Ukraine

Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur has resigned following a scandal in which he authorised the payment of €70 million to an Indian company for artillery shells, only to receive ammunition of defective quality, it emerged on Thursday. Britain’s The Telegraph reported on Monday that Datasel SRL was contracted to produce…

Ukraine’s parliament has made an important gesture towards Hungary by officially recognising and condemning crimes committed by the Soviet military administration in Transcarpathia between 1944 and 1946. The Verkhovna Rada adopted the declaration unanimously, with 261 MPs voting in favour, with no votes against and no abstentions. The resolution specifically…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he spoke on September 3 with two key US special envoys, who told him they will visit Kyiv "in the coming days" and will also travel to Moscow for talks, even as Russia contimued to pound the Ukrainian capital with air strikes. "I have just…

Hungary has once again blocked progress in Ukraine’s EU accession talks, saying it is waiting for Kyiv to implement an agreement on the rights of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine. Budapest did not approve the screening reports for the second and third negotiating clusters, preventing the accession process from moving…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said there is still a possibility of reaching a peace agreement to end the war in Ukraine, while accusing Kyiv of taking actions that could make efforts to resume direct negotiations more difficult. Putin made the comments on Thursday at the Eastern Economic Forum in…

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Ukraine has urged the global aviation regulator to support a comprehensive ban on civilian flights through Russian airspace, bringing intense scrutiny to 46 nonstop routes that currently link Russia with six African countries. The request targets the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), as Kyiv seeks to further isolate Moscow’s economy…

There were long lines at gas pumps, turning each fill-up into an ordeal. Flights to vacation destinations were canceled, delayed or rerouted. Online orders were disrupted as e-commerce hubs were set ablaze by buzzing drones. It’s been a difficult summer for Russians — a season of almost daily turmoil, frustration…

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham and French President Emmanuel Macron held their first official talks on Thursday, with migrant boats, Ukraine and British-EU relations high on the agenda. Burnham, in charge since July 20, and his wife Marie-France van Heel welcomed the French leader and First Lady Brigitte Macron outside…

On Moldova’s National Day on August 27, when President Maia Sandu attended a military parade in Chisinau alongside Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and their Romanian counterpart Nicusor Dan, at least five Russian drones entered the country’s airspace.  Sandu called Russia’s action an attempt to intimidate – and vowed to invest more…