Author: Euronews

Published on 28/05/2026 – 16:28 GMT+2 Ukraine plans to buy up to 20 latest model Gripen fighter jets and Sweden will donate 16 older models to boost its air defence, the two countries said on Thursday during a surprise visit to the country by Ukraine’s president. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Ukraine plans to allocate €2.5 billion from an EU loan for the new aircraft, the Swedish government said in a statement. Regarding the latest model Gripen E jets, “the aim is to quickly conclude a final agreement with deliveries as of 2030”, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said at a joint press conference…

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that recent drone incursions into EU airspace are “not isolated incidents”, as Baltic leaders and EU officials warn of escalating hybrid threats engineered by Russia along Europe’s eastern border.

Published on 25/05/2026 – 17:35 GMT+2 The repatriated remains of 20th-century Ukrainian military leader Andrii Melnyk and his wife Sofiia Fedak-Melnyk were reburied at the National Military Memorial Cemetery near Kyiv on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The ceremony was attended by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian officials. The ashes of the key leader of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and his spouse were exhumed last week in Luxembourg and then transported to Ukraine. “Today we all see that the Ukrainian idea can overcome what once seemed absolutely insurmountable,” Zelenskyy said at the ceremony on Monday. “Now, when we are…

Published on 24/05/2026 – 15:37 GMT+2 On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia had again deployed its “Oreshnik” intermediate-range ballistic missile, this time in the Kyiv region. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Russian Defence Ministry later confirmed the launch, saying it came as part of a retaliatory attack following Ukrainian strikes against “civilian targets,” which Kyiv has denied. Moscow’s use of the “Oreshnik” missile has sparked strong reactions abroad. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz condemned the attack as a “reckless escalation” in a post on X and reaffirmed Germany’s support for Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron also condemned the latest Russian strikes,…

The Terra dei Fuochi, or land of fires, is a vast area in southern Italy scarred by illegal dumping, burying and burning of waste.

The EU has been unable of sanctioning Russia’s Patriarch Kirill since 2022. The change of power in Hungary offers an opportunity to revisit the issue.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez presented what he called Spain’s biggest-ever campaign against forest fires on Thursday after deadly blazes devoured a record amount of land last year. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Spain is one of the southern European countries on the front line of climate change as higher average temperatures stoke heatwaves, droughts and forest fires. The country sweltered through its hottest summer on record in 2025, when almost 4,000 square kilometres of land went up in smoke, the highest figure registered by the European Forest Fire Information System. “We will put in place all the resources” available to the government “to…

Brussels is testing the waters with G7 allies to introduce a full ban on maritime services for Russian oil tankers. But recent decisions taken by the US and the UK suggest an uphill struggle to secure the green light.

An F-16 fighter jet deployed with NATO air policing forces in the Baltics shot down what is believed to have been a stray Ukrainian drone over southern Estonia on Tuesday ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur said that, given the drone’s trajectory, “we decided that we needed to take it down”. “Most probably, today we can say that it was a drone that was, let’s say, meant to hit Russian targets.” Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said experts from Ukraine and Estonia were working on measures to prevent similar incidents in the future. “We apologise to Estonia and…

A series of regional votes, capped by a conservative win in Andalusia on Sunday, has cemented Spain’s rightward shift, even as Pedro Sánchez builds his international profile as the leader of the progressive left in defiance of President Donald Trump. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Successive regional votes in Aragon, Castilla y León and Andalusia this year saw Spain’s Socialist Party lose seats, with the conservative People’s Party coming out on top and the hard-right Vox emerging as kingmaker. The ballots paint a complex picture of Spanish society, where the coexistence of the mainstream right, backed by the hard right, is becoming the…