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US Cuts off Intelligence Sharing With Ukraine, FT Reports
US cuts off intelligence sharing with Ukraine
The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces, according to officials familiar with the matter.
U.S. pauses sharing of intelligence Ukraine uses for strikes on Russia
The rupture of U.S. intelligence-sharing with Ukraine, confirmed by the CIA director, involves the targeting of longer-range strikes inside Russia.
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Eutelsat in talks with EU to ramp up satellite internet to Ukraine, as shares soar
Starlink rival in talks to boost satellite services to Ukraine
Eutelsat, the owner of OneWeb, a rival to Starlink, on Tuesday said it was “actively collaborating with European institutions and business partners”, adding that it had equipment that could be “deployed swiftly in Ukraine to connect the most critical missions and infrastructures”.
Eutelsat in talks to expand satellite services for Ukraine amid Starlink uncertainty, FT reports
Keir Starmer’s handling of the Trump presidency, and that of the UK diplomatic services, has been near impeccable. From wooing him before the election to last week’s White House visit, there is good reason that he is attracting praise from his Westminster opponents and his approval ratings have improved in the country as a whole.
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Governments and markets are also reacting to Trump’s other big decision this week, to impose an additional new tariff of 10 per cent on imports from China, and duties of 25 per cent on those from Canada and Mexico.
“The minerals agreement is only part of the picture. We have heard multiple times from the US administration that it’s part of a bigger picture,” Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister and justice minister who has led the negotiations, told the Financial Times on Tuesday.
The value of Norway’s war windfall is almost equivalent to all US military and civilian support for Ukraine to date. As the US position on European security becomes increasingly ambiguous, Norway should deploy its windfall to the benefit of the European citizens from whom it came, by allocating it in full to Ukraine’s defence and reconstruction.
The White House is pulling the plug on military assistance to Ukraine. And US defence stocks are getting left in the dust. Plus, we take a look at how tariffs on Canada and Mexico could mess with an iconic American car. I’m Marc Filippino and here’s the news you need to start your day.
Let’s be clear, the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine is horrible. For 11 years, I have documented the war’s cost. With the full-scale invasion three years ago, my organisation established a network of human rights defenders to record mass atrocities — from the dead on the streets in Bucha to the mass graves in Izium.
Gideon Rachman So I guess the danger for Ukraine is that Putin nominally agrees to a ceasefire, Trump says war is over, keeps and then breaks the ceasefire, and Trump in his way, blames the Ukrainians and says, well, I’m not going to come in anyway, you know.
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