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  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Trump will abandon Ukraine peace talks ‘in days’ without progress, warns Rubio

    US secretary of state says Washington will focus on ‘other priorities’ if war cannot be ended soon

    1 hour ago
    Steve Witkoff, Keith Kellogg, Marco Rubio, Andriy Yermak, Andrii Sybiha and Rustem Umerov are seated together in a diplomatic meeting room
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Europe Express
    Why the EU will struggle to negotiate an alternative trade deal with Ukraine Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Irish students warned to think twice before going to the US

    A combine harvests wheat near Kramatorsk, in Donetsk region
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Trump again blames Ukraine for starting war with Russia

    US president reignites war of words with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy

    A Ukrainian rescuer working at the burning site of a Russian missile attack in Sumy, Ukraine on April 13
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    News in-depthRomania
    Maga-style populists surge in Romania’s presidential race

    Ultranationalist candidates are playing up ties with Donald Trump while pro-EU liberals are struggling to catch up

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  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    ‘We’ve been living in hell’: Russian locals accuse authorities of neglect during Ukrainian occupation

    Though Kyiv’s forces have largely been pushed back over the border, civilians are struggling to rebuild their lives

    Local resident Valentina Marchenko, 61, reacts as she watches a video message of her relative on the smartphone of a Chechen Akhmat battalion fighter in the village of Kazachya Loknya, which was previously held by Ukrainian troops and recently retaken by Russia’s armed forces, in the Sudzha district of the Kurs
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Visual and data journalism
    How we made it: why security hangs on Arctic ice lows

    Lowest maximum extent reached in March in the 47-year satellite record

    An aerial view of spruce trees in Canada’s Northwest Territories
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Germany willing to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine, says Merz

    Chancellor-in-waiting denounces latest Russian attack and believes Kyiv needs help to ‘get ahead’ in conflict

    Handout photo of the Taurus KEPD 350, a Swedish-German air-launched cruise missile, manufactured by Taurus Systems
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    Russian economy
    Putin’s war chest under threat as oil prices slide

    Donald Trump’s tariff war adds pressure to Russian economy

    A night landscape of Omsk oil refinery in Russia
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    US ambassador to Ukraine to leave her post

    Bridget Brink is stepping down after policy disagreements with the Trump administration

    Bridget Brink
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Zelenskyy says Chinese men fighting for Russia captured in Ukraine

    Ukrainian president demands explanation and accuses Beijing of actively participating in Moscow’s war

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine on April 4 2025
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    Nato
    US to move its troops out of Polish logistics hub for Ukraine

    Military aid work at Jasionka base to be handed over to Poland and other Nato allies

    A US Air Force Black Hawk helicopter is parked on the tarmac at Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport in Poland. Several military personnel in uniform walk near the helicopter.
  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Poland warns Trump against ‘historical mistake’ over Russian expansion

    Tusk government adviser Paweł Kowal says Ukraine peace talks must not lead to recognition of Moscow’s territorial claims

    Paweł Kowal
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    Hungary
    Hungary to leave ICC as Netanyahu meets Orbán in Budapest

    Israeli PM visits European nation that is defying EU partners and Nato allies over international justice

    Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu review a military honour guard in Budapest on Thursday
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    Kirill Dmitriev
    Putin envoy visits White House as Trump toys with détente

    Kirill Dmitriev is highest-ranking Russian official to visit US since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine

    Kirill Dmitriev speaking
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    The Big Read
    Why US overtures to Russia are shaking up central Europe’s politics

    The rehabilitation of Vladimir Putin poses awkward questions for those who admire Donald Trump but are suspicious of Moscow

    A Ukrainian woman holds her baby amid a gathering of war refugees in Krakow
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    Germany
    Many Germans still in ‘denial’ about Russian threat, Merz ally warns

    Politician who could be country’s next foreign minister says Moscow is ‘most acute’ threat to Europeans

    A group of demonstrators, with one holding a placard in German saying ‘no tanks for Ukraine’
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    Arthur McFarlane
    Putin’s AI blunder is a gift to opponents

    Depriving the country of access to the compute needed to build this sector could help deter Russia

    María Hergueta illustration of AI sign under construction with a figure looking up at it.
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Trump dashes Ukrainians’ hopes of returning home

    Population from Russian-occupied territories watch peace talks with dread as US embraces Moscow’s land demands

    From left: note with the text ‘I want to return to my parents’ at the IDP centre in Zaporizhzhia. July, 25, 2024; an elderly internally displaced woman sitting on a bench in Dnipro; damaged buildings in Zaporizhzhia
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine’s bonds fall as ceasefire hopes fade

    Investors fear Russian ‘slow-balling’ of talks reduces chances of extra payments linked to GDP

    Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and his wife Olena Zelenska carry candles to honour the memory of the victims of the Russian occupation at a memorial in the town of Bucha, north-west of Kyiv
  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Orbán to host Netanyahu in defiance of ICC arrest order

    Five-day visit to Hungary this week will be Israeli leader’s first since warrant to member of international court

    Viktor Orbán shakes hands with Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in 2018
  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Sanctions hurt EU more than Putin, says senior German politician

    Centre-right premier of Saxony latest to question curbs on Russia over Ukraine invasion

    Michael Kretschmer of the CDU speaks to delegates at a party congress in Berlin
  • Saturday, 29 March, 2025
    ReviewBooks
    What Europe can learn from the Baltics

    Two timely books on how the region responded to the ‘Russia menace’ and Estonia’s transformation into a thriving tech hub

  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Serbia
    US throws lifeline to Serbia over oil sanctions

    Balkan country granted 30-days to find a buyer for the Russian majority stake in NIS and avert economic chaos

    A worker walks towards liquid petroleum gas (LPG) storage tanks at the Naftna Industrija Srbija AD (NIS) oil refinery, operated by OAO Gazprom
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Europe Express
    Meloni pitches her alternative peacekeeping plan for Ukraine Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Should regional development funds be redeployed for defence?

    French President Emmanuel Macron, left, welcomes Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s prime minister, to the Ukraine summit at the Elysée Palace in Paris on March 27 2025
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
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    Russia vs Ukraine: the final reckoning?

    FT correspondents and guests answered subscribers’ questions at a March 27 webinar

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