Ukraine reached a historic high in Transparency International annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) in 2023, improving its score by three points to reach 36 out of a possible 100.
Amid both threats and signs of flexibility from the EU, the Hungarian premier is expected to drop his veto of the €50bn package.
Ukraine has insisted it has no intention of renewing its gas transit contract with Russia that is due to expire at the end of this year.
Vienna-based think-tank expects growth to get back on track this year, but warns of risks from a Trump victory in the US and escalation of fighting in Ukraine or Gaza.
EU source claims reported threat to freeze aid to Hungary indefinitely was only 'background material'.
The Zelenskiy administration has been rocked by a fresh corruption scandal at the Defence Ministry this week, but Ukraine has been plagued by corruption from the day of its independence.
Orban is now being told that Hungary’s frozen EU funds will be suspended indefinitely unless he co-operates on Ukraine, according to a report in the Financial Times.
“The stance of the Ukrainian side is straightforward: the transit contract will expire at the end of this year,” says Ukrainian government.
Following the failure of Ukraine’s counteroffensive last summer, the Biden administration has abandoned hope of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) retaking any territory in 2024.
Russian oil refineries are not normally newsmakers, but they have found themselves on the front page recently as Ukraine’s new long-range drones have brought some of Russia’s oil infrastructure within striking distance.
Over the last two years, I have given a lot of talks around the United States and the world about the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. I have a talk discerning the causes of the war and the possibility of a Russia-Nato clash.
Russia imported $1.2bn worth of sanctioned advanced microchips from US and European firms in the first nine months 2023, Bloomberg reported on January 25.
The EU may include an embargo on Russian aluminium imports as part of their thirteen sanctions package, causing the metal’s price to jump and protestations from the industry association.
For all the talk of the Kremlin’s rising confidence since late 2023, the reality is in fact far from encouraging for Russia. Rather oddly, a nation mired in a foreign war it cannot easily extricate itself from against a far smaller adversary.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has accused Russia of "playing with the lives of Ukrainian prisoners" after Moscow blamed Kyiv for a plane crash that reportedly killed 65 Ukrainian POWs.
Fico pledges to support EU aid to Ukraine, despite saying earlier that he would support Orbán's proposals to keep the package separate from the EU budget.
Prominent Ukrainian investment banker Igor Mazepa, founder and CEO of Concorde Capital investment company, was released from a pre-trial detention facility after posting bail.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has lashed out at the “don’t escalate” rhetoric as Bankova becomes increasingly more desperate that Western support might be evaporating.
A Russian Ilyushin-76 military transport plane carrying missiles and 65 Ukrainian POWs crashed in the southern Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, killing all on board.
Bill ratifying accession now only needs Erdogan’s signature. Hungary the last country blocking Nordic country’s path into defence alliance.