Russia

Russia launched at least 61 drones over Ukraine on the night of 24-25 January, whilst Ukrainian forces confirmed to have downed 46 them.

“We’d better meet and have a calm conversation on all issues of interest to both the US and Russia based on today’s realities,” Putin said in a TV interview.

The latest wave of rallies was fuelled by Fico’s recent trip to Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, a rare visit to the Kremlin by an EU leader since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

With a key deadline set to expire next week, Viktor Orbán and his deputies have raised the spectre of vetoing EU sanctions against Russia, a move which would upend the bloc’s foreign policy.

As the war in Ukraine approaches the three-year mark, Russia has stepped up its air attacks, sending dozens of drones almost every night.

Addressing the World Economic Forum, the US president pledged to apply pressure on OPEC, claiming that a drop in the price of oil would end Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The new director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) becomes the second Cabinet member of US President Donald Trump’s administration.

The extension of EU sanctions shouldn’t be automatic, the Hungarian government has said, in remarks that threaten to unravel the bloc’s collective reaction to Russia’s war on Ukraine

Newly recruited Ukrainian soldiers train for frontline deployment in the Donetsk region as Kyiv approaches a period of uncertainty.

At a meeting with his Armenian counterpart in Moscow, Lavrov said the Kremlin was ready to assist in the normalisation of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations.