Russia said early Saturday that it had thwarted a naval drone attack on a bridge that links the Russian mainland with the Crimean Peninsula. In messages posted to Telegram, the Russian Defense ministry said three semisubmersible unmanned boats, “sent by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack on …

Ukraine’s forces in recent days have made “notable progress” against Russian troops in the south of the country, a White House spokesman said on September 1 as Ukrainian officials reported Russian missile strikes overnight. White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters that the United States had seen progress …

Georgia’s ruling party is mirroring the strategies of Viktor Orbán and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The government’s illiberal measures complicate Brussels’s decision on Georgia’s EU candidacy. Georgia is having a hot summer in which the main news is the tragic loss of life in a massive landslide in the Racha region. …