Ukraine said on January 11 that it was questioning two wounded soldiers it claimed are North Koreans taken prisoner while fighting for Moscow in Russia's Kursk region. France 24's Rob Parsons gives us his analysis.
A Moscow court on Saturday ordered a 28-year-old US citizen arrested at a Moscow airport on suspicions of drug smuggling to remain in custody for 30 days. Customs officers detained the man on Friday after finding cannabis-laced sweets in his luggage, court officials said....
US Vice President JD Vance pledged on February 14 that Washington sought to secure a 'lasting' peace as he held a first meeting with Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss Donald Trump's push for a deal with Moscow. Vance also criticised Germany for blocking the far right from possibly sha...
European leaders are trying to make sense of a tough new line from Washington on issues including democracy and Ukraine's future. As the Trump administration continues to upend trans-Atlantic conventions that have been in place since after World War II, FRANCE 24's Gavin Lee welcomes Yevheniia KRAV...
US Vice President JD Vance on February 14 took a swipe at European governments for what he described as their censorship of free speech and their political opponents, while largely avoiding the question of how to resolve the Ukraine war....
Hamas-led militants released three male Israeli hostages on February 15 and Israeli forces began releasing hundreds of prisoners in return. Militants in the southern Gaza Strip paraded the three hostages — Iair Horn, 46, a dual citizen of Israel and Argentina; American-Israeli Sagui Dekel Chen, 3...
Ukraine may not survive should it lose the backing of its main ally the United States in the face of Russia’s war of aggression, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with NBC to be broadcast on Saturday. He added that Russia is not after a ceasefire deal in a bid to end the war, but...
US Vice President JD Vance has pledged that Washington seeks to secure a "lasting" peace as he held a first meeting with Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss Donald Trump's push for a deal with Moscow. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, FRANCE 24's Oliver Farry welcomes Georg...
It’s been a week where Moscow got what it wanted. A 90-minute call between Trump and Putin ended with talk of visits and cooperation—and the real headline: no NATO future for Ukraine. Kyiv may never reclaim its lost borders, and as Putin steps in from the cold, Zelensky risks being frozen out....
Some 35 kilometres north of Kharkiv with the Russian army at a distance, the soldiers of the 127th brigade are waging electronic warfare. Over three years, artillery combat has given way to drone warfare, including troop surveillance and the threat of kamikaze drone attacks. As a result, the front...
"I missed you a lot": Donald Trump gave Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a warm welcome at the White House. But behind the hugs, smiles and handshakes were intense negotiations. The US president complained about India's high tariffs on US goods while offering the Asian nation access to F-35 figh...
Europe is facing increasingly hybrid threats, and it lacks a shared culture of preparedness, according to our guest. Sauli Niinistö was the president of Finland from 201HJYYUU2 to 2024 and is now a special advisor to the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. In that capacity, he h...
PRESS REVIEW – Friday, February 14: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin's phone conversation continues to spark concern, panic and worry among European leaders. What does this mean for the future of Europe? Also, The New York Times takes us inside the family succession drama that has torn apart Rupe...
Relations between the US and Europe entered uncharted territory after a week of diplomatic shocks that saw the Trump administration cutting Kyiv and Brussels out of bilateral US-Russia talks to end the Ukraine war and setting a hard line on NATO defence spending. It set the stage for stormy talks b...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a social media post on Friday that a Russian drone armed with a high-explosive warhead struck the cover protecting a power unit at the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The Kremlin denied targeting Ukrainian nuclear sites, while the European Uni...
How about that phone call? The US president has gone over the heads of the Ukrainians and the Europeans by promising talks "immediately" with Vladimir Putin, this on the same day that his new defence secretary told NATO counterparts that returning to Ukraine's borders of 2014 was "unrealistic". Don...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday urged Syria's new leaders to ensure "governance that is representative and respectful of all" at a Paris conference on the transition in the war-torn country after Bashar al-Assad's fall. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the national dia...
Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky said Friday that Ukraine was "ready to move as quickly as possible towards real peace" after a meeting with US Vice President JD Vance on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. Zelensky's comments came after Vance said that Europe must bolster its ow...
After US President Donald Trump blind sided Ukraine and NATO by announcing plans to hold direct talks with Russia over a peace deal in Ukraine, both NATO leader Mark Rutte and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky insisted on Thursday that any peace talks must include Ukraine. The previous day, US...
French President Emmanuel Macron described Donald Trump’s return to the White House as an “electroshock” that should force Europe to secure its own future as well as Ukraine’s, in an interview with the Financial Times published on Friday. The French president warned against peace in Ukraine...
Russian cryptocurrency kingpin Alexander Vinnik returned to Moscow on Thursday, as part of an exchange deal for US teacher Marc Fogel, a senior US official said....
Out-of-context videos have fuelled a false rumour that French President Emmanuel Macron "ignored" India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was his co-chair of the Paris AI Action summit. Initially sourced back to pro-Russian media outlets, the falsehood racked up online criticism of the French pre...
Ukraine has warned against Kremlin attempts to divide the world after US President Donald Trump revealed he plans to begin peace talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, FRANCE 24's Mark Owen welcomes Olena Prokopenko, Senior Fellow in the Ukraine Re...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as health secretary by the Republican-controlled US Senate on Thursday, despite warnings from the medical community over his history of promoting vaccine misinformation, propagating conspiracy theories and denying scientific facts. Kennedy has also vowed to gut...
Ukrainians are reeling in the wake of a call between US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, that has spurred fears Kyiv will be sidelined from peace talks. President Zelensky has said that he cannot accept any agreements that do include his country in talks amid concerns th...
Leaders had never promised to Ukraine that it would become a NATO member if it forged a peace deal with Russia, the chief of the Western military alliance, Mark Rutte, told reporters on Thursday. FRANCE 24's international affairs commentator, Douglas Herbert has more....
Tulsi Gabbard has been sworn in as US President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence, after Republicans in the Senate fell in line. Some Senators had questioned her experience and judgment, after she made comments sympathetic to both Russia and held a meeting with former Syrian Presiden...
The Kremlin said on Thursday that there is political will on both the Russian and U.S. sides to find a settlement and end the Ukraine war, after presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump spoke on Wednesday. For more, FRANCE 24's correspondent Fraser Jackson....
A Ukrainian photographer has spoken to FRANCE 24 about the scars the war has left on his country, and how he tries to reflect them in his work. Vic Bakin's pictures feature Ukraine's youth, most recently as they relax away from the front lines. He spoke to us in Perspective....
Ukrainians are reeling in the wake of a call between US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin that has spurred fears Kyiv will be sidelined from peace talks. Trump's defence chief on Thursday denied the US president was betraying Ukraine by opening talks with Russia's Vladimir Pu...
The Kremlin said Thursday that a face-to-face meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin needed to be organised "promptly", after the two presidents held a lengthy phone call the day before. FRANCE 24's international affairs editor, Kethevane Gorjestani has more....