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Belgium is under growing pressure to allow the use of frozen Russian assets for a “reparations loan” to Ukraine after…
The story of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been one of upset expectations and wild swings in performance. At the start of the war, most of NATO saw Russia as an unstoppable behemoth, poised to quickly defeat Ukraine. Instead, Russia’s…
The closer Russia’s hybrid war comes to European capitals, the less EU leaders seem able to agree on how to respond. That, at least, was the worrying impression left by a dissonant EU summit in Copenhagen. Summoned last week to build consensus…
But it appears to be too difficult for Merkel — once lauded as the “chancellor of the free world” when Time Magazine named her “Person of the Year” in 2015 — to accept that history may end up judging her far more…
Russia is using its illicit “shadow fleet” of oil tankers for intelligence gathering and sabotage operations including launching drones, according to Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “Currently, Russians are using tankers not only to earn money…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russian forces had captured almost 5,000 square km (1,930 square miles) of land in Ukraine in 2025 and that Moscow retained…
Item 1 of 4 Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, October 7, 2025. Sputnik/Andrey Babushkin/Pool via REUTERS ATTENTION…
Walter Russell Mead writes that the president’s recent diplomacy has been “dazzling” (“ Trump Flips the Global Script,” Global View, Sept. 30). Time will tell if Mr. Mead is right about events in Gaza, but Mr. Trump’s unscripted...
