Moscow will return to the Black Sea initiative only after the West lifts restrictions on Russian agricultural exports, the president has said

Membership will only be possible when the country's borders are “stable,” a Czech official has said

In Ukraine's north-east, Russia has recently deployed an estimated 100,000 troops in renewed attacks. But Quentin Sommerville, who spent the past month with Ukrainian brigades in the area, discovers it is the increasingly sophisticated drone attacks that are particularly feared.

Western efforts to arm Kiev and break the Russian economy are getting nowhere, Giuseppe Conte has said 

According to a recent Google Flights search, there were no direct or connecting flights from Minsk to the United States.

Without more advanced weapons slated to bolster the front line or fully committing forces still being held in reserve, it is unlikely that Ukraine will be able to secure a breakthrough in the counteroffensive, according to analysts.

Europe and Russia need each other, the former French president has said

Russia’s business elite was sanctioned to pressure Putin, but war in Ukraine continues

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has just taken a dangerous turn, with an increasingly desperate Vladimir Putin making a terrifying move.

The bloc’s secretary general says Kiev will not have to go through the Membership Action Plan, unlike other candidates.

Kiev is not yet ready for NATO membership, the US leader told CNN

Jens Stoltenberg, who was due to vacate his post in September, tweeted that he will lead the military bloc until October 1, 2024

Newsweek reached out to NATO for comment via its online press form.

In an interview, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace says the alliance must press its members to spend more on defense if Russia is to be contained

The French president was applauded for hitting several popular policy notes in the east.

French President Emmanuel Macron said at a security conference in the Slovakian capital on Wednesday that his Russian counterpart President Vladimir Putin had jolted NATO awake by invading Ukraine last year. Macron also called on the West to offer Ukraine "tangible and credible" security guarantees as it battles the Russian invasion.

A prominent Chinese ambassador has given tacit approval for President Vladimir Putin’s plans to re-establish Russia’s lost empire.

A high ranking Russian official has exploded at a gesture from the US, warning the superpower that Moscow “will find ways to respond”.

But with Russia and Ukraine fighting for advantage on the battlefield, neither is interested in talks for now

The Chinese president will arrive in Moscow next Monday and stay for three days, both sides have confirmed