The Latest Breaking News from Ukraine

In today’s newsletter: Kyiv’s interrogation footage of captured North Korean soldiers leads to questions about what it might do with the soldiers – and what the PoWs might do for them

Study says 61,353 non-combatants were killed or wounded in 2024, an increase of 67% on the previous year

The president defended his record on Ukraine, Gaza and Afghanistan but foreign policy successes have been few

‘The risk of catastrophic error was clear,’ Alejandro Mayorkas says

Joe Biden said Monday that America was stronger on the global stage than it had been for decades, in a swansong foreign policy speech one week before Donald Trump's White House comeback.

Ukraine and Russia have dramatically ramped up use of drones in Putin’s war launched in February 2022

Russia’s contract for the transit of its gas across Ukraine expired on December 31 last year and Kyiv refused to consider a new deal. Ukraine’s decision was supported by the European Commission, even though the lost imports are equivalent to 5% of European demand.

With major conflicts in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Southeast Asia, 1 in 8 people worldwide were exposed to conflict in 2024 – proving another fraught year in terms of human suffering on a mass scale. In fact, 111 countries around the world experienced some form of mass atrocity…

The last written notes of a North Korean soldier suggests the troops are being used as bait by Russian forces