Day: December 25, 2025

Japan’s Cabinet has approved a record defense budget plan exceeding 9 trillion yen for the coming year.

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A Kremlin emboldened by Moscow’s advances on the battlefield and restrained by the difficulty of selling the new plan to the Russian public as a victory is unlikely to accept the new blueprint.

Zelenskyy stated that some documents of the peace deal are fully prepared after he held a discussion with United States envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

Ukraine has widened the scope of its attacks on Russian energy assets, targeting not only crude refineries but also pipelines and other facilities.

The case of a scholar wanted in Ukraine sparked a debate on the relationship between museums and the Russian state.