Denmark looks to Ukraine for attack drone training

US ambassadors to war zones come and go

Putin prefers war – and not just in Ukraine

Merz keeps AfD out of power

Zelensky says Chinese soldiers caught fighting for Russia

Sea and energy ceasefires are good deals for Russia

Ukraine peace talks march to the beat of Russian bombs

Russia threatens to deport Ukrainians from Ukraine

Data on 30,000 abducted Ukrainian children may be gone

Trump suggests US nuclear takeover in Ukraine

Putin denies Trump the ceasefire he wants

Trump’s strategy for Ukraine is to surrender

Putin’s ‘root causes’ won’t get a peace deal very far

US and Ukraine agree ceasefire proposal that Russia may yet snub

France proposes extending its nuclear umbrella over a cloudy continent

Team Starmer prepares for war

Anger and hatred in Washington

Defence of the realms

Why Trump courts Russia

Starmer’s plan for Ukraine

Trump sounds like a Russian asset

Victoria Amelina’s unfinished book is a searing emblem of Ukrainian resistance

Echoes of history haunt Munich Security Conference

UK chairs Ukraine Nato defence group for the first time as US pulls back

Austrian bank profits by staying in Russia

Hungary is sabotaging EU efforts to stand up to Russia

No mercy: US aid to Ukraine suspended

US plans to end war in Ukraine won’t fly without a redesign

Starmer signs 100-year pact with Ukraine on first trip as PM

Russian spies causing “mayhem” on Europe’s streets

China port authority clamps down on oil sanction busters

Finland finds anchor at centre of cable sabotage investigation

China grapples with HMPV outbreak

Russia in the crosshairs

UK lasers bring drones back down to earth

Does AI increase productivity? Or reduce it?

Killing Time by Alan Bennett

Moana 2’s success shows the power of streaming – and sequels

Abducted Ukrainian children naturalised as Russians

Grey wolves lose protected status in EU

Intent to Destroy by Eugene Finkel

Rouble falls as Russian inflation and interest rates rise

Europe has to defend itself

Peer uses Kremlin talking points and considers Russian ambassador a “nice chap”

Ballistic missile fired from Caspian basin marks new phase of war

Ukraine scrambles to adjust to Trump

Angus Steakhouse: Best steak sandwich in London? Tortoise investigates

Putin is building a buffer zone in the old Soviet empire

Zaluzhny: let Ukraine join Nato

First Ukrainian journalist to die a prisoner in Russia

Zelensky pitches victory plan to US at war with itself

Moscow ‘builds drones in secret Chinese factory’

Unseaworthy submarines reflect collapsing faith in Britain’s armed forces

US creeps toward sending long-range missiles to Ukraine F16 jets

Freed dissident says Russia still has more than 1,000 political prisoners

How invading Russia fits into Zelensky’s “victory plan”

Acid in the air as Russia hits chemical plant

Ukraine may have trapped Russian troops on their own soil

Zelensky says goal in Kursk is to build a buffer zone

Nord Stream: hunt continues for saboteur of gas pipeline

Klitschko: More than a fight – Mayor Klitschko gets his close-up

Trump would turn away from Europe if re-elected

Decision time already for Starmer on Ukraine

EU releases €1.4 billion from frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine

“Europe is mortal”

Macron and Sikorsky urge Europe to wake up to Russian threat

Putin the terrible

Putin the terrible: Expect more chaos and carnage from the 21st century Tsar

Russian election: Sham election hands Putin six more years

Scholz and the tape: a bridge too far?

Hacked call sows disunity among Ukraine’s allies

Alexei Navalny: The exchange that didn’t happen

Alexei Navalny’s mother says officials want his funeral “to be held in secret”

Trillion-dollar war: how Russia pays for it

How fossil fuel exports pay for Russia’s trillion-dollar war in Ukraine

Putin’s message: I am winning

Tusk’s task: to rescue Poland

Donald Tusk locks horns with Poland’s populist president Andrzej Duda

EU agrees €50 billion Ukrainian aid deal after Orbán folds

Icons and bullets

Russian military plane crashes near Ukrainian border

The Showman, Simon Shuster

New warnings of war between Russia and Nato

Hungary veto sours EU accession breakthrough

If US aid dries up, Ukraine could lose

FSB expected to meddle with elections too

Poisoning in Ukraine

Ukrainian baby “secretly adopted” by Putin ally

Ukraine fights on as the world looks away

Israel–Hamas: the view from Kyiv

Polished friendship

Fugitive businessman at centre of Wirecard scandal potentially linked in court to Russia spy case

Thousands of Armenians flee after Azerbaijan seizes disputed enclave

German aid to Russia

Putin’s strategy of dividing Europe is starting to work

German “treason”

Model embryos

Ministerial gambit

Ukraine defends the use of drones on targets inside Russia

Rouble on the slide

Codename “Rengaw”

Deportations of Ukrainian children recall Nazism

Russia’s eastern call up

Wagner Group threatens Polish border as diplomatic tensions rise

Stolen childhood

Nuclear threat

Crossed swords

Moldova meltdown

Grain drain

Extreme weather

Maria Prymachenko (Saatchi Gallery, July 13 – Aug 31)

Seven bullets

Prigozhin goes for nukes

Ukraine needs F-16s to win the war – will they get them?

Where is Prigozhin?

Putin’s second front

Death in Berdyansk

Double treason

Putin’s showdown with Wagner has been Lukashenko’s moment

Prigozhin’s wild weekend leaves Putin flailing

Nato members struggle for unity on Ukraine

Africa’s peacemakers

Ukraine’s long-awaited counter-offensive has begun

Ukraine update

Kakhovka dam explosion

Wagner boss says “de-militarisation” of Ukraine has failed

Belgorod “liberated”

South Africa’s Russia crush

Hypersonic interception

Insecurity Council

Intelligence blared

Sensemaker: Stalingrad 2.0

Sensemaker: Moscow rules

Sensemaker: War profiteers

Sensemaker: A gun to the head

Sensemaker: The price of defeat

Sensemaker: How to win

Sensemaker: Target Crimea

Sensemaker: No red lines

Sensemaker: Ready, steady, cook

Sensemaker: Critical mass

Sensemaker: The year of Ukraine

Sensemaker: General Frost

Sensemaker: More war

Sensemaker: Rubicon, Rubicoff

Sensemaker: Dirty lies

Sensemaker: Putin on the ropes

Sensemaker: New world disorder

Sensemaker: Russia on the edge

Sensemaker: Peak Putin?

Sensemaker: Losing Russia’s war

Sensemaker: Two-faced Turkey

Sensemaker: Treason and power

Sensemaker: Justice in war

Sensemaker: The battle for Ukraine’s grain

Sensemaker: How to beat Russia

Sensemaker: Are sanctions working?

Sensemaker: Wrecking ball

Sensemaker: Dying for weapons

Sensemaker: Russification and resistance