The war is increasingly becoming a public humiliation for Russia.
Ukraine’s decision to rebury OUN leader Andriy Melnyk with state honours and rename a special forces unit after the wartime Ukrainian Insurgent Army has created a rupture with Poland. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Kyiv on June 3, 2026.
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Two years after Canada’s parliament unwittingly gave a standing ovation to a veteran of a Nazi SS division, Ukraine’s own president is honouring figures from the same dark chapter of wartime nationalism.
Destruction from the skies: an office building in Kyiv burns after a Russian drone and missile attack on June 2.
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Europe is rethinking security: as geopolitical tensions rise, Russia looms and climate risks intensify, can restoring nature help defend both nations and the planet?
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, left, reacts with her protégé Jordan Bardella during a party rally in April.
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The current pattern of short-term ceasefires with fragile extensions is likely to continue.
Iranians hold their guns during a pro-government gathering near the residence where former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed.
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In Ukraine puppet shows have become tools of resistance, support and relief for a country at war.
This year’s Victory Day parade in Red Square had none of the military hardware that is a regular feature of the annual May 9 event.
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Russia’s annual Victory Day parade is traditionally a show of military might. But things were different this year.
A new study across 18 European countries indicates more pro-Kremlin sentiment toward the Russia-Ukraine war is not rare. People gather (pictured) at a protest march in support of Russia in Larnaca (Cyprus) in 2022.
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Research carried out across 18 European countries takes a closer look at pro-Russian support on the continent.
A police boat patrols the waters of the Moskva River near Red Square, which is decorated for the celebration of the 81st anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
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Moscow’s influence is Eastern Europe has been slipping of late, including with the loss of a stalwart ally in Hungary. The battleground, as ever, remains Ukraine.
A rehearsal for a Victory Day military parade at the Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Putin is under growing pressure at home as Ukraine continues to strike far inside Russia and more critics are voicing discontent with the war.
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, greets Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in Copenhagen in October 2025.
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Some EU member states have long used enlargement as a geopolitical tool.
A man holds a placard labelling Russian leader Vladimir Putin the ‘czar of death’ during an anti-war demonstration in Berlin, Germany, in 2024.
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Chernobyl’s exclusion zone has become one of Europe’s biggest nature reserves.
A drone is seen during a suspected drone strike targeting an oil warehouse near Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, on April 1, 2026.
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Bureaucratic hurdles mean the US military typically has to wait a decade between the time it sees a new threat and the employment of a new system to defend against it.
The monument dedicated to the victims of the Chernobyl disaster stands in front of a large dome installed over the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, Chernobyl, Ukraine.
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Canada helped build local government capacity in Ukraine before the war. The Council of Europe’s Congress has now called on the world to do so again. Canada should answer the call.
Visitors look at a Ukrainian-made combat robot at an arms fair in the capital, Kyiv.
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