Trump envoy leak shakes Washington, NATO signals $5B Ukraine aid boost - Wednesday brief
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The media have published leaked conversations between the US President’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov. Meanwhile, Ukraine and the IMF have agreed on a new lending program.
Read more about what happened on Wednesday, November 26.
Leaked calls: Trump envoy advises Kremlin on framing Ukraine peace proposal
American special envoy Steve Witkoff advised the Kremlin on how to present its peace proposal so that Donald Trump would accept it. The US president's reaction followed quickly, and criticism has already erupted in Congress.
What is in the Bloomberg leaks, and how are Trump and the participants of the transcript reacting to it - read in the RBC-Ukraine material.
Ukraine and IMF agree on new 4-year program: All details
Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund have reached a staff-level agreement on a new support program worth 8.2 billion dollars.
The IMF noted that the new four-year program still needs approval from the Fund's Executive Board. That could happen once Ukraine fulfills a set of prior actions and once sufficient financing assurances from donors are in place.
Ukraine to receive 5bn in PURL military aid by year-end, says NATO chief
Ukraine may receive up to 5 billion dollars in military aid under the PURL support program by the end of the year, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said.
According to him, Ukraine receives approximately 1 billion dollars' worth of weapons every month.
Skyscrapers ablaze, people trapped: Massive fire rages in Hong Kong, footage
On Wednesday, November 26, a massive fire broke out in a residential complex in Hong Kong. Thirteen people died, including a firefighter, BBC reports.
So far, 13 people have been reported dead as a result of a massive fire that engulfed several high-rise buildings in a residential complex in Hong Kong. In addition, 28 people were injured, six of whom were hospitalized in serious condition.
Russian attacks intensify near frontline town Huliaipole in southern Ukraine
Russian forces on the Huliaipole axis are intensifying combat operations, using thousands of drones and conducting dozens of assaults against the Ukrainian Armed Forces each day.
It is reported that in the past 24 hours alone, more than three dozen assaults were recorded, more than half a thousand artillery strikes using over 2,100 munitions, a dozen airstrikes, 250 drone drops, and nearly 2,000 kamikaze drone attacks.
