Peace summit fails but Zelensky says conflict could be ended ‘tomorrow’
World leaders gathered in Switzerland for a summit seeking peace in Russia’s war Ukraine have come away enpty-handed.
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Kremlin chief targets West while Ukraine rejects Putin’s ceasefire demands
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council and former president of Russia, called for the mass mobilisation of Russian society to inflict "maximum…
French President delays sending military instructors to Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron has delayed sending military instructors to Ukraine but announced further military aid.
Macron and Scholz greenlight Ukraine strikes on mainland Russia
Ukraine should be allowed to use donated Western weapons to “neutralise” mainland Russian military installations, French President Emmanuel Macron said.
Insufficient destruction is why no one wins wars anymore
“War is Hell”, William Tecumseh Sherman said in 1879, looking back on his years campaigning against the Confederacy during America’s Civil War.
France ‘to send military instructors to Ukraine’
Ukraine's top armed forces commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, says he had signed paperwork with France's defence ministry allowing French military instructors to visit…
The seven deadly contradictions of the Ukraine war
We owe one of the most insightful observations about human reasoning to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Zelensky cancels visit to Spain as Russia attacks from the Northeast
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Zelensky has cancelled his visit to Madrid, scheduled for Friday, May 17, according to sources within the Spanish Royal House.
Freight train derails in Russia due to ‘interference’, officials say
Freight train cars derailed and a storage tank containing diesel fuel caught fire in the southern Russian region of Volgograd due to "outside interference," Russian…
‘Lithuania has parliamentary permission to send soldiers to Ukraine,’ says PM
Šimonytė is one of a small but growing number of European leaders to give cautious support to French President Emmanuel Macron's suggestion that Europe could send…
Russia intensifies Ukraine energy infrastructure strikes
Russian missiles and drones struck nearly a dozen Ukrainian critical infrastructure facilities in a major airstrike early on May 7, causing serious damage at three…
French and British Ambassadors summoned in Moscow
The Russian foreign ministry headed by Sergei Lavrov summoned the British and French Ambassadors in Moscow over the ongoing Ukraine conflict on May 6.
Russia ‘preparing covert bombings, arson, and infrastructure attacks in Europe’
Moscow has targeted Europe for years, but until now, has mainly limited itself to cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns
Russians flaunt captured Western military equipment
In the Russian capital, people are being treated to a show of the spoils of war.
Russians who fled abroad return in boost for Putin’s war economy
As many as a million Russians fled abroad in the first year of the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Poland and Lithuania ‘risk breaking EU law if they repatriate Ukrainian men’
Ukrainians relying on the EU's Temporary Protection Directive "have a right to access accommodation, benefits, medical care, education and employment in Poland,…
Kyiv says passports to be issued exclusively in Ukraine for military-age men
The Ukrainian government, further tightening regulations on mobilisation, has approved rules under which passports for military-age men can be issued only inside…
The West cannot afford defeat in Ukraine: Kyiv is fighting an imperialist Russian ideology that must be seen to have lost for Europe to return to peace
Four years before he became president in 1981, Ronald Reagan announced his Cold War policy: “We win, they lose.
Russia has no future and China will seize this opportunity: It may not look like it now, but the two powers are destined for future conflict
The current policy of Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to be a demonstration of strength, but in reality, it is a symptom of Russian weakness.
Polish foreign minister says NATO can outlast Russia in Ukraine war
Polish foreign minister Radosław Sikorski, speaking after a meeting of NATO foreign ministers, had a clear message for Russia: “As the North Atlantic Alliance,…
French and Russians feud after ministers’ phone conversation
French and Russian officials are slinging accusations at one another in the wake of a high-profile phone call between both countries' defence ministers.
Russia ‘could attack NATO troops in Ukraine without triggering wider war’: German parliament report
In an unpublished analysis widely reported by the German media, researchers claim there is no legal issue if an individual NATO country, such as France, decides…
Ukraine switches off power exports as Russian attacks hit home
Amid a continued Russian bombardment on Ukraine's energy infrastructure that has seen its top power producer DTEK lose 50 per cent of its capacity, Kyiv sharply…
Poland says Russian missile enters its airspace as Kremlin targets Ukraine
Russia violated Poland's airspace with a cruise missile launched at targets in western Ukraine, Poland's armed forces said. "On March 24 at 4:23am (03.
EU leaders blast Russia after Kremlin declares ‘state of war’
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov justified what is a change of rhetoric by saying that Western support of Ukraine had morphed his country's so-called "special military…
Russian oil terminals ‘legitimate targets’, Kyiv insists
Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration, said Russian oil refineries were legitimate targets for its forces.
US wants Ukraine to stop hitting Russian oil refineries
The US has urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, warning that drone strikes risk provoking retaliation and driving up global…
The West’s limits: We should back Ukraine to the hilt with money and weapons, but – no Macron – this is not an existential war for Europe
The collective flight of reason triggered by Emmanuel Macron’s bombshell suggestion last month about a possible Western military intervention in Ukraine is only…
No more stupid wars: The West must not allow itself to be dragged further into the Russia-Ukraine war
It would stupid for the West to get further dragged into the Russian-Ukraine war.
Germany, France and Poland unite to use frozen Russian assets for Ukrainian weapons
French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk have resolved their differences in approach to the Russian…