Ukraine: Key events that shaped 2024 and will influence the conflict in 2025

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : The loss of Avdiivka, site of Ukraine's biggest (and now destroyed) producer of industrial coking coal, sapped the spirit of Ukrainian troops who had held it through eight years of low-level conflict and nearly two years of full-scale war, and sharpened debate in Ukraine over the human cost of the conflict and the strength of US support.
43% : South Korea suspects that, in return, impoverished and isolated Pyongyang is receiving air defence systems, oil and economic aid from Moscow - which would breach United Nations sanctions - and wants help with missile and satellite technology.
41% : Donald Trump has not explained how he intends to make good on his repeated pledge to end the war in 24 hours, but comments from his team - including his special envoy on the conflict, retired US Army general Keith Kellogg - give a few possible pointers.
39% : Officials in Kyiv and Washington said a six-month halt to US military aid to Ukraine, caused by Republican allies of Donald Trump blocking White House funding requests, played a significant role in the fall of Avdiivka and in Ukraine's struggle to hold other areas of the front line early this year as basic artillery ammunition dwindled away.
37% : [ Trump says Ukraine 'needs to reach deal' with RussiaOpens in new window ]Valery Zaluzhnyi was replaced in February as the country's top military commander, amid reports that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy baulked at his reported request for an additional 450,000-500,000 conscripts.
36% : The greatest danger for Ukraine is that Trump, who has expressed admiration for Putin and may be in a rush to clinch a deal, tries to force it to accept bad terms.

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