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INTERVIEW: Stewart is not Ukrainian. He is an American without any Ukrainian roots. Nonetheless, he is a convinced and tireless evangelist of Ukraine’s traditions.
Last week, Viktor Orban made his first wartime visit to Kyiv. Just three days later, he met with Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban hinted at upcoming "unexpected meetings" similar to his recent visit with Vladimir Putin in Moscow and Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv during an interview with Roger Koppel, editor-in-chief of Swiss website Die Weltwoche.
"Next week, I will have meetings that will be just as unexpected," Orban stated during the interview on the plane, adding that the first surprise meeting is set for the morning of July 8.
Nazar Voloshyn, spokesperson for the Khortytsia operational group, told Kyiv Post that Russian troops have not made any territorial gains, and there is no Russian army in the city itself.
Russian troops are advancing on Toretsk in the Donetsk region. Still, the Ukrainian Defense Forces are repulsing them near the outskirts of the city, Nazar Voloshyn, spokesperson for the Khortytsia operational and strategic group of troops, told Kyiv Post in a phone interview.
“The situation around the city of Toretsk is such that the Defense Forces control the situation. As of now, the enemy has not made any territorial gains, and there is no enemy Russian army in the city,” Voloshyn said.
The world in focus, as seen by a Canadian leading global affairs analyst, writer and speaker, in his review of international media.
The United Kingdom will maintain "unshakeable" support of NATO and will continue support with allies towards Ukraine - incoming Prime Minister Keir Starmer said during his first press conference in London on Saturday. “I’ve already had a number of international calls, as you will know, and as you would have expected, to establish the relations across with other countries to have really important discussions about Ukraine and other pressing issues. And Washington will be an opportunity for me to have further discussions with some of the leaders I've already spoken to and some that I'm due to speak to," said the newly elected head of government. He added that the UK will aim to meet NATO annual military budget targets of 2.5% of GDP within its fiscal rules. Speaking to reporters after his first cabinet meeting, Starmer reiterated his government should be held accountable on actions and not words and that positive change will happen, but not necessarily overnight
Polls opened in the second and final round of France's snap legislative elections on Sunday with more than 500 seats still up for grabs in the lower-house National Assembly. The vote will also determine France's next prime minister, who will likely come from the party or coalition winning the most seats. The second-round voting began Saturday off the Canadian coast in the North Atlantic territory of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, and follows in French territories in the Caribbean, South Pacific and the Indian Ocean, along with French voters living abroad. The elections wrap up Sunday in mainland France. Initial polling projections are expected when the final voting stations close at 8pm Paris time (1800 GMT), with early official results expected late Sunday and early Monday. - France 24
As leaders gear up to celebrate at a NATO summit in Washington, there is a clear feeling that will not be sufficient to tackle the challenges it faces.
Spurred on by Russia's war in Ukraine and the spectre of Donald Trump's potential return to the White House, more of NATO's European members are finally hitting the alliance's defence spending target.
But as leaders gear up to celebrate at a NATO summit in Washington there is a clear feeling that will not be sufficient to tackle the challenges it faces.
Diplomats are worried less about Biden's physical condition and more about his political standing and re-election chances.
As the NATO summit in July approaches, diplomats and world leaders are expressing doubts about U.S. President Joe Biden's age and health and his chances of re-election, according to a Politico report based on conversations with 20 sources associated with the alliance.
While many of these officials support Biden's re-election, fearing a return of Donald Trump, they expressed "acute concern" about Biden's recent debate performance. The speech left them anxious about his readiness to lead and address ongoing political challenges.
US Ukrainian historian and activist Professor Taras Hunczak of Chatham, New Jersey, passed away on July 1, 2024, at the age of 92.
Professor Taras Hunczak leaves an indelible impression and profound memories for so many – for those who called him husband, father, brother, grandfather, uncle, friend, teacher, coach and mentor. He also leaves a record of significant personal and professional contributions to supporting Ukraine’s struggles for statehood, to the development of Ukrainian political thought, and to the popularization of Ukraine’s historic and modern treasures.
Professor Hunczak’s life story captures many defining historic moments of the 20th and 21st centuries and epitomizes a life well lived.
On the eve of the NATO summit in Washington DC, a group of “Foreign Policy Experts” has issued an astonishing public statement calling for Ukraine to be kept out of the Alliance.
This week a group of 50 academics and anointed “experts” released a public letter calling for Ukraine to be kept out of NATO. In some ways it was extremely predictable.
