The Ukrainian president met Burnham in London, at the naval base in Portsmouth, and is in Washington today. Over the past two months, the United States’ stance towards Ukraine has changed – for the better. The funeral of Lindsey Graham, the senator who never stopped believing in it. The Patriots, the thaw and the Moscow-Tehran axis 

“We are in agreement with our allies 90 per cent of the time. On the issues of support for Ukraine and defence spending, there are differing views, but I am optimistic,” says the Democratic senator

This is how people travel, sleep and die. To discover just how real the Russian threat is, you need only take a train: Putin’s bombs have started hitting those too. Ukraine did not choose war; it found itself on the receiving end of a barrage of Russian hatred. What it did choose was resistance

In the Ukrainian city that defeated the occupation and now lives amid the bombs, with the sky covered by anti-drone nets, staying is a choice and means fighting. Moscow is targeting civilians because it wants them to leave; these are the people who remain

What doesn’t add up in Andrey Melnichenko’s essay, which presents itself as a call for the creation of a new European security architecture

Khmara replaces Federov, and the message is: if Ukraine’s defence depended on just one man, we would have lost by now

Starmer ends his term in Ukraine with a final gesture of solidarity, whilst at the local councils he and Badenoch offer a rare lesson in institutional grace. And in the challenge to Farage, Binface emerges – the delightfully British antidote to political fatalism

Armonia nell’esercito o efficienza. La scelta piena di rischi di Zelensky