Ukrainian soldiers going into a third winter of all-out war with Russia face a grimly familiar task alongside a new and urgent challenge: holding back a bigger and better-armed enemy while putting their country in the strongest possible position for the return of Donald Trump to the White House.

“Ukraine is committed to the NPT (the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons ); we do not possess, develop or intend to acquire nuclear weapons,” foreign ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said on X.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at a Mar-a-Lago event in Florida on Nov. 14 that his administration will focus on the Russia-Ukraine war.

Ukraine has many reasons to be concerned about a second Trump presidency. Trump has not said how he would end the war, or even under what conditions. In his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, in September,

President-elect Donald Trump has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin and urged him not to escalate the war in Ukraine, the Washington Post said Sunday.