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Never underestimate Europe’s capacity to disappoint. Rearmament euphoria and the explosive catch-up rally in European industrial stocks over the last month have run ahead of hard fiscal facts. Italy and Spain do not have credible plans to ramp up defence spending, and nor does France when you...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said after the summit in France that four points had been agreed: that military aid to Ukraine would continue; that Ukraine must be involved in all peace talks; that European states would seek to deter any future Russian invasion of Ukraine; and that they...

President Vladimir Putin said Russia’s ready for talks with the US on the war in Ukraine as he offered congratulations to Donald Trump on his inauguration as president. Russia welcomed Trump’s desire to restore direct contacts and his statements on the need to prevent a third world war, he said...

The war in Ukraine continues to be the theater of ruthless geopolitical strategy, where U.S. and NATO interests seem to weigh more heavily than human lives. Statements by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other Western leaders reveal a disturbing insensitivity to the devastating reality...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy used his first meeting with Donald Trump since the U.S. election to explain Ukraine's need for security guarantees in any negotiated end to the war with Russia, two sources familiar with the Dec. 7 discussions said. French President Emmanuel Macron hosted the...

Since the February 2022 Russian invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has promised that his country would prevail in the ensuing war, and that victory would include not only the reclamation of its territory up to the prewar borders, but also all of its territory up to the 2014...

In recent months, the discussion on whether the time has come to stop or at least freeze the war in Ukraine has visibly intensified. When contemplating various scenarios of how this could be done, pundits in both the United States and Europe focus on security guarantees and economic assistance...

Ukraine’s First Ex-French Mirage 2000-5 Fighters Should Arrive In April 2025 —And Fly Into Battle With Cruise Missiles And Glide Bombs, French newspaper La Tribune reported. The newspaper also confirmed what French Pres. Emmanuel Macron implied when he pledged surplus Mirage 2000-5s to Ukraine...

A week after Russia captured Vuhledar, a town that anchored Ukraine’s defenses in the country’s southeast, Moscow’s forces are continuing to advance in the area, pushing into or flanking several towns as they try to break through Ukrainian lines. The fierce fighting in the area reflects the...

Republicans are hammering Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after he criticized Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) in an interview and visited a Pennsylvania ammunition factory over the weekend with the state’s Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro. Zelensky is in the U.S. for the United Nations’s General...

Britain’s warfighting ability has been damaged by training Ukrainian soldiers, a report by the National Audit Office has found. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said that the UK’s military support for Ukraine had “constrained” its ability to train British troops, as it reduced the availability of...

The Russo–Ukrainian war continues. Although Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has indicated an interest in negotiation, the Biden administration has escalated the fighting, most recently by permitting the use of American weapons to strike targets within Russia. Europe’s vocal war party is...

As Ukraine prepares to mobilize tens of thousands of men to address a critical shortage of soldiers amid intensified Russian attacks, Ukrainian commanders in the field say they are bracing for most of the new troops to arrive with poor training. Ukrainian commanders have long griped about...

Ukrainian crews working on US-supplied Abrams tanks have told CNN of a series of the weaknesses and flaws with the armored vehicles, calling into doubt their utility on the war’s ever-changing frontlines. All 31 Abrams deployed to Ukraine are engaged near the frontline in the east, according to...

Last week, Reuters published a report Putin was ready to negotiate an end to the war on the current battlefield lines. What Ukraine gained from the war? Its economy and infrastructure have been crippled, it is mired in massive amounts of foreign debt, faces more than half a trillion dollars in...