direct land comparison
Witkoff, Kushner and Rubio shaking down Ukraine for Trump money is not new. Trump has been trying to mess with Ukraine since Manafort was pitching the same "Peace Deal" in 2016.
Here lies the answer to all "trade your land and people for the pause in the war" offers that are coming.
Ukraine won't surrender.
"3 times Trump has tried to bounce Ukraine into conceding to Russian demands... 3 times Europeans have scrambled to change his mind... how many more lessons do they need to conclude that the transatlantic relationship is over?"
WSJ's Nov 28 bombshell investigation revealing that the Trump admin has been meeting with Putin & advisors to enrich billionaire friends & family while putting off Ukraine. And Putin has used this avarice to keep the US at bay & prolong the war.
US-Ukrainian talks reportedly continued in Florida on December 1 ahead of US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on December 2 to present the US-Ukrainian peace proposal. US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Secretary Rustem Umerov reportedly held more meetings in Florida on December 1.[1] US President Donald Trump stated on November 30 that he does not have a deadline for a peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine.[2] US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated on November 30 that the US goal is to end the war while “help[ing] Ukraine be safe forever” and preventing another invasion.[3] Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitri Peskov stated that Witkoff will meet with Putin in Moscow on the afternoon of December 2.[4]
Russian forces conducted a series of drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of November 30 to December 1.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 89 Shahed-type, Gerbera-type, and other drones — of which roughly 55 were Shahed-type drones — from the directions of Kursk and Oryol cities; Millerovo, Rostov Oblast; Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar Krai; and occupied Cape Chauda, Crimea.[99] The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian forces downed 63 drones and that 26 drones struck nine locations. Ukrainian officials reported that Russian forces struck energy, industrial, civilian, religious, and residential infrastructure in Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, and Kharkiv oblasts.[100]
Russian forces continue to adapt their Shahed-type drones to act against Ukrainian counter-drone measures. Ukrainian electronic and radio warfare expert Serhiy “Flash” Beskrestnov reported on December 1 that Ukrainian forces downed a Russian Shahed drone equipped with an R-60 air-to-air missile for the first time.[101] Beskrestnov stated that Russian forces are using such modified drones in an attempt to destroy Ukrainian helicopters and tactical aircraft that hunt Shaheds. Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister for Innovation Lieutenant Colonel Yuriy Myronenko told Business Insider in an article published on November 27 that Russian forces recently started using operator-controlled Shahed drones, which communicate via antennas in occupied Ukraine, in strikes near the frontlines.[102] Myronenko stated that it is more challenging for Ukrainian forces to counter these Shaheds because Russian drone operators can quickly react and engage with Ukrainian fixed-wing aircraft or helicopters, which Ukrainian forces have been using to shoot down Russian drones.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed 9,707 air targets in November 2025.[103] The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian air defense forces downed 11 Kh-47 M2 Kinzhal ballistic missiles; 15 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles; 51 Kh-101 cruise missiles; 20 Kalibr cruise missiles; three Kh-59/69 cruise missiles; 19 Iskander-K cruise missiles; 2,939 Shahed-type drones; 361 reconnaissance drones; and 6,288 other drones.[104] The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian airstrikes destroyed about 400 Russian military assets in November 2025, including command posts, logistics facilities, and equipment and personnel concentrations.
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- US-Ukrainian talks reportedly continued in Florida on December 1 ahead of US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on December 2 to present the US-Ukrainian peace proposal.
- The Kremlin is setting conditions to refrain from publicly discussing the outcomes of the December 2 US-Russian meeting, possibly in order to obfuscate Russia’s likely rejection of the US-Ukrainian peace proposal.
- Prominent Russian milbloggers continue to undermine the Kremlin’s effort to portray a Russian victory in Ukraine as imminent or inevitable.
- Russian forces are not yet confirmed to have seized all of Pokrovsk despite operating within the town for over 120 days.
- Ukraine’s European allies continue to provide military aid and support to Ukraine’s growing defense industrial base (DIB).
- The Russian military continues implementing longstanding plans to form new Russian divisions as part of the Russian military’s transition back towards a force structure based on maneuver divisions, likely in preparation for a possible future war with NATO.
- Balloon incursions in NATO airspace continue to shut down Lithuanian airports.
- Russian forces recently advanced in the Hulyaipole direction.
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