The United States donated 31 of the 69-ton, four-person M-1s in 2023. In a year and a half of hard fighting, the 47th Mechanized Brigade—the sole Ukrainian user of the high-tech Abrams— has lost at least nine, and potentially as many as 17, of the tanks.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has blocked an air defence package for Ukraine worth €3 billion (£2.5...

If Ukraine falls, it will be hard to spin as anything but a debacle for the United States, and for its president.

The White House seized a rare chance to undermine Russia and build up regional allies as it built a coalition to support the Ukrainians.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, one of the European leaders closest to Donald Trump, said on Thursday she believed the U.S. president-elect would defend Western interests once he took office and would not abandon Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday said Donald Trump's return to the White House would open "a new chapter" and reiterated a call for Western allies to send troops to help "force Russia to peace".

Ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s return to office, Ukraine’s future course is shrouded in uncertainty as it loses ground to Russia’s far larger military.

The United States warned on Wednesday that North Korea is benefiting from its troops fighting alongside Russia against Ukraine, gaining experience that makes Pyongyang "more capable of waging war against its neighbors.

In the first trading day after Ukraine ceased the flow of Russian gas and oil, benchmark natural gas prices in Europe surged 4%.

Americans have a dimmer view of Joe Biden’s presidency than they did at the end of Donald Trump’s first term or Barack Obama’s second.