The idea is unworkable due to NATO’s role, the bloc’s foreign policy and security chief Kaja Kallas has said The idea of a unified European army as advocated by Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is unworkable because many EU states are also members of NATO, the economic bloc’s foreign policy and security…
The restrictions have backfired given that 85% of Russian transactions now bypass Western currencies, Maksim Oreshkin has said Attempts by Western countries to pressure Russia through financial sanctions have contributed to the decline of G7 currencies, the deputy head of the presidential administration, Maksim Oreshkin, has said. Speaking at…
The bloc’s budget is too small, and without extra funding poorer regions and farmers will pay the price, the social committee chief has warned EU member states will need to take on more joint debt to fund expanding military spending, Seamus Boland, president of the European Economic and Social Committee…
Ukrainian officials demand the release of “war criminals” in exchange for people abducted in Kursk Region, Rodion Miroshnik has said Kiev continues to hold 12 Russian civilians abducted during the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk Region, Russian Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said on Friday. The hostage situation has remained unchanged for months,…
The dollar’s reserve status yields leverage – at hidden cost. An economic reckoning reveals the trade-offs embedded in monetary dominance. In some corners of the political imagination, the dollar has become a grand theory of everything – not a currency, but a convenient, catch-all, virtually cosmic culprit. Every sanction, every…
The US president’s remarks come amid a rift between Washington and Ottawa over trade and geopolitics US President Donald Trump has threatened to “decertify” aircraft made in Canada and hit Canadian plane sales with a 50% tariff amid rising tensions with Ottawa. Trump made the comments in a post on…
The Ukrainian leader’s increasingly belligerent complaints have been getting more pushback from key European backers Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has blamed Western backers for critical military shortages, stating that air defense systems lacked missiles during recent Russian strikes. His latest grievance follows a series of heated exchanges with European leaders, who…
The US president previously said he had secured a week-long moratorium on attacks against the Ukrainian power grid amid a cold snap Russia has agreed to partially suspend long-range strikes on Ukrainian targets at the request of US President Donald Trump, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has confirmed. Trump previously said…
An armed suspect was apprehended as he carried out reconnaissance near the target’s home, the agency has said Russian law enforcement agents have detained a gunman who was planning to assassinate a high-ranking military officer in St. Petersburg at the behest of Ukrainian intelligence, the Federal Security Service (FSB) has…
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