Germany is considering supplying IRIS-T SLM medium range surface-to-air defence systems to Ukraine, a security source said on Friday. German daily Bild had reported earlier that the German cabinet’s security council was discussing the matter, and that IRIS-T SLM systems, made by privately held German weapons maker Diehl Defense, could …

Foreign ministers from the G7 group of rich nations backed giving more aid and weapons to Ukraine as they met on Friday in what Germany called a “powerful sign of unity” to deepen Russia’s global isolation for invading its neighbour. The European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell announced a …

Firefighters battled blazes in Odesa until early hours on Tuesday after Russian missiles pounded the Ukrainian port on the day President Vladimir Putin led celebrations in Moscow marking Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War. In a defiant Victory Day speech on Monday, Putin exhorted Russians to …

If NATO blood would in fact be spilt should Russia invade Poland or the Baltic states, why have we utterly rejected the prospect of spilling it to help protect Ukraine from Putin’s mass killings, torture, rape and destruction? Ukraine is not a NATO member and NATO states have no treaty …

Dôležitejšie ako to, čo Zelenskyj povedal, bolo to, kto ho nepočúval. 2. Čo Zelenskyj odkázal Slovensku. 3. V koalícii je o čosi menšie dusno. Dôležitejšie ako to, čo Zelenskyj povedal, bolo to, kto ho nepočúval V utorok mal pred Národnou radou prejav Volodymyr Zelenskyj. Zopakoval sa pohľad známy už z …

Nagyon sokszor hangzott el a szólam, hogy az Orbán-kormány Európában elszigetelődött. Foghatjuk a hasunkat, és lehet ezen egy nagyot nevetni. Az Európai Bizottság elnöke Magyarországra jött, és arról próbálta győzködni a miniszterelnököt, hogy lőjük lábon magunkat és az egész kontinenst. Mi történne akkor, ha egy csepp olajat és egyetlen köbméter …

Recently, the central government of China has issued a new policy on the “Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Accelerating the Construction of a Large Unified National Market (hereafter referred to as ‘Opinions’)”. The Opinions propose to speed up the …

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has reaffirmed Russia’s strategic interest to make coordinated efforts aim at building logistics hub along the coastline of the Republic of Eritrea during diplomatic talks attended by Foreign Minister of the State of Eritrea Osman Saleh who, on April 27, paid a working visit to Moscow. …

While the Kremlin is busy in the west, developments to the south promise further threats to its aggressive policy in the borderlands. Overshadowed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the South Caucasus is witnessing huge developments which could potentially decrease tensions between Armenia on the one hand and Turkey and Azerbaijan …

Moscow may be drawing most of its conscripts for the war in Ukraine from ethnic minority regions such as Buryatia and Dagestan (see EDM, May 4), but there appears to be a wartime division of labor amongst the voluntarist Cossack movement as well. In particular, one can observe a distinction …