Month: September 2022

The European Commission on Sunday proposed suspending about €7.5 billion of funds allocated to Hungary over rule-of-law concerns, but the EU executive also laid the ground for a possible compromise that would allow Budapest to keep the money. “Today’s decision is a clear demonstration of the Commission’s resolve to protect the EU budget, and to […]

The foreign minister of the Czech Republic, current holder of the presidency of the Council of the EU, called for a “special international tribunal” after evidence of torture on civilians emerged from a mass burial site in Izyum in northeastern Ukraine. “Russia left behind mass graves of hundreds of shot and tortured people in the […]

Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States said Sunday that Ukraine has uncovered evidence of “war crimes of massive proportions” in the land that its forces have seized back from Russia in recent weeks. “It’s so important for everyone to see the true face of this aggression,” Ambassador Oksana Markarova said. Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin called on the governments of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to avoid a military escalation after border clashes between the two countries left 81 dead. Putin held telephone calls with Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov and Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon about the border standoff, according to a statement published on the Kremlin’s website on […]

Former President Bill Clinton rejected the notion that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can be blamed on the expansion of NATO that began during his presidency. “I think we did the right thing at the right time. And if we hadn’t had done it, this crisis might have occurred even sooner,” he said in an interview […]