Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities searched the house of Andriy Yermak, the influential top aide to President Zelenskiy, reports say bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

America’s trading partners are rushing to seal new trade deals to blunt the hit from Trump’s protectionism bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Putin says Russian army has surrounded Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk reuters.com/business/aeros…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says his Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak has resigned bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The Russian Defense Ministry released a video purporting to show its soldiers in the center of the frontline Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk. Ukraine has made no acknowledgement that the place has fallen into Russian hands reut.rs/4ix1kHD

After Gaza and Ukraine, Will Trump ‘Fix’ the Greece-Turkey-Cyprus Conundrum? en.politis.com.cy/politics/97188…

US envoy Steve Witkoff is traveling to Moscow to meet with Putin, who claimed a key Ukrainian city had fallen to Russia on the eve of the talks about a potential peace plan bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Belgium dismisses the European Union’s legal proposal to tap frozen Russian assets to back a loan for Ukraine bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage dismissed reports that he’s lining up an election pact with the Conservatives, vowing instead to eliminate Britain’s main opposition party as an electoral force bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Italy’s foreign minister said it would be “premature” for his country to participate in a NATO program to buy US weapons for Ukraine in light of ongoing peace negotiations bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The absence of a breakthrough in ceasefire talks may suit Putin just fine bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s unwieldy ruling alliance with the Social Democrats is facing an existential crisis of its own making that could trigger its demise after only seven months in office bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Europe's leaders can revive the economy — if they can get out of their own way bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

UK wage settlements are forecast to remain well above the 3% to 3.5% the BOE deems compatible with its 2% inflation target bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK raked in more donations that any other British political party in the third quarter bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Not for the first time, I just told the BBC exactly what I think of them.

Farage brands BBC ‘despicable’ after tense clash over antisemitism allegations ft.com/content/7db6a6… via @ft

Lammy breaks ranks on Brexit telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

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