Europeโ€™s leaders find no quick response to Trumpโ€™s bombshell on Ukraine

Top European leaders could not find common ground on issues including sending peacekeepers in Ukraine.

European leaders race to respond after US policy shift on Ukraine

European leaders sought to find a unified response at an emergency summit in Paris Monday following a shock policy shift on the war in Ukraine by US President Donald Trump. The talks were held as Washington and Moscow’s top diplomats were due Tuesday …

Germanyโ€™s Scholz: Itโ€™s โ€˜inappropriateโ€™ to discuss sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine

Ukraine doesn’t have to accept whatever peace plan Russia and the United States present, Scholz added.

Europe tries to shore up fragile unity as it realises it cannot rely on US

Leaders arrive at Paris summit for urgent talks on Ukraine after week that showed how far values have divergedEurope live โ€“ latest updatesThey came smiling, but the task was immense. After dozens of summits at which a hesitant and discordant EU had fai…

Ukraine will not accept a Saudi-talks peace deal, says Zelenskyy

EU and Ukraine have been excluded from high-stakes negotiations between top Russian and US officialsEurope live โ€“ latest updatesVolodymyr Zelenskyy reiterated that Ukraine would not recognise any peace agreements made without its participation, as top …

Poland to Europe: Donโ€™t play games with Trump, spend more on defense

The Polish PM is adamant that Europe must not break ties with the U.S.

France hosts emergency summit on Ukraine: US treats EU as ‘junior partner’

The US is treating the EU like a “junior partner” in attempting to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, FRANCE 24โ€™s Armen Georgian said in an analysis. Citing President Trump’s phone call with Vladimir Putin and potential talks with Ukraine’s Zelen…

Macron and Trump have โ€˜frank conversationโ€™ minutes before European meeting on Ukraine

The call came before the French president welcomed a group of European leaders in Paris.

UKโ€™s Starmer to meet Trump next week

Prime minister heads to Washington to meet with US president as European capitals fret over Ukraine’s future.

Zelenskyy: I want to show Trumpโ€™s Ukraine-Russia envoy the front line

Keith Kellogg will be in Ukraine for two days this week.

Ukraine will not participate in Russia-US talks, Zelenskyy says from UAE

The Ukrainian leader said he will be in Turkey while Russia and the US speak in Riyadh.

EU top brass plans Kyiv visit amid US-Russia talks

The trip will take place in a show of solidarity as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine hits the three-year mark, one EU official said.

โ€˜Freezingโ€™ Ukraine war would allow Russia to threaten NATO, Latvian intelligence warns

Pausing hostilities, which U.S. President Trump has vowed to do, would free up Kremlin resources to threaten countries across the alliance, the report says.

A Picture to Remember review โ€“ memories of a Donetsk happy childhood before the war

Olga Chernykhโ€™s portrait of life in war-torn Ukraine, based on home videos, examines how bonds and memories persist through trauma, loss and distanceFormally inventive and emotionally resonant, Olga Chernykhโ€™s documentary feature debut highlights the p…

EU leaders meet in Paris over Trump policy shift on Ukraine

European leaders were due to meet in Paris on Monday to address Washington’s shock policy shift on the war in Ukraine, as Britain declared itself ready to dispatch peacekeeping troops to Ukraine. US President Donald Trump sidelined Kyiv and its Europe…

Marco Rubio arrives in Riyadh, Zelenskyy jets into UAE, as Ukraine talks expected to begin

U.S. secretary of state lands in Saudi Arabia as EU leaders prepare for crisis summit in Paris.

Europeโ€™s desperate bid to shape Ukraineโ€™s Trump deal in Munich

In this episode, host Giada Santana and Chief Diplomatic Correspondent Alexandra Brzozowski go through highlights and lowlights from the Munich Security Conference.

Stรฉphane Sรฉjournรฉ is on a nuclear mission as EU industry chief

With Germany embroiled in political and economic difficulties, nuclear advocates see an opportunity to score points in Brussels.

