Russia has established a bridgehead on the right (western) bank of the Oskil River north of Kupiansk. Fighting for the local ...

On 20 December, a 50-year-old Saudi man drove a car into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, the capital of Saxony-Anhalt, killing at least five people and injuring 200, including 40 who ...

The Russians have again cut the northern supply route of the Ukrainian grouping near Velyka Novosilka. Fighting is continuing ...

Metinvest, a corporation owned by Rinat Akhmetov, announced that it had suspended operations at one of its coal mining facilities (shaft no. 3) in the village of Pishchane near Pokrovsk in Donetsk ...

A wave of protests has been sweeping across Serbia for over a month. The protests were triggered by a roof collapse at the Novi Sad railway station on 1 November, which resulted in 15 fatalities.

According to reports from the Montenegrin daily Vijesti, Croatian authorities have presented the Montenegrin government with a document containing a 10-point list of issues that must be resolved ...

On 14 December, the electoral college elected Mikheil Kavelashvili as the new President of Georgia (see Appendix). Kavelashvili is one of the leaders of the nationalist-conservative party People’s ...

Moldova will declare a state of energy emergency on 16 December due to an impending crisis caused by Ukraine’s decision not to extend the transit contract for Russian gas after 2025. Meanwhile, the ...

On 17 December, the Swedish parliament adopted the country’s defence resolution for 2025–2030. This is the first document to outline the primary directions for military cooperation and the development ...

On 12 December, the EU Council decided to fully integrate Bulgaria and Romania into the Schengen Area as of 1 January 2025. This was made possible by a shift in Austria’s position, which had been the ...