The US said Ukraine would meet with Russia to discuss peace. That was news to...
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View ArticleAs US recedes, NATO scrambles to find a new leader
Live coverage from Munich: POLITICO is on the ground at the Munich Security Conference, where we’re having conversations with top officials, lawmakers and experts at our POLITICO Pub. Follow our...
View ArticlePutin likely to strike NATO nations next, Zelenskyy warns
Russian leader Vladimir Putin is eyeing NATO countries for future invasion even as he talks with the Trump administration about ending the Russia-Ukraine war, Ukraine’s president warns. Volodymyr...
View ArticleRubio says talks in Saudi Arabia meant to be opening step toward peace
Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasized the importance of building trust and opening communication with Russia as he and other top Trump administration officials head to Saudi Arabia for talks on...
View ArticleUK ‘ready’ to send peace-keepers to Ukraine, PM Starmer says
The U.K. is “ready and willing” to put British peace-keeping troops on the ground in Ukraine, its Prime Minister Keir Starmer said. In an opinion piece for the Telegraph newspaper published Sunday...
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Victims of international crimes need justice — and the ICC
The International Criminal Court, heir to the Nuremberg Court that tried Nazi leaders after World War II, plays an irreplaceable role in bringing justice to the victims of the most serious crimes...
View ArticleAngry farmers push Poland away from Ukraine
MEDYKA BORDER CROSSING, Poland — Legally, the two ambulances should be allowed to cross into Ukraine unhindered, but the Polish farmers standing sentry on the border take the law into their own hands...
View ArticleUS’s Rubio in Riyadh, Russia’s Lavrov en route, with Ukraine talks expected
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was on his way to the country, amid expectations that peace talks on ending the war in...
View Article‘Freezing’ Ukraine war would allow Russia to threaten NATO, Latvian...
Any pause in fighting in Ukraine would allow Russia to rebuild its forces and launch a confrontation with European Union countries, Latvia’s state security service warned Monday, as U.S. President...
View ArticleUkraine will not participate in Russia-US talks, Zelenskyy says from UAE
KYIV — Ukraine will not take part in talks between Russia and the United States in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday, speaking via video link from the...
View ArticleMacron and Trump have ‘frank conversation’ minutes before European meeting on...
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron and his American counterpart Donald Trump spoke on the phone minutes before Macron greeted European dignitaries who had gathered to discuss security in Paris....
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British MPs already want a vote on sending troops to Ukraine
LONDON — Keir Starmer wants to send troops to Ukraine as a post-war peace-keeping force — but the country’s lawmakers are already demanding a say. MPs from across the main parties told POLITICO they...
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Germany’s Scholz: It’s ‘inappropriate’ to discuss sending peacekeeping troops...
PARIS — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed frustration at the discussion around sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine shortly after leaving a crucial meeting with European leaders on Monday....
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Europe’s big guns sideline the EU to get real on Ukraine
LONDON — As Europe grapples with its deepest security crisis since 1945, a small group of the continent’s leading powers took a radical step: They dumped the traditional craving for 27-nation...
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What Putin really wants
Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan are a Russian investigative journalists and co-founders of Agentura.ru. Both are senior fellows at the Center for European Policy Analysis. U.S. President Donald...
View ArticleRussia: Ukraine has a ‘sovereign right’ to join EU — but not NATO
Ukraine has a sovereign right to join the European Union, but this “sovereignty” does not apply to military alliances, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said. In June 2024, Kyiv and Brussels formally...
View ArticleMoscow’s media gloats over US-Russia talks
Russian state media couldn’t help crowing over the country’s return to the top table of international politics. Talks in Saudi Arabia between U.S. and Russian officials, led by each country’s foreign...
View ArticleRubio: Russia, US need to normalize embassy staffing
American negotiators who met with Russian diplomats in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday said the two countries agreed on “four principles” that will move cease-fire talks between Russia and Ukraine forward —...
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Russia and US eye joint Arctic energy projects after Saudi talks
Russia and the United States discussed possible cooperation on energy projects in the Arctic at a meeting in Saudi Arabia Tuesday, a top Russian negotiator told POLITICO. Kirill Dmitriev, who heads...
View ArticleSecond crisis Ukraine summit planned for Wednesday
BRUSSELS — European and other world leaders are planning to hold a second emergency summit in Paris on Wednesday as pressure grows to forge a cohesive response to Donald Trump’s divisive plan to end...
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