Latvia will elect a new parliament this weekend, in an election dominated by security concerns over the now emboldened Russia next door and a cost-of-living crisis shaping the domestic agenda. The

Russia suffered its highest losses of 2026 in September, when 46,230 of its soldiers were killed or wounded, according to the Ukrainian military. The new record comes after Russian casualties of about 40,

Russia intensifies attacks on Ukraine’s data centers and communications infrastructure, targeting facilities in Kyiv.

Kaliningrad has long been a source of tension between Russia and Nato, given its strategic location on the Baltic Sea, and the potential for Russia to cut off the three Baltic states from the rest of their Nato allies if they were to annex a land corridor between the exclave and its military ally Belarus.

Russia’s foreign ministry had called planned shows unacceptable due to rapper’s ‘glorification’ of Adolf Hitler

Trump’s envoy wants to trade Russian political prisoners for U.S. sanctions relief, creating a path to business deals before the war in Ukraine ends.

Europe is preparing for “severe” Russian hybrid attacks, said German Chancellor Friedrich Merz as Vladimir Putin threatened that his conflict with the west could reach a “fatal point of no return”. Russia’s escalating rhetoric underscores a tenser phase of the war in Ukraine,

Both sides are finding it increasingly difficult to finance the conflict in Ukraine. Russia’s 2027 budget envisions more debt, higher taxes and lower social benefits.