The Challengers will arrive on the battlefield “this side of summer,” the defense minister said Ukraine will receive 14 Challenger 2 main battle tanks from the UK before the summer, Defense Minister Ben Wallace told Parliament on Monday. This timeline means the Challengers will likely arrive after Germany’s Leopard tanks reach the battlefield amid Kiev’s…

Croatia switched to the euro and entered the Schengen free-movement zone on Sunday, marking two major milestones for the Balkan nation, which joined the European Union nearly a decade ago. Zagreb’s bid to adopt the euro was approved by the EU Council in July, marking the first expansion of the currency bloc in almost a…

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