Accession to the US-led bloc is a “sensitive process” that may require intermediate steps, Dutch caretaker PM Mark Rutte has said  The Netherlands’ caretaker prime minister, Mark Rutte, has refused to say whether he would support Ukraine’s membership of NATO at an upcoming bloc leaders’ meeting, insisting that admitting Ukraine to NATO is not feasible while the…

War funding receives votes in Congress because politicians are paid off by the military-industrial complex, the analyst believes The American public considers wars, and the Ukraine conflict in particular, a bad investment, award-winning US economist and public policy analyst Jeffrey Sachs has said.

At least four people have been killed and six others injured by Ukrainian shelling of the town of Panteleymovka in the Donbass, Denis Pushilin, the head of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), has said.