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    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Tracking Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia in maps

      A visual guide to the war

      Montage of map of Ukraine and tanks
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Global InsightUkrainian politics
      Ukraine’s democracy is facing a wartime election test

      Zelenskyy has hinted presidential vote may still be possible next year, alarming civil society groups

      Volodymyr Zelenskyy holds his voting paper in his right hand above the ballot box as he casts his vote
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      The Big Read
      The hard lessons from Ukraine’s summer offensive

      The country’s military is enjoying some success but it will be slow-going and requires allies to increase ammunition supplies

    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Ukrainian politics
      Ukraine open to minority rights concessions in quest to join EU

      Kyiv prepared to change rules on languages used in schools to unlock accession talks

      Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Olga Stefanishyna
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Biden edges closer to decision on supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles

      Washington fears striking Russian territory risks escalating the conflict

      A missile being fired
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Musk gave biographer Ukrainian official’s private messages without permission

      Mykhailo Fedorov says disclosure of exchange about military access to Starlink internet service ‘not pretty’

      Elon Musk and Walter Isaacson on a stage
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Ukraine seeks French help in wooing global south

      Foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba in Paris to counter Russia’s influence on countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America

      Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba, left, shakes hands with Catherine Colonna, France’s foreign minister
    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine27 min
      Ukraine tech sector goes to war | FT Film

      How start-ups help the war effort with cheap drones and AI-powered missile detection

      FT Film: Ukraine's tech war
    • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
      Nato
      Sweden poised to strengthen Nato’s northern defences

      Membership of alliance marks historic shift for non-aligned country, precipitated by Russia’s war against Ukraine

      Swedish soldiers pose for a photo as troops from Poland, the US, France and Sweden take part in a military exercise in Poland
    • Sunday, 9 July, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      US and Germany resist pressure to advance Ukraine’s Nato bid

      Fraught negotiations on membership application threaten to expose divisions at Vilnius summit

      Nato and Ukraine flags fly in Vilnius
    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      InterviewWar in Ukraine
      Ukraine urges US to follow EU’s four-year funding pledge

      Finance minister Serhii Marchenko says Brussels’ €50bn package is a ‘good signal’ for G7 nations

      Serhiy Marchenko
    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Instant InsightFrench society
      Riots underscore depth of France’s social tensions

      The death of a teenager at the hands of the police presents Emmanuel Macron with a new challenge

      A protester throws an object at police in Nanterre. The latest protests demonstrate that France’s impoverished, ethnically-mixed neighbourhoods remain a powder keg
    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why Ukraine will continue to dominate the EU leaders’ summit Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Denmark gives up its bid for the Nato secretary-general’s job

      European Council President Charles Michel, right, greets Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas prior to a meeting at the European Council building in Brussels
    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      EU enlargement
      EU should not ‘lower the bar’ to take in Ukraine, says Denmark

      Foreign minister warns bloc risks ‘importing instability’ if it relaxes standards on democracy and corruption

      Lars Løkke Rasmussen
    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Germany pushes back against EU plan to raid frozen Russian assets

      Berlin and other capitals are wary of legal and financial repercussions

      Aerial footage of an apartment block on fire in city of Bakhmut, Ukraine
    • Sunday, 25 June, 2023
      FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: military strategies
      Military briefing: Will the Wagner insurrection affect the Ukraine war?

      Prigozhin’s threatened putsch came at an opportune moment for Kyiv’s counteroffensive

      Wagner group troops prepare to leave Rostov
    • Saturday, 24 June, 2023
      Europe Express
      Ukraine’s missing Marshall Plan Premium content

      Despite setting low expectations of London conference, Kyiv officials were still disappointed by response on urgent matter of war insurance

      A firefighter in front of a destroyed residential building following a Russian strike in the city of Kryvyi Rih on June 13, 2023
    • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleads for ‘real’ reconstruction projects

      Two-day London conference aims to encourage private sector investment in Ukraine’s recovery

      Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses virtually the opening session of the Ukraine Recovery Conference
    • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
      Europe Express
      How the west is grappling with the sheer scale of rebuilding Ukraine Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter: the latest twist in the EU’s Qatargate lobbying scandal

      British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks at a news conference held with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy (not pictured)
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      News in-depthUkraine military briefing
      Military briefing: Russian ‘Alligators’ menace Ukraine’s counteroffensive

      Shortage of air defences leaves Kyiv’s forces vulnerable to helicopter attacks

      Russian Ka-52 “Alligator” helicopter fires at a Ukrainian target
    • Monday, 12 June, 2023
      Ukraine
      Bank fraud trial tests Ukraine’s efforts to curb corruption

      PrivatBank has taken its former owners Igor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Bogolyubov to court in England

      A PrivatBank branch in Kyiv in 2016
    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      ‘I compare it with Chernobyl’: Ukrainians confront consequences of dam disaster

      Humanitarian disaster compounded by damage to crucial farming industry and transport routes

      Flooded streets in Kherson, Ukraine
    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      Instant InsightWar in Ukraine
      Dam breach gives Russia a new weapon in Ukraine war

      The humanitarian disaster of catastrophic flooding will draw attention away from the unfolding counter-offensive

      Video footage shows the Kakhovka dam after it was partially destroyed
    • Saturday, 20 May, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      US signals support for allies to send their F-16 jets to Ukraine

      Washington’s policy shift on fighter planes is diplomatic victory for Kyiv’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy

      US air force F-16 fighter jet on tarmac
    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
      FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: military strategies
      Ukraine’s counteroffensive: the war reaches a ‘decisive moment’

      A successful operation could shift the momentum of the conflict in Kyiv’s favour. Anything less risks eroding western support

      A soldier from the Bureviy assault brigade on exercise in woods near Kyiv, next to a map showing eastern Ukraine
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