Merkel was one of the longest-serving heads of a European Union nation when she left office last December, having held the post from 2005 to 2021. The former chancellor grew up in East Germany ...

Russia has accused Ukraine of launching over 500 chemical attacks since the war began, including toxic drone strikes and gas container drops across the frontlines. General Rtishev alleges Ukraine ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who addressed the NATO summit by video, has pleaded with Western allies for more aid as Russia’s assault continues, stressing that the harsh Ukrainian ...

Zelensky said new Western supplies have started arriving, but slowly. 'This process must be speeded up,' he said at the news conference with Stoltenberg. Read more ...

Monday’s visit appeared to be part of a broader European diplomatic push. On Wednesday, Mr. Zelensky will address the Council of Europe, the continent’s leading human rights institution.

Russia has been firing North Korean ballistic missiles against Kyiv in the deadly overnight barrages, the latest of which killed three people in Ukraine's second-largest city, officials said.

Yet the Putin-Zelensky meeting in 2019 ultimately ended in failure. In retrospect, both sides were talking past each other and could not reach an agreement on the sequencing of key parts of the ...