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Kyiv believes Moscow behind deadly blasts at army draft offices around Ukraine
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Eight killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine as Trump envoy says US keen to see elections there
Russian missile strike on apartment block in Poltava kills at least seven and injures 14 including three children, say emergency services
The Americans have nerve, asking us to sacrifice teenagers
In the second column in a monthly series, the 29-year-old commander of a Ukrainian drone unit discusses fighting on while being unable to grieve for those lost in combat and how and when the war might end
Trump’s leadership and US guarantees key to ending war with ‘afraid’ Russia, says Ukraine
Kremlin calls Zelenskiy ‘illegitimate’ leader who could not sign any peace deal for Kyiv
Ukraine’s military fights fires on many fronts amid battlefield setbacks
Scandals, ‘leaks’, army recruitment woes and Trump fears compound concerns over trajectory of war
Three reasons why the teachings of St Thomas Aquinas are more relevant than ever
Rite & Reason: In an era when leaders like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin cause havoc with their casual relationship with the truth, Aquinas offers an antidote
We do not know what will come first for Ukraine: peace or spring
And where the war is felt more keenly than the winter, a thaw will be caused not by the sun’s rays, but by blast waves and heat from exploding shells and mines
Three key takes on China: On Xi Jinping; The Political Thought of Xi Jinping; and The New Cold War
Influential writers look at how the Chinese leader is moulding his country - and the West - to fit his vision
Trump threatens Russia with sanctions and tariffs unless it makes deal to end Ukraine war
Kyiv says at least 200,000 European peacekeepers needed to oversee any ceasefire with Russia
Ukraine and Russia turn to Trumpology – and flattery – to handle erratic new US leader
Few clues as to how Trump will meet pledge to end Europe’s biggest war in 80 years
New books about inequality by Thomas Piketty: Counterpoints to the Trump-Musk war on the state
Among the French economist’s arguments is that ‘no credible solution to the challenge of global warming is imaginable without a drastic reduction in inequality’
Russia and Iran deepen ties as deadly missile strike hits eastern Ukraine
Closer military, energy and other co-operation planned under 20-year pact between Moscow and Tehran
Kremlin says Putin ready to meet Trump and sees divisions growing in the West
Kyiv tells allies it would be ‘crazy to drop the ball’ when Trump returns to White House
Hostile actions ‘are real and accelerating’: is Russia already at war with the West?
Europe divided and afraid of ‘escalation’ as Moscow’s unacknowledged attacks become more reckless
Ukraine launches new surprise offensive in Kursk region of western Russia, officials say
Russian troops attempting to flank Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk oblast and have captured several nearby villages
The Russians made them kneel in a line and shot them point blank: A dispatch from the front line
Lt Yulia Mykytenko gives her eye witness account of the horrors of Russia’s attack in the context of Christmas and looming new year
Aleksey Bugaev: Russian footballer’s spiralling story ends with death in Ukraine
Bugaev considered one of most promising defenders in country but alcohol and crime saw him on war’s front lines
Russian gas stops flowing through Ukraine
Transit deal expires with no follow-up agreement on flows to central Europe
Putin says in new year address that Russia will ‘move forward’ in 2025
Russian president salutes soldiers fighting in the war in Ukraine as ‘true heroes’
Unstable new world order has frightening echoes of 1930s and 1940s
Trump’s re-election fuels global turmoil in which Putin is the biggest of many autocrats blending kleptocracy and dictatorship. US institutions and international treaties are fading, and Ukraine and Palestine have been betrayed
Azerbaijan president criticises Russia for seeking to ‘hush up’ reasons for air crash
Ilham Aliyev says he was ‘upset and surprised’ by versions of events around Azerbaijan Airlines crash put forward by Russian officials
Azerbaijan Airlines crash: Putin calls Kazakhstan’s president to express condolences, Kremlin says
Putin apologises to Azerbaijan’s Aliyev after Russian air defences apparently mistakenly shot down plane, killing 38
Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia by Charles Hecker – Making money in the Wild East
As communism turned to right-wing authoritarianism, Moscow became an immense version of Dodge City or Tombstone
Slovakia could host peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, says Putin
Slovak PM Robert Fico has been outspoken opponent of EU military support for Kyiv during conflict
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemns ‘inhumane’ Christmas Day attack by Russia
Ukrainian president accuses Putin of deliberately choosing Christmas for strike on energy system
‘It’s all braggadocio’: Donald Trump’s former security chief scathing over lack of coherent strategy
John Bolton describes Trump’s decision-making as driven by personal relationships and ‘neuron flashes’, rather than a deep understanding of national interests
Volodymyr Zelenskiy tells Ukraine’s diplomats to fight for Nato membership
Putin vows to bring more ‘destruction’ to Ukraine after devastating drone attack on central Russian city of Kazan
Ukraine: Key events that shaped 2024 and will influence the conflict in 2025
Ukraine is still standing after more than 1,000 days of full-scale fighting with Russia, in the biggest war in Europe since 1945
Western indifference to Israel’s thirst for war defines a grotesque year of hypocrisy
As China and Russia weigh up their options in anticipation of Donald Trump’s second presidency, horrified countries in the Global South see Gaza as an emblem of US and European double standards
Fatalities in Kursk and Kyiv as Ukraine and Russia trade missile strikes
At least one dead in Kyiv and six killed in Russia’s Kursk region
During this hard men era, Ireland would do well to remember Seán MacBride’s words
MacBride asked ‘if those vested with authority and power practice injustice, resort to torture and killing, is it not inevitable that those who are victims will react with similar methods?’
Vladimir Putin claims war in Ukraine has made Russia ‘much stronger’
Moscow ‘ready for negotiations and compromises’ to end the fighting, Russian president says during carefully controlled press conference
EU needs to be less ‘polite’ in resisting Russian attempts to sway elections
Worldview: Attacks include sabotage, assassinations, parcel bombs, cyber attacks, electoral interference, social media disinformation campaigns and the testing of military preparedness
Russia talks pointless without security guarantees and defence boost, Ukraine says
Kyiv open to possible deployment of western troops ahead of Nato membership
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