Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet President Trump at the White House this week, then attend the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham, a leading Senate voice for arming Ukraine.
The Pentagon, the US military's headquarters, is now planning its support for Ukraine as far ahead as 2029.
On Monday, US diplomats left a UN Security Council meeting while France was speaking about Ukraine.
The European Union is thinking about changing how it punishes Russia over the war in Ukraine.
Andy Burnham, Britain's newly appointed prime minister, will host Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky in London on Monday, making him the first foreign leader he meets in the job.
Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia is preparing to send 30,000 more North Korean soldiers to fight in Ukraine, or has formally asked North Korea to supply them.
Ukraine sent more than 400 drones toward Moscow on July 20, hours after a Russian strike on a ship near Odesa killed 10. Read as it is being sold, this is escalation. Read carefully, it is the same war, louder.
Oil, arms, code: three markets, one week, one rule. Security is no longer a cost you insure against; it is the thing you buy. And the entity underwriting it is the state.
From the Strait of Hormuz to Lockheed's expanding missile lines to Ukraine's battle-tested electricity grid, the world is converging on a single question: what does it cost when a chokepoint closes? The states that control energy corridors and arms production are quietly setting the answer.
Energy chokepoints, arms production lines and the raising of armies now price the same commodity: risk. This week made the single market visible.
Sofia's single objection to blacklisting Patriarch Kirill still holds the entire 21st sanctions package hostage to EU unanimity rules. Meanwhile, two separate legal acts — targeting cyberattacks and the torture of Ukrainian POWs — have gone through on qualified majority, exposing the two-speed machinery of EU sanctions.
France turns its annual military parade into a demonstration of European backing for Kyiv, with allied aircraft and troops pledged to Ukraine's post-war security taking centre stage.