Tag: Ukraine

As Moldovans prepare to go to the polls on Oct. 20, it looks like another round of the familiar geopolitical standoff between Russia and the West over the countries in ...

The Middle East teeters on the brink of a regional war, and Israel’s conflict with Hamas hit the one-year mark on Oct 7. The longer that such wars—particularly when they ...

The latest Russian offensive in Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, threatens to finally topple the city of Pokrovsk—and that carries both military and economic risks for a beleaguered Ukraine already bracing ...

Top Ukrainian defense officials and U.S. diplomats agree about one thing: North Korean arms deliveries to Russia are among the biggest threats to Kyiv’s ability to defeat the Russian invasion.  ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report. It’s day three of the high-level week here at the United Nations, and everything is still gridlocked, from the traffic outside to the ...

Moscow’s decadeslong weaponization of energy against Europe became an incontrovertible fact in late 2021 and early 2022, when the Kremlin throttled natural gas deliveries to stop Germany and other European ...

On Aug. 24, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a new law that aims to deny Russia one of its major avenues of influence. It explicitly bans the Russian Orthodox Church, ...

There’s little doubt that Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine transformed NATO. Sweden and Finland reversed decades of policy to join the military alliance, and member states ramped up their defense ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Russian President Vladimir Putin threatening NATO, nuclear development in North Korea, and China’s aging workforce. Welcome back to World Brief, where ...

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has admitted that it was wrong to report that Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage had excused Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. In a BBC News channel ...