Die Quadrell-Analyse: Merz lรคchelt, Scholz wรผtet

โ€“ Erstmals Viererrunde vor der Wahl: Wie das Quadrell lief. โ€“ Gipfel nach der Sicherheitskonferenz: Zu welchen Lรถsungen die EU-Regierungschefs heute in Paris kommen kรถnnten, damit die USA und Russland nicht ohne sie รผber die Ukraine verhandeln. โ€“ Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: Franziska Brantner. Die Co-Chefin der Grรผnen zu den europรคischen Perspektiven fรผr die Ukraine, deutschen Friedenstruppen [โ€ฆ]

Angry farmers push Poland away from Ukraine

After nearly three years of war in Ukraine, protests by Polish farmers are opening up social and political fractures in a once-unshakeable alliance.

Victims of international crimes need justice โ€” and the ICC

We call on the EUโ€™s member countries and institutions to be the voice of human dignity globally, and to mobilize, defend and support the court.

The fight for Europe is on

At a time of intensifying great power competition, the EU has to choose between becoming a satrap of the U.S. or breaking free to steer its own course โ€” and it must decide quickly.

UK โ€˜readyโ€™ to send peace-keepers to Ukraine, PM Starmer says

Ahead of a crunch meeting in Paris on Monday, the U.K. leader commits to putting British troops in harm’s way to secure lasting peace.

Putin likely to strike NATO nations next, Ukraine leader warns

The Ukrainian president says he wonโ€™t accept a peace agreement if his country is iced out of talks.

As US recedes, NATO scrambles to find a new leader

The Brits, French, and Germans all have their own ideas about how to defend the continent with Americaโ€™s plans in flux.ย 

The US said Ukraine would meet with Russia to discuss peace. That was news to Kyiv.

โ€œI do not know what it is,โ€ said Ukraineโ€™s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

France confirms emergency European summit Monday in Paris

The “main European countries” will discuss the continent’s security, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noรซl Barrot said.

UKโ€™s Starmer to attend emergency European summit in Paris

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noรซl Barrot said the “main European countries” would meet on Monday to discuss European security.

โ€˜They may be Russian some dayโ€™: was this the week that changed the war in Ukraine?

As Donald Trump and his officials rip up three years of US rhetoric on supporting Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is walking an unenviable diplomatic tightropeVolodymyr Zelenskyy has had some tough weeks in the past three years, but this past one may be up t…

Trump team to start Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Saudi Arabia

Negotiators from Kyiv will be joining the talks that launch in the coming days.

Rutte: NATO spending target will be โ€˜considerably more than 3 percentโ€™

“The U.S. is rightly asking for a rebalancing of that,” said Rutte. “It’s totally logical.”

Graham: Ukraine should automatically join NATO if Russia invades again

Republican senator says US should continue to send weapons to Ukraine.

Trump asks Zelenskyy for half of Ukraineโ€™s rare earths: NBC News

U.S. officials told NBC that handing over half of its valuable minerals would be a way for Kyiv to reimburse the U.S. for the billions of dollars in weapons and support.

Zelenskyy: โ€˜The time has comeโ€™ for a European army

Despite talk of a peace agreement, Russia is continuing to wage war against Ukraine.

Is this the end of NATO?

โ€œWeโ€™ve now got an alliance between a Russian president who wants to destroy Europe and an American president who also wants to destroy Europe,” one diplomat said.

Ukraine could become the EUโ€™s โ€˜Afghanistan,โ€™ Viktor Orbรกn claims

The Hungarian leader repeated Kremlin talking points in an interview with Tucker Carlson.

Vance brings a wrecking ball to diplomatic gathering in Munich

The U.S. vice president roasted the continent’s way of governing itself.

Zelenskyy: Trump told me Putin wants to end the war. I told him Putin is a liar.

“I donโ€™t want to go [down] in history as [the] president who helped Putin to occupy my country,โ€ says Ukrainian leader.

