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01 Dec 2025 | US, Russia and Ukraine: Ceding Territory and Security Guarantees Dominate Negotiations
Description: Ukrainian President, Volodymir Zelenskyy, arrived in Paris where he met French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss the latest diplomatic developments regarding the 28 – point peace plan proposed by the US for ending the war in Ukraine. Previously, the newly appointed lead negotiator for Ukraine, Rustem Umerov, who is also the Secretary of Ukraine’s Security Council, reported that talks with US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio in Florida went extremely productive and substantial progress has been made over the weekend. Ukraine and Russia exchanged attacks over the weekend and on Monday, where Russian drones attacked the city of Dnipro, while Ukrainian underwater
Description: US President Donald Trump, confirmed that he talked over the phone with Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro but refused to disclose or characterize the subject of the conversation. Several media sources have reported that Trump issued an ultimatum to Maduro to abandon the presidency in exchange for amnesty and retraction of his persecution by the US. Maduro reportedly refused the ultimatum and reiterated offers made in previous backchannel conversations which have allegedly included closer economic cooperation and permitted excavation of Venezuela’s natural resources such as rare earth minerals and oil. Trump later assembled a meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff at th
Description: One of Haiti’s most dangerous gangs, the Gran Grif gang, has launched a large – scale operation in the central Artibonite region in the country, consolidating its presence and territorial control. Civilians in the region have fled in large numbers towards the coastal city of Saint Marc, fearing for their safety and blaming the government for focusing the security forces in the country’s capital, Port au Prince, where the Viv Ansanm gang controls most of the territory. The peacekeeping mission led by Kenya, alongside the recently approved initiative submitted by the US and Panama before the UN is yet to deliver any results as issues have emerged with countries w
Description: The Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) claimed they have captured the city of Babanusa, a key transportation and logistics junction in the West Kordofan province. The announcement was contested by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) which stated that the RSF has intensively shelled the city and launched incursive ground operations, however, the control over the city still pertained to the SAF. The announcement arrives after the RSF’s leader announced on 25 Nov that the paramilitary forces would enter a three – month unilateral humanitarian ceasefire in order to enable diplomatic peace efforts proposed by the US, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt to take shape. RSF fu
Description: Extreme weather conditions have flooded large swathes of territory across countries in Southeastern Asia claiming the lives of more than 1 thousand people with thousands of people still missing. In Indonesia, floods have caused massive disruptions in public services, destroyed homes and public infrastructure and strained the disaster prevention mechanisms. The provinces of Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra were heavily affected by the floods as Indonesia’s Home Affairs Minister stated that the military would be dispatched to support the emergency services in assisting the evacuation and repairing the damage. Sri Lanka has declared a state of emergency with th
Description: Ukraine and Russia exchanged attacks on critical infrastructure, with Ukraine targeting two vessels pertaining to Russia’s shadow fleet, docked in a Turkish port on the Black Sea, while Russia launched drones and ballistic missiles striking critical energy supply infrastructure in Kyiv, leaving more than 600 thousand residents without electricity. The exchange of attacks arrives in the midst of renewed peace initiative proposed by the US, under President Trump’s 28 – point peace plan and amid growing political crisis in Ukraine. Zelenskyy’s Chief of Staff, Andriy Yermak, submitted his resignation after Ukraine’s anti - corruption services raided his home over s
Description: The presidential election in Honduras delivered highly contested preliminary results with two conservative candidates still bidding to become the country’s next president. Nasry Asfura, from the National Party held a slight lead ahead of Salvador Nasralla, from the conservative Liberal Party. Asfura was overtly endorsed by US President Trump who publicly supported his candidacy for president and stated that Asfura would enable the US and Honduras to closely cooperate in countering illegal drug trafficking in the Caribbean. Trump also criticized the other two candidates by stating that they would put Honduras on the same path as Venezuela and if elected, the US w
Description: US President Donald Trump has indicated that the US naval and military forces dispatched in the Caribbean could resort towards operations that include ground interventions in Venezuela and designated the so – called Cartel de los Soles (Cartel of the Suns) a foreign terrorist organization. The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) also announced that the Venezuelan airspace would be closed off for international aviation companies due to security risks stemming from the active and fragile situation in the country. Venezuela’s President, Nicolas Maduro, strongly condemned the announcements stating that they bordered neocolonialistic tendencies and military interve
Description: Israeli soldiers were reported to have conducted ground raids in the village of Beit Jinn in southern Syria. Spokespeople for the Israeli Ministry of Defense claimed that IDF soldiers came under fire from the village and were forced to intervene further stating that members of the Lebanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood operated in the village. The raids were complemented by airstrikes and resulted in the deaths of at least 13 people, while 6 Israeli soldiers were wounded. The Syrian Foreign Ministry labeled the attack a war crime and reiterated previous statements that Syria didn’t represent a security threat to Israel. Additional statements from the Israeli
Description: Former President of Guinea Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, fled the country initially to neighboring Senegal and then to the Republic of the Congo, where his chief of staff confirmed his whereabouts. Embalo fled the country days after the military conducted a successful coup attempt, ousting the President due to his connections with drug barons in the country. General Horta N’Tam was appointed as the country’s interim leader, after the administration prohibited public gatherings, protests and elections. The coup was the ninth in the country since gaining its independence from Portugal in 1974 in a period where the Guinea Bissau is considered to be a narco – state