On January 16 and 18, Kyiv was targeted by Russia. In the first attack they used drones and damage was reported from five ...

On 9 January, the United States approved its 74th package of military aid for Ukraine, valued at $500 million, under the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA). This marked the final transfer ...

On 17 January, the leaders of Russia and Iran, Vladimir Putin and Masoud Pezeshkian, signed an interstate treaty in Moscow, replacing an agreement from 2001. The document is primarily intended to ...

Russian forces have reached the first of two roads leading west from Pokrovsk, exiting on the outskirts of Udachny. According ...

Bulgaria’s parliament approved a new government led by Rosen Zhelyazkov of the centre-right GERB party, which secured the most votes in the October 2024 election (see ‘Election in Bulgaria: fragmentat ...

On 14 January, a summit of NATO member states from the Baltic Sea region was held in Helsinki, attended by the NATO Secretary General and a Vice President of the European Commission. Other ...

On 15 January, the outgoing US administration amended the legal basis for sanctioning nearly 100 Russian entities. The new package of restrictions subjects all these companies to sanctions under ...

The US sanctions targeting Russia’s oil sector, introduced on 10 January, have also been extended to Serbia’s largest energy company, NIS (for further details, see Appendix). The majority stake in NIS ...

Zoran Milanović won the second round of the presidential election in Croatia, securing 74.7% of the vote. His opponent, Dragan Primorac, supported by the ruling centre-right Croatian Democratic Union ...