Zelensky conceded on Wednesday that there were some points in the document that he did not like.(AFP)

Zelensky meets US envoys, discusses Ukraine peace plan

Published on: Dec 25, 2025 10:34 pm IST Zelensky thanked the two envoys for their “constructive approach, the intensive work, and the kind words”. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday he had had “very good” talks with US President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, focused on ending the “brutal Russian war”. Zelensky…

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz follows the German Bundestag session on the modernization of military service. Christophe Gateau/dpa

Putin envoy lashes out at Germany’s Merz

Russia has responded with mockery to an alleged comment by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to European counterparts expressing mistrust at the US envoys negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. “Dear Merz, you are not even in the game,” Russian special envoy Kirill Dmitriev wrote on X. “You disqualified yourself by warmongering, peace sabotage,…

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London court rules oligarch liable over $1.9 bn Ukraine loan scheme

The Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky and his former business partner are likely to be forced to repay $1.9 billion that they “unlawfully” appropriated from a Ukrainian bank they owned, London’s High Court ruled Wednesday. Judge William Trower found that Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Bogolyubov extracted more than $1.9 billion from PrivatBank, Ukraine’s largest bank, in a “highly…

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