The Trump administration introduced the suspension of US army support to Ukraine hours after Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, stated western countries must keep such assistance flowing. The prime minister informed MPs on Monday that Ukraine would wish cash and weapons from allied international locations even after a peace deal.
On Tuesday night, the White Home stated its pause would final till Trump decided that Ukrainian leaders have been demonstrating a good-faith dedication to peace. “This isn’t everlasting termination of support, it’s a pause,” Fox Information quoted a Trump administration official as saying. Help was being reviewed to “be sure that it’s contributing to an answer”. Democrats blasted Trump for blocking support that was authorised by Congress on a bipartisan foundation.
Donald Trump earlier on Tuesday instructed a minerals cope with Ukraine was not lifeless. The deal went unsigned on Friday after Trump and JD Vance berated Zelenskyy in a White Home argument that was broadly seen as being orchestrated to undermine the Ukrainian president’s case for a good and lasting peace grounded in safety ensures stopping future Russian aggression. Trump stated he would give an replace on the state of affairs on Tuesday night time when he addresses a joint session of Congress.
An oil pipeline burned in Russia’s southern Rostov area after a wave of Ukrainian drones attacked industrial and vitality websites. “On account of a mass drone assault in Chertovsky district, a hearth has damaged out on an oil pipeline,” posted the appearing regional governor, Yuri Slyusar. Slyusar reported one other assault close to Novoshakhtinsk the place earlier drone assaults put an oil refinery out of motion. The Ukrainian army posted photos saying they confirmed the oil refinery once more in flames. A drone assault additionally broken an industrial website close to the border, Slyusar stated.
A negligence investigation was beneath approach in Ukraine after a lethal Russian missile strike on a army coaching floor within the Dnipropetrovsk area on the weekend. Oleksandr Syrskyi, Ukraine’s military chief, stated Russia had struck with cluster munitions. He didn’t disclose casualty particulars. Syrskyi stated a coaching centre head and a commander of a army unit have been suspended, with checks ordered into implementation of a ban on outdoors conferences. “We’re witnessing premature choices and unlearned classes,” stated Ukraine’s land forces commander, Mykhailo Drapatyi, including that these accountable can be discovered. “Nobody will conceal behind explanations or formal reviews.” Russia has beforehand hit Ukrainian troops after they have assembled for parades and ceremonies.
A Russian drone assault broken vitality infrastructure in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday, triggering energy cuts and knocking out heating programs, native officers stated.
The Institute for the Research of Struggle has stated about 620,000 Russian troopers are working in Ukraine and Kursk oblast primarily based on Ukrainian army intelligence figures. It represented a rise of about 40,000 personnel in contrast with late 2024, the ISW stated. “Russian authorities reportedly exceeded their recruitment quotas in 2024 and January 2025, probably partly as a result of elevated monetary incentives for recruits and jail recruitment efforts which can be unsustainable within the medium to long run.”
The ISW said in an assessment that Ukrainian forces had superior close to Pokrovsk, whereas Russian forces had superior close to Velyka Novosilka and in round Novaya Sorochina in Kursk oblast.
The UN nuclear watchdog chief, Rafael Grossi, on Monday defended his employees for travelling to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant via Russian-occupied territory, saying the “exception” was geared toward defending lives. Workers from the UN nuclear watchdog are imagined to solely go there via Ukraine’s territory as a result of Russia occupies the plant illegally. Ukraine’s international ministry on Sunday condemned the “violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity” by IAEA employees of their newest rotation. Grossi replied on Monday that it was accomplished “for the safety of my employees”. A drone strike affected a employees rotation in December and one other mission needed to be aborted. Kyiv stated the disruptions and the IAEA’s breach of protocol have been the results of “Russian blackmail”.
Ukraine returned to Russia 33 civilians displaced from the western Kursk area which Ukrainian troops have partly occupied since August 2024. Ukraine individually introduced on Monday the return of seven kids from areas of Ukraine seized by Russia’s military in a deal mediated by Qatar. Ukraine has been in search of the return of its personal civilians caught in Russian-occupied components of the nation since Moscow launched its full-scale offensive in February 2022, together with about 20,000 kids who Ukraine says have been forcibly “deported” to Russia.
