US president expresses frustration with Putin after meeting with UK PM amid pressure on Russia for ceasefire. Donald Trump’s timeline for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine has sped up, the president said while visiting Nato ally Great Britain on Monday. “I’m going to make a new deadline of…

The United States has officially approved a new $4 billion defense loan guarantee for Poland, aimed at helping the country modernize its armed forces. The loan will be used to purchase American-made weapons. With this latest guarantee, the total value of U.S. defense loans and guarantees to Poland now exceeds…

European capitals have commented on the newly reached framework trade agreement between the European Union and the United States, which sets the tariff level on European imports to the US at 15%. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz gave a positive assessment of the agreement, emphasizing that it helped avoid a large-scale…

Moldova is all but landlocked, and the only port on its 400m-long coastline, Giurgiulești, works in close cooperation with Ukraine. Even if the Kremlin succeeds in toppling Moldova’s pro-Western government in parliamentary elections in September, it is hard to imagine the authorities in Kyiv tolerating a Russian military reinforcement of a neighbouring…

European Council President António Costa has called on China to use its influence over Russia to compel it to respect the UN Charter and end its full-scale war against Ukraine. His remarks come amid growing Western concerns about China’s ongoing exports of dual-use goods that could be employed in Russia’s…