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Prime Minister Keir Starmer outlined the UK's position on Ukraine in the Daily Telegraph: • On defence spending, he wrote: "Europe must step up further to meet the demands of its own security... we have talked about it for too long – and President Trump is right to demand that we get on with it" • On putting British troops on the ground, he said the UK is "ready and willing to contribute to security guarantees to Ukraine by putting our own troops on the ground if necessary" • On Ukraine joining Nato, he said it "may take time [but] we should continue to support Ukraine’s irreversible path to joining the alliance" • And Starmer concluded: "As I will say in Paris, peace comes through strength. But the reverse is also true. Weakness leads to war" --- bbc "I think he [Putin] wants to stop fighting," Trump told reporters after a flight on Air Force One last night. "I think he wants to end it, and they want to end it fast. Both of them," he said, adding, "Zelensky wants to end it too". Asked whether he believes Putin wants to seize all of Ukraine, Trump said: "That was my question to him. "If he's going to go on... that would have caused me a big problem."

Da, ima u tom upitniku i jos nekih zanimljivih pitanja, kao sta vam je potrebno od USA da bi mogli da uradite to, i da li ste spremni i sposobni da poostrite primenu sankcija Rusiji. Reuters je dobio taj upitnik i nasiroko su pisali o njemu.

Daleko smo od zadovoljstva i optimizma, ali verujem Poljacima kad je rec o ratu Ukrajne i Rusije. Ako Poljski ministar kaze da mu je sastanak sa Kelloggom 'raise some hopes', meni je dovoljno da gajim neku, makar tanku, nadu.

@Beonegro Utorak izgleda, u Parizu https://www.bbc.com/news/live/crr0gngkjrvt Edit, prvo je bilo kao za utorak, ali izgleda da su ga prebacili za sutra, zbog hitnosti. I malo jedan optimisticniji pogled: Poland's foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, has said the US has shared with him their plans for Ukraine, describing the tactics as "unorthodox". Sikorski revealed that US envoy to Russia and Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, came up to him personally. "General Kellogg has presented to me personally and to the circle of European allies, the United States' negotiating tactics." Sikorski did not share any further details with reporters saying: "I will not reveal them here. They raise some hopes. They are unorthodox, but we wish them luck."

I UK ce biti na tom sastanku, izgleda da oni preuzimaju od USA vodecu ulogu u pomoci Ukrajni.

bbc The UK military is "so run down" it could not lead a future peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, the former head of the army has said. Lord Dannatt told the BBC that up to 40,000 UK troops would be needed for such a mission and "we just haven't got that number available". It comes after Sir Keir Starmer said the UK would "play its part" in guaranteeing Ukraine's security after the prime minister was asked this week if he was open to sending British troops as peacekeepers. A former Nato chief told the BBC that Britain and France should lead a force of up to 100,000 troops as part of a long-term peacekeeping effort should Russia's war with Ukraine end. Lord Dannatt - who was head of the Army from 2006 to 2009 - agreed that a force to keep the peace would require about 100,000 troops. However he said the UK would have to supply "quite a proportion of that and we really couldn't do it". "Our military is so run down at the present moment, numerically and as far as capability and equipment is concerned, it would potentially be quite embarrassing," he told BBC Radio 4's The Week in Westminster. "I mean, if we were to deploy 10,000 troops, each rotation for six months, that would effectively tie up 30,000 or 40,000 troops and we just haven't got that number available. "So there are some big issues here that today's politicians won't really have considered." It comes as Britain's foreign and defence secretaries called on the UK and Europe to "do more" to "share the burden" of regional security in a joint article for the Daily Telegraph on Saturday.

Dok Vance 'drzi lekcije o slobodi govora' cnn The Trump White House said Friday that The Associated Press is banned from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely.

Iskustva iz WW1 i WW2 su i dovela do saveznistava koja su drzala mnoge sukobe po svetu vrlo izolovano, bezmalo ceo vek. Sta ce biti dalje, mozemo da naslucujemo. A ja sumnjam da Trumpovo rasturanje saveznistva moze da donese bilo sta dobro.

