• January 29 2026
  News in-depthWar in Ukraine

  Russian oil income drops sharply as sanctions bite

  Moscow’s energy revenues fell by a fifth in 2025 compared with previous year

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• January 29 2026
  InterviewFilm

  ‘Frontline journalism and filmmaking as we know it is dead’ — documenting the war in Ukraine

  Mstyslav Chernov embedded with troops to make the Bafta-nominated ‘2000 Meters to Adriivka’ — and show the conflict in all its horror

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• January 28 2026
  News in-depthGerman politics

  The Russian refinery Germany is racing to save from US sanctions

  German government weighs Rosneft expropriation plan to head off fuel disruptions in Berlin

  
• January 27 2026
  War in Ukraine

  US links security guarantees for Ukraine to peace deal ceding territory

  Washington signalled Kyiv would receive more backing after any withdrawal from the Donbas, say people familiar with talks

  
• January 26 2026
  Ryanair

  Ryanair demands ‘big discounts’ from Ukraine to resume flights

  Chief Michael O’Leary says airline could restart services within four to six weeks of any peace deal

  
• January 26 2026
  German politics

  Germany will ‘strike back’ against Russian cyber attacks, minister vows

  Warning comes after spate of sabotage attempts on German soil that were linked to Russia

  
• January 26 2026
  Gideon Rachman

  In Ukraine, it’s all about the land

  Trilateral peace talks seem promising, but territory remains a major obstacle

  
• January 26 2026
  Europe Express

  Ukraine keeps pushing for early EU entry as peace plan talks rumble on

  Also in this newsletter: Meloni leads European outrage at Trump’s Nato troops jibe

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• January 23 2026
  War in Ukraine

  Ukraine must give up territory for war to end, Russia insists ahead of talks

  Comments come before potential first three-way meeting with US officials since full-scale invasion in 2022

  
• January 23 2026
  Geopolitics

  EU leaders fear for US relationship despite Trump climbdown

  Europeans criticised by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for failing to lead ‘in defending freedom’

  
• January 22 2026
  War in Ukraine

  US pushes Russia and Ukraine towards direct talks in Abu Dhabi

  Donald Trump’s envoys to travel to Moscow to discuss idea of trilateral meeting with Vladimir Putin

  
• January 21 2026
  Energy sector

  Venture Global prevails in dispute with Repsol over supply contracts

  Spanish energy group accused US LNG exporter of breaching deal to profit from market turbulence during Ukraine invasion

  
• January 21 2026
  Corporate bonds

  Chicken producer MHP sells Ukraine’s first corporate bond since Russian invasion

  Poultry group launches $450mn debt sale as Ukrainian companies feel financial strains of protracted conflict

  
• January 21 2026
  War in Ukraine

  Trump dispute over Greenland derails Ukraine postwar deal

  Signature of ‘prosperity plan’ expected at Davos has been postponed amid transatlantic rift

  
• January 21 2026
  Uranium

  Europe struggles to end reliance on Russian uranium

  Western fuel companies say cheap supplies and lack of political will risk locking the continent into strategic dependency

  
• January 21 2026
  The Big Read

  Russia, Ukraine and the race for Chinese drone components

  As both sides scramble to source vital parts, some experts are convinced Russian buyers are being favoured by Beijing

  
• January 21 2026
  FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen

  Greenland standoff rattles markets

  Dollar and US stocks fall as Trump says ‘no going back’ on bid for Arctic island

  
• January 20 2026
  War in Ukraine

  Ukraine offers allies combat data to train AI

  Defence ministry to work with tech company Palantir to use information gathered over four years of war

  
• January 20 2026
  War in Ukraine

  Russia knocks out Kyiv’s power, heating and water

  Missile and drone barrage unleashed on Ukrainian capital comes hours after Trump invited Putin to join his ‘Board of Peace’

  
• January 20 2026
  Rachman Review podcast28 min listen

  Greenland: the good, the bad or the ugly?

  Alexander Stubb on the possible scenarios facing the Arctic island

  
• January 20 2026
  Renault SA

  Renault to team up with French defence group to make drones for Ukraine

  Carmaker to work with Turgis Gaillard to produce drones at two of its sites

  
• January 18 2026
  War in Ukraine

  Russia unleashes ‘energy terror’ in bitter Ukrainian winter

  Moscow targets energy system as Kyiv suffers minus 20C temperatures

  
• January 18 2026
  Eurozone economy

  Europe already ‘at war’ with Russia, says Latvia’s central banker

  Latvijas Banka governor urges European policymakers not to be ‘naive’ and to prepare financial system for direct military attack

  
• January 16 2026
  US foreign policy

  US floats expanding Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ to other global hotspots

  Trump-headed body could mediate in countries such as Ukraine and Venezuela

  
• January 16 2026
  Europe Express

  Why Ukraine’s peace plan is forcing a reckoning on EU enlargement

  Also in this newsletter: Italy’s Arctic ambitions

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