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At the 18 Dec 2025 Brussels summit, EU leaders failed to secure unanimous backing for a loan to Kyiv that would be collateralised with the bloc’s €210 billion in frozen Russian central-bank reserves because Belgium demanded open-ended guarantees against legal and retaliatory risk.
On 16 Dec 2025 President Trump signed a proclamation that, effective 1 Jan 2026, slaps full entry bans on five additional countries and partial limits on fifteen others, nearly doubling the roster of nations facing U.S. travel restrictions.
During 14-16 Dec 2025 Berlin negotiations, the Trump administration for the first time offered Kyiv a congressionally-approved mutual-defence pledge, pushing a five-document peace package to "90 % complete" while territorial questions remain unresolved.
On 16 Dec 2025, President Trump directed U.S. forces to enforce a “total and complete blockade” on every U.S-sanctioned tanker entering or leaving Venezuela, one week after seizing a cargo ship off its coast.
On 15-16 Dec 2025 a Ukrainian ‘Sub Sea Baby’ unmanned underwater drone slipped past harbor defenses and detonated beside a moored Russian Project 636.3 submarine in Novorossiysk, the first documented combat strike by a UUV on a submarine; Russia insists the boat is unhurt.
On 15 Dec 2025, U.S. envoys and 11 European leaders gave Kyiv a draft peace package promising ‘Article-5-like’ guarantees—inc. a European-led force operating in-country and an 800,000-person Ukrainian army—while declaring 90 % consensus with Ukraine on ending the war.
Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will join Zelenskyy, Macron, Starmer, and Merz in Berlin this weekend to hammer out differences over Kyiv’s newly-revised peace blueprint.
Between 11-14 Dec 2025, President Zelenskyy handed Washington a revised 20-point plan that trades Ukraine’s constitutional bid for NATO membership for legally-binding US-led security guarantees ahead of face-to-face negotiations with Trump envoys in Berlin.
On 11 Dec 2025 Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal publicly offered to store—but not surrender—the group’s weapons, and within hours Israeli officials reiterated that Gaza’s 20-point US peace plan requires Hamas’ complete disarmament before the next phase can start.
On 15 Dec 2025, hours after 15 people were slain at Bondi Beach, PM Anthony Albanese secured state leaders’ agreement to draft nationwide limits on how many firearms a licence holder can keep and to bar non-citizens from holding gun licences.
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