Hello, this is news about the ukrainian-russian war and a review of important international events.

The long road to peace

The first round of trilateral peace talks involving Ukraine, the US and russia, which took place the other day in Abu Dhabi - the capital of the United Arab Emirates, were assessed with restrained positiveness.

However, the most optimism was expressed by American mediators. The Ukrainian leadership is more restrained in its assessments. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, commenting on the negotiations in Abu Dhabi, said that there are still a lot of problematic issues - but there have been fewer.

Finally, the spokesmen of the aggressor state assess positively only the fact of the negotiations themselves. Let us recall that russia continues to encroach on Ukrainian territories that it has not been able to capture in almost four years of war and refuses to make peace without this.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Ukrainian president noted that “the deepest line of conflict between russia and Ukraine and all of Europe is that russia is fighting for people to be insignificant – for the fact that when dictators want to destroy someone, they can do it. But they should be losing power, not gaining it.”

Fighting on the front continues. Unable to break through the Ukrainian defenses, the russians continue to shell the infrastructure of peaceful Ukrainian cities, trying to leave the civilian population without heat and light in the cold winter weather. Now they are trying to drive Ukrainian civilians into a cold death.

Ukrainian soldiers demonstrate courage and high skill in defending their homeland. They call on foreign volunteers to join their ranks.

Ukraine is getting closer to the EU

Finally, the best news of recent days is Ukraine's further integration into the European Union. Ukraine should join the EU by 2030. This was stated by Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda at a joint press conference with the presidents of Ukraine and Poland.

According to him, this is Lithuania's strategic interest, because Ukraine's membership in the EU will greatly contribute to the stability and security of the entire large region of Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. Therefore, Lithuania will make the most of its presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2027 to implement this plan.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stressed that it is important for Ukraine to stipulate the date of its accession to the EU in the agreement on the end of the war in order to receive clear security guarantees and avoid blocking the accession.

Currently, the current head of the Hungarian government, Viktor Orban, is against Ukraine's accession to the EU, but the European Commission - a kind of government of a united Europe - previously stated that they were looking for a way. How to bypass or overcome a possible Hungarian veto. After all, Europe is increasingly understanding that an experienced and hardened Ukrainian army can become the basis of the continent's defense against the encroachments of russian imperialism.

Instead, the Ukrainian president called on Europe to take more decisive action in the field of defense and to create a united European armed forces and not to rely on NATO. But no one has seen the Alliance in action. “Europe likes to discuss the future, but it avoids action today – action that determines what our future will be. And that is the problem,” he noted, speaking in Davos.