Defending the countries of Nato's eastern flank in the event of a potential Russian aggression would cost at least twelve hundred billion euros - twenty-four times more than the Polish defence budget. A free Ukraine, as part of the West, is our chance to render Russian imperialism toothless.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Paris on Monday, where he will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss continued European support for Kyiv as US President Donald Trump seeks to push Zelenskyy to make harsh concessions to aggressor Russia in hopes of ending Vladimir Putin's nearly four-year invasion. On Sunday, US and Ukrainian negotiators held "productive" meetings in Florida, where peace proposals were discussed.
occasions. Kallas, the former Estonian prime minister, was not just indulging in some form of historical mathematics. She was seeking to make a point that lies at the heart of the dispute between the US and Europe over Ukraine's future, a dispute that has again revealed the chasm across the Atlantic about the true nature of the Russian regime.
Europe currently does not have the means to defend itself against potential Russian drone attacks and needs to integrate Ukraine's know-how and capabilities to boost its defense, EU defense commissioner Andrius Kubilius said on Monday. "Why did it take us more than two years and the trigger of the Russian provocation with drones against Poland, and also against Baltic States and Romania, to understand that we are not ready to detect Russian drones and to destroy them with cost-effective means?"
In 1939, as the world prepared to plunge into the chaos of World War II, a small, frozen country withstood the onslaught of the Soviet Union. Three million Finns against 171 million Russians. One hundred and five days of combat at -50C (-58F). This forgotten story is what Olivier Norek, 50, a former police officer and author of crime novels, brings to light in The Winter Warriors, which has already sold more than 300,000 copies in France.
Russian assaults are intensifying, with record casualties reported as the conflict continues, compounded by Ukraine's struggle to maintain solidarity amidst growing civilian suffering.
Ukraine's foreign ministry expressed that any cut-off in military aid would embolden Russia, asserting that delays in support would only encourage further aggression instead of peace.
