"Of course, not everything can be revealed at this moment, but these are Ukrainian actions that will undoubtedly be in history books." Had a look at Sunday's Spider Web attack, which spanned thousands of kilometres and several time zones across Russia: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Very sad news from Austria today: a school shooting happened in Graz. The country is very much not used to this. Parents nationwide will have their hearts in their throats thinking about their little ones. Expect scrutiny on its liberal gun laws, which Laura Gozzi described here.

Ukraine suffers heaviest attack after Trump criticises Putin bbc.in/44Em2Pl

To be clear: it was not the Rada, this was not good tsar, bad boyars – it was Zelensky and Yermak who organized this and pushed it through. Orders came from the office of the president last night and the law enforcement committee passed it early morning in such great haste that

A joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

5.08.1999 президент России Борис Ельцин предложил директору ФСБ Владимиру Путину должность главы правительства, а заодно подумать и о «самой высокой должности». «Я верю в вас», - сказал Ельцин, увидев сомнения собеседника.

My account of our team's year-long investigation into one small-boat smuggling gang's activities in France and the UK: bbc.com/news/articles/…

Trump-Putin meeting: what can it achieve? (Chose realism over optimism. With Vitaly Shevchenko) bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

EU leaders will be hoping to put the security of the European continent and Ukrainian interests at the forefront of Trump's mind – at a time when nervousness is growing that the peace imposed on Ukraine may end up being neither "just" nor "lasting". bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Russia's MFA says Putin still wants Ukraine to surrender Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk – the four partially occupied regions he annexed. "The goals of the Russian delegation at the talks in Alaska are dictated exclusively by national interests."

"Perhaps most importantly Moscow has managed to instil in Trump that it is now up to Zelensky to make a deal to end the war – while knowing fully well he cannot agree to ceding territory outright." Our take on today's slew of White House meetings: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

That's right - Meloni floated it in the spring. The Europeans discussed it at the Paris summit in late March and the Italian gvt at the time said Macron had expressed interest in the proposal. governo.it/it/articolo/ri…

The White House billed it as a "Big Day" - with an unprecedented visit by European leaders alongside Volodomyr Zelensky. But what were the main takeaways? Laura Gozzi and I took a look here: bbc.com/news/articles/…

Putin's reported proposal to host talks with Zelensky in Moscow - impossible to imagine away from a context of Ukrainian capitulation - may have been Russia's way of putting forward an option so far-fetched Kyiv could not possibly have agreed to it. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Opinions differ on whether the Russian drone incursion into Poland was accidental or deliberate - but maybe that's beside the point, as either way the incident will provide Moscow with clues about Nato resolve bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

While writing this I was reminded of the time Putin was asked about Navalny's death and said a person passing was "always a sad event". At the time we realised it was likely the second time he had ever referred to Navalny publicly bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

No Anchorage Round 2 for now. The White House decision to shelve plans for a second Trump-Putin meeting may have been an attempt to avoid another damp squib bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…