42+ min ago (272+ words) Poland's foreign minister Rados'aw Sikorski has warned that secret U.S.Russia talks over a possible Ukraine deal were "like Nord Stream, but times a hundred." Nord Stream was a Russia-Germany gas pipeline project that bypassed countries, including Poland and Ukraine, deprived them of transit fees, and gave Moscow leverage over its neighbors." Sikorski's comments"followed a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report that revealed back-channel talks that could see Ukraine pressured into surrendering territory in exchange for vast U.S. corporate access to Russia." According to the WSJ report, the negotiations involved U.S. Special Presidential Envoy and real-estate developer Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Vladimir Putin's envoy Kirill Dmitriev, who explored ways to revive Russia's economy by steering lucrative contracts in rare earth minerals and energy toward U.S. firms." Sikorski told Polish news channel TVN24 on Saturday that Poland would neither participate in nor…...

53+ min ago (475+ words) Joining Democratic voices on Capitol Hill, Rep. Don Bacon continues to call out the US administration for its overly friendly relationship with the aggressor state. Leading bipartisan voices from the US House of Representatives" Armed Services Committee, including Republican congressman Don Bacon of Nebraska, once again expressed disgust at Donald Trump"s appeasement of the Kremlin in the latest peace proposal, and asked the administration to have the courage and moral rectitude to defend Ukraine"s sovereignty. Bacon told ABC this weekend: "I would like to see the president be a stronger advocate for the free country, the sovereign country of Ukraine that wants to be a democracy, wants to be allied with us, and have a little more clear-eyed view of who Putin is, that Putin is the invader." He joined the ranking Democrat on the committee, Adam Smith,…...

3+ hour, 2+ min ago (602+ words) Putin's latest statements show just how warped the Russian worldview is. He now claims "peace" means Ukrainians withdrawing from the territories that belong to Ukraine, while the invading army stays exactly where it is. In what universe does the aggressor stay and the victim leaves? This isn't diplomacy, it's colonialism pretending to negotiate. This is why statements like this should never be treated as legitimate diplomatic positions or quoted by the media as if they're part of a real negotiation. They are not "peace terms." They are coercive demands from an aggressor who has failed to achieve his goals and is now trying to bluff the world into granting him politically what he couldn't take militarily. The worst-case scenario, Ukraine being "sold out" overnight, simply doesn't fit the real world. Ukrainian society wouldn't accept it. Parliament wouldn't pass it. Europe…...

6+ hour, 44+ min ago (296+ words) Ukrainian intelligence and partisans blew up Akhmat fighters running a stolen-fuel scheme near occupied Berdyansk, destroying two vehicles and inflicting casualties. Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) eliminated several "Kadyrov's fighters" near occupied Berdyansk in the Zaporizhzhia region, who had been running an illegal fuel-theft business. According to a HUR statement on Telegram, two explosions were recorded on Nov. 29 as a result of a coordinated operation by Ukrainian intelligence and the Resistance Movement. Russian personnel from the so-called "Akhmat" unit suffered losses. "Akhmat" is a combat unit of the Russian National Guard composed largely of Chechen security forces and directly subordinated to Chechnya's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov. Ukrainian partisans discovered that the "Kadyrov's fighters" had organized a "schematosis" involving stolen diesel fuel, selling it at a fixed location along a highway near Berdyansk, HUR reported. After mining the site, Ukrainian forces triggered…...

7+ hour, 21+ min ago (1360+ words) Russia is reshaping cemeteries, memorials and public spaces in occupied Ukraine to impose a Kremlin-made past " glorifying separatist leaders, erasing Holodomor sites and recasting the war as destiny. Russia is systematically remaking the symbolic landscape of occupied Ukrainian territory, tearing down or sidelining Ukrainian memorials while erecting its own monuments that fuse Kyivan Rus, WWII and the modern invasion into a single "Russian" story. Research by historian Yurii Latysh for Novaya Gazeta Europe has shed light on how the new memorials present Russia's war as the latest chapter in a centuries-long struggle for "Russian land" " and as proof that these regions have "always" belonged to Moscow. The scale of altered, dismantled and newly erected monuments across occupied territories is so extensive that a comprehensive listing is no longer possible. In occupied Donetsk, the Kremlin is using newly built memorials to…...

