Overview
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia has not achieved its goals, noting ISW data that Moscow gained just 0.79% of Ukrainian territory over the past year.
- More than a dozen senior European officials traveled to Kyiv for commemorations, but they arrived without an expected sanctions package or financing after Hungary’s veto.
- U.S.-brokered negotiations continue without a breakthrough, with discussions stuck over the status of the Donbas and security guarantees sought by Kyiv.
- Russia holds roughly one-fifth of Ukraine and has intensified drone and missile strikes on energy infrastructure, causing widespread winter power and heating outages.
- The U.N. reports about 15,000 Ukrainian civilian deaths, analysts warn combined military casualties could approach 2 million by spring, and a World Bank–EU–U.N. report pegs reconstruction needs at about $588 billion.