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  • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
    War in Ukraine: free to read
    Military briefing: how close is Russia to taking Donbas after the fall of Luhansk?

    Boosted by fresh western weapons supplies, Ukraine’s defence hinges on disabling Moscow’s artillery steamroller

  • Monday, 4 July, 2022
    Denmark
    Several dead in Copenhagen mall shooting

    Police detain 22-year-old Dane and launch ‘massive operation’ in region around capital

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Denmark
    Danish PM criticised by inquiry over Covid mink-culling scandal

    Mette Frederiksen found to have made ‘grossly misleading’ statements about the slaughter

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Nato
    Military briefing: Nato brings back cold war doctrine to counter Russian threat

    Ukraine invasion has forced a fundamental sharpening of focus from the security alliance

  • Saturday, 25 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine urges Nato to recognise its central role in European security

    Zelenskyy adviser says alliance should reaffirm partnership as Kyiv continues to fight Russia’s invasion

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    EU enlargement
    Bulgaria vote buoys prospect of EU expansion into western Balkans

    MPs move to lift veto on accession talks but North Macedonia could reject conditions brokered by France

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    EU enlargement
    Bulgarian government ousted in blow to EU enlargement hopes

    PM Petkov removed in confidence vote that threatens deal to lift veto on North Macedonia accession talks

  • Sunday, 19 June, 2022
    Instant InsightFrench politics
    Emmanuel Macron crashes to earth after losing his hold on parliament

    Next five years now look very different for French president who was positioned to be EU’s most powerful leader

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    ObituaryRoman Ratushnyi
    Roman Ratushnyi, Ukrainian activist, 1997—2022

    The environmental and civic campaigner spent his short life standing up to abuses of power

  • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
    InterviewAntonio Costa
    EU risks creating ‘false expectations’ with Ukraine’s EU candidacy, Portugal PM says

    Bloc should focus on practical support to Kyiv in its war with Russia, António Costa tells FT

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Military briefing: Russia’s barrage hits Ukrainian morale in the Donbas

    Constant artillery fire takes toll as Russian troops make incremental progress in the east

  • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
    InterviewWar in Ukraine
    Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says stalemate with Russia ‘not an option’

    President tells FT conference that western sanctions ‘have not really influenced’ Moscow’s position

  • Monday, 6 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Calls for ceasefire in Ukraine are ‘premature’, Estonia’s PM warns

    Kaja Kallas says it would be a ‘mistake’ to push Kyiv into a settlement with Moscow

  • Sunday, 5 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine’s ‘lost’ oligarchs: from political power to wartime crowdfunders

    Corporate elite led fight against Russian aggression in 2014 but influence has waned and business has been devastated

  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Military briefing: Ukraine’s battlefield agility pays off

    Tactical autonomy of defending forces has been a strength compared to rigid Russian strategy

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Military briefing: Ukraine seeks way to break Russia’s Black Sea blockade

    Russian navy has been able to seal off other shipping traffic and all but halt Ukrainian grain exports

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    ObituaryLeonid Kravchuk
    Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician, 1934-2022

    Ukraine’s first democratically elected president, who liberated his country from Soviet dominion

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Military briefing: can Ukraine push the Russian army from the country?

    Successful counter-attack around city of Kharkiv has emboldened Kyiv to raise its military ambitions

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Russia accused of industrial-scale farm plunder in Ukraine

    Grain seizures and destruction of tools and buildings evoke painful memories of historic famine

  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine: free to read
    Who will pay to put Ukraine back together again?

    Postwar reconstruction will hinge on reducing corruption and forging a genuinely close relationship with the EU

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    InterviewWar in Ukraine
    Ukraine has upgraded its war aims as confidence grows, says foreign minister

    Dmytro Kuleba says ‘picture of victory’ has shifted to full liberation of territories from Russian occupation

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    European Union
    Macron calls for new European ‘community’ including Ukraine

    French president seeks broader political club including non-EU members in wake of invasion

  • Sunday, 8 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Ukrainian commanders lash out at Kyiv over Mariupol resistance

    Criticism from Azov regiment comes as Russia maintains assault on steel plant before May 9 celebration

  • Saturday, 7 May, 2022
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Kherson defiant as Russia seeks to tighten its grip on occupied Ukraine

    Moscow introduces rouble and internet control as its extends Russian state to territory taken as part of its invasion

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Russian troops step up Azovstal assault in bid for Victory Day success

    Kremlin targets steelworks as Ukraine’s forces make last stand in strategic city of Mariupol

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