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The accusation is no longer coming from Kyiv: Bill Clinton says Trump has abandoned Ukraine for Putin. “I’m tired of the way we treat our allies like dirt,” the former U.S. president said, accusing Trump of finally doing what Clinton says he had threatened for years: abandoning Ukraine and embracing Vladimir Putin again. The warning lands harder because it is coming from someone who once sat in the same office. Trump has waived new sanctions on Russia, moved to import Russian diesel, pressured Ukraine over the war and entertained talks with Putin and Xi that could exclude Zelenskyy. For Ukrainians, the frightening part is not that Moscow wants America to walk away. It is hearing a former American president accuse the current one of doing exactly that. Russia has spent years trying to fracture the coalition behind Ukraine. Clinton’s warning is that the fracture may now be coming from inside Washington.

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As Washington opens the door to Russian diesel, Europe is moving to squeeze the system that produces and ships it. The EU is proposing 31 new sanctions listings focused on Russia’s oil processing, refining and export capacity, stretching from St. Petersburg to Sakhalin. They are part of a wider draft package of 117 new listings targeting energy, finance, the shadow fleet and sanctions evasion. The contrast is hard to miss. Trump is easing the path for Russian diesel while Europe is preparing to tighten the screws on the infrastructure and companies behind Russia’s energy revenues. Same war. Two very different directions. Thank you, Europe!

Putin has finally found a comforting explanation for Russia’s war: apparently, it has spent four years losing to itself. He is again insisting that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people.” Convenient. When the “three-day war” turns into years, Kyiv still stands and the army sent to conquer Ukraine keeps paying for every kilometer, “one people” sounds much nicer than admitting Ukrainians chose to fight Russia and refused to be conquered. Moscow wanted to erase Ukraine. Ukraine answered by making the invasion fail.

This is what Russian “humanitarianism” looks like in Ukraine. Russian troops throw explosives into the homes of ordinary civilians. Not military bases. Not command posts. Homes. Yesterday, Steve Witkoff looked Vladimir Putin in the eye and called him a “humanitarian.” Show him this. Because while Washington praises the man who started this war, Ukrainians are still living with what his army does behind the word “humanitarian.”

Give Putin something, Zelenskyy warns, and he will come back for everything. “I oppose any weakening of sanctions. I have always said this to our European partners, and I have said it directly to the U.S. administration.” For Ukrainians, this is not about punishment for its own sake. Sanctions are leverage against a Kremlin that has repeatedly treated concessions not as an endpoint, but as room for the next demand. “If you give Putin something, he will want everything.” That is the danger of easing pressure while Russia is still waging its war: every concession risks teaching Moscow that aggression works.

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Russia just suffered its worst personnel-loss day of the full-scale war. Ukraine’s General Staff says Russian forces suffered a record 2,250 personnel losses in a single day on October 21, breaking the previous daily record of 2,200 set in December 2024. Three of Russia’s five heaviest personnel-loss days have now come in just the past month. That is what battlefield attrition looks like when it hits at record scale.

When a U.S. senator has to send Trump’s envoy a dictionary definition of “humanitarian,” diplomacy has officially become parody. Republican Senator Thom Tillis did exactly that after Steve Witkoff praised Vladimir Putin as a “humanitarian.” “WTF, Steve?” Tillis wrote, telling him to look up the word and ask the families of Ukrainian children Putin has kidnapped and murdered whether they agree. That is the obscenity of this moment. While Russia keeps killing Ukrainians, Washington’s envoy is complimenting the man responsible, and another American politician has to explain what basic human decency means. Some words should not need a dictionary. “Humanitarian” is one of them.

A Russian attack destroyed a dance studio in Kyiv that had opened six years ago. The owner shared what the studio looked like before the attack and what remains of it afterward.

Trying to figure out how Russia captured the White House faster than the Donbas. The tanks stalled in Ukraine. The talking points made it to Washington. Apparently, propaganda travels faster than armor. Ukraine is still fighting for its land while Moscow’s version of the war gets a much smoother ride in Washington.

A training flight just left Russia one Su-30SM lighter. The fighter crashed in Kaliningrad region. The crew ejected and survived. Su-30SMs are among the aircraft Russia has used to hunt Ukrainian air-defense radars with anti-radiation missiles. This time, no Ukrainian interceptor was needed. The aircraft took itself out of the equation.

On the same day Russian strikes killed four Ukrainians, Trump’s envoy called Putin a humanitarian. Steve Witkoff thanked Putin for releasing an American detainee, then told him: “You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that.” That word lands differently in Ukraine. This is the president who launched the full-scale invasion. His forces are still striking homes, energy infrastructure and Ukrainian cities. People are still dying. Diplomacy may require talking to Putin. It does not require rewriting what he has done. Calling the man prosecuting this war a “humanitarian” while Ukrainians are being carried from the rubble is not peacemaking. It is a grotesque inversion of reality.