Category: 2. RussianAggression

PRAGUE — Is Russian President Vladimir Putin really ready to commit to a cease-fire in the war against Ukraine? Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys doesn’t think so.

Speaking in an interview with RFE/RL, Budrys said that, from what we see coming from Putin about ending Europe’s largest…

Welcome to Wider Europe, RFE/RL’s newsletter focusing on the key issues concerning the European Union, NATO, and other institutions and their relationships with the Western Balkans and Europe’s Eastern neighborhoods.

I’m RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I’m drilling down on one…

For Donald Trump, Monday’s call with Vladimir Putin evoked the hope of a bright future of “largescale TRADE” between Russia and the US, “when this catastrophic ‘bloodbath’ is over”.

Yuri Ushakov, the Russian leader’s foreign policy adviser, said the tone of the two-hour…

In December 2023, along with tens of thousands of other 18-year-old men, Aleksandr, from the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude, was called up for mandatory military service in the Russian armed forces.

Four months later, and nearly 7,000 kilometers to the west, he found himself digging foxholes and…

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Vladimir Putin said he was “ready to work” with Kyiv on possible future peace talks to end the war in Ukraine but did not outline any substantive change in the…

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“Vladimir, STOP!” was Donald Trump’s plaintive message after a recent Russian bombing of Kyiv.

But Vladimir Putin is unlikely to stop. The Russian president…