2026-01-27
11 分钟Good morning from The Financial Times.
Today is Tuesday, January 27th, and this is your FT News Briefing.
The U.S.
has controversial conditions for Ukrainian security guarantees, and the Yen took a leap yesterday.
Plus, Big Tech is going on a massive borrowing spree.
I'm Sonia Hudson, and here's the news you need to start your day.
The U.S.
is linking security guarantees for Ukraine to giving up territory to Russia.
The Trump administration has indicated to Kyiv that it would need to agree to a peace deal that involves ceding the eastern Donbas region.
That's according to eight people familiar with the talks.
The White House said, quote, this is totally false.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's office did not reply to a request for comment.
Ukrainian and European officials described the US stance as an attempt to strongarm Kiev into making painful territorial concessions.
Giving up the Donbass has been a red line for Zelensky and for a majority of Ukrainians,
according to polling earlier this month.
The dollar sank to a four-month low yesterday.
But the Japanese yen kept climbing and climbing.
It leaped up 1% to the dollar.
There's speculation that the U.S.
and Japan could be working together to support the yen.