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The never-ending job of depriving Putin of the means to kill Ukrainians

Vietnam and Malaysia are the next destinations on EU envoy David O’Sullivan’s mission to stop Russia from beating EU sanctions.

July 12, 2024 3:11 pm CET

Here’s President Putin! The 5 weirdest political mix-ups ever.

Don’t worry, Joe, you’re not the only one.

July 12, 2024 2:13 pm CET

Fake parts for Russia’s stolen airliners

Western sanctions are blocking Russia’s access to key spare parts, so it’s making its own.

July 12, 2024 11:47 am CET

Trump’s ‘going to solve’ Russia-Ukraine war, says Orbán

Peaceniks unite at Mar-a-Lago summit in Florida.

July 12, 2024 10:28 am CET
Beyond the Bubble

Do a good deed for your country — stay home

Many Westerners continue to travel to hostile nations, knowing their home countries would move mountains to get them free. But that’s a luxury we can no longer afford.

July 12, 2024 4:02 am CET

Habsburg empire strikes back

Viktor Orbán’s new hard-right group, Patriots for Europe, is a Habsburg coalition that gives the Hungarian leader the European platform he craves.

July 12, 2024 4:00 am CET

Stoltenberg bashes China for creeping closer to NATO

The Chinese-Belarusian anti-terrorism exercises, conducted not far from the border with NATO ally Poland, coincide with the NATO summit.

July 12, 2024 1:36 am CET

Ukraine wins big, NATO wins smaller — and everyone was sweaty

Over the course of three days, the 32-member military alliance rallied around Ukraine’s war efforts to combat the Russian invasion.

July 11, 2024 11:46 pm CET

2 percent on defense? That is so last year.

One of the NATO Summit’s biggest guessing games this week: What should members spend on defense?

July 11, 2024 11:31 pm CET

NATO allies try to get inside Trump’s head while in Washington

Trump confidants are telling NATO allies there’s nothing to worry about, but that messaging isn’t comforting concerns.

July 11, 2024 9:30 pm CET

Russian plot to kill European weapons chief foiled by US and Germany

Rheinmetall is Germany’s largest manufacturer of 155mm artillery shells, a crucial resource for Ukrainians defending themselves against Russia’s war.

July 11, 2024 7:06 pm CET
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Russian region offers finder’s fee to residents who convince friends and family to fight in Ukraine

Tatarstan is offering people over $1,000 if they can talk their nearest and dearest into taking up arms for Moscow.

July 11, 2024 6:17 pm CET

NATO’s bad boys: Turkey and Hungary play their own game

Turkey and Hungary are preparing for a Trump presidency and charting their own course in the alliance.

July 11, 2024 6:13 pm CET

Ukraine seizes cargo ship, alleging grain shipments via Crimea

The vessel under flag of Cameroon is suspected of visiting Sevastopol in November 2023 and May of this year.

July 11, 2024 5:43 pm CET

Kyiv’s NATO membership would ‘guarantee WW3,’ Slovak PM says

Moscow-friendly PM Fico issues dire warning after Western alliance says Ukraine’s membership trajectory is “irreversible.”

July 11, 2024 5:36 pm CET

Migration is buoying the EU’s declining population. Just don’t tell the far right.

Last year’s figures show that migrant inflows made up for population losses within the bloc.

July 11, 2024 4:59 pm CET

Poland begins training Ukrainian volunteer brigade

The new unit consists of Ukrainian recruits from inside Poland, Radosław Sikorski said.

July 11, 2024 2:03 pm CET

Attacking hospitals is part of Putin’s plan

Russia’s “total war” tactics are aimed at forcing local populations to press the government to capitulate, experts say.

July 11, 2024 11:35 am CET

Nervous world leaders fret over what the Biden chaos means for NATO’s future

Biden’s solo press conference Thursday will be the most critical set piece of the NATO Summit, both for the president and the alliance.

July 11, 2024 11:35 am CET

Trump considering cutting back intel sharing with Europe, officials warn

European officials say they rely on U.S. intelligence to help fend off Russian aggression on their own soil.

July 11, 2024 4:35 am CET
Unpacked

Orbán: From dissident to Putin’s Hungarian boyar

The prime minister’s self-proclaimed “peace mission 3.0” resembles Mussolini’s generous offers to arbitrate peace negotiations between Hitler — his partner in the Pact of Steel — and Britain and France.

July 11, 2024 4:00 am CET

NATO backs Ukraine’s ‘irreversible path’, names China a ‘decisive enabler’ in Russia’s war

The draft summit statement says allies will never recognize Russia’s annexations of parts of Ukraine and denounces China’s partnership with Moscow.

July 10, 2024 7:24 pm CET

Biden or Trump? To the Polish president, it doesn’t matter

“We have to be honest and tell ourselves that the Cold War situation is back and it’s not due to the actions of the United States,” Andrzej Duda said.

July 10, 2024 6:24 am CET
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