Vladímir Putin

Stanislav Orlov, who united diehard soccer fans under a volunteer brigade fighting on Russia’s side, was shot dead by his own country’s security forces in Crimea

The US-led battle against cargo ships off the coast of Venezuela, and Ukraine’s attacks on Russian vessels have brought to light an illegal industry of ‘shadow’ ships

The German chancellor, despite being unpopular at home, is pushing international initiatives as the French president loses ground 

‘My dream is that some of them will become generals,’ says the head of gender affairs for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in which around 7% of the one million personnel are women

A classified version of Washington’s controversial National Security Strategy proposes creating a new forum of powers that would exclude the Old Continent

European leaders must decide this week whether to mobilize €193 billion in sovereign funds held by a Belgian clearinghouse. Failure would ‘seriously damage the EU’s capacity for action for years,’ warns German chancellor Merz

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is running for UN Secretary-General

A human rights organization documents the journey of two minors living in occupied Ukraine to a North Korean camp

A decade has passed since the premiere of the television series that catapulted the Ukrainian leader to office. The show discussed corruption, but made no mention of the threat of Russia

The activist who heads the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties, which won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, warns that ending the invasion will only be possible if the Kremlin feels that ‘the price of continuing the war is higher than the price of stopping it’

Kyiv’s troops hold 10% of the city of Pokrovsk, are losing ground in other sectors of the Donetsk and Kharkiv provinces, and are retreating alarmingly in Zaporizhzhia

The EU’s foreign policy chief discusses peace plans for Ukraine, her relationship with Donald Trump and the changing world order

The White House envoy, with no background in diplomacy, plans to meet with Putin next week after audio recordings were leaked in which he advised the Kremlin on how to win over the US president

The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate calls for rebuilding journalism in a world that ‘no longer believes in the truth’ and criticizes Europe for neglecting human rights in Russia in exchange for oil and gas

The residents of this town north of Kyiv believe that the only peace plan Vladimir Putin will accept is Ukraine’s surrender

The NATO secretary general warns that Spain will soon find it needs to spend around 3.5% of its GDP on defense and praises Trump: ‘I like the guy’

The Geneva meeting between the delegations of both presidents postpones the decision on territorial and military concessions in favor of Russia

Vladimir Putin says the White House’s original proposal ‘can be used as the basis for a final peaceful settlement’ in Ukraine

Kyiv and Washington claim to have created an ‘updated and refined peace framework’ based on the Russian-American one that Trump and Zelenskiy must now approve

From the war in Ukraine to the Middle East and Sudan, international justice is suffering its biggest crisis since the advances of the 1990s

In 2022 the Russian journalist, who covered the war in Ukraine, fled to Germany after receiving death threats. There, she was poisoned and nearly died. Now she teaches at a US university and has published the book ‘I Love Russia’

Armenia seeks to distance itself from Russian dominance in a regional context where multiple actors are vying to assert their influence

Ukraine faces choice of either losing its dignity or losing the US as key partner, says Zelenskiy about the 28-point plan, which involves ceding territory to Russia

Realpolitik has rehabilitated the Saudi strongman who ordered the journalist’s murder: Trump fetes him, Cristiano Ronaldo dines at his table, Jeff Bezos does business with him, and Spain sells him weapons

Russia is offering discounts of up to $23 per barrel before the US president’s measures on its two major oil companies take effect