Category: 1. Ukraine

Intense fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces near a pipeline Russia uses to supply European countries with gas has not disrupted supplies, network operators and gas companies said on Tuesday (13 August).

The European Union drastically…

The seeming paradox of Cossack involvement has been little noticed by Western analysts, ^{perhaps because Cossack history is mired in misunderstanding and myth — see the 1962 movie Taras Bulba, a Hollywood interpretation of the Gogol…}

Overview

Health-care workforces are facing critical shortages, both globally and in the WHO European Region, and many countries rely significantly on the international recruitment of health personnel. Since the start of the war in…

Mali recently severed relations with Ukraine as Ukrainian-backed Tuareg rebels killed at least 84 Russian soldiers in a well-executed ambush.

It’s unclear whether Ukrainian Special Operations Forces were directly involved in the assault,…

The Kremlin initially attacked the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions of southern Ukraine in the first days of Putin’s full-scale invasion in early 2022. POLITICO was unable to independently confirm how many Russian troops have been redeployed…

Imogen Foulkes
Reporting from Geneva

The United Nations Human Rights Office has expressed concern about…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s top military commander says his forces now control 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of Russia’s neighboring Kursk region, the first time a Ukrainian military official has…

In the early hours of August 6, units of the Ukrainian army crossed the border into Russia’s Kursk Oblast in a surprise move…