The US has formally approved the Tomahawk sale to Germany, Chancellor Merz says, ending the purchase-or-permission ambiguity. The core claim holds up; the strategic framing is running ahead of the details.
Since the Ankara summit, Czechia's two Ukraine policies have both escalated: Petr Pavel is setting deadlines in The Telegraph, and SPD-nominated defence minister Jaromír Zůna is defending a weapons-fund transfer his party chief opposes — and that he wasn't told about.
Russia is halting diesel exports to keep its own pumps running after months of Ukrainian long-range drone strikes on refineries. NATO's answer: a $40 billion pivot toward the cheap-drone warfare Ukraine invented.
Ukraine's president pressed for NATO membership at the Ankara summit even as Donald Trump revived his demand for Greenland and Russian strikes fell on Kyiv — three moves that expose an alliance no longer speaking with one voice.
France's diplomatic withdrawal from Burkina Faso marks the end of decades of Françafrique influence in the Sahel, with implications for regional security, migration and Russia's growing role.