New NATO member Finland elects a president set to keep up hard line on neighboring Russia
The final tally from Sunday’s runoff shows former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb, of the center-right National Coalition Party, had 51.6% of the votes
The final tally from Sunday’s runoff shows former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb, of the center-right National Coalition Party, had 51.6% of the votes
The new commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is one of the most prestigious military leaders in the country, but less popular among the troops than his predecessor, Valerii Zaluzhnyi
His remarks appeared to align with Zelenskiy’s stated aim of bringing ‘renewal’ to the armed forces in Thursday’s shake-up and adopting a fresh approach to the fight
In his interview with the former Fox host, the Russian president said peace talks were ‘almost finalized’ in the early stages of the invasion but Ukraine ‘threw away all these agreements and obeyed the instructions of Western countries to fight Russia to the bitter end’
Zelenskiy appointed Сol. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, to lead the army. Syrskyi, 58, has since 2013 been involved in the Ukrainian army’s effort to adopt NATO standards
Carlson received several rebukes by saying ‘not a single Western journalist has bothered to interview the president of the other country involved in this conflict’ at a time when two US reporters are imprisoned in Russia
The €50 billion agreed by EU leaders will allow Ukraine to resist on the front lines and support the public coffers, but Volodymyr Zelenskiy has stated that without U.S. support the war is lost
Concern has mounted that public support to keep pouring money into Ukraine has started to wane, even though a Russian victory could threaten security across Europe
Russia’s Defense Ministry said the countries exchanged 195 POWs each. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said 207 Ukrainians were freed
Budapest is maneuvering for concessions in the deal over the financial lifeline to Kyiv and has accused Brussels of ‘blackmail’
European leaders are scrambling to persuade Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to lift his veto of 50 billion euros ($54 billion) in EU aid to Ukraine before a summit in Brussels on Thursday
The investigation comes as Kyiv attempts to clamp down on corruption in a bid to speed up its membership in the European Union and NATO
Ukrainian officials did not immediately confirm or deny Russia’s claims about the crash in Russia’s Belgorod border region, although they said they were looking into them
While waiting for Congress to pass a budget and potentially approve more money for Ukraine’s fight, the U.S. will be looking to allies to keep bridging the gap
Ukraine’s allies have recently sought to reassure the country that they are committed to its long-term defense amid concerns that Western support could be sagging
Sergey Lavrov argued that for such talks to be held, Washington first needs to revise its current hostile policy toward Russia
U.S. President is convening the lawmakers at the start of an election year when border security and the wars abroad are punctuating the race for the White House
The Ukrainian President described ‘the terrifying feeling that the war may never end.’ He also criticized a world that told him not to escalate tensions ahead of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022
Kyiv is torn between compulsory military service and targeted enlistment while the government, which estimates the number of recruits needed for the front at 500,000, has withdrawn a new mobilization law due to lack of consensus
The package, worth 2.5 billion pounds ($3.2 billion) over the next fiscal year, is the largest the U.K. has provided to Ukraine since the war began
Russia’s average monthly expenditure on imports of battlefield goods from January to October 2023 stood at $932 million, only 10% less than the Kremlin was spending before sanctions
Both sides are scrambling to replenish their weapons after 22 months of fighting and are facing the prospect of a protracted conflict
As Ukraine repels Russia’s invasion, drones have become essential due to their speed, price and manageability. Kyiv wants to manufacture a million of these devices in 2024
At a time when Western support seems to be wavering and Russia’s war against Ukraine has become a battle of attrition, the politician insists that support for Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s government is also support for democracy
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has pledged to strike more targets on the Crimean Peninsula and inside Russian border regions this year
Moscow has been attacking the industrial city in the Donbas region for weeks with an all-out siege in which the number of casualties are of little consequence
When weapons corner politics, only the spiral of violence governs. We see it between Ukraine and Russia, between Hamas and Israel, and this Wednesday in the attack that killed over a hundred people in Iran