The Polish Press Agency (PAP) reported on Thursday that, according to sources in the country’s foreign ministry, top diplomats from France, Germany and Poland will meet next Tuesday in Warsaw to discuss the future of aid to Ukraine.

Annalena Baerbock, Jean-Noel Barrot and Radoslaw Sikorski are expected to be joined by Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha.

and his Italian counterpart, Antonio Tajani. The Polish ministry said the main topics of discussion would include the future of aid to Ukraine and the strengthening of NATO’s eastern borders, as well as the new political landscape resulting from the election of NATO-sceptic Donald Trump as US president and his aim to put end of the war in Ukraine. in short.

The PAP also reported that the same foreign ministers of the Weimar Triangle (Poland, Germany and France) had a phone call on November 2 about European security policy and the future of European relations with the United States.

Separately, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk spoke in Warsaw on Wednesday with NATO chief Mark Rutte and announced over the weekend that he would meet with French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, as well as the leaders of the Nordic and Baltic states to meet soon. we discuss transatlantic cooperation and the war in Ukraine, Reuters reported.

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Trump named Marco Rubio as secretary of state and Mike Waltz as his next national security adviser. Both are seen as relative hawks in Russia.

Ukrainian news channel Sigh On Wednesday, sources cited in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said that agents conducted a successful special operation in Crimea to assassinate a Russian naval officer who fired cruise missiles at Ukrainian civilian targets in 2022.

The SBU said its agent planted a bomb in the car owned by Captain First Class Valery Trankovsky of the Black Sea Fleet’s 41st Missile Boat Brigade, detonating it and killing him.

The governor of the occupied Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, reported that a car exploded there on Wednesday morning, killing a Russian soldier, but did not identify him. Razvozhaev said at the time that authorities had not ruled out sabotage and that Moscow’s occupation administration would likely continue its crackdown on those it considers pro-Ukrainian as a result.

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) identified geolocated images on social media showing the wrecked car in Sevastopol, noting that those believed to be Ukrainian partisans had carried out three assassinations of Russian military and occupation officials in the past two months.

The think tank says the Kremlin’s position in Ukraine remains unchanged after Trump’s election

ISW analysts concluded that Russian leader Vladimir Putin has not changed his mind about any peace talks with Kiev, saying his goals of a “full surrender of Ukraine” remain unchanged.

With Trump elected as the next US president, Kiev and its Western allies have feared a drain on US aid to Kiev, with experts and politicians wondering aloud how much Trump is willing to concede to the Kremlin in any negotiations of future peace.

However, the Washington think tank said Putin has given no indication that he is more willing to make concessions to the incoming Trump administration than he was under the current leadership of Joe Biden.

“The Kremlin is trying to dictate the terms of any potential ‘peace’ negotiations with Ukraine ahead of the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump,” ISW analysts wrote. “The way the Kremlin is trying to set its terms for negotiations strongly signals that Russia’s goals remain unchanged and still amount to a full surrender of Ukraine.”

ISW noted that Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed on Wednesday that peace can only be achieved when the West stops providing military assistance to Ukraine. On the same day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also claimed that any proposal to freeze the front is “even worse” than the Russia-friendly Minsk Accords that followed Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine in 2014.

“Zakharova and Lavrov’s statements also undermine Putin’s recent efforts to feign interest in wanting to ‘restore’ US-Russia relations with the new US presidential administration,” ISW wrote, “and instead point to that Putin probably takes for granted that the Trump administration will defer to Kremlin interests and preferences without the Kremlin offering any concessions or benefits in return.”

Ukraine removes the reference value for the sixth tranche of the IMF, the prime minister said

Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced Thursday that the Ukrainian government has met all International Monetary Fund requirements to qualify for the sixth tranche of aid, worth about $1.1 billion. Kyiv can expect to receive the funds before the end of December.

“We successfully completed the fifth review of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program at the end of October,” Shmyhal’s office wrote. “We met all the structural criteria for the sixth review. Based on the results of the current mission, we expect to receive the next tranche of USD 1.1 billion by the end of December.”

According to the IMF’s overview of its work in Ukraine, “The overall objective of the extended arrangement of USD 15.6 billion under the Extended Fund Facility is to help Ukraine resolve its balance of payments problems and support economic stability and financial at a time of exceptionally high uncertainty. , restoring debt sustainability and promoting reforms that support Ukraine’s recovery on the path to EU membership in the post-war period.

“As the conflict eases, the program will focus on broader reforms to strengthen macroeconomic stability, support early recovery and reconstruction, and enhance resilience and higher long-term growth, including supporting the goals of accession of Ukraine to the EU”.