Moglo bi tako da se gleda, ako je cilj da se vracamo u davnu istoriju i ako iz nije nismo nista naucili. Onda je u redu da je ponavljamo. Saveznistva nastala prvenstveno posle WW2, i to na kostima miliona mrtvih bi trebalo da znace vise, i do izbora Trumpa prakticno nije bilo drugacijih, a ozbiljnih, ideja. Mada koliko je ponasanje Trumpa ozbiljno, najbolje govorio to sto hoce da se pridruzi Xiju i Putinu, da ga ovi tretiraju kao svoju kucku koja ce da laje na svet koji jos drzi do ljudskih prava i sloboda. A on ce da im (ako ga prime u drustvo) predlozi da smanje vojni budzet na pola, dok njegov sef Pentagona obilazi Evropu i ganja tamosnje vlade da dupliraju sopstvena izdavanja za vojsku.

To sto se u skladu sa trenutnim potrebama menja, to nikako nije saveznistvo. To je kratkorocan interes i nista vise od toga. Da ne kazem trange-frange, ti meni, ja tebi. Saveznik je neko s kim delis zajednicku proslost, ideale, svetonazore, sa kim mozes da planiras i delis zajednicku viziju buducnosti.

Drage bolje cu da ti navedem taj argument, ako on nije vec sasvim vidljiv, ali mi i dalje nisi nista rekao o tom dugorocnom interesu, a pitam te vec kroz 4-5 post. Ako ne zelis da mi kazes, kazi tako - necu da ti kazem (celavi ), pa da idemo dalje. --- cnn Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a Russian drone struck the destroyed nuclear power plant at Chernobyl on Thursday night. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service later said that the radiation background limits remain within normal limits. “A Russian attack drone with a high-explosive warhead struck the shelter protecting the world from radiation at the destroyed 4th power unit” at the plant, Zelensky said on X. The concrete shelter that covers the unit was damaged, Zelensky added, and a fire was extinguished. “Radiation levels have not increased and are being constantly monitored. According to initial assessments, the damage to the shelter is significant,” Zelensky said. Altogether, on Thursday night, the Ukrainian military reported that Russia launched 133 drones at Ukraine, 73 of which were shot down and 58 of which did not reach their target. The numbers are broadly in line with the recent average of drone attacks. The military said drones were shot down in 11 regions, covering much of the country.

Naravno da se slazem sa ovim sto si napisao, ali i dalje mi nisi rekao sta je to taj dugorocni interes zbog kog USA zrtvuje Ukrajnu (i ne samo Ukrajnu). Meni to uopste nije jasno. Vise mi izgleda da se zbog kratkorocnog interesa i sitnog profita zrtvuje nesto mnogo vece i znacajnije i dugorocnije, i to sa nesagledivim posledicama, upravo dugorocno.

@Kronostime da, da, razumem to, ali sam te pitao o tome sta ti mislis da je dugorocan interes. Ove potrosacke kategorije koje navodis su kratkorocna stvar, danas ovako, sutra onako, cene diktira trziste. Sta je dugorocni interes o kome si pisao?

A sta je, po tebi, dugorocni interes, zbog kog USA zrtvuje Ukrajnu?

cnn Vice President JD Vance warned on Thursday that the United States could send troops to Ukraine and hit Russia with further sanctions if Vladimir Putin doesn’t negotiate a peace deal in good faith. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Vance said the option of sending US troops to Ukraine was “on the table,” as well as economic punishment if a peace deal doesn’t guarantee Kyiv’s long-term independence. “There are economic tools of leverage, there are of course military tools of leverage” Vance told the newspaper. His comments strike a markedly different tone from other recent statements from the White House – including from US President Donald Trump who suggested this week that Ukraine “may be Russian someday,” shortly before announcing that peace negotiations would begin immediately after holding a phone call with Putin.

Anketa BBC Valerii Pekar, a professor who teaches at two schools in Kyiv, says he knows hundreds of people who fought in the war and dozens of families who've lost a loved one. Ukrainians "feel cold anger" at Trump's plans, says Pekar, who has lived in Ukraine throughout the war. "People in Ukraine know that trying to appease evil leads to disaster. We have no choice; we want to survive, and we are sad that someone in the West does not understand this." He also says that if Trump makes concessions to Putin, it will be a "strategic mistake" and show "America's weakness". This war is for Ukraine's "right to exist", Pekar says, adding: "Surrender is not an option". ----- After a Nato meeting in Brussels, US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth said peace negotiations will involve elements neither Moscow nor Kyiv wants while Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte said Putin must not be able to "grab another square mile" of Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's statement on X, external warning world leaders about the "readiness" of Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war. "I spoke with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. We discussed the conditions needed for a lasting and real peace in Ukraine and agreed that no negotiations with Putin can begin without a united position from Ukraine, Europe, and the U.S. "I informed the Prime Minister about my conversation with President Trump, and we discussed key messages and the need to coordinate the positions of all Europeans to achieve successful outcomes for the whole of Europe. "I emphasized that Ukraine must negotiate from a position of strength, with strong and reliable security guarantees, and that NATO membership would be the most cost-effective for partners. Another key guarantee is serious investment in Ukraine’s defence industry. "I also warned world leaders against trusting Putin’s claims of readiness to end the war."