7+ hour, 45+ min ago (1162+ words) On the 15th anniversary of the death of this remarkable woman, so dear to both Poland and Ukraine, her story deserves to be retold. Her father was a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest from Austrian-ruled Western Ukraine, and a recently freed Austrian political prisoner. Her mother Olena's brother was Ostap Nyzhankivsky, the celebrated Ukrainian composer. He was shot by the Poles in 1919 during a Polish-Ukrainian war for control over Western Ukraine that ended in a Polish victory." The family were Ukrainian patriots who resented Polish domination. They enrolled Irena and her brother Anatol in Plast, the Ukrainian patriotic scouts' movement." She and her family knew the men who would become legends and demons, depending on who told the story " Stepan Bandera, Roman Shukhevych, figures whose names still ignite debate across Eastern Europe. Preserving the Ukrainian identity meant resistance. Culture was politics, including in…...

9+ hour, 6+ min ago (483+ words) National Security and Defense Council Secretary announced the start of US-Ukraine talks on "steps to achieve a decent peace," but later deleted the post. The Ukrainian delegation has arrived at the Miami meeting site as top negotiators for US President Donald Trump prepare to meet with Ukrainian officials in Florida on Sunday, Nov. 30. "HAPPENING NOW!! The Ukrainian delegation has arrived at the Miami meeting site, kicking off high-stakes talks regarding the situation in Ukraine," Kyiv Post's Chief Correspondent in Washington DC, Alex Raufoglu wrote on X. Earlier, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Rustem Umerov on social media announced the start of a meeting between the Ukrainian and American delegations on "steps to achieve a decent peace," but later deleted the post. As per the previous Kyiv Post report, US negotiators are set to meet with Ukrainian officials in Florida on…...

9+ hour, 33+ min ago (444+ words) Russian drone strikes hit Vyshhorod near Kyiv overnight, killing one and injuring dozens, while attacks also sparked fires and damage across the Kharkiv and Dnipro regions. Russian forces struck residential and industrial areas in the city of Vyshhorod in the Kyiv region, causing destroyed buildings, fires, and leaving one person dead and several injured. Late in the evening of Nov. 29, shortly after 11 p.m., an air alert was declared in Kyiv during a Russian drone attack. Soon after, reports emerged that Vyshhorod, located just north of the capital, had been hit. "As a result of the attack, a fire and partial destruction occurred in a high-rise building: flames engulfed apartments from the 1st to the 6th floors of a nine-story building," the State Emergency Service (DSNS) initially reported. Private houses were also burned and destroyed, and parked cars were damaged. Firefighters are working to…...

10+ hour ago (1350+ words) Cognitive warfare is about ideas and how they are injected into the public sphere. Moscow's efforts to undermine support for Ukraine penetrate academia as well as social media. Propaganda and disinformation are critical weapons in Russia's war against Ukraine. Moscow's strategies and tactics affect many who consider themselves impervious. Kyiv Post talks to Dr. Ernest Wyciszkiewicz, director of the Mieroszewski Centre, which recently examined how Russian narratives infiltrate academic discourse and shape public debate. Micha" Kujawski: To what extent is the statement "Polish officers died in Katyn" actually true? Where does it fall on the scale between truth and Russian propaganda? Ernest Wyciszkiewicz: It's tricky, because the statement itself is a fact " but the intention matters. It can be a shorthand used by someone who fully understands that the officers were murdered by the NKVD. But in another context, the…...

10+ hour, 26+ min ago (575+ words) Ukraine has sanctioned Rosneft, Lukoil and Russians involved in organizing drone attacks, expanding measures synchronized with the US. Ukraine has imposed new sanctions against Rosneft, Lukoil, and Russian individuals involved in organizing the systematic destruction of Ukrainians with drones, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced. "We are continuing our sanctions work - today there are two new decisions. Ukraine has synchronized sanctions with the US and introduced restrictions against Rosneft, its enterprises, as well as companies that are part of the Lukoil group," Zelensky said on Telegram. According to him, these sanctions are already depriving Russia's war machine of significant financial resources, and this pressure must continue. "Ukraine is also introducing sanctions against Russian killers who organize the systematic elimination of Ukrainians with drones," he added. Zelensky said he has also identified key priorities for sanctions policy through the end of the year:…...