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Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has resisted the idea, warning that Belgium could face legal consequences if Russia sues in response. About €210 billion ($245 billion) in Russian assets are immobilised across the EU German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen intensified pressure on…

Europe, you have been warned. President Vladimir Putin has waged a full-scale war against Ukraine for nearly four years and this week threatened that Russia was “ready right now” for war with Europe if need be. President Donald Trump has demonstrated that the US is ready to sell out Ukraine…

Dec 5 (Reuters) - A protective shield at the Chornobyl nuclear plant in war-torn Ukraine, built to contain radioactive material from the 1986 disaster, can no longer perform its main safety function due to drone damage, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday, a strike Ukraine has attributed to Russia.…

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Ukraine has gone after thousands of illegal online casinos, with the newly-installed regulator, PlayCity, taking proactive measures to limit the reach of unlicensed operators in the country. Replacing the previous watchdog KRAIL, which was embroiled in sprawling corruption and possible ties to Russia, PlayCity has been keen to show that…

A suspected Ukrainian drone attack rocked the Chechen capital, Grozny, early on December 5 just hours after Ukrainian negotiators met with US officials in Florida seeking details from a meeting at the Kremlin between American and Russian teams on a proposal to end the war on Ukraine. Social media users…

Democracy Dies in Darkness Europe In negotiations over Ukraine, European officials say President Trump’s team has positioned the U.S. as an independent arbiter rather than the leading voice of NATO. December 5, 2025 Foreign ministers gather for a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP) BRUSSELS…

Ukraine’s Kateryna Sadurska set her ninth women’s freediving world record at the CMAS Deep Dominica competition. Sadurska dove to 88m/289ft in the Constant Weight No Fins (CNF) discipline. In an Instagram post , she wrote: “I’ve been dreaming about this dive since last year, and I’m so happy it happened…

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Thursday that Russia would take full control of Ukraine's Donbas region by force unless Ukrainian forces withdraw, something Kyiv has flatly rejected. Putin sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022 after eight years of fighting between…

Vladimir Putin Alamy Stock Photo Ukraine ‘Achieving consensus among competing parties is no easy task, but President Trump, truly, I believe – he sincerely tries to do this,” Putin said. LAST UPDATE | 4 Dec 2025 RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR Putin has said that the ongoing US talks on Ukraine were…