Russia's pipeline gas exports to Europe sank by 44% in 2025 to their lowest since the mid-1970s, following the closure of the Ukrainian route and as the European Union phases out fossil fuel imports from Russia,

Russia's pipeline gas exports to Europe collapsed by 44% in 2025 to a 50-year low due to the closure of the Ukrainian transit route, cementing an irreversible energy divorce as the EU moves to eliminate all Russian fossil fuels by 2027.

January, President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine will have dragged on longer than the war on the Eastern Front that ended with the fall of Berlin in May 1945.

Russia's pipeline gas exports to Europe plunged to a 50-year low as the EU aims to stop imports by 2027 to cut dependency and war funding.

Leaders of eight easternmost European Union nations are gathering in Helsinki on Tuesday to plot a roadmap for how to secure as much funding as possible for building up defenses against Russia.

When a group of defense insiders gathered in Whitehall, the home of the British government, last month to discuss how prepared the United Kingdom and its allies were for a war they believe could come in the next few years,

The European official said the man accused of coordinating a plot to put explosives in packages on cargo planes, for example, was recruited by Russian intelligence after involvement with smuggling guns and explosives. The man is linked to at least four other plots.

A core question for European Union leaders discussing whether to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine is whether the idea is legally sound.

On Dec. 15, the EU sanctioned two rival oil traders it accused of playing a major role in the clandestine Russian energy market. The Trump administration, which has called on the EU to stop all imports of Russian fuel, sanctioned Russia’s two largest oil companies this fall as part of the president’s sped-up effort to end the war in Ukraine.