Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine, a police raid in France, and a nationwide strike in India. Overnight Attack Russia fired hundreds of drones at Ukraine early Wednesday in a massive barrage that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said marked a record number of aerial targets in a…
On June 25, U.S. President Donald Trump held a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, during the NATO summit in The Hague. The meeting seemed to go well. Afterward, Zelensky said that he had pleaded for help defending against intensifying Russian air attacks on Ukrainian civilians. “Ukraine is ready to buy this equipment and…
Mark Rutte, Nato’s secretary-general, has urged its 32 member nations to devote more funds, equipment and political energy. “In 2025, we need to significantly increase our efforts to ensure Nato remains a key source of military advantage for all our nations. Our continued freedom and prosperity depend on it,” Rutte wrote in his annual report,…
Practitioners of American statecraft have always used our leverage—positive and negative—to alter the behavior of others. For President Donald Trump, applying pressure on other countries and groups in order to advance U.S. interests comes very naturally. He’s done so with the Houthis in Yemen to stop their attacks on international shipping and on Israel—objectives that…
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Black Sea negotiations for the Russia-Ukraine war, the Trump administration’s handling of U.S. national security information, sweeping anti-government protests in Turkey, and South Korea reinstating Prime Minister Han Duck-soo as its acting president. Sign up to receive World Brief in your inbox every weekday. Sign up…
LONDON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of “prolonging the war” and “ignoring” U.S.-led efforts to agree to a ceasefire, as a first step toward ending Moscow’s three-year-old invasion of its neighbor. Recent weeks have seen Kyiv and Moscow frame each other as the main impediment to peace, maneuvering to win…
Reports suggest the US may revive Nord Stream 2 in a potential deal with Russia, signaling a major policy shift under Trump. Financial Times revealed US investors are exploring agreements with Gazprom, potentially using Russian gas as leverage for peace talks in Ukraine. If true, this could reshape Europe’s energy strategy, forcing Germany and the…
About 50,000 Russian and North Korean troops deployed in Russia’s Kursk region are fighting against Ukrainian forces, a senior government official told Kyodo News on Tuesday. The Ukrainian official said fierce fighting has broken out and North Korean soldiers have been killed in some areas, as the United States officially acknowledged for the first time…
Ukraine struck a manufacturer of military explosives deep inside Russian territory overnight, as well as storage infrastructure at a military airfield in the Lipetsk region, Kyiv’s General Staff said in a statement on Sunday. Russian air defence units downed 110 Ukrainian drones over the country, Russia’s defence ministry said, including one over the Moscow region,…