Russia is trying to recruit foreign migrants, detained in a recent sweep at its border with Finland, for its war in Ukraine. The BBC has seen evidence of several cases in which foreigners were rushed into a military camp on the border with Ukraine, days after they were picked up for breaching immigration laws. The…
It’s all rather surreal. I’m sitting in a 19th Century St Petersburg mansion. Lying on the floor by my chair is Winston Churchill. He is fast asleep… and he is snoring. “Maybe if you wake him up from time to time it’s good.” This piece of advice comes from Austria’s former Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl…
US President Joe Biden is urging Congress to pass an aid bill for Ukraine, offering Republicans southern border compromises to push it through. Lawmakers are poised to block the $110bn (£87.3bn) package that includes $61bn for Ukraine, as well as funds for Israel and aid for Gaza. Republicans are insisting that any aid to Ukraine…
Former Ukrainian MP Illya Kyva has been assassinated in Russia by Ukraine’s SBU security service, law enforcement sources have told BBC Ukraine. “The criminal was liquidated by using small arms,” the sources said. His body was found outside the capital Moscow, Russian investigators said. Earlier this year, Kyva was given a 14-year jail sentence for…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is making a rare trip abroad to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and is also scheduled to travel to Saudi Arabia. Mr Putin is expected to discuss the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, as well as oil production, with the UAE president. The UAE is currently hosting the COP28 UN climate…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff has warned that his nation is in danger of losing its war against Russia if more US military aid is not forthcoming. Andriy Yermak said there was a “big risk” of Ukrainian defeat without continued US support. “It will be difficult to keep in [the] same positions and…