New Delhi, Dec. 4 -- NATO's €149B Arms Flood Backfires: Putin Rejects Endless Proxy Funding as Pokrovsk Falls & Black Sea Burns on Day 1378.

The diplomatic hopes for ending the Russia Ukraine conflict dimmed significantly on December 3, 2025, as high-stakes negotiations in Moscow between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump's special envoys concluded without any substantive progress. The five-hour marathon meeting involving Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner ended with the Kremlin rejecting key terms of a proposed peace framework, even as Russian forces intensified their special military operations across Ukrainian territory on the 1378th day of the war.

The failed diplomatic overture came against a backdrop...