The Ukrainian city of Chernihiv is in total blackout following what the authorities describe as a "massive" assault by Russian missiles and drones, with hundreds of thousands of people affected.
Across the wider Chernihiv region, four people are (...)
Belarus has pardoned 52 prisoners and released them into Lithuania, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda said on Thursday, as the Baltic nation and Belarus both thanked US President Donald Trump for his involvement.
It is the latest release of (...)
Hungary's Prime Minister expressed solidarity with Poland after Russian drones allegedly violated Polish airspace. But the gesture resulted backlash from Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who fired back angrily at Orbán on social media (...)
Poland's military said early Wednesday that it had shot down drones that violated its airspace during a Russian attack on neighboring Ukraine, the first time it has taken such a step in what is a major provocation for Europe and NATO forces.
"This (...)
Poland activated Article 4 of the NATO Treaty on Wednesday to allow for consultations with allies hours after its armed forces downed multiple Russian drones that had entered its airspace.
"The shooting down of drones threatening our security is a (...)
Polish authorities have closed Warsaw International Airport and Polish and NATO aircraft have been scrambled as reports have surfaced of Russian drones over the country.
The Polish military's Operational Command said in a statement that (...)
The Czech Republic's counter-intelligence agency said on Monday that it has broken up a spy network being built in Europe by Belarus in a joint operation with the intelligence services of Hungary and Romania.
The Czech agency, also known as BIS, (...)
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and North Korea's Kim Jong Un have sat down for formal talks in Beijing, a day after the pair and Russia's Vladimir Putin put on an unprecedented show of unity against the West at a massive military parade.
Xi and Kim began (...)
Lithuania has finished putting up the so-called "dragon's teeth" on its border with Russia's Kaliningrad exclave, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said on Saturday.
The concrete fortifications, meant to stop incoming tanks, are the latest step in a (...)
Chinese leader Xi Jinping made a veiled swipe at the United States on Monday as he criticized "bullying practices" and cast his country as a new leader of world governance, at a time when President Donald Trump's America First foreign policy is (...)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Tianjin on Saturday for his first visit to China in seven years, where he is expected to meet President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation (...)
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un will attend a military parade in Beijing next week alongside Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's foreign ministry has said, in what will be a landmark visit.
This comes days after US President Donald Trump said he (...)
The head of the European Union's executive Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has spoken of her outrage at Russia's deadliest onslaught on Kyiv since July — which also damaged the EU's delegation office in the Ukrainian capital. Seventeen people (...)
Lithuania's parliament elected a former labour union leader and relative political newcomer as the country's new prime minister on Tuesday, weeks after her predecessor resigned following investigations into his business dealings.
Lawmakers approved (...)
Ukrainian attacks on the Druzhba oil pipeline have blocked oil imports into Hungary and Slovakia for days and provoked an ongoing war of words between Kyiv, Budapest, and Bratislava. Ukraine attacked oil facilities on Russian territory with drones (...)
Hungary on Monday made a thinly-veiled threat to cut off electricity supplies to Ukraine as the diplomatic row over damage to the Druzhba pipeline escalates.
The fresh war of words erupted last week after a key distribution station of the Druzhba (...)
Authorities in Belarus unleashed a new wave of raids and detentions against government critics who took part in opposition rallies abroad earlier this year, officials and rights advocates said on Wednesday. It's the latest move in a sweeping (...)
Poland will maintain temporary border controls with Germany and Lithuania until Oct. 4 amid ongoing concerns about irregular migration, Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said Sunday.
The decision follows a high-level security meeting with (...)
Russian authorities have launched a criminal investigation into possible violations of air safety regulations following the fatal crash of an An-24 passenger aircraft in the remote Amur region on Thursday, which claimed the lives of all those on (...)
Political leaders in Lithuania were briefly directed to air raid shelters on Thursday after the alarm was raised over an airspace violation from Belarus, Lithuanian media reported.
Media reports stated that Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas and (...)
The BRICS group of nations condemned the increase in tariffs and the recent Iran conflict, but refrained from pointing a finger at US President Donald Trump at their summit in Brazil on Sunday
The group's declaration, which also took aim at Israeli (...)
"What they're showing on Russian TV are fairy tales for fools. Most of Mariupol still lies in ruins," says John, a Ukrainian living in Russian-occupied Mariupol. We've changed his name as he fears reprisal from Russian authorities.
"They are (...)
The era of nuclear disarmament is coming to an end while new technologies push the risk of nuclear conflict higher, SIPRI warned on Monday.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) stressed in its annual assessment of the state (...)
A prisoner exchange is under way between Russia and Ukraine, governments in Moscow and Kyiv have confirmed.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said the exchange would unfold "in several stages" over the coming days, adding that the wounded, (...)
Russia and Ukraine have each handed over 390 soldiers and civilians in the biggest prisoner exchange since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022.
They both returned 270 servicemen and 120 civilians on the Ukrainian border with (...)
