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Poland has delivered four Leopard tanks to Ukraine already and is prepared to deliver more quickly, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday, as Western nations increase their support to Kyiv a year after Russia invaded the country.

Talking Europe hosts one the EU's most hawkish voices on Russia, Urmas Paet, who was Estonia’s foreign minister from 2005 to 2014. He is now an MEP and vice-president of the foreign affairs committee in the European Parliament. Paet outlines his hopes for a stronger EU defence capability and for…

Vladimir Putin is still statistically losing the war which sadly makes any signs of his brutalities diminishing slim. But what might happen next and what can we expect the war criminal to do in order to try to make more gains?

Beijing’s “Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis” has now been officially released by the country’s foreign ministry, after being foreshadowed by China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, at the recent Munich Security Conference.

Shortly after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Kyiv prosecutor general's office set up a special section with the aim of specifically investigating sexual crimes. All too often, when people think about sexual violence, they assume the acts are committed against women. But men – both soldiers…

One year after Russia sent its troops into Ukraine in what it called a "special military operation" the mood in the Russian capital on Friday was muted but defiant, with some saying they saw no choice but to fight until victory was achieved.

Your afternoon briefing on all the latest from across the North East

Anglo-Ukrainian Maks Oberemok, 22, organised the event to mark the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

It’s been a year since Russia first launched a full invasion of Ukraine, and, right now, peace seems impossible.