The Latest Breaking News from NATO

From the leader of France’s Nupes coalition to Bernie Sanders, radical left firebands are shifting their focus and style, says King’s College London’s Paolo Gerbaudo

Paris Perspective looks at the state of peace in the world in 2022 on the occasion of the publication of the 16th Global Peace Index. Steve Killelea is the founder and executive chairman of the Institute for Economics and Peace, which publishes the Index.

French President Emmanuel Macron has suggested that he would soon go to Kyiv to meet with Ukraine's leader

Russia said Wednesday its forces destroyed a depot containing NATO-supplied arms in western Ukraine. "Near the town of Zolochiv in Lviv region, high-precision long-range Kalibr missiles destroyed an ammunition depot of foreign weapons transferred to Ukraine by NATO countries, including 155-mm M777 howitzers," the defense ministry said in a statement.…

The news from Ukraine is very grim – to paraphrase Churchill on the fall of France in 1940. The Russians are advancing slowly, steadily, brutally in Donbas. There are hundreds, possibly thousands if civilians are included, of casualties every day. Cholera is reported to be spreading through the uprooted populations…

NATO defense ministers are meeting to discuss beefing up weapons supplies to Ukraine and Sweden and Finland's applications to join the transatlantic military alliance

The Russian military says it used long-range missiles to destroy a depot in the western Lviv region of Ukraine where ammunition for NATO-supplied weapons was being stored

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been calling for their region to receive the biggest build-up of combat-ready NATO forces in Europe since the end of the Cold War, to be agreed at a summit on June 28-30 in Madrid.

Beijing’s official policy has remained ambiguously in support of the Russian cause, but against its consequences.