Deploying troops to Ukraine, even for non-combat duties, entails risks most European countries are currently unwilling to take. The priority right now must be ramping up aid to Kyiv. Stefanie Babst Strategic advisor and former NATO deputy assistant secretary general Acknowledging that the West’s strategy in support of Ukraine has …

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Chinese media Wednesday that Russia is ready to negotiate on the war in Ukraine. Russia has “never refused to negotiate,” China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency quoted Putin as saying. Russia seeks a “comprehensive, sustainable and just settlement of this conflict through …

North Macedonia is a country with a past — or no past, depending on your perspective. The landlocked Balkan country’s architecture, history, flag and even its name have all become an ideological battleground, contested by nationalists and Europhiles, disputed by Macedonians and Albanians, besieged by Greece and Bulgaria. Conservatives seek …