Poland, Hungary and Slovakia are keeping unilateral restrictions on Ukrainian grain and farm products despite a revised EU trade deal designed to end the dispute, forcing Brussels to consider legal action against member states that are breaching single market rules.
Over 200 military planners from nearly 40 countries have prepared for a possible European troop deployment to Ukraine if Donald Trump brokers a ceasefire with Vladimir Putin, UK Defense Secretary John Healey said.
According to Zaluzhnyi, a new doctrine is being formed that will create armies of robots and artificial intelligence, but Europe still postpones difficult defense decisions in favor of comfort and political popularity.
Direct European-Ukrainian defense production partnerships would prove more effective than repeated requests to Washington that often go unfulfilled, according to Mason Clark
Even as they provide billions in aid to Ukraine, several EU countries, including France, the Netherlands, and Romania, have increased Russian energy imports in 2025, funding Moscow’s war effort as well.
Russian LNG imports to the European Union climbed 11% in 2024 compared to 2023, even as four major importing countries provided billions in aid to Ukraine
Russian drone swarm tactics have exposed a fundamental gap in global military capabilities, with no clear protection yet against these revolutionary warfare methods.
While Hungary's FM recently rejected US pressure to abandon Russian energy supplies, Trump told the UN that European nations are "financing a war against themselves" and demanded they immediately cease all energy imports from Moscow.