Biden inches towards authorising Storm Shadows in Russia
Keir Starmer met Biden to discuss the Storm Shadow issue in DC Friday — and left without the approval that he badly wanted
Ukraine invasion
Sunday
Wednesday
Ukraine should be able to use its long-range weapons as it pleases
Our friends in Kyiv are asking us explicitly for something which we can so easily give
Saturday
Inside Zelensky's not-so-fresh reshuffle
The president is left recycling the same names, moving them from the cabinet to the presidential office and back again
Monday
How life carries on near the Kursk front line
The only appropriate response — if you don’t want to spend every day in a fit of jitters — is casual, low-key defiance
Wednesday
Zelensky’s new offensive could push Putin to the brink
There is evidence the incursion has changed the Kremlin’s political calculus
Has Germany run out of money to give to Ukraine?
The opposition has accused Chancellor Scholz of playing party-political games with the war
Sunday
Ukraine could deliver a killer ideological blow to Putin
Anyone in the happy position of giving advice to Ukrainian commanders would strongly advise them to target this place
Near the Russian border, Ukrainians are delighted about the Kursk attack
There was almost unanimous support for the first attack on mainland Russia since World War Two
Thursday
Will Ukraine's Kursk offensive pay off?
What is Kyiv’s goal?
Friday
Could the Russia prisoner swap help bring peace to Ukraine?
I myself owe my life to a Cold War spy swap
Thursday
From the front line of the battle to save Kharkiv
The region is Vladimir Putin’s second front. He has had mixed results so far, but a new push is still expected this summer
Wednesday
Nato has fudged support for Ukraine, again
The summit in Washington marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the most durable and successful defensive alliance in history
Saturday
What I saw at the Okhmatdyt bomb site
I arrived to find hundreds gathered around the rubble. Glass crunched under their feet
Tuesday
Putin is trying to annexe people, not just land
Could it be the Ukraine war is about fighting for people?
Kyiv children’s hospital bombed
‘There will be an answer for terror against civilians and children,’ said Mayor Vitali Klitschko
Tuesday
My return to Ukraine
The further east I travel, the more real the war feels
Thursday
Why the plot to kill Putin would be a mistake
Any campaign of Western-backed assassination would likely trigger not some democratic revolution but an explosion of anger and outrage
Sunday
Ukraine’s greatest, yet least publicised success
Almost a third of the Russian fleet has been destroyed, mostly by sea drones
Wednesday
In Kharkiv, culture is a form of defence
The main thing is to adapt; the people of Ukraine’s second-largest city have learned this very well
Friday
Why is Putin purging his generals?
As more and more senior Russian officers and generals are arrested on corruption charges, the rumor mill is in full spin