Europe

The U.K. and several Nordic countries have offered security guarantees to what could be NATO’s newest members.

Two seemingly similar systems produce very different militaries.

Russia is seeking to destroy Ukrainian culture. The West must help those working to preserve it.

Pediatric patients from all over Ukraine crowd into a single facility.

As Washington prepares to send another $40 billion in military aid and Europe seeks a Russian oil embargo, the West’s ultimate goal is still unclear.

Spain has traded five decades of neutrality on Western Sahara while getting nothing but a spyware scandal in return.

If the West is behind mysterious fires in Russia, the ongoing—but deniable—threat could deter Putin from escalating.

Ukraine’s tech outsourcing sector, one of Europe’s largest, has adapted nimbly to the war.

This week on FP Playlist, we feature an episode from “The Europeans.”

Stanislav Aseyev’s “In Isolation” depicts the absurd brutality of military rule in the Donbas.

Belgrade’s purchase of FK-3 air defense systems from Beijing marks a shift in Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s diplomatic and defense policy.

By dividing the Visegrad Group, Russia’s invasion gives Europe’s mainstream an opportunity to fight back.

The war in Ukraine is prompting countries from Kazakhstan to Moldova to reexamine their colonial past and seek diplomatic allies beyond the Kremlin.

The best sources on the war are the Ukrainians on the ground.

The system for prosecuting war crimes is broken—but focusing on sanctions could work.

Lawmakers push the U.S. State Department to overcome its “bunker mentality,” but in Ukraine, that’s complicated.

U.S. training helps but isn’t the main reason for the transformation.

The West has a vital interest in keeping the country’s wartime economy running.