Cutting off Russian energy imports is the aim of the new RepowerEU Roadmap presented by the European Commission. The executive cites security reasons, adding that it will also accelerate the EU's energy transition,

I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I am drilling down on two issues: the EU’s attempt to ramp up its defense and the bloc finally hitting Russian fertilizers

The warnings over the offensive come as a U.S.-brokered peace process has limped along with inconclusive meetings and little concrete results.

Russian energy minister Anton Rubtsov told state media about how current taxation on Russian oil hurts production.

Dutch intelligence agencies say that a previously unknown Russian hacker group with suspected ties to the Kremlin was responsible for a cyberattack last year on the Dutch police.

After three nights of “record-breaking” Russian missile and drone strikes in Ukraine, Poland’s military chief is visiting the Pentagon. Minister of Defense Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz and his team dropped by shortly before 10 a.m. ET for talks behind closed doors with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Ukraine will ask the EU next week to consider big new steps to isolate Moscow, including seizing Russian assets and bringing in sanctions for some buyers of Russian oil, as U.S. President Donald Trump has backed off from tightening sanctions.

The European Union and U.K. have imposed fresh sanctions on Russia, notably targeting almost scores of ships from the shadow fleet illicitly transporting oil to skirt Western restrictions imposed over the war on Ukraine.

Wally Adeyemo, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, and David Shimer, former U.S. National Security Council official, talk to Bianna Golodrgya about their call for the EU to seize Russia’s frozen assets in Europe.