Germany has not seen any signs that the United States is planning to withdraw its troops from European countries, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, according to Digi24. "We firmly support Ukraine,

After meeting Pope Leo XIV Friday, several European bishops said one primary joint concern was the exclusion of the European Union from key international negotiations by the United States, such as peace talks regarding the war in Ukraine.

The first direct talks between Ukraine and Russia should have heralded a new era of diplomacy towards solving Europe’s largest conflict since World War II. Instead, their context, brevity and limited outcome provided skeptics with more reasons to doubt Moscow wants peace.

The attack came hours after the two countries failed to broker a temporary ceasefire after holding their first peace talks in three years of war.

This week's prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine was the largest since the war’s onset. But skepticism of a lasting truce, and President Trump’s peace-making, remains. Bridget Brink resigned as ambassador to Ukraine in April,

The shift would demote an office that until earlier this year had become one of the most important in the Pentagon.

A €150 billion loans programme to rearm Europe that was finalised this week could be “a very important breakthrough” in the EU’s military support for Ukraine, the bloc’s defence commissioner has said.

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has accepted President Zelensky's invitation to attend the Ukraine-Southeastern Europe Summit.