Russian forces closed in on the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk on Thursday, as fears mount that near-constant shelling will reduce it to rubble like the fallen port of Mariupol. The … Read More
Sirens wailed, people’s faces were censored — but it isn’t Ukraine. It’s the Cannes Film Festival. Members of the production team for “Butterly Vision,” by Ukrainian director Maksym Nakonechni, protested … Read More
EU sanctions should hurt Russia more than they hurt European citizens, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has warned. “Your foreign policy can only survive if your middle class is still … Read More
The yachts and lavish houses of Russian oligarchs that have been seized under EU sanctions could be confiscated to finance Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction, the European Commission has proposed in a … Read More
Spurred by Russia’s aggression on Ukraine, Sweden and Finland have both formally requested to join NATO and if accepted would leave to just four the number of European Union member … Read More
A Russian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from opposition leader Alexei Navalny against a nine-year prison sentence he is serving for large-scale fraud and contempt of court, charges which he denies. Navalny, by far Russia’s most prominent opposition figure, was handed … Read More
A deal on a stalled proposal to introduce an EU-wide ban on Russian oil imports could be reached “in a matter of weeks,” said European Commission President Ursula von der … Read More
After witnessing first hand the outbreak of Russia’s war in Ukraine, I travelled back to Kyiv a few weeks later to find a very different atmosphere. Life in the capital was … Read More
WASHINGTON — FBI agents probing since-debunked claims of a secret back channel between Donald Trump and a Russian bank believed that the allegations had originated with the Department of Justice … Read More
President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Monday that Ukraine suffered its worst military loss from a single attack when a Russian missile strike on a barracks killed 87 soldiers. “Today we completed … Read More