There were people like Mearsheimer, Posen and Walt, who had been telling us for years that Russia was a “great” power and that therefore Ukraine had to be sacrificed to Russian interest. Moreover, they said before February 24, 2022, this was nothing personal. All great powers do this, regardless of leadership (in other words, Putin doesn’t matter). They also said that Russia, being a great power, would overwhelm Ukraine in short order in 2022. It’s important to remember this—because they are returning to many of the same arguments they made then even when they have been shown to be false.
Ukraine has stepped up its attacks on Russian territory this year, targeting both energy sites it says supply the Russian army and towns and villages just across the border
An overnight Ukrainian drone attack set a Russian munitions depot ablaze in the region of Voronezh near the border between the two neighbours, local authorities said on Sunday, July 7.
The British newspaper published four charts, with the first showing estimates from both official and unofficial sources over a certain period.
The Economist estimates that between 462,000 and 728,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in the war against Ukraine. These figures are based on leaked documents from the US Department of Defense, as well as official and unofficial sources,
The British newspaper published four charts, with the first showing estimates from both official and unofficial sources over a certain period.
Three false narratives manufactured by Russia about Moscow‘s first invasion in 2014 belies the fact Putin’s had designs on Ukraine now well more than a decade old.
Many politicians, diplomats and other commentators around the world inadvertently or deliberately date the start of the current Russo-Ukrainian War to February 2022, instead of February 2014, thus ignoring that Putin had plans for a hostile takeover of Ukraine well more than a decade ago.
Three narratives – shaped by Moscow’s worldwide disinformation about its illegal annexation of Crimea and covert intervention in Donbas – account for this misunderstanding that has been self-perpetuating now for 10 years.
The 81-year-old Democrat kicks off a gruelling week with two campaign rallies in the battleground state of Pennsylvania before hosting the NATO leaders' summit in Washington.
US President Joe Biden heads back out on the campaign trail Sunday, desperate to salvage his re-election bid as senior Democrats meet to discuss growing calls that he quit the White House race.
The 81-year-old Democrat kicks off a grueling week with two campaign rallies in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, before hosting the NATO leaders' summit in Washington.
In the first round of the parliamentary elections in France, the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) and its allies emerged as the strongest force.
Centrist voters can't just be pushed to the left
Commenting on the Contributors website, political analyst Valentin Naumescu doubts that forming a "republican front" against the RN will work this time:
This stance contrasts with current President Emmanuel Macron's policy, which permits such usage as part of France's military aid to Ukraine.
Marine Le Pen, the figurehead of the French far-right National Rally (RN) party, told CNN that if her party wins the upcoming parliamentary elections, her government will prohibit Ukrainian forces from using long-range French weapons to strike Russian territory.
This stance contrasts with current President Emmanuel Macron's policy, which permits such usage as part of France's military aid to Ukraine.
Centrist President Macron called the snap elections three years ahead of time after his forces were trounced in June's legislative elections, a gamble which many observers believe backfired.
France votes in legislative elections Sunday that will be decisive in determining its political future and could see the far right become the largest party in parliament for the first time.
Centrist President Emmanuel Macron called the snap elections three years ahead of time after his forces were trounced in June's legislative elections, a gamble which many observers believe backfired.
Here are some facts and figures about the organisation forged in the Cold War and re-energised by Russia's war on Ukraine.
The NATO military alliance in April marked 75 years since the signing of its founding treaty in Washington -- where its members gather for an anniversary summit this week.
Here are some facts and figures about the organisation forged in the Cold War and re-energised by Russia's war on Ukraine.
Hesitations over what to do about the Russo-Ukrainian war, so noticeable in the West in recent months, are likely to remain or even grow. They are for good reasons.
The strategy of providing Ukraine with everything it needs to confront Russia on the battlefield for as long as it takes is meeting growing resistance among the Western expert community and decision-makers.
That trend is dangerous for Ukraine which is critically dependent on supplies of weapons and financial assistance.
Latest from the Institute for the Study of War.
Key Takeaways from the ISW:
Tetyana Vyshniak said that not enough people knew about the heroism of Mariupol’s last defenders at the Azovstal plant and the current fate of survivors. So she got the idea to hold weekly rallies.
Surrounded by the Russians, 3,000 people were stranded at Mariupol’s Azovstal Iron and Steel Works plant in May 2022.
About a thousand more fallen soldiers were lying in its refrigerators, Ukrainian defender Bohdan Krotevych said.
