‘Blatantly illegal’: Zelenskyy admin under fire for denying services to...
KYIV — Domestic criticism of Ukraine’s government is mounting over a controversial temporary ban on issuing new passports and delivering nonemergency consular services for Ukrainian men of fighting...
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Salvini’s last hope rests on building a bridge to Sicily
ROME — In early March, Matteo Salvini climbed aboard a bulldozer to break ground for a new bridge in Lombardy. The building site was blessed by a priest, before Salvini — Italy’s infrastructure...
View ArticleGreece, Spain will refuse to send Ukraine air defense systems
The race is on to get air defense batteries to Ukraine, but it doesn’t look like they will be coming from Spain or Greece. Madrid won’t redeploy one of its three Patriots to Ukraine, reports Spanish...
View ArticlePutin ‘likely’ didn’t order Navalny’s death in February, US agencies believe:...
U.S. intelligence agencies believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin “likely” didn’t order opposition leader Alexei Navalny to be killed at an Arctic prison in February, the Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleItaly can do without Russian gas, says energy minister
ROME — Italy has emancipated itself from Russian natural gas and would have no problem with a proposed package of EU sanctions on liquified natural gas (LNG) that the European Commission is...
View ArticleDon’t just assume Trump will back Russia, says Polish foreign minister
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View ArticleEU energy supplies targeted in Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine, Zelenskyy says
Russia’s latest missile attack on Ukraine hit energy infrastructure used to supply the European Union with natural gas, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Ukraine’s energy system was struck...
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Britain moves to a war footing — but where should the extra money go?
Tobias Ellwood is a British MP. He is a former officer in the British Army, Foreign Office Middle East minister and defense minister. He also served as chair of the Defense Select Committee in the...
View ArticleWill the EU get a war budget?
BRUSSELS — War is raging on its doorstep, the economy is in the doldrums, a European-wide election looks set to deliver a massive blow to its establishment — and now the EU is gearing up for what will...
View ArticleMoldova eyes energy lever to topple Kremlin puppet regime in Transnistria
CHIȘINĂU — For the first time in three decades, Moldova thinks it finally has the leverage to kick Russia out of the country. But it comes with a quandary: how to do that without unleashing a...
View ArticleUkraine retreats from Donetsk villages, citing lack of ammo
KYIV — Ukraine has been forced to make a tactical retreat from three villages in Donetsk, amid an intensifying Russian push in the region and the slow flow of military aid to Kyiv. The commander in...
View ArticlePutin’s fuel problem: How Ukraine is sapping Russia’s diesel and gasoline
A wave of Ukrainian drone strikes on oil refineries deep inside Russia has left the Kremlin racing to defend its own territory while still waging war on its neighbor. But the attacks have also...
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Europe’s banks retreat from Moscow, with the ECB at their heels
Europe’s banks’ retreat from Moscow is entering its final stage, but instead of having General Winter at their heels, they have the European Central Bank. The ECB is tightening the screws on the last...
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Which European politicos would shoot a puppy?
Ali Walker is news editor at POLITICO Europe. Call it the War on Dogs. Kristi Noem, a potential contender for Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick, has had better weeks. In a stunning self-inflicted...
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Bribery case puts Russian Defense Minister Shoigu in the crosshairs
In Russia, where high-profile court cases are informed by politics rather than the rule of law, arrests often deliver messages not justice. That’s why the arrest of Deputy Defense Minister Timur...
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Ukraine is ready for a just peace — not Russia’s version of one
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. As Ukraine struggles to contain the opening moves of an expected Russian offensive in the country’s east, there are again mutterings in some...
View ArticleUkraine claps back after Russia puts Zelenskyy on ‘wanted list’
The addition of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the Kremlin’s “wanted list” shows “the desperation of the Russian state machine and propaganda,” Ukraine’s ministry of foreign affairs wrote...
View ArticleVladimir Putin cut out the heart of a deer and gave it to Silvio Berlusconi
Vladimir Putin cut out the heart of a deer and presented it to Silvio Berlusconi, one of the late former Italian prime minister’s close allies said in an interview published in the newspaper Corriere...
View ArticleMacron meets Xi: Two emperors on the edge of two wars
PARIS — When Xi Jinping sits down for a state banquet with Emmanuel Macron on Monday, the flowing champagne and glittering chandeliers at the Elysée Palace won’t be able to outshine one glaring truth:...
View ArticlePutin rattles his atomic saber by ordering nuclear weapons drills
Russia announced Monday it has started preparing for nuclear weapons exercises, accusing Western officials of making “provocative statements and threats” by deepening their support for Ukraine....
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