German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called on the European Union to use $160billion of frozen Russian assets for Ukraine’s benefit – particularly the continued supply of weapons – in a major policy U-turn by Berlin.

In it, the US president said he believed Ukraine was in a position to take back all of its land from Russia’s forces, an abrupt pro-Kyiv turn in his rhetoric on the war he is struggling to end. But Trump’s words were met with wariness in European capitals, in a sign of the depth of transatlantic mistrust.

Czech Republic President Petr Pavel positioned Europe as a key ally for the United States and urged increased American support for Ukraine during a talk at the Harvard Kennedy School on Wednesday.

Russian fighter jet incursions in Estonia and drones in Poland: How the war in Ukraine is already a European conflict - Romania became the latest Nato member to scramble fighter jets after a Russian d

As Ukraine and its allies absorbed the surprise from Donald Trump’s newly upbeat view of Kyiv’s prospects in its war against Russia’s invasion, there were signs of a familiar move by the US president — upping the pressure not on Russia but on Europe.

Europe is, but EU- level facilities are all but tapped out and many national governments are on the financial skids ( dans la merde, in the original French). Thus all are willing to listen to financial whizzes who claim they have devised a way for Russia itself to bankroll its Ukrainian foe.

French President Emmanuel Macron spoke exclusively to RFI and its sister television France 24, Wednesday, about the twin challenges confronting Europe and the Middle East. Speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York,

European defence stocks jumped on Wednesday, giving a fresh boost to this year's rally, after U.S. President Donald Trump, in a sudden and surprising rhetorical shift, said he believed Ukraine could retake all its land occupied by Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the U.N. General Assembly a day after President Trump made another shift in his stance on Russia's war in Ukraine.

President Trump issued a detailed ultimatum to European nations about buying oil and gas from Russia "while they're fighting Russia" on Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. "The only question now is how many more lives will be needlessly lost on both sides,