“The American people know that it is important for us to continue to stand with the Ukrainians, supporting their efforts to protect their country and uphold principles such as democracy, freedom and truth,” the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives tells Il Foglio

Restrictions on Starlink are bringing down Ukrainian drones and jeopardising operations on the front line. No one in Washington is taking responsibility for this. But the CIA continues to support Ukraine, including in deep strikes against Russia. And its director is trying to keep an alliance afloat that the US president risks undermining

Anton Troianovski, a correspondent for The New York Times and former head of Il Foglio’s Moscow bureau: “For Putin, one of the main strategies, right from the start of this Trump administration, has been to try to separate the Ukrainian issue from talks on bilateral relations between the United States and Russia.”

The Russian president is not well regarded among Republicans, 78 per cent of whom view him unfavourably. The survey by The Economist and YouGov America

The idea of opening up EU membership in Ottawa is meeting with resistance from France and Germany, as well as a lack of concrete proposals. At the Montreal summit, they will focus on the Alliance for the Future: trade, technology, raw materials and security

When the left realised just how foolish it had been to leave online propaganda in the hands of the right, when the PT realised that it would be suicidal to abandon the field of social media propaganda in a young country with a very low average level of education and where people are constantly on their mobile phones, Lula ordered his supporters to fight the opponent with their own weapons  

A female student from the movement describes a generation that does not want to leave the country and has set aside ideologies for an ‘existential reason’. The students are fighting against corruption, for democracy and the rule of law. Discussions on foreign policy and the EU are put on hold, in a country where ‘being pro-European doesn’t pay’, says political scientist Nikola Burazer.

The attackers’ plan and the response. A portrait of the country’s political and security landscape, which does not look to the extremes at election time