Mike Eckel

Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte and several European leaders met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the EU summit in Brussels on Wednesday evening. According to Rutte, the meeting focused on how to put Kyiv 'in a position of strength'. Europe's press wonders where this strength is supposed to come from.

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The end of Russian natural-gas transit across Ukraine is a blow to Moscow, but it could provide the Kremlin with sharpened tool for economic and political influence over a key target country: Moldova.

A man who illegally crossed the Rio Grande River into the United States reportedly admitted to having worked with the notorious Russian mercenary group Wagner. His arrest came just weeks after he appears to have been honored in Russia for his combat service.

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The Polish prime minister's accusations against Moscow were the latest in a series of a warnings and accusations aimed at Russia in connection with a rash of suspicious incidents, including broken undersea cables, exploding packages in airline cargo, and others.

The accusation was as blunt as it was serious: Russia is plotting terror attacks against unspecified targets utilizing aircraft, Poland’s prime minister said. Though shocking, the Polish leader’s comments were not out of the blue: there’s been a growing number of suspicious, alarming, and unexplained incidents in recent months.

As soon as Donald Trump is sworn in as U.S. president, he faces several foreign policy challenges. As RFE/RL's Mike Eckel explains, the war in Ukraine and Russia is at the top of the agenda.

More than 750,000 Russian soldiers have been killed and wounded since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly 3 years ago. Inside Russia, though, there's silence: no outrage, no protests, no public criticism. Why is that?