Ten days after a new crisis erupted between the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Kyiv believes that the New York tycoon is seeking Ukraine's surrender to Russia. This was stated by Zelenskyy in an interview with Bloomberg in which he considers that Washington's delays in sending the anti-ballistic missiles necessary to protect the population and infrastructure from Russian attacks and the lack of cooperation in intelligence, among others, are measures that seek to “convince Ukraine to capitulate”.

Trump's new diplomatic crisis over Ukraine erupted on Friday at Steve Witkoff's exclusive golf club, Shell Bay, on the outskirts of Miami. Senior Ukrainian and European officials had traveled there to hold talks with Trump's peace envoys, Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law. They planned to discuss updated proposals to end the war in Ukraine before a new trip to Russia.

United States President Donald Trump announced on Sunday an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine “of an immediate nature”. That is to say, both countries would stop attacking, without further delay, each other's energy infrastructure. For the moment, however, there is no ceasefire underway, despite it having been supposed to be immediate. A few hours after the announcement, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported six Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, which have left 33 people injured: "we have not attacked, and this is Putin's response to President Trump," he asserted. The city of Izium has been left without electricity after a Russian attack destroyed the power grid, according to the Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform. During the night, energy and railway infrastructure in western Ukraine were also attacked.

A naval drone attacked an oil tanker off the Russian Black Sea coast this Tuesday, causing a large fire and a cloud of black smoke that covered parts of the resort city of Sochi, according to the Russian Ministry of Transport. The tanker, flying the Liberian flag, was loaded with crude oil. "Extinguishing efforts will begin when the intensity of the fire has decreased and rescue vessels can safely approach the tanker," the ministry indicated. The entire crew, 23 people of Indian nationality, was able to be rescued. Kyiv has made no comment on the attack.

After a tough negotiation, representatives of the European Union member states managed to approve new sanctions against Russia this Tuesday evening. The agreement, which until now was renewed every six months, includes sanctions against 3,000 Russian citizens and will be extended for the next three years. However, it leaves off the list two Russian billionaires close to the Kremlin, Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman.

The war in Ukraine will reach four and a half years this August since its beginning, with the Russian invasion of February 2022. There are no signs of de-escalation or negotiation between Kyiv and Moscow. Both armies are increasingly targeting civilian objectives. At this point, it has become a war of attrition both at the front and in the rear: military, psychological, political, and economic attrition. Neither side has enough strength to defeat the enemy. One side and the other are seeking a position of advantage, not for victory, but to sit at the future negotiation table from a position of strength.

Ukraine is determined to de facto turn the occupied peninsula of Crimea into an island. On Sunday morning, Kyiv's drones attacked the ports on both sides de facto the occupied Crimean Peninsula into an island. In the early hours of Sunday, Kyiv's drones attacked ports on both sides During the last few days, Ukrainian medium-range drones

Nearly half a million Russian soldiers have died since the invasion of Ukraine began in 2022. The figure, one of the highest Western estimates made public so far on the human cost of the war for the Kremlin, was revealed this Wednesday by Anne Keast-Butler, the director of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), one of the country's three security agencies.

This year's Victory Day military parade will be remembered for two circumstances. The first, Vladimir Putin's fear, which led him to turn his showcase of military power into a minimal and unprecedented spectacle: without tanks or missiles, practically without foreign guests and without Western media. The second, Volodymyr Zelenskyy's mockery, who, urged at the last minute by Donald Trump, desisted from threatening Red Square with his drones and signed a sarcastic decree to “allow” the Russian celebration this Saturday.

The beginning of the mechanization of war, beyond firearms, took place in the second half of the 19th century with the use of railways for troop transport during the American Civil War and European conflicts of the 1860s and 1870s, especially the Franco-Prussian War. World War I represented a major leap forward in the use of self-propelled vehicles, including airplanes, armored cars, tanks, automobiles, and motorcycles. The conflicts that followed throughout the 20th century greatly refined warfare mechanization, adding flying bombs, missiles, and nuclear weapons. All of this allowed killing and destruction on an unprecedented scale.In our century, armies have been equipping themselves with weapons that allow soldiers to avoid the front line, and to fight from the second line or even further back. Drones have been the star innovation, as they replace manned aviation at a much lower cost and without putting at risk the life of a soldier as specialized as the pilot. These devices are remotely controlled by a pilot and have proven very effective in the wars in Ukraine and Iran.The latest addition to conventional warfare is artificial intelligence (AI). It involves automating something that until now seemed impossible without human intervention: fighting each other. There are now autonomous military drones, which do not need any pilot to remotely control them, but can fly all by themselves thanks to AI. They are equipped with a multitude of sensors that allow them to navigate without human intervention, including inertia sensors, GPS, altimeters, air sensors, lidar, ultrasound sensors, stereoscopic cameras, electro-optical cameras for daytime operation, infrared and heat sensors for nighttime operation, radars, etc. All the information obtained is fused and processed in real time with AI techniques, including computer vision. This gives them a reliable and real perception of the battlefield, which feeds other AI algorithms that decide what to do in unexpected and unpredictable emergency situations, and choose targets in complex environments.

Russia and Ukraine only agree on what the main point of disagreement is in reaching peace: control of the Donbas regionVladimir Putin refuses to accept any solution that does not guarantee full Russian sovereignty over this territory, while Volodymyr Zelensky is unwilling to relinquish the 20% that the Kremlin's army has failed to capture in four years. This was the starting point for the first talks between the two sides, mediated by the United States, in Abu Dhabi, which began on Friday and will continue on Saturday.