bbc UK Defence Secretary John Healey says there "can be no negotiation about Ukraine without Ukraine", after US President Donald Trump said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday agreed to start negotiations on ending the war Healey's US counterpart, Pete Hegseth, insists attempts to start negotiations are "certainly not a betrayal" of Ukrainian soldiers. One Ukrainian MP told the BBC they "will not give up on our territories", after Hegseth said it would be "unrealistic" for the country's borders to return to what it was like before Russia's 2014 invasion of Crimea. Nato membership for Ukraine is "not off the table", according to Sweden's defence minister. The US yesterday said this was not a "realistic outcome" of any negotiation. Meanwhile, Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte, says there is a need to "ramp up" the alliance's defence production, as it lags behind Russia. Hegseth also urged countries to rapidly increase their defence spending, something he says is "critical".

cnn Both Washington and Moscow, in their descriptions of the call, suggested the men assumed a conciliatory tone. “President Putin even used my very strong Campaign motto of, ‘COMMON SENSE.’ We both believe very strongly in it,” Trump wrote, suggesting the former KGB agent on the other end of the line had chosen his words carefully to appeal to the US leader. The Kremlin said Trump and Putin spoke for nearly 90 minutes. Trump had been signaling for weeks his desire to speak with Putin as he works to resolve the Ukraine conflict. As American officials travel in Europe this week, they have begun taking clearer positions on how the conclusion of the Ukraine war might look. Speaking to a conference in Brussels, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Kyiv joining NATO is unrealistic and that the US will no longer prioritize European and Ukrainian security as the Trump administration shifts its attention to securing US borders and deterring war with China. Meanwhile, Trump has spoken of striking a deal with Ukraine’s Zelensky for American access to the country’s valuable rare earth minerals as payment for continued American assistance. Trump spoke with Zelensky midday, shortly after getting off the phone with Putin. His predecessor, President Joe Biden, hadn’t spoken to his Russian counterpart in nearly three years, believing there was little to be gained in speaking to a leader he’d deemed a war criminal. The last US president to visit Russia was Barack Obama in 2013, when he attended a G20 summit. Putin last visited in the United States in 2015 to attend United Nations talks.

u medjuvremenu se pokrece mirovna prica bbc Donald Trump's phone calls with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russia's Vladimir Putin could spark the beginning of the end for the war in Ukraine. All three parties agreed that they want the grinding fighting to come to an end, but as the BBC's Ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse reports, the road to peace for Ukraine will not be smooth. cnn Putin invited Trump to Moscow, Kremlin says edit, pristizu vesti brzo

Rekoh ja jos prosle godine, dok se Ukrajni ne isporuci nuklearno naoruzanje - nema resenja za ovaj sukob.

Vidim gde se nismo razumeli. Sistem koji proizvodi laserski zrak i koji onesposobljava dronove ne kosta dva dollara, nego vise (desetina?) miliona. Sam laserski zrak koji proizvodi taj Sistem (u nedostatku boljeg termina) ne kosta ni dva dollara, tako makar kazu vojni strucnjaci.

A mozda radi samo na jeftinoj struji uostalom, probali su ga u onim dron napadima na Izrael, valjda su svesni sta i koliko kosta. Ako sam dobro razumeo, laser ne sece, niti unistava dron, nego mu samo sprzi su elektroniku, pa se ovaj samo srusi.

Meni ovde treba pojasnjenje. Kako je i kad SBB bio monopolista? Jedini monopolista na nasem trzistu je mts (ili Telekom, kako ga ko zove) koji uz pomoc drzavnih mehanizama preskace i zaobilazi trzisnu utakmicu. Inace je tajming za ovu 'transakciju' vrlo diskutabilan i meni bas ledi krv u zilama, sve i da nisam procitao onu izjavu sa Happyja. Bas me zanima koliko se dugo o ovome odlucivalo i koji su igraci sve bili za stolom. Za mene krajnje onespokojavajuc dogadjaj sa nepredvidivim posledicama.

Ja citao da je taj laserski zrak otprilike 1-1.5 eura, tako da vise hiljada puta jeftiniji od jeftinih dronova. Sistem, svakako, nije jeftin i nije u serijskoj proizvodnji.