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Croatia can currently provide for 3,500 persons from Ukraine, and plans are being made so that up to 17,000 can be accommodated, Davor Spevec of the Civil Protection Directorate told Slavonski Brod on Saturday. “We have plans and places. They...

More than 56,000 Ukrainian citizens entered Romania by 4 pm on Sunday, while 70,000 entered Moldova. According to Interior Minister Lucian Bode, half of those who had entered Romania have already exited the country. Of the roughly 28,000 Ukrainian people...

Bulgaria has begun talks with Athens on building a new nuclear power plant on Bulgarian territory to be used by Greece under a long-term 20-year contract, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Asen Vassilev announced on Sunday. Bulgaria has two...

US military specialists are second guessing Russia’s military tactics in Ukraine as the invasion apparently hasn’t reached its initial goals.

The Polish embassy in Kyiv remains open as Russia continues to wage war on Ukraine. The ambassador of Poland in Ukraine, Bartosz Cichocki, posted a photo of him wearing a bulletproof vest depicted “good morning Kyiv!” on Sunday (27 February)....

A criminal prosecution against Russian President Vladimir Putin should not be excluded because of Russia’s “act of war” in Ukraine, Spanish Defence Minister Margarita Robles has said. In an interview to El País published Sunday, Robles stressed that Putin must not...

Refugees from Ukraine arrived in Northern Italy during the weekend, news agency ANSA reported on Sunday. On Saturday, a bus with about 50 people, mainly women and children, arrived in Trieste, where police forces, Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza carried out...

In Finland and Sweden, Russian aggression in Ukraine is putting wind in the sails of those in favour of NATO membership. In Finland, a citizens’ initiative calling for a referendum on NATO membership gathered the needed 50,000 signatures in four...

Calls from government politicians to expel the Russian ambassador to Ireland Yury Anatoliyevich Filatov are mounting following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a petition published this weekend, a substantial group of lawmakers called for the ambassador’s expulsion “in response to...

Foreign Minister Liz Truss has signalled her support for British volunteers planning to travel to Ukraine to defend the country from the ongoing Russian invasion. Truss told the BBC on Sunday that “I do support that, and of course, that...

The announcement that Bulgaria would send humanitarian and military-logistical aid to Ukraine has created a serious spat within the government. It was initially announced that the country was joining a group of 25 EU and NATO donors that would send...

The Maltese government has been asked to stop selling passports to wealthy Russians who have “benefited from Putin’s corruption”, by six civil society organisations, following Moscow’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. Malta’s cash-for-passports scheme that sees wealthy foreigners acquire citizenship in...

France, currently heading the EU Council presidency, will propose activating the bloc’s “temporary protection” directive to deal with the millions of Ukrainian refugees the EU expects in the coming weeks, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Sunday. The activation of...

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has suggested Vienna hosts talks to end the war in Ukraine after Russia readied its nuclear deterrent. “Austria has always seen itself as a bridge-builder and is also available as a place for dialogue in the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that his nuclear forces were on alert sparked outcry in the West as the invading troops faced stiff resistance on Monday (28 February). At a meeting with his top officials on Sunday, the president ordered...

In a 'watershed moment' for its defence policy, the EU on Sunday (28 February) agreed to unblock some €500 million for members states to buy arms for Ukraine's armed forces, hoping to stop Russia's invasion.

Amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, the German government is examining every option to keep the country warm and reduce its energy dependence on Russia. Keeping nuclear power plants online is being examined, but may be unlikely.

Top European Union officials announced new EU sanctions against the central bank of Russia (CBR) on Sunday (28 February), which will severely limit the central bank’s ability to access its reserves and thus destabilise the Russian ruble.

EU home affairs ministers have put off a decision on whether to grant temporary protection to Ukrainian refugees amid what threatens to become the “largest humanitarian crisis” in Europe in recent times.

EU officials have imposed a bloc-wide ban on Russian aircraft entering EU airspace, adding to a massive package of financial, economic, and political sanctions.