Tanja Kriniuk is emphatic and not very talkative. "If you see a drone, drop your bike and hide under a tree," she tells me as she refills my backpack with dog and cat food. We're in Khotin, a village in eastern Sumi, devastated and ravaged by the numerous Russian attacks of the past year. There's hardly anyone left in this village that once housed eleven thousand people, with its lake, small Orthodox church, and houses with unpaved roads. I ask about the helmet and vest. She invites me to put them on if I want, but both she and Victoria, another activist and journalist, leave them in the van. It's too dangerous to travel through the village by vehicle; we'd be too easy a target, and as the evidence shows, you have to travel light to cycle fast. A bulletproof vest isn't much use when these flying devices, which can reach speeds of over 150 kilometers per hour, are hitting you.

Denis Kapustin is one of the leading figures of the Russian far right and an outspoken opponent of Vladimir Putin's government. Founder of the ultranationalist and conservative Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), he is fighting on the Ukrainian front with troops from Kyiv and, therefore, against the Kremlin's forces. In recent days, Kapustin, also known as White RexHe has risen again. No miracle has occurred. His death was only real in the eyes of Russia, as it was part of an operation. fake from Kyiv to unmask several Russian agents infiltrated in Ukraine. And the move worked so well for Kyiv that they even collected a reward Moscow offered for Kapustin's assassination.

"We have the ingredients for a [peace] agreement," declared US President Donald Trump, who greeted his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, with a handshake on the steps of his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, a moment immortalized in a photograph. The two leaders made a brief appearance before the media just before the start of their meeting to discuss the peace plan they intend to propose to Russia to end the war after nearly four years of conflict. The plan is a twenty-point document, which Moscow has so far rejected. In their brief appearance before the press, Trump and Zelensky answered a few questions from reporters, but did not clarify how they plan to resolve the remaining issues in the peace agreement that continue to generate reluctance in both Kyiv and Moscow. Nevertheless, Trump expressed his conviction that this time both Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin want to reach a peace agreement, but acknowledged that he has no deadline for making it a reality or for ending the war. Regarding Ukraine's future security guarantees, the US president described them as "Silly," a journalist asked him about it. "There will be a security agreement. It will be a solid agreement. European nations are very involved," he declared afterward, trying to deflect the question. He added that European countries "have been truly fantastic" and "are all fantastic people."

Russian President Vladimir Putin leaves no room for hope of a truly negotiated peace. When US President Donald Trump flatters him and buys into his rhetoric, he adopts a conciliatory tone. When he sees Ukraine succeeding in bringing Europe and the United States closer together, he makes no secret of his anger and responds aggressively. This is what happened on Wednesday. Kyiv's concessions—rejecting its NATO membership in exchange for other security guarantees—have infuriated him. Putin wants to consolidate his gains in Ukraine and wants the country under his control, without Western military and political support. His response has been harsh. On the one hand, he has called European leaders "pigs," and on the other, he has threatened more war. In fact, he has said that, as things stand, he doubts any agreement can be reached by 2026. According to the Kremlin, NATO, as explicitly stated by its Secretary General, Mark Rutte, has begun to accelerate preparations for a confrontation with Moscow in the early 2030s, which "creates the real conditions for the continuation of military action until 2026: we are not in, we are not in. Hypothetical peace is slipping away. The weary skepticism of the Ukrainians is perfectly justified."

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and other European leaders on Monday hailed the "significant progress" in negotiations on Ukraine, following two days of intense and productive talks in Berlin between Ukrainians, Americans, and Europeans. In a joint statement, European leaders They thanked US President Donald Trump for his efforts to "guarantee a just and lasting peace in Ukraine" that preserves "Ukraine's sovereignty and European security."

Artillery is no longer the weapon system that kills the most soldiers in a war. It was the deadliest since World War I, but that has changed. The Great War was also the first stage for large-scale trench warfare, with vast groups of soldiers fighting fiercely for every inch of ground. The front line was clear and defined: it was where the trenches of the opposing armies were located. Now the front is diffuse and much wider. Electronic eyes monitor every corner of a large battlefield. Soldiers must act in small groups and with great speed, trying to avoid attracting attention. They camouflage themselves as best they can and cover themselves with nets, which have become a key defense strategy, even for blocking roads and basic infrastructure.

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Europe awoke from a strategic slumber. After decades of entrusting its security to the NATO umbrella and American protection, Europe discovered that peace—like democracy—is not guaranteed. Likewise, the conflict revealed a radical shift from the kind of warfare our parents and grandparents had known. Weapons are increasingly out of reach of the human who fires them, and death is ever closer to civilians far from the front lines. Drones—small, cheap, lethal, and dehumanized—have replaced artillery as the primary instruments of death and surveillance. Today, death has the sound of a drone and pursues soldiers who clasp their hands, imploring the machine not to shoot them before it blows them up. This is not fiction; these are the images of war propaganda that we have seen while preparing this report and that are coldly reproduced on social media.

Although this time without television cameras as witnesses, the last Friday's meeting at the White House between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky ended, more or less, like the one in February, with the US president shouting and "cursing constantly." This was stated on Monday by the Financial Times, from sources familiar with the meeting, in which Trump urged Zelensky to accept Russia's conditions for ending the war, warning him that Putin had told him he would "destroy" Ukraine if he didn't agree. In February, Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance publicly humiliated Zelensky, chiding him for his alleged lack of gratitude to the United States and ultimately inviting him to leave at the end of what Trump called "good television".

Half of Catalans agree or strongly agree with severing trade ties with Israel for the duration of the Gaza war. And nearly half (48%) want to cut ties with Russia for the duration of the war in Ukraine. However, the opinion of maintaining relations with both states is truly a minority one: less than 20% of the population supports it. These are the initial conclusions of the Survey on Coexistence and Security in Catalonia, commissioned by the Catalan International Institute for Peace (ICIP), which confirms that the Catalan population has a similar view regarding Israel and Russia.