A Ukrainian soldier with a mortar, hidden from the sight of drones, near Kupiansk, in May. The European Union will funnel 90 billion euros’ worth of loans to Ukraine.
President Vladimir V. Putin spoke at an annual news conference that highlights his grip over Russia and often sets the Kremlin’s tone for the next year.
President Vladimir V. Putin at his annual year-end news conference in Moscow, on Friday. He said Russia was not ready to settle the Ukraine conflict diplomatically unless its demands were met.
As military officials sound the alarm over Russian hybrid attacks, the chair of Parliament’s defense committee said the government’s progress on ramping up home defense was “glacial.”
British soldiers during an exercise in Smardan, Romania, in February. In June, the British government published a strategic defense review that said the country must move to “war-fighting readiness.”
President Volodymyr Zelensky said in Brussels, where the leaders had gathered, that without the money, his country would have to reduce its drone production significantly.
European Union officials wanted to use Russia’s frozen assets to back a major loan to Ukraine. Facing opposition in their own camp, they settled on another way.
Antonio Costa, center, president of the European Council, said at a news conference early Friday in Brussels that the newly reached deal would “address the urgent financial needs of Ukraine.”
The U.S. seizure of a vessel off Venezuela is likely to squeeze the country’s government, but do little to counter the tankers that secretively move oil from sanctioned countries.
Do you know where your retirement savings are invested? When I looked into mine, I discovered that parts of it ran counter to U.S. foreign policy priorities.
Do you know where your retirement savings are invested? When I looked into mine, I discovered that parts of it ran counter to U.S. foreign policy priorities.
Russia and China abstained in the vote, which provides a legal mandate for the Trump administration’s vision of how to move past the cease-fire to rebuild the war-ravaged enclave after two years of war.
The Trump administration wants the Security Council to adopt a resolution that has the 20-point U.S. plan annexed, effectively making it international law.
President Trump has made it easier for countries that are close to Russia and China to build ties with the United States. Those countries are embracing the opportunity.
President Trump and one of his top cabinet officials are sending mixed messages on how the U.S. government is handling the most destructive weapons in the world.
President Trump explained the order by saying other, unnamed nations were testing their own nuclear weapons, even though no country has tested since 2017.
The president’s ambiguity on nuclear testing is worrisome not only because America’s public can’t know what he means, but because America’s adversaries don’t.
Just minutes before he was scheduled to meet President Xi Jinping of China, the president threatened on social media to resume nuclear testing “on an equal basis” with other countries.
The two leaders reached an agreement on fentanyl, some tariffs and rare earths, at least for a year. But even as the global trade picture cleared a little, Mr. Trump spurred new worries about nuclear proliferation.
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