Evidently the UK's new-minted Defence Secretary John Healey is already in Odesa, as per BBC. Not wasting any time, then.

"The latest estimates suggest that roughly 2% of all Russian men aged between 20 and 50 may have been either killed or severely wounded in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war." economist.com/graphic-detail…

Statement of the NATO-Ukraine Council issued by the Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council in Washington, D.C. #NATOSummit | #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

.Speaker Mike Johnson, rising to the occasion: This morning on TODAY “we've got to turn the rhetoric down. We've got to turn the temperature down in this country. We need leaders of all parties, on both sides, to call that out and make sure that happens so that we can go

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced the appointment of a Senior Representative to lead the #NATO Representation in #Ukraine (NRU) 🇺🇦. Patrick Turner will act as a focal point for #NATO’s engagement with the Ukrainian authorities in Kyiv. ℹ️ bit.ly/3zVxYQL

French pollsters are so bored they literally tested Napoleon (yes that one). He'd beat Macron 62-38.

"Long-awaited F-16 fighter jets are set to be flying in Ukraine within weeks, but Ukrainian and Western officials now caution that the aircraft, once championed by Kyiv as a game changer, are unlikely to make an immediate impact on the battlefield... That means the first F-16s

A postcard to all the Christian fundamentalists who think Putin is going to save the world from woke Satanists: Vladimir Kara-Murza says he wasn’t ever permitted to go to the prison’s church and pray, not once the entire time he was locked up.

Don't need to speak Italian to appreciate the juxtaposition here. Very well done front page.

Lithuania’s 🇱🇹 defence spending has further increased to 3.2% of GDP this year, making the country the fourth highest spender in NATO Laurynas Kasčiūnas Lithuanian MOD 🇱🇹

85 years ago today, Germany and Russia signed a pact with a secret protocol dividing up Europe between them. The invasions and slaughter that began 8 days later left tens of millions dead. The reverberations of the war and death they unleashed echo through generations of

last month india passed china and became russia’s top oil buyer:

Latest with Rob Lee. We take a balanced look at the initial success, possible benefits, and risks of the Kursk offensive. Implications for the front. Hoping Ukraine and Western supporters can use this as an opportunity to better align strategy. foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukrain…

74% of Germans don’t want Olaf Scholz to run again as chancellor - and even a majority of SPD supporters are against it…

Today (10 September 2024), NATO Senior Representative in Ukraine at the #NATO Representation to Ukraine Mr. Patrick Turner arrived in Kyiv 🇺🇦

Ouch. Spain's PM Sanchez suddenly calls on the EU to reverse tariffs on Chinese EVs, after China promised a $1bn investment in an electrolyser plant. Exhibit Z of the fragmentation that plagues EU efforts for a coherent foreign economic policy. /1 scmp.com/news/china/dip…

An awful lot of voters say foreign policy is very important to their vote in 2024. pewresearch.org/politics/2024/…

The permanent deployment of a 5,000-strong German brigade to Lithuania is moving closer. While there are still obstacles and complexities, this initiative is crucial to the entire NATO alliance.

John Jackson Mike did not argue against lifting restrictions, and we both talked about the military benefits of making the change. Ben's tweet doesn't engage in the merits of what Mike said. You are welcome to listen to the conversation. csis.org/podcasts/russi…

"One of the key reasons Zelensky refuses to mobilize the key cohort of men aged between 18 and 25—typically the bulk of any fighting force—is because most of these people haven’t had children yet, according to the former Ukrainian officials. Should the recruits of that age group