Lili Bayer

European leaders have dismissed Vladimir Putin's warning that the west would be directly fighting with Russia if it allowed Kyiv to strike Russian territory with western-made long-range missiles.

US and UK discuss Ukraine’s use of missiles, as Russian president warns move would put Nato ‘at war’ with Moscow

The US ambassador in Budapest has said that Hungary's democracy problems and foreign policy divergence from the west can no longer be dismissed as rhetoric and that the time has come for “a reckoning”.

Israel is widely believed to be behind the operations – but who made the devices, and how did they explode?

The new NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte waves to reporters after a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on Oct. 1. Harry Nakos/The Associated Press

(Reuters) – The European Union on Wednesday urged countries attending the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, to ask President Vladimir Putin to end Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

The EU has been making a renewed push to bring in new members since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, saying the outbreak of war has shown the danger of having "grey zones" just outside the bloc that are not firmly part of the West.

By Andrew Gray, John Irish and Lili Bayer BRUSSELS (Reuters) - As Kamala Harris and Donald Trump enter the final days of their close-fought

As Kamala Harris and Donald Trump enter the final days of their close-fought White House contest, Europe is jittery about the potential impact of the US presidential election on the war in Ukraine and the continent's security.

The US decision to authorise long-range Ukrainian strikes could help Kyiv defend the foothold in Russia's Kursk region that it seized as leverage in any war talks, but may come too late to change the course of the war, analysts said.