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Decision affects ammunition, vehicles and other equipment including weapons in transit

French Prime Minister François Bayrou has strongly condemned US President Donald Trump’s harsh treatment of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, describing it as a shocking display of "brutality" designed to humiliate Zelensky and coerce him into acquiescing to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demands.

White House’s latest punitive move against Kyiv will lead to ‘joy in Moscow’, Ukrainian commentators say

The chief of the European Union’s executive proposes an 800 billion euro ($841 billion) plan to beef up EU defenses to lessen the impact of potential U.S. disengagement and provide Ukraine with military muscle to negotiate with Russia following the freeze of U.S. aid to the embattled nation

Keir Starmer has said we face the greatest threat to our national security since the cold war. Such hyperbole helps nobody, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

These are the key developments on day 1,104 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Zelenskyy says his country is ready to sign minerals and security agreement while admitting White House meeting ‘did not go the way it was supposed to’

The man who wrote Hillbilly Elegy would have recognised the old eastern Europe. But he’s attacking the democratic order we yearned for

Albanese is “open to consideration”.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the Trump administration should do just about anything to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table to reach a deal on the Ukraine War — even though Putin has reportedly already been talking to Donald Trump for weeks without Ukraine.

The US has provided $65.9bn in military support to Kyiv since Russia’s February 2022 invasion