{"id":396032,"date":"2026-01-08T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/396032\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:01:09","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-allies-yet-to-provide-details-of-security-guarantee-zelenskyy-says-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/396032\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Allies yet to provide details of security guarantee, Zelenskyy says | Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he has received no \u201cunequivocal answer\u201d from European allies about how they would defend Ukraine if Russia attacked again after a peace deal was reached. On Tuesday, European leaders and US envoys announced they had agreed key security guarantees for Kyiv, including a European multinational force that would be deployed<\/a> if a ceasefire could be reached. But when asked if he was sure that European allies would step in and defend his country in the event of another Russian invasion, Zelenskyy said on Wednesday he had no \u201cclear\u201d answer on that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI personally very much want to get a very simple answer: yes, if there is aggression again, all partners will give a strong response to the Russians. And that\u2019s the exact question I put to all our partners. And so far I haven\u2019t received a clear, unequivocal answer,\u201d Zelenskyy said. He said there was \u201cpolitical will\u201d from Kyiv\u2019s allies to \u201cgive us strong security guarantees\u201d. \u201cBut until we have such security guarantees \u2013 legal ones, backed by parliaments, backed by the United States Congress \u2013 we cannot answer this question.\u201d<\/p>\n

UK prime minister Keir Starmer said British MPs will have the opportunity to vote on the final number of troops deployed to Ukraine should a peace deal be reached, Peter Walker reports<\/a>. Downing Street could not say, however, whether the Commons vote, which would take place before deployment, would tie the government\u2019s hands should MPs reject the prospect of British boots on the ground.<\/p>\n

British troops would \u201cconduct deterrent operations and to construct and protect military hubs\u201d, Starmer told parliament on Wednesday. \u201cThe number will be determined in accordance with our military plans, which we are drawing up and looking to other members to support. So the number I will put before the house before we were to deploy.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the session in the Commons, the Conservative MP Ben Obese-Jecty said that \u201cthe presence of boots on the ground in Ukraine was a red line for Putin, and I worry that this potentially might be a stick that he beats us with in order to push back on any peace deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russian strikes late on Wednesday knocked out power supplies almost entirely in two regions of south-eastern Ukraine, the energy ministry said. \u201cAs a result of the attack, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions are almost completely without electricity,\u201d the ministry said on Telegram. Ukraine\u2019s prime minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, said impending snowfalls and temperatures plunging overnight to minus 20C were likely to compound disruptions to power and heating.<\/p>\n

Russia attacked two seaports in Ukraine\u2019s Odesa region on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring eight others, Ukrainian officials said. Ukraine\u2019s seaport administration said the attacked ports were Chornomorsk and Pivdennyi, both key export arteries for Ukraine\u2019s commodity-heavy economy. \u201cThis is yet another attack by a terrorist country on port infrastructure that is involved in ensuring global food security,\u201d deputy prime minister, Oleksiy Kuleba, said.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s foreign currency reserves grew to a record high of $57.3bn at the start of January as the country continues to draw substantial flows of foreign support, the central bank said on Wednesday. Ukrainian military spending surged from around $7bn in 2021, the last year before the invasion, to a record of more than $70bn last year. The government depends heavily on financial aid to pay for humanitarian and social spending, as well as defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he has received no \u201cunequivocal answer\u201d from European allies about how they would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-396032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}