Latvia moves to ban tourist trips to Russia, Belarus

Riga wants to reduce the risks of human rights violations of Latvian citizens in those countries, and prevent their recruitment as spies.

Russian drone detonates on Chornobyl nuclear plant containment shell

Attack during night before Munich Security Conference started fire but did not cause radiation leak, says KyivEurope live โ€“ latest updates
A Russian drone carrying a high-explosive warhead struck the protective containment shell of the Chornobyl nucle…

German defense minister blasts Trumpโ€™s โ€˜clumsyโ€™ Ukraine negotiating play

Boris Pistorius said it would have been better to talk about Kyivโ€™s NATO membership and territory โ€œat the negotiating table.โ€

Putin is capable of attacking NATO country โ€˜next year,โ€™ Zelenskyy warns

Ukrainian leader implores the West to “stop this crazy guy.”

Senior Republican senator โ€˜puzzled and disturbedโ€™ by Hegsethโ€™s Ukraine remarks

Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker is breaking with the line from the Trump White House.

โ€˜Hallelujahโ€™: Orbรกn predicts Trump-Putin talks will โ€˜reintegrateโ€™ Russia into Europe

“That’s what we’ve been waiting for,” Hungarian prime minister says.

Killer Russian drone strikes Chernobyl nuclear reactor cover, Ukraine says

“Radiation levels inside and outside remain normal and stable,” says International Atomic Energy Agency.

Ein Spaziergang mit dem Bundeskanzler

Die aktuellen Umfragen sprechen eine klare Sprache: Es kรถnnte eng werden fรผr Olaf Scholz. Wie blickt er selbst auf seine Zukunft als Kanzler? Was passiert, wenn Friedrich Merz und die Union stรคrkste Kraft werden? In diesem Gesprรคch gibt Scholz Einblicke in seine Strategie, spricht รผber die zerbrochene Koalition, die wirtschaftlichen Herausforderungen und die zunehmende politische [โ€ฆ]

Live: Zelensky, Vance set to meet in Munich ahead of security conference

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US Vice President JD Vance are set to meet in Munich on Friday, days after US President Donald Trump announced he would hold bilateral talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss ending the war in …

Trump triggers Western anger over โ€˜appeasementโ€™ talks with Putinย 

EU and British politicians warn America against caving to the Kremlin’s demands on Ukraine. ย 

Russia should rejoin G7, Trump says

Moscow never would have invaded Ukraine if it still had a seat at the table, the president insisted.

Kremlin: Ukraine can be part of peace talks โ€” but main players will be US and Russia

โ€œOur main counterpart in this process is Washington,โ€ Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.

Europe lacks a master plan for Donald Trumpโ€™s new world disorder

There is a “mix of fear and denial,” according to one European official who spoke to POLITICO.

Trump kept Germanyโ€™s Scholz in the dark about his Ukraine peace plan

Based on talks with Trump, Scholz had expected Washington to continue its support for Kyiv, he told POLITICO

NATO ministers plead for Ukraine to be involved in Trump-Putin peace talks

But alliance chief Mark Rutte was keen to downplay fears that Europe and Kyiv are being sidelined.

Ukraine, Europe must be involved in any peace talks, say NATOโ€™s European members

Any peace negotiations to end the war in Ukraine must involve Kyiv, saidย NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Thursday, as European defence ministers meeting in Brussels responded to US President Donald Trump’s announcement that he and Russian Preside…

Rassismus-Vorwurf: Scholzโ€™ Stinkefinger-Moment

โ€“ ร„uรŸerung gegenรผber Joe Chialo: Ein unbeobachteter Moment holt den Kanzler wenige Tage vor dem Wahlsonntag ein und bringt ihn in eine Situation, wie sie zuletzt Peer Steinbrรผck hatte. โ€“ Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: FDP-Chef Christian Lindner erklรคrt, weshalb er nun eine Deutschland-Koalition aus CDU, SPD und FDP favorisiert. โ€“ Vor der Mรผnchner Sicherheitskonferenz: Trump kรผndigt Verhandlungen [โ€ฆ]

Trumpโ€™s uphill battle to make NATO allies hit his mega defense spending target

There is broad agreement to boost defense spending โ€” but the U.S. president’s call for 5 percent of GDP is too much for most European countries.

