report for Today….

Oil tankers leaving Venezuela are now changing their flags to Russian to not get boarded and ordred held by the US against being sanctioned in the Ukraine/Russian conflict….

The US military HAS bordered and seized two tankers….

This HAS to be hurt on Putin and is probably a Trump effort to leverage pressure on Putin who seems deaf to efforts to get a ‘Deal’ on the Ukraine….

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Ukraine F-16’s….The Ukrainian Air Force claims to have shot down around 1,000 Russian cruise missiles and one-way attack drones with Lockheed Martin F-16s donated by allies.

In a 12-min. video published by the Ukrainian Air Force online, a Ukrainian F-16 pilot describes how the fighters transferred from Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands have been primarily used in the air defense role, supporting ground-based air defenses against Russian missile attacks.

The F-16 was inducted into the Ukrainian Air Force in August 2024 following a European-led effort to secure U.S. permission to transfer the aircraft to the war-torn country and take some of the workload off the war-weary, Soviet-era aircraft that Kyiv still has in service….

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Ukrainian pilots developed their own tactics for downing cruise missiles and one-way attack drones, as well as operations near the front line, where Russian ground-based air defense systems are on alert and Russian fighters on combat air patrol are on the prowl.

Both these threats limit how the Ukrainians can operate their F-16s, with the aircraft largely operating at low level. He said Russian fighters—including the Sukhoi Su-35, Mikoyan MiG-31 and the new Su-57—often sit waiting at high altitude for incoming Ukrainian attacks on the front line.

The F-16s have also performed some 1,600 ground-attack missions and have also run the gauntlet of Russian air defense systems as a distraction to allow airstrikes by other Ukrainian Air Force aircraft.

But the primary mission is air defense, and the pilot notes that on one sortie a pilot claimed to have engaged six cruise missiles and seven drones, with the latter likely downed using the aircraft’s internal gun…..

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