Matthew Lee    U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and senior Chinese officials in Beijing

Jill Lawless    Ukraine’s foreign minister has doubled down on the government’s move to bolster the pool of fighting forces by cutting off consular services to conscription age men outside the country

Mindaugas Kulbis and Liudas Dapkus    Polish President Andrzej Duda says a potential aggressor must see our readiness as he and his Lithuanian counterpart monitored a joint military drill along their shared border

Namita Singh,Alexander Butler,Andy Gregory and Matt Mathers    US secretary of state says Russia would not be able to sustain its war in Ukraine without support from Beijing

Illia Novikov    A Ukrainian court has ordered the detention of the country’s farm minister in the latest high profile corruption investigation

Via AP news wire    A Swedish parliament committee says Sweden which joined NATO in March, should increase its military budget by nearly billion kronor billion until to strengthen its air defense and increase the number of conscripts, among other measures

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Tara Copp    Two U.S. officials say Ukraine has sidelined U.S. provided Abrams M A battle tanks for now in its fight against Russia

Lolita C. Baldor    U.S. officials say the Pentagon is expected to announce that it will provide about billion in long term military aid to Ukraine

Tom Watling    Europe must show it is never a vassal of the United States’ says French president in keynote Sorbonne speech

Barbara Surk and Sylvie Corbet    French President Emmanuel Macron is warning that Europe could die if it fails to build its own robust defense as Russia’s war in Ukraine rages on

Jim Heintz    A Moscow court has imposed a , ruble fine on a TV presenter and actress who gained notoriety for hosting an almost naked party, saying her social media posts calling for peace discredited the military