Europe

European countries struggle to fill up their weapons stocks while Kyiv asks for continued military aid. EU countries’ stocks of weapons are severely “depleted” in the wake of sending arms to Ukraine, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned Monday. During a debate with EU lawmakers, the top diplomat urged …

Russia says gas supplies to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline will not resume in full until the Western countries reach a collective decision and lift sanctions they have imposed on Moscow over its military operation in Ukraine. The Monday announcement was made by the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, …

Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal urged the European Union on Monday to supply Kyiv with more weapons and equipment while offering to help out with gas deliveries to reduce the bloc’s dependence on Russia. “We need more modern weapons, such as air defence, missile defence and ship defence,” Shmyhal told …

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says Europeans are expected to experience a harsh winter amid cuts in oil and gas exports by Russia in the wake of Western sanctions against Moscow over its military operation in the former Soviet country. Zelensky made the comment late on Saturday after Moscow shut down …

John Sullivan has completed his tenure in Moscow, the diplomatic mission said John Sullivan has left Russia after almost three years as US ambassador, the diplomatic mission in Moscow announced on Sunday. “US Ambassador to the Russian Federation John J. Sullivan has concluded his tenure as US envoy and departed …

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused Greece on Saturday of occupying islands in the Aegean Sea that have a demilitarised status and said Turkey was prepared to “do what is necessary” when the time comes. Historic rivals while also being fellow members of NATO, Turkey and Greece have been at odds …

Russia says the United States is planning to move its unfinished programs for the development of biological weapons from Ukraine to another country in Eastern Europe, in a move that threatens the host country. Russia has formerly said it has discovered signs of several bio laboratories in Ukraine. The laboratories …

It is possible to eliminate the monkeypox outbreak in Europe, World Health Organization officials said on Tuesday, highlighting evidence that case counts are slowing in a handful of countries. There are encouraging signs of a sustained week-on-week decline in the onset of cases in many European countries, including France, Germany, …

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top ally, Dmitry Medvedev, says if Ukraine had been allowed to join NATO, World War Three could have begun. In an interview with French TV network LCI, Medvedev also said it is not possible for Moscow to stop its military campaign in Ukraine even if Kiev formally renounces …

Poland has sealed a weapons deal worth $5.8 billion with South Korea for the purchase of tanks, howitzers and ammunition as the east European nation aims to replace armaments shipped to Ukraine. Polish Deputy Prime Minister Mariusz Blaszczak, who also serves as the country’s defense minister, signed the arms deals on …

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says he is “ashamed” as hundreds of asylum-seekers have been forced to sleep in the sweltering heat outside an overcrowded migrant reception center in Ter Apel, a village in the northern Netherlands. “It is terrible what is happening in Ter Apel,” Rutte said on Friday, but …

NATO’s secretary-general alleges that Russia’s military capabilities in the Arctic have come to pose a challenge to the Western military alliance in the region. Speaking during a visit to Canada on Friday, Jens Stoltenberg accused Moscow of creating “a significant military buildup” in the high North. He claimed that Russia …

The price of electricity in Germany and France for 2023 has soared to new records due to the European energy crisis caused by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. According to AFP, in Germany, the price of electricity for the year ahead reached €850 ($850) per megawatt hours (MWh) in the stock …

European natural gas prices have hit new records in the aftermath of sanctions targeting Russia’s energy sector, prompting several European countries such as Italy and Spain to take new measures to bring the crisis under control. Europe’s benchmark Dutch TTF gas contract advanced to 318 euros per megawatt on Thursday, …

The Greek government said on Thursday that some 25,000 migrants had tried to enter the country through its border with Turkey in August, as it announced plans to dramatically extend a wall between the two neighbors. Athens will extend a 40-kilometer (25-mile) long wall built along the Greek-Turkish border at …

Russia is set to ramp up the size of its armed forces from 1.9 to 2.04 million as the war in Ukraine intensifies. According to a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, the increase includes a 137,000 boost in the number of soldiers to 1.15 million, which comes …

47 percent of Europe is under warning conditions with a clear deficit of soil moisture, European Drought Observatory says. Europe is facing its worst drought in at least 500 years, with two-thirds of the continent in a state of alert or warning, reducing inland shipping, electricity production, and the yields …

The United States is expected to announce as early as Wednesday a new security assistance package for Ukraine of about $3 billion, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. The $3 billion weapons assistance package would be the largest that Washington has generated for Ukraine in the six months since Russian …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has lambasted Turkey’s declared plans to launch a new military campaign in northern Syria, stressing that an escalation of military actions in the war-ravaged country would be “unacceptable.” Lavrov made the remark at a press conference alongside his visiting Syrian counterpart, Faisal Mekdad, in the …

Warrant Officer Paul Carney said soldiers should prepare their families for the possibility of being sent to Ukraine to fight Russia. The UK’s top ‘other ranks’ soldier has said that British troops must be ready to fight Russia and should prepare their families for the prospect of an “extended” deployment, …