The former MI6 boss and the Rusi boss discuss Russia, Trump and the future of the West -how we can observe our panel
Select your calendar for 8 a.m. on April 4, when The Independent starts the conversation, a new series in which our best journalists come together with leading experts worldwide to disassemble the biggest problems that shape our times.
In the Premier episode, the World Affairs editor Sam Kiley by Alex Younger, the former head of the MI6, the British secret service, and the leading security strategist Rachel Ellehuus, the General Director of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and the former Pentagon official with experts in NATO and transatlantic defense, accompanied.
Together they will unpack the rapidly changing global security landscape in a discussion entitled Change Alliances.
Alexander ButlerMarch 29, 2025 6:00 p.m.
Trump's new mineral contract is forcing Ukraine to choose between the US colony in US or Russian colony
A new Donald Trump deal that was offered to Ukraine in return for the continued support of the United States, but does not force security guarantees to choose between life as a US economic colony or the Russian occupation in view of the invasion of Russia, writes Sam Kiley, the worldwide provider of World Affairs of Independent.
The latest version of the much -mutated mineral contract from the White House, which was submitted in Kyiv, continues than ever to get Ukraine reporting to the support of the United States in the war and four percent.
In addition, according to Delaware Law, the USA controls most of the industrial production of Ukraine and a large part of its transport and communication system.
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Alexander ButlerMarch 29, 2025 5:00 p.m.
Russia is preparing for a new military offensive, says Kyiv
Moscow prepares a new military offensive along the 621-mile front to strengthen the hand of the Kremlin in ceasefire talks, said Kyiv official.
According to analysts, the offenses will be aimed at the northeastern regions northeast Sumy, Kharkiv- and Zaporizizhia regions.
“They pull out the conversations and try to put the USA in endless and senseless discussions about fake 'conditions' just to buy time and then try to grab more land,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Alexander ButlerMarch 29, 2025 4:00 p.m.
Zelensky says Putin has nothing to say during peace talks
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Vladimir Putin would have nothing to say during peace talks.
Zelensky said yesterday in Paris and said that Vladimir Putin was “not ready for direct conversations”.
“I have never been afraid, it's just Putin Will War – what can a man who wants to say war at peace talks?” he said.
Alexander ButlerMarch 29, 2025 3:30 p.m.
Putin 'mocked global peace efforts', warns Zelensky
Vladimir Putin mocks the global efforts of peace, warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Mr. Zelensky said the Russian leader had pulled out the war and “committed terrorist acts”, although the US efforts to convey a ceasefire to convey.
After Kyiv claimed that Russia had started 170 drones overnight – over half of them Iranian – in Ukrainian cities.
Four people were killed and at least 19 others were injured in a drone attack on Dnipro in the southeast of Ukraine in the flood.
“Diplomacy can work, but only if they are supported by actions that strengthen our warriors and withdraw the occupiers of the resources,” said Zelensky.
“Our partners know what can help, what kind of pressure, and it depends on America, Europe, on everyone in the world who want effective diplomacy.”
Alexander ButlerMarch 29, 2025 14:27
The Ukraine beats Russian energy network, Moscow
Thousands of Russians were left without power after the Ukraine attacked the Russia's energy network, the Kremlin claimed.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that Kyiv's troops had attacked Russian energy facilities last day, even though one American moratorium was hit over the other of the other.
The Ministry said that Ukraine had attacked power grilles in the Belgorodic region several times and left around 9,000 inhabitants without a power supply.
On Thursday, Kyiv Russia accused the energy infrastructure in the city of Kherson on March 27 and violated the conditions of the US ceasefire.
Russia and Ukraine announced a partial ceasefire for strikes against energy devices after technical consultations with the USA in Riad at the beginning of this week.
Alexander ButlerMarch 29, 2025 14:06
How it really is to stand on Putin's kill list
Christo Grozev won international praise as an investigative journalist who unveiled the perpetrators involved in the poisoning of Alexei Navalny and Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury.
Then the Kremlin started to look at him.
The documentary filmmaker James Jones has revealed the full horror for how it feels.
How it really is to stand on Putin's kill list
Christo Grozev won international praise as an investigative journalist who unveiled the perpetrators involved in Alexei Navalny and Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury. And then the Kremlin started to concentrate on him, explains James Jones, whose new documentary
Alexander ButlerMarch 29, 2025 1:30 p.m.
The 'coalition of the willing' summit in Paris proved that the United States and Europe are an ocean apart
Alexander ButlerMarch 29, 2025 1:00 p.m.
Editorial: Under Trump, 80 years of collective security were dismantled in so many days
Alexander ButlerMarch 29, 2025 12:30 p.m.
