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💥Putin is panicking over Trump's words! Zelenskyy responded about Tomahawks. Collapse in Russia - War & Politics 24
The Washington meeting wasn’t a breakthrough. The talks focused on long-range Tomahawk missiles and Trump’s planned meeting with Vladimir Putin in Hungary. Formally, the visit had two main goals: arms supplies and energy security.
Europe needs to grow up in this war - that’s how German Chancellor Friedrich Merz put it. He commented on Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to the White House, saying the meeting “did not go as the Ukrainian president had hoped.”
A months-long campaign of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil refineries is now causing severe fuel shortages and record price hikes across Russia, according to the latest assessment from the Institute for the Study of War. TV Host Nataliia Lutsenko will share the latest news surrounding the war in Ukraine. - 10/19/2025.