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Europe Fills U.S. Aid Loss to Ukraine

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As U.S. aid falls 99%, the Continent steps up to provide weapons.  By The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal , Feb. 17, 2026 5:54 pm ET; see also Denmark's Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen announcing that Sweden and Denmark are joining forces to buy air defence for Ukraine, in Gothenburg, Sweden on Feb. 3 .   BJORN LARSSON ROSVALL/TT/TT NEWS AGENCY/REUTERS As the Trump Administration has stopped providing weapons to Ukraine, how is Kyiv surviving against Russia? One answer is its own ingenuity in building drones and missiles. But Western Europe has also stepped up, as a new report from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy documents. The German think tank found that American aid for Ukraine plummeted 99% in 2025. Yet in the last year Europe has “sharply” increased its overall support to “offset much of the reduction in US allocations,” Kiel says. European military aid increased 67% in 2025 compared to the average between 2022 and 2024.  The Trump Administr...
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Second Day of Talks on Russia-Ukraine War Ends After Only 2 Hours

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The discussions in Geneva were expected to focus on territorial issues, a major sticking point, but the short duration suggests major progress was not made.  Russia’s lead negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, in Geneva on Tuesday. Credit... Harold Cunningham/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By  Constant Méheut Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine The New York Times , Feb. 18, 2026 Updated  10:39 a.m. ET; see also and also ; as well as Ukrainian and Russian officials wrapped up a new round of U.S.-mediated peace talks on Wednesday after a second day of discussions that lasted just two hours, a brief session that suggested little progress and underscored that a deal to end the war remains elusive. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, who was not present at the talks, told reporters on social media that “the negotiations were not easy.” He noted that while the two sides had essentially reached an agreement on technical issues, such as how to monitor a cease-fire, they remained far...
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Trump Said He’d End the War in a Day, but It’s Worsened for Ukrainians

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Russian attacks and Ukrainian civilian deaths rose as President Trump’s peace talks dragged on during his first year back in the White House. An apartment building that a Russian missile struck in Kyiv, Ukraine, in August. Moscow’s attacks have inflicted a growing toll on Ukrainians. Credit... Finbarr O'Reilly for The New York Times By  Kim Barker  and  Oleksandra Mykolyshyn The New York Times , Feb. 17, 2026 President Trump repeatedly promised during his campaign that he would end the war in Ukraine in one day. But by most measures, the war has grown worse for Ukrainians since Mr. Trump returned to the White House, not better. More civilians were  killed  and injured in 2025 than in the previous year. More missiles and drones are hitting city centers. Russia captured more territory in its  slow-moving   advances  in 2025 than in any year since 2022, when it launched its full-scale invasion. Moscow has practically  destroyed  Ukraine’s...
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