Trumpโ€™s plan for Ukraine a great deal โ€” โ€˜for the Kremlin,โ€™ Kyivโ€™s backers say

“Letโ€™s not mince words about what this represents: a surrender of Ukraineโ€™s interests and our own, even before negotiations begin,โ€ says U.S. Senator Adam Schiff.

Trump announces first meeting with Putin in Saudi Arabia

The meeting will happen in the “not too distant future,โ€ Trump said.

Vance enters the world stage. Can he speak for Trump?

The vice president faces a perennially difficult task as he attempts to take the MAGA mantle.

Trump and Putin stun Europe with peace plan for Ukraineย 

U.S. president announces that talks with Russia’s leader on ending the war will start โ€œimmediately,โ€ after his defense chief warns that Ukraineโ€™s peace goals wonโ€™t be met.

Trump-Putin Ukraine peace talks mustnโ€™t exclude Kyiv, EU allies warn

U.S. and Russian leaders spoke on the phone Wednesday about ending the war โ€” and agreed to start negotiations โ€œimmediately.โ€

Trump says he and Putin will negotiate to end the war in Ukraine

The president says he and the Russian leader spoke and are eager to work together.

Europe cannot guarantee Ukraineโ€™s security without the US, Zelenskyy says โ€“ video

If Donald Trump withdraws US support for Ukraine, Europe alone will be unable to fill the gap, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has suggested. ‘There are voices which say that Europe could offer security guarantees without the Americans, and I always say no,’ said …

JD Vance and Germanyโ€™s likely next chancellor to discuss Ukraine, trade

Friedrich Merz has pledged to take a leading role in uniting the continent in its response to U.S. President Donald Trump.

Merz, Scholz und das Nervenspiel nach der Wahl

โ€” Vorbereitungen fรผr den Tag nach dem Wahlsonntag: Wie sich die Parteien auf den 24.02. vorbereiten, wer mit wem zuerst spricht, wo politische Karrieren befรถrdert und womรถglich beendet werden. Einblicke von Rasmus Buchsteiner dazu. โ€” Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: Bundesinnenministerin Nancy Faeser รผber Migrations-Streit, Terror-Schutz und den Zwist zwischen Union und SPD รผber Zurรผckweisungen an der Grenze. [โ€ฆ]

On the slow road to peace in Ukraine

Ahead of the Munich Security Conference, we need to be preparing for an extraordinarily complex process that will take many months.

Zelenskyy proposes to trade land with Putin, offers to return Kursk

If U.S. president can convince Moscow to negotiate an end to hostilities with Kyiv, Ukraine leader is ready to talk business on occupied territories.

Russia could start a major war in Europe within 5 years, Danish intelligence warns

An updated threat assessment warns of the consequences of a divided NATO and an absent U.S.

Russia lashes out at EU plans to seize its โ€˜shadow fleetโ€™ in the Baltic Sea

Moscow said any move to grab its oil exporting vessels would be seen as an attack against the country, after POLITICO revealed the new EU plans.

Trump demands $500B in rare earths from Ukraine for continued support

“We have to get something. We canโ€™t continue to pay this money,โ€ U.S. president says.

Riding out the Trump tiger until heโ€™s exhausted

How should one handle the 47th U.S. president? Kiss the ring, resist, offer deals and wait for exhaustion to set in.

Trump team to visit Ukraine this week, Zelenskyy says

A “serious” American delegation will visit Ukraine, the Ukrainian president said.

Russia launches wave of overnight drones towards multiple Ukrainian cities

As a series of drones hit Ukrainian cities, a new report by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests Russia is “leveraging” technological innovation and experience gained in the war in Ukraine “directly against NATO states.”

