Germany, France fight for Putin’s oligarchs to get their BMWs and Mercedes
BRUSSELS — Russian oligarchs rejoice: You won’t have to say goodbye to your fancy BMW or Mercedes just yet. Germany is opposing European Union efforts to close a loophole that allows high-end goods,...
View ArticleBiden in Normandy says he prays Americans don’t become isolationists
COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — President Joe Biden on Thursday used the 80th anniversary of D-Day to warn against the spread of isolationism and to promise that the U.S. would “not walk away” from...
View ArticlePutin threatens to arm West’s enemies with long-range missiles
Russia could arm the West’s enemies with long-range missiles if Ukraine uses NATO-supplied weapons to strike Russian territory, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday. Several countries...
View ArticleInside the ill-fitting, occasionally chaotic, decidedly solid Biden-Macron...
PARIS — On a recent phone call with President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron proposed sending Western forces into Ukraine to train troops in the war zone. Biden was not supportive. The...
View ArticleZelenskyy to French lawmakers: ‘Nazism is resurgent’
PARIS — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy compared Ukraine’s struggle against Russia’s aggression to the fight against Nazi Germany in a speech rife with symbolism before the French National...
View ArticleMacron to ‘finalize’ plans to send Western trainers to Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron said he intends to “finalize” a coalition of countries that will send military trainers to Ukraine. He laid out plans to deploy Western forces into the war-torn...
View ArticleRussia mocks Macron following EU election defeat
Russia was definitely watching the results of the EU election. French President Emmanuel Macron’s shock decision to call a parliamentary election following his party’s crushing defeat in the EU polls,...
View ArticleBelarus and Russia to conduct joint nuclear drills
Belarus will participate in nuclear drills with Russia, its defense ministry said Monday. The exercises are a reaction to “unsuccessful attempts to drag [Belarus] into an epidemic of color revolutions...
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Top Ukraine reconstruction official abruptly quits, citing ‘systemic obstacles’
KYIV — Mustafa Nayyem, the head of Ukraine’s restoration and infrastructure development agency, abruptly resigned on Monday, claiming the Ukrainian government is undermining his agency’s work on...
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For King and country? Europe’s young may not be willing to fight
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. When Ukrainians call for additional Western weapons, stricter economic sanctions or the seizure of Russian assets, they invariably throw in a...
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US-EU spat derails push for $50B Ukraine loan using Russian assets
BRUSSELS ― A major rift has emerged between the U.S. and European governments over a plan to secure a massive loan for Ukraine ― leaving negotiations to run past this week’s G7 summit and perilously...
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Ukraine wants peace but can’t trust Russia
KYIV — Peace is nowhere near. Russia wasn’t even invited to the Summit on Peace in Ukraine in Switzerland this weekend after slamming the event as pro-Ukrainian. “You cannot sit down to talk to a...
View ArticleThe secret arms deal that cost Putin an ally
YEREVAN, Armenia — Belarus delivered advanced weapons to Armenia’s arch enemy even though both countries were supposedly allies in a Russian-led international defense pact, according to leaked...
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A ‘Free Russia’ passport could undermine Putin
Garry Kasparov is a Russian opposition leader who founded and chairs the Renew Democracy Initiative. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former political prisoner and CEO of Yukos Oil company, is the author of...
View ArticleNext Russia sanctions package ‘will happen soon,’ Germany’s Scholz says
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has pushed back against accusations that Germany is “the new Hungary” after the country blocked the latest round of EU sanctions against Russia. The EU has been...
View ArticleUS unveils $1.5B in new energy, humanitarian aid for Ukraine
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Saturday a new $1.5 billion aid package for Ukraine, focused primarily on the war-torn country’s energy sector and humanitarian assistance. Harris...
View Article‘Ultimatums don’t work with Ukraine’— Zelenskyy’s chief of staff responds to...
BÜRGENSTOCK, Switzerland — Kyiv will not respond to ultimatums, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s top adviser said on Saturday, reacting to proposals put forward by the Kremlin to resolve the...
View ArticleKyiv hopes to achieve peace with Russia through intermediaries
BÜRGENSTOCK, Switzerland — Kyiv will not engage in direct negotiations with Russia, but is working to build a coalition of intermediaries to help end the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian officials said at...
View ArticleTrump threatens to cut US aid to Ukraine quickly if reelected
Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday blasted the scale of U.S. support for Ukraine and said that if he is reelected in November he would immediately “have that settled.” At a campaign rally...
View ArticleUS’s Yellen says G7 loan to Ukraine is definitely legal
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday the G7’s planned $50 billion loan to help Ukraine using frozen Russian assets is not theft, as Russian President Vladimir Putin has branded it. “There is no...
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