From a BRICS summit in India, Vladimir Putin drew a line that Europe has heard before but cannot afford to ignore: the deployment of Western troops to Ukraine, he warned, would mean open war with Russia. Even as he denied threatening European nations, Russian drones were killing civilians in Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, and Kramatorsk — a contradiction that defines this conflict's terrible logic. Diplomacy flickers at the margins, with talk of a G20 encounter in Miami and Trump's breezy optimism about a deal, but the ground truth remains a war that Russia is prosecuting with deliberate force against c
Putin warns Europe against troops in Ukraine as Russia intensifies strikes
At least 8 civilians killed and dozens wounded in Russian strikes across Ukrainian cities; 2 killed at Moldova border crossing; residential areas destroyed in Odesa.