Can Trump keep his promise to end the war in Ukraine? Itโ€™s possible โ€“ but it wonโ€™t be easy | Christopher Chivvis

The president has made big statements. But securing real peace will involve a mix of global diplomacy, threats and sweetenersโ€ข Christopher S Chivvis is a senior fellow and director of the Carnegie Endowmentโ€™s American statecraft programmeAmid the maels…

EU considers giving countries wiggle room to boost defense spending

The move would allow governments with overstretched budgets more flexibility under the bloc’s debt and deficit rules.

Inside the new plan to seize Russiaโ€™s shadow fleet

European countries are pushing for new powers to squeeze Moscowโ€™s shadow fleet after a spate of incidents in the Baltic Sea.

Trump says heโ€™s spoken with Putin about ending Ukraine war: NY Post

Russian leader “wants to see people stop dying,” Trump tells the newspaper in an interview.

Trump says he spoke to Putin, Kremlin canโ€™t โ€˜confirm or denyโ€™

The Kremlin on Sunday declined to confirm or deny a US media report of a phone call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin about ending the war in Ukraine.ย 

US can ramp up sanctions on Putin, Trumpโ€™s Ukraine-Russia envoy says

โ€œIf thereโ€™s anybody who understands leverage, itโ€™s President Donald J. Trump,” Keith Kellogg tells the New York Post.

โ€˜Weโ€™re still thereโ€™: Ukraine marks the 6-month anniversary of its Kursk incursion

Kyiv insists that the invasion made sense, but some experts feel the cost has been very high.

UK takes on leadership of Biden-era Ukraine military aid group

Britain will take over Wednesdayโ€™s meeting of Kyivโ€™s allies from the U.S.

First high-end French fighter jets arrive in Ukraine

The warplanes will help defend Ukraine against Russian attacks.

Baltics brace for cyberattacks as they depart Russian electricity grid

A long-planned exit from the BRELL power grid has the Baltic countries preparing for Russian retaliation.

Ukraine war briefing: Bomber dies in attack on army recruitment centre

String of attacks against Ukraineโ€™s mobilisation effort; Ukraine announces robot ground units. What we know on day 1,079A person died setting off an explosion at an army recruitment centre in western Ukraine on Wednesday, officials said, amid a string …

Kremlin says talks with US have โ€˜intensifiedโ€™ in recent days

“There are indeed contacts between individual departments,” says spokesperson for Vladimir Putin.

Poland spends big on arms to stay friends with Trump

Defense Minister Wล‚adysล‚aw Kosiniak-Kamysz warns that Europe must spend more “to retain the presence of the Americans in Europe.”

Give Ukraine nuclear weapons, says Zelenskyy

If Ukraine isn’t granted NATO membership it will need another way to defend itself from Russia in future, said the Ukrainian president.

Von der Leyen signals โ€˜extraordinaryโ€™ measure to boost EU defense spending

The move would offer national capitals more room to increase defense spending.

Putin ally Schrรถder avoids Nord Stream 2 inquiry after burnout diagnosis

The former German chancellor is suffering from severe exhaustion, lack of energy, concentration and memory problems, his doctor says.

Scholz slams Trumpโ€™s โ€˜self-centeredโ€™ bid to link Ukraine aid to rare earths access

Kyiv isn’t totally against the U.S. president’s idea โ€” but the German chancellor isn’t impressed.

War of attrition strains Ukraineโ€™s army

Ukraine wants Donald Trump’s support, but has suffered thousands of casualties and desertions as it holds the line against Russia.

Ukraine demands โ€˜impartialโ€™ inquiry into death of a citizen in Slovakia

Bratislava and Kyiv have been at loggerheads since the Slovak leadership cut off weapons flows to Ukraine and embraced Moscow talking points.

UN reports โ€˜alarming riseโ€™ in Russia executing Ukrainian soldiers

“Many Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered or were in physical custody of the Russian armed forces were shot dead on the spot,” a monitoring mission says.