Ukraine’s forces in recent days have made “notable progress” against Russian troops in the south of the country, a White House spokesman said on September 1 as Ukrainian officials reported Russian missile strikes overnight. White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters that the United States had seen progress …

Georgia’s ruling party is mirroring the strategies of Viktor Orbán and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The government’s illiberal measures complicate Brussels’s decision on Georgia’s EU candidacy. Georgia is having a hot summer in which the main news is the tragic loss of life in a massive landslide in the Racha region. …

The importance of Russia’s calm and measured reaction to the latest drone attacks against Pskov can’t be overemphasized since it’s only through this mature response that the conflict didn’t spiral out of control like the US’ liberal-globalists, Kiev, the Baltic States, and Poland expected. The northwestern Russian city of Pskov …