The Latest Breaking News from Ukraine

January WTI crude oil (CLF26 ) on Friday closed up +0.41 (+0.69%), and January RBOB gasoline (RBF26 ) closed up +0.0070 (+0.38%). Crude oil and gasoline prices settled higher on Friday, with crude oil posting a 2-week high. Crude prices are supported by the prospects for the war in Ukraine...

Euroclear, the custodian of the immobilised Russian assets, has criticised the reparations loan for Ukraine as fragile, unpredictable and risky. In Brussels, the German chancellor holds a crisis meeting with the Belgian prime minister to find a compromise and break the deadlock on the proposal.

A Christmas crib causing controversy, police raids in the College of Europe and pseudo peace talks on the future of Ukraine: catch up on the week in EU politics on “Brussels, my love?”

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The Ukrainian Diving Federation called Lyskun's decision ‘categorically unacceptable’

Complaining of "unrealistic expectations" about the prospect of defeating Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the US government vows to "cultivate resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations" to stop its "civilisational" decline.

Text signed by president seems to echo ‘great replacement’ theory, saying Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’

French president’s remarks come a day after a report claimed he had warned Washington could betray Kyiv

Polish ambassador Jan Tombiński reports a new trend of refugees arriving from western Europe as Warsaw reviews its asylum regulations and border controls with Germany.