Ukraine fears being forgotten amid Middle East conflict.
Kyiv is worried that the support from the US and its Western allies will shift in favour of Israel. In an interview in 'The Economist,' the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian forces, Valery Zaluzhny, gave an alarming assessment of the situation.
Heat and dust below, war raging up above: Miners in the Donbas are working on two fronts.
Pokrovsk has been the Ukrainian mining capital since 2014. Thanks to its production of strategically important coking coal, a bit of everyday normality prevails in the town despite missile fire and nearby Russian military positions.
Slovakia's newly elected Prime Minister Robert Fico pledged on Thursday to stop delivering weapons to Ukraine, just one day after taking office.
The prime minister told lawmakers that Slovakia would "no longer supply weapons to Ukraine" and would only send humanitarian aid to Kyiv, according to French newswire AFP.
‘Big ambitions’: Ukrainian businesses thrive in Poland.
Around a million Ukrainian refugees have settled in Poland since the start of the Russian invasion in February last year and many have brought with them an entrepreneurial spirit – some 30,000 new businesses have been opened by Ukrainian refugees and one in every ten new businesses set up in the country is owned by a Ukrainian.
US-supplied ATACMS long-range missiles were used for the first time in an attack by Ukrainian forces.
Special Operations Forces claim nine Russian helicopters, an anti-aircraft missile system and an ammunition warehouse were destroyed in an attack in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy later confirmed the assault used longer-range ATACMS ballistic missiles donated by the US.
Members of the European Parliament will vote on a new €50 billion recovery fund for Ukraine.
One of the key demands of MEPs is that Russian assets be used to fund Ukraine's reconstruction.
The Ukraine Facility is made up of €17bn in grants and €33bn in loans. The intention is to help Ukraine recover, rebuild and prepare for possible EU membership in the future.
It is expected that the facility will be passed by the Parliament today.
Armenia's President Vahagn Khachaturyan has signed the ratification of the Rome Statute, recognising the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) despite Russian warnings, a statement said Saturday.
The move has angered Moscow, as The Hague-based court issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin over the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.
Regardless of a number of complex issues and slow progress, Ukrainians remain convinced their country will become part of the two Western blocs within 10 years.
Gallup survey data shows that 69% of Ukrainians believe their country would be allowed to join NATO within 10 years.
Ukrainians are similarly optimistic about entering the EU, with nearly three in four people thinking they would become part of the bloc over the same period.
Slovakia: Populist Fico struck a deal with a pro-Russia party to form a coalition government.
Former PM Robert Fico, who plans to end the country's military support for Ukraine, is poised to return to office after his party signed a deal to form a government.
Fico campaigned on a pro-Russian and anti-American message. His victory could further strain the fragile unity in the European Union and NATO.
Barentsburg: the Norwegian town feeling the chill of the Ukraine war.
Relations sour between the Svalbard town’s Russian and Ukrainian communities while a local tourism company is accused of being an ‘arm of the Russian state’.
Armenian lawmakers voted to ratify the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The Kremlin has said that a decision in Armenia to join The Hague-based court, which has issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin on the war crime accusation of unlawfully deporting Ukrainian children, would be "extremely hostile."
Slovakia is on the verge of rapprochement with Russia.
Pursuing a united European policy on the war in Ukraine was already made extremely complicated by opposition from Hungarian nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. And now, this is likely to become almost impossible after the results of the Slovak parliamentary elections held on Saturday.
Ukraine holds its breath as Slovakia votes in a knife-edge parliamentary election.
Voters in Slovakia are heading to the polls to vote in an early parliamentary election that pits a populist former prime minister who campaigned on a pro-Russia and anti-American message against a liberal, pro-West newcomer.