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Friends in need: EU leaders including Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European commission, and president of the European Council Antonio Costa meet with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in Cyprus, April 23 2026. EPA/George Christoforou

Orbán’s election loss frees up €90 billion for Kyiv but raises thorny question of EU membership for Ukraine

There’s no easy way to fasttrack Kyiv into the EU.
Israelis with photos of people killed and taken captive by Hamas militants at the Nova music festival in southern Israel, displayed at the site of the event. Ohad Zwigenberg/AAP

‘Dark tourism’ is attracting visitors to war zones and sites of atrocities in Israel and Ukraine. Why?

People have long visited places like Auschwitz-Birkenau and, more recently, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Now we’re seeing ‘solidarity tours’ to Israel’s October 7 sites and war tourism in Ukraine.
Russian President Putin thought he would overrun Ukraine in a few days. These military volunteers and fellow Ukrainians ‘had other ideas,’ writes the author. Mykhaylo Palinchak/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

I am a Ukrainian American political scientist, and this is what the past year of war has taught me about Ukraine, Russia and defiance

For a scholar who studies how different generations reacted to the end of the Soviet empire, the war in Ukraine is a collision of the professional and the personal.

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