Ukraine crisis

Europe divided and afraid of ‘escalation’ as Moscow’s unacknowledged attacks become more reckless

Helping Irish Hosts calls for accommodation recognition payment scheme to be extended so Irish households can host refugees in direct provision

Ukrainian drones hit military fuel facility for Volga river airbase 750km inside Russia

Marin was speaking at the 2025 Pendulum Summit, held in Dublin’s convention centre on Wednesday

High-profile ‘Anna of Kyiv’ brigade dogged by desertion, poor organisation and lack of drones

Pro-western government in Chisinau says Moscow stoking trouble before elections

Kremlin may give military ally North Korea ‘advanced space and satellite technology’, US warns

Russian troops attempting to flank Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk oblast and have captured several nearby villages

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Lt Yulia Mykytenko gives her eye witness account of the horrors of Russia’s attack in the context of Christmas and looming new year

Moldova accuses Russia of causing ‘security crisis’ by cutting gas flow to separatist-held region

Ireland is just one of six European countries with no plan to deal with increase in demand for migrant accommodation

Micheál Martin said Russian attacks continue ‘to cynically target civilians and civilian infrastructure’

Kyiv defends ending transit role for Russian gas as Kremlin halts flows to pro-western Moldova

Once one of the most talented defenders in Russia, Bugaev faced a long prison sentence for drug distribution

Bugaev considered one of most promising defenders in country but alcohol and crime saw him on war’s front lines

Transit deal expires with no follow-up agreement on flows to central Europe

Russian president salutes soldiers fighting in the war in Ukraine as ‘true heroes’

Kyiv chef combines quality and quantity in feeding special forces battalion along 1,200km front line

Trump’s re-election fuels global turmoil in which Putin is the biggest of many autocrats blending kleptocracy and dictatorship. US institutions and international treaties are fading, and Ukraine and Palestine have been betrayed

Books on the Famine, the Troubles, the Aran Islands and Gaza, and an account by the daughter of Dominique Pelicot of how she and her mother Gisèle rebuilt their lives, are also due out

Putin apologises to Azerbaijan’s Aliyev after Russian air defences apparently mistakenly shot down plane, killing 38

Bomb was found to be concealed in a portable music speaker, Russian intelligence officers say

Kharkiv Letter: Missile-proof metro stations host frontline city’s main Christmas tree and seasonal concerts

As communism turned to right-wing authoritarianism, Moscow became an immense version of Dodge City or Tombstone

Slovak PM Robert Fico has been outspoken opponent of EU military support for Kyiv during conflict

Finnish investigators believe seized Russian ship caused outage of Estlink 2 undersea power and internet lines

Ukrainian president accuses Putin of deliberately choosing Christmas for strike on energy system

Lying about 40 miles from the nearest Russian-occupied territory, city has regularly been the target of Russian missile attacks throughout war

Seoul, Washington and Kyiv have said there are around 12,000 North Korean troops in Russia to assist in its war in Ukraine

Palantir and Anduril, two of the world’s largest defence firms, creating consortium that includes Elon Musk’s SpaceX and ChatGPT maker OpenAI

Putin vows to bring more ‘destruction’ to Ukraine after devastating drone attack on central Russian city of Kazan

Ukraine is still standing after more than 1,000 days of full-scale fighting with Russia, in the biggest war in Europe since 1945

As China and Russia weigh up their options in anticipation of Donald Trump’s second presidency, horrified countries in the Global South see Gaza as an emblem of US and European double standards

At least one dead in Kyiv and six killed in Russia’s Kursk region

EU summit: Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Russia ‘not interested’ in peace

Moscow ‘ready for negotiations and compromises’ to end the fighting, Russian president says during carefully controlled press conference

Igor Kirillov killed on Tuesday by device hidden in a scooter outside general’s apartment building

Russia vows revenge for assassination of general who was head of its nuclear defence troops

Comments suggest US president-elect may push for a settlement that recognises Russian territorial gain