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The first in a series of articles on the Ukrainian origins of European language, culture and post Neolithic technology.
The languages shared by most of Europe came from the people of the Pontic Steppes, including hunter-gatherers who mixed with the early farming peoples of Western Europe. It was a mixture of populations that later became the Bronze Age early Greeks, the Anatolians of Troy, the Germanic tribes, the Celts, and the Balto-Slavic peoples.
Those who spoke what we now call Proto-Indo-European were predecessors of the Yamnaya – a late Copper Age to early Bronze Age archaeological culture.
After a briefing from Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, the president signaled that Russia still hasn’t seized Donetsk, despite heavy losses and demands Kyiv surrender it.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that Pokrovsk remains the hottest spot on the front after a briefing by Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky.
Pokrovsk is a Ukrainian stronghold in the Donetsk region that has come under intensified Russian assaults in recent weeks, particularly before the US-Russia Alaska summit on Aug. 15.
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has irked European leaders by criticizing the bloc’s support for Ukraine and pushing back against efforts to cut energy imports from Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico in China in the coming days, the Kremlin said Sunday – talks set to further strain tensions between Bratislava and Brussels.
Fico is one of the few EU leaders to have maintained regular contact with Putin since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
On Ukraine, the pope said he urged the world “not to give in to indifference” and renewed his “insistent call for an immediate ceasefire and for a serious commitment to dialogue.”
Pope Leo XIV called Sunday for an end to the “pandemic of arms” as he prayed for “countless” children killed by firearms and in conflicts globally.
The American pontiff repeated his calls at the end of the Angelus prayer for a ceasefire in Ukraine following a Russian attack on Kyiv on Thursday, in which at least 25 people died, including four children.
The evidence may be only circumstantial, but nearly every action (and inaction) with respect to Russia reveals Trump’s apparent hunger to please or placate Putin.
“The top leader of the world’s foremost superpower is, objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset,” Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said. “He operates as an asset.”
Certainly, a strong and damning accusation by a very high official. Portugal is not some outlier state. It is a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Some €210 billion euros of Russian assets are frozen in the bloc under sanctions imposed on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, according to the EU.
The European Union will examine how to use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s defense and reconstruction after the war but confiscating them now is not politically realistic, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Saturday.
Some €210 billion euros of Russian assets are frozen in the bloc under sanctions imposed on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, according to the EU.
At the time of publication, the fire covered roughly 4,000 square meters (43,056 square feet) in Balashikha, one of the largest cities outside Moscow.
A major fire has erupted at a chemical warehouse in Russia’s Balashikha, a city outside Moscow, on Sunday morning.
Russia’s Emergency Service announced the fire at around 9:48 a.m. local time, which it said was located on Zvezdnaya Street, 11.
At least 23 people were killed early Thursday morning in a massive Russian air attack on Kyiv.
At least 23 people were killed early Thursday morning in a massive Russian air attack on Kyiv. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, 629 drones, hypersonic and ballistic missiles as well as cruise missiles were used. The EU delegation office and other institutions in the city centre were also badly hit. Europe’s press reflects on the message behind the attack.
A warning signal
The latest discovery reinforces the notion that Moscow continues to rely on foreign tech and production despite attempts to domesticize weapon production.
A test footage shot from a Chinese factory was found in a recently downed Russian Geran drone.
The Geran is Russia’s domestic analogue of the Iranian Shahed drones frequently used to overwhelm air defense and strike civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
Energy operator DTEK said four facilities were hit overnight on Sunday, with earlier reports suggesting that more than 29,000 consumers were cut off from electricity.
Thousands are left without power in southern Ukraine’s Odesa region after a Russian strike on Ukraine’s energy grid overnight on Sunday.
Oleh Kiper, governor of the Odesa Regional State Administration, reported Sunday morning that the attack cut power to over 29,000 households, with Chornomorsk and surrounding areas hit hardest.
Before the new rule letting men aged 18–22 travel abroad, all military-age men were barred from leaving, and those already abroad feared being unable to exit again.
A spokesman for Ukraine’s State Border Service said on Saturday that there is no surge in border traffic after men below 22 are allowed to cross the border.
The statement came after the government’s decision to ease travel restrictions for men aged 18 to 22 starting Thursday, Aug. 28, rolling back the blanket wartime ban that has barred all military-age men between 18 and 60 from leaving the country since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.
While the US ambassador to NATO frames the new arms sale package as a major policy shift to support Ukraine, a veteran of NATO leadership cautions that the policy may not be as decisive as it appears.
WASHINGTON DC – The Trump administration is giving Ukraine “deeper-strike capabilities” that “could help them offensively,” the US Envoy to NATO said on Saturday, signaling a policy shift that marks a significant departure from previous White House strategy.
Speaking to Fox News, Ambassador Matt Whitaker said: “We’re giving some deeper strike capabilities, and most likely the Ukrainians are going to use them, and that obviously is much different than what [former US President] Joe Biden did.”
But Belgium so far remains firmly against doing more to tap the assets, fearing that it could end up being held liable for any losses.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Saturday the bloc should consider all options on how to maximize the use of Russian frozen assets to help Ukraine, in the face of opposition from key player Belgium.
The EU froze some €200 billion of Russian central bank assets after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the vast majority of which are held by the international deposit organization Euroclear in Belgium.
Latest from the Institute for the Study of War.
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Beijing, through the SCO, will try to “project influence and signal that Eurasia has its own institutions and rules of the game,” said Lizzi Lee from the Asia Society Policy Institute.
President Xi Jinping gathered the leaders of Russia and India among dignitaries from around 20 Eurasian countries on Sunday for a showpiece summit aimed at putting China front and centre of regional relations.
Security was tight in the northern port city of Tianjin, where the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit is being held until Monday, days before a massive military parade in the capital Beijing to mark 80 years since the end of World War II.
