The bottom line While Russia has made slight progress in the Donbas, the line of control has hardly budged and the Kremlin’s campaign has largely stalled. The Ukrainian counteroffensive near Kharkiv remains strong, with Russian forces being pushed back toward the Russian border.

As Russian President Vladimir Putin confronts a series of humiliating battlefield setbacks since his February 24 invasion of Ukraine, and amid an increased flow of Western arms into the country, the risk of escalation remains all too real. So we asked some of our top experts to answer three burning …

Germany is considering supplying IRIS-T SLM medium range surface-to-air defence systems to Ukraine, a security source said on Friday. German daily Bild had reported earlier that the German cabinet’s security council was discussing the matter, and that IRIS-T SLM systems, made by privately held German weapons maker Diehl Defense, could …

Foreign ministers from the G7 group of rich nations backed giving more aid and weapons to Ukraine as they met on Friday in what Germany called a “powerful sign of unity” to deepen Russia’s global isolation for invading its neighbour. The European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell announced a …

Firefighters battled blazes in Odesa until early hours on Tuesday after Russian missiles pounded the Ukrainian port on the day President Vladimir Putin led celebrations in Moscow marking Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War. In a defiant Victory Day speech on Monday, Putin exhorted Russians to …

If NATO blood would in fact be spilt should Russia invade Poland or the Baltic states, why have we utterly rejected the prospect of spilling it to help protect Ukraine from Putin’s mass killings, torture, rape and destruction? Ukraine is not a NATO member and NATO states have no treaty …

Dôležitejšie ako to, čo Zelenskyj povedal, bolo to, kto ho nepočúval. 2. Čo Zelenskyj odkázal Slovensku. 3. V koalícii je o čosi menšie dusno. Dôležitejšie ako to, čo Zelenskyj povedal, bolo to, kto ho nepočúval V utorok mal pred Národnou radou prejav Volodymyr Zelenskyj. Zopakoval sa pohľad známy už z …

Nagyon sokszor hangzott el a szólam, hogy az Orbán-kormány Európában elszigetelődött. Foghatjuk a hasunkat, és lehet ezen egy nagyot nevetni. Az Európai Bizottság elnöke Magyarországra jött, és arról próbálta győzködni a miniszterelnököt, hogy lőjük lábon magunkat és az egész kontinenst. Mi történne akkor, ha egy csepp olajat és egyetlen köbméter …

Recently, the central government of China has issued a new policy on the “Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Accelerating the Construction of a Large Unified National Market (hereafter referred to as ‘Opinions’)”. The Opinions propose to speed up the …

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has reaffirmed Russia’s strategic interest to make coordinated efforts aim at building logistics hub along the coastline of the Republic of Eritrea during diplomatic talks attended by Foreign Minister of the State of Eritrea Osman Saleh who, on April 27, paid a working visit to Moscow. …