Zoriana Stepanenko is a correspondent for Current Time and RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
NATO allies and over 50 private defense companies gathered at De Peel Air Base in the Netherlands on September 19 to test and learn from Ukrainian drone operators and developers who apply their own innovations on the battlefield.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said the use of U.S.-donated weapons for long-range strikes on Russian territory would not turn the tide of the war in Ukraine's favor. Austin spoke on September 6 after a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
Ukraine is meeting with allies today at the Ramstein air base in Germany to discuss further military aid. The meeting is with Western allies, NATO and EU members, and others. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is attending personally, planning to ask for U.S. cruise missiles (JASSMs).
EU Dipomats are meeting to weigh security issues, including Ukraine's quest for approval to strike military targets within Russia. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says he expects support for the need to suppress "Russian capacity to destroy Ukraine and to advance in the east of my country."
As Ukraine's incursion into Russian territory enters its 10th day, Jacob Kirkegaard of the German Marshall Fund think tank tells RFE/RL the operation could achieve a "strategic shift" in the war.
Ukraine's position in its battle to repel invading Russian troops has improved recently and Kyiv's drive to integrate with Western democratic structures will ultimately triumph over Moscow's aggression, says U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James O'Brien.
NATO leaders meeting in Washington renewed their support for Ukraine, and said that fighter jets newly promised to the Kyiv will be flying over the country “this summer.” The allies stated that Ukraine’s path toward joining the alliance is “irreversible,” but they have yet to set a time frame.
NATO leaders gathered in Washington on July 9 to celebrate the alliance's founding 75 years ago. U.S. President Joe Biden said NATO is ready to meet the challenges it now faces, including Russia's war in Ukraine, as he announced a new donation of air defense systems for the embattled country.
A NATO summit is taking place in Washington, D.C., as the alliance marks 75 years since its founding. RFE/RL's Zoriana Stepanenko reports that the war in Ukraine is at the top of the agenda, but many allies are also focused on the U.S. presidential election and its implications for NATO's future.
An international summit has ended in Switzerland with countries agreeing to the principles of a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia and a pledge to invite Russia to a second international conference.
Delegates from some 100 states and organizations arrived in Switzerland on June 15 for a two-day peace summit for Ukraine. Ahead of the summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin said there would be no peace unless Ukraine made major territorial concessions and remained outside NATO.
Ukrainian-born citizens in several European Union countries are running in elections to the European Parliament on June 6-9. We caught up with two candidates on the campaign trail -- one in the Czech Republic, the other in Belgium.
Belgium will deliver 977 million euros ($1 billion) in military aid and 30 F-16 fighter jets for Ukraine under a 10-year bilateral security agreement signed by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo on May 28 in Brussels.
Peter Pellegrini's election win on April 6 gives Slovakia a Russian-friendly president whose views are in line with those of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. But that does not necessarily mean that the country will make a strong stand against NATO and EU policies supporting Ukraine.
A $300 million U.S. aid package for Ukraine that the Pentagon announced last week is not something that officials expect to happen again, the Pentagon's spokesman said on March 19 in an interview with RFE/RL at a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Germany.
Some 20,000 NATO troops crossed the Vistula River in northern Poland as part of a military exercise. The maneuvers are part of the alliance's Steadfast Defender operation, which involves around 90,000 troops from all 31 NATO countries plus Sweden. The exercise is NATO's largest since the Cold War.
Considering the situation in Russia, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said that "we would never recognize" the results of its upcoming presidential election set for mid-March. She was speaking to RFE/RL correspondent Zoriana Stepanenko on February 28 in Strasbourg, France.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says NATO allies are committed to doing more to ensure that Ukraine "prevails" in its battle to repel invading Russian forces, with the alliance having "significantly changed" its stance on providing more advanced weapons to Kyiv.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the death of Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny and the first Russian gains on the battlefield in months should help focus the attention of NATO and its allies on the urgent need to support Ukraine.
Some people are too worried what will happen if Ukraine defeats Russia, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis believes. He compares it to Henry Kissinger's disbelief that the Soviet Union might collapse -- a failure the former U.S. secretary of state later admitted.
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