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The world’s most admired democracy is being held hostage by a clique of far-right thugs. It would be a mistake to placate them, says the Observer’s foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

In today’s newsletter: After Friday’s clash meeting in the Oval Office between Trump and Zelenskyy, Keir Starmer and his European allies will try to broker the peace Ukraine desperately needs

Putin stays silent but Russian politicians and media outlets crow with delight after the ambush of Ukraine’s leader

It is understood Labour is looking to Nigel Farage’s previous comments about Russia as the party grapples with how to tackle the threat posed by Reform

Donald Trump faced intense backlash for his combativeness with Volodymyr Zelensky, in which he accused the Ukrainian leader of "gambling with World War II."

The visit of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House has not gone to plan – at least not to his plan. There were extraordinary scenes as a press conference between Zelensky and Trump descended into acrimony, with the US president loudly berating his opposite number, who he accused…

At face value, the Kremlin has plenty to celebrate after U.S. and Russian officials held high-level bilateral talks on the war in Ukraine for the first time since the full-scale conflict began in 2022.

Ukraine has taken responsibility for a number of assassinations in Russia since the start of the war

When Donald Trump called Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator” for his failure to hold elections, it was a shocking moment. Even by the topsy-turvy standards of the current US administration, this looked like deliberate ignorance of the facts. Ukrainian law and the electoral code state that elections cannot be held while…