Lawyer. “Court fixer.” Critic of the Maidan protests. Who exactly was Andriy Portnov, the Ukrainian political operative who was gunned down in a Madrid suburb?

Despite talk of renewed diplomacy, Russia and Ukraine have not scheduled further peace negotiations, a Kremlin spokesman said -- even as fresh Russian strikes in the Donetsk region killed two civilians and left others wounded in one of the war’s most violent…

The European Union on May 22 took a major step forward in ending imports of Russian and Belarusian nitrogen-based fertilizer products into the bloc by approving a schedule of increases in duties aimed at making it economically unviable to buy such products…

Russian forces shelled Kherson with artillery on the morning of 22 May, killing an 85-year-old woman.

The days following the first round of Poland’s presidential election make one thing clear: the candidate from the far-right Confederation party, Sławomir Mentzen, emerged as the real winner of this vote.

While many Ukrainians were focused on Romania’s presidential runoff and Poland’s first-round vote on Sunday, 18 May, elections were also held in a very different corner of Europe – Portugal.

Russian forces carried out an artillery strike on the city of Kostiantynivka and attacked the settlement of Raihorodok in Donetsk Oblast with a Lancet kamikaze drone on 22 May, killing two women aged 54 and 51 and injuring two others.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has held a meeting on preparations for a potential prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia in the thousand-for-thousand format. He has stated that Ukraine is currently examining the list of individuals submitted by the Russian…

Karol Nawrocki, the opposition-backed candidate in Poland’s presidential election, has officially accepted the demands of anti-Ukrainian Confederation party leader Sławomir Mentzen – including a pledge not to support Ukraine’s accession to NATO – in exchange…

Russian forces attacked Ukraine with an Iskander-M ballistic missile, 128 Shahed loitering munitions and various types of decoy drones on the night of 21-22 May.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has not confirmed reports that US President Donald Trump said in a conversation with European leaders after a phone call with Russian ruler Vladimir Putin that Putin does not want peace because he feels he is winning.

European Commission spokesperson Balazs Ujvari has announced that on 22 May the Commission adopted a list of transitional measures concerning Ukrainian exports to the EU, which will take effect on 6 June 2025.

On 22 May 2025, the European Parliament approved a regulation raising customs duties and tariffs on agricultural products and nitrogen-based fertilisers from Russia and Belarus to levels designed to halt their import into the European Union.

A UAZ Patriot vehicle was blown up between the settlements of Skadovsk and Antonivka in the temporarily occupied area of Kherson Oblast on 20 May 2025, killing four officers from Russia’s Akhmat unit, a Chechen armed formation fighting on Russia’s side.

Successive US administrations have long lobbied European allies to shoulder their fair burden for joint defense, but US President Donald Trump has taken a more bottom-line driven approach to NATO, publicly questioning why the United States should pay for…

Olha Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration and Justice Minister, has stated that the European market remains open to Ukrainian goods and that there are currently no plans to suspend the EU-Ukraine free trade regime.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stated that the Russian leader’s comments on creating a “buffer zone” only reinforce the fact that Russia is the obstacle to peace efforts.

Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven democracies agreed during a meeting in western Canada that Russia could face further sanctions if it resists a push toward a cease-fire in its war in Ukraine.

Russia and Ukraine launched the biggest prisoner swap since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, exchanging hundreds of soldiers and civilians in a process that was set to continue over the weekend, officials in both countries said on May 23.

Russian military intelligence (GRU) has targeted thousands of surveillance cameras across Romania and other NATO countries bordering Ukraine in an attempt to monitor the flow of military and humanitarian aid to Kyiv, according to an investigation involving…