For today, links to three reports: from Kyiv Post, the Moscow Times, and Tass, and to commentary from the Kyiv Independent and via Consortium News; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names below. (UKRAINE 8-28-25 is HERE, or scroll down. GAZA, COVID ETC. and MEDIA entries for this date are HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll down up or down.) — MCM
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Zelensky: Russia cannot occupy Ukraine, but borders can’t be restored by force, by Sergii Kostezh | Kyiv Post President Volodymyr Zelensky said today that Russia will never occupy Ukraine but acknowledged that Kyiv currently cannot reclaim all its internationally recognized territories by military means. He emphasized . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia grinds ahead in Donetsk, testing Ukraine’s ‘fortress belt,’ by Anastasi Tenisheva | The Moscow Times Russian forces are pressing ahead in eastern Ukraine, making incremental but closely watched advances in the Donetsk region as the Trump administration struggles to broker a peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv. READ MORE . . .
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Russia’s defense chief talks about army advance, Kiev’s losses, UAV supplies to troops. From Tass. MOSCOW — Russian troops have increased the pace of liberating territories from Ukrainian armed formations while Kiev has lost over 340,000 soldiers this year, Russia’s Defense Minister Andrey Belousov said. Specifically . . . READ MORE . . .
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Why Ukraine security guarantees are dead in the water, by Chris York, Dominic Culverwell, Martin Fornusek and Oleksiy Sorokin | The Kyiv Independent There’s a new buzzword in capitals across Europe and North America — “security guarantees” — a set of measures that are supposed to ensure . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM AUG. 27 Europe’s final descent, by Uroš Lipušcek | Special to Consortium News LJUBLJANA — It’s not yet clear to the European politicians who took part in the Oval Office lesson in geopolitics that the strategic interests of the United States and Europe are increasingly diverging. READ MORE . . .
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