Sunk Costs also throwing good money after bad.
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is supporting Ukraine’s energy security by lending €22.3 million to private Ukrainian energy company Power One for the financing of new peaking generation capacity and battery energy storage systems (BESS).
The loan will enable Power One to construct and operate advanced gas-piston power plants with total capacity of 36.8 megawatts (MW) and BESS with total capacity of 31.5 MW at multiple sites in western Ukraine.
Germany pledges over 13 billion in military aid for Ukraine in 2026. Germany?!
Germany will increase its military support to Ukraine to more than €11.5 billion ($13.4 billion) next year, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced Friday.
Speaking at a joint news conference in Berlin with his colleagues from the UK, France, Italy, and Poland, Pistorius said they are united and determined to increase military support to Ukraine amid Russia’s intensified attacks.
Trump admin to begin deportation of Ukrainian refugees
Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States, said the embassy is aware of “approximately 80 Ukrainian nationals” who have final orders of removal “due to violations of U.S. law.”
An adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky said, “We’ll find good use for them.”
Diplomacy Watch: Ukraine faces failure — and fate — in Pokrovsk
Any day now, Russia is expected to complete its takeover of Pokrovsk, a city in Ukraine’s Donbas region that was once home to 60,000 people. The looming capture could have serious implications for the future of the war, depending on how, exactly, Ukraine chooses to take the loss.
Instead, Kyiv now appears ready to dig in its heels and fight until the last possible moment, as it did in Bakhmut in 2023. While such a move would show resolve on the part of Ukrainian leaders, it would also likely lead to massive losses of soldiers and equipment, according to Anatol Lieven, the director of the Eurasia program at the Quincy Institute, which publishes RS.
Former Georgian President wants to be transferred back to Ukraine
The tie eater. The criminal. The Georgian who became Ukrainian and headed Odessa for a time.
Failed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday to be included in a list of prisoners for exchange as a “civilian prisoner of war.”
Russian forces continue to advance near Huliaipole and Velykomykhailivka, in the area where three regions—Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Dnipropetrovsk—meet. According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), they are taking advantage of poor weather and months of targeted airstrikes to weaken Ukrainian defenses and limit drone surveillance.
Azerbaijan’s Embassy in Kiev hit by Iskander debris
According to information, during the meeting, a strong protest was expressed in connection with the fall of one of the Iskander-type missiles onto the territory of the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan as a result of missile and drone attacks to the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, around 01:00 a.m. on 14 November, and a corresponding note verbal was presented to him