Moscow has reacted to the inauguration and the initial decisions of President Donald Trump with restraint. On the one hand, ...

On January 16 and 18, Kyiv was targeted by Russia. In the first attack they used drones and damage was reported from five ...

China’s support for Russia in its conflict with Ukraine and the West equates to it investing in Putin’s Russia. Beijing ...

On 9 January, the United States approved its 74th package of military aid for Ukraine, valued at $500 million, under the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA). This marked the final transfer ...

Russian forces have reached the first of two roads leading west from Pokrovsk, exiting on the outskirts of Udachny. According ...

On 17 January, the leaders of Russia and Iran, Vladimir Putin and Masoud Pezeshkian, signed an interstate treaty in Moscow, replacing an agreement from 2001. The document is primarily intended to ...

Bulgaria’s parliament approved a new government led by Rosen Zhelyazkov of the centre-right GERB party, which secured the most votes in the October 2024 election (see ‘Election in Bulgaria: fragmentat ...

The US sanctions targeting Russia’s oil sector, introduced on 10 January, have also been extended to Serbia’s largest energy company, NIS (for further details, see Appendix). The majority stake in NIS ...