Ukraine December 2025

EU bans Russian gas imports from early next year after last-minute agreement (LINK) 3 December 2025

— "We were paying to Russia €12 billion per month at the beginning of the war for fossil fuels. Now we're down to €1.5 billion per month ... We aim to bring it down to zero," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told reporters.

Kremlin denies Putin rejected all of US peace plan for Ukraine (LINK) 3 December 2025

Ukraine: British Defence Intelligence Update: Russian President Putin's 02 December 2025 reported claim that Russian Ground Forces (RGF) have taken complete control of the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk is almost certainly inaccurate. (LINK) 3 December 2025

Eurasia Review: "Timid Europe sold out Ukraine and forced Trump to clean up the mess" (LINK) 2 December 2025

— "Europe has proven to be not merely a weak ally — it has become a strategic invalid, whose spineless, hypocritical, and self-destructive policy directly led Washington to pull it from the battlefield in order to salvage what remains of Ukrainian sovereignty and prevent total collapse."