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The EU and its Member States remain the world’s largest and most reliable donors of humanitarian aid. Today, we are presenting our new approach to humanitarian diplomacy. We will make better use of every tool at our disposal to safeguard aid delivery, secure humanitarian access, protect civilians, and ensure respect for international humanitarian law. It will also help ensure that humanitarian issues are front and centre in our external action. link.europa.eu/nDr9cN

FT Exclusive: Four months after its establishment, the organisation’s financial fund set up by the World Bank has received no money from donors, according to four people familiar with the matter. ft.trib.al/aqWkkaM

This is Nikopol, a city in Ukraine where civilians are being hunted by drones. I investigated how russians are now launching those drones FROM Europe's largest nuclear power plant at the other side of the river. Russian aggression puts the entire planet at risk of nuclear disaster, it doesn't just stop at the borders of Ukraine. Since the Zaporizhzhia NPP was stormed, theres been almost zero international news coverage of the site, yet every day the situation deteriorates. The same soviet system of lies that led to the Chornobyl disaster is now running a nuclear facility twice the size. Every single environmental agency needs to start calling out the russian threat to our planet. The plant is now running on diesel generators that can fail at any moment. They have already failed 15 times since the full-scale invasion. This is Chornobyl on steroids. Whatever your views on the war in Ukraine, a nuclear disaster here doesn’t respect borders. It doesn’t care about your politics. What's happening in Nikopol is a warning.

Tourism plummets for first time in 20 years as visitors avoid Trump's America irishstar.com/news/us-news/t…

Opinion: Both men gambled on a weak adversary and assumed victory within days. Each is burdening their countries with costs that will persist many years after they have lost power. ft.trib.al/ZJumlB1

BREAKING: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine are nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

Italian PM Meloni: If you do not know how to defend yourself, if you ask someone else to guarantee your security, you will pay for it in terms of autonomy, sovereignty, and the ability to defend your national interests. Defense spending is the price of freedom, and I want Italy to be a free nation.

Attacks on hospitals, schools & 🇩🇪 TV studios, calling on our embassy staff to leave #Kyiv: #Russia is doubling down on threats, terror & escalation. That is why today we summoned the Russian ambassador. 1/2

Very unusual to see article in a respected 🇷🇺 publication arguing that the aims set by Putin for his war are unachievable. I’m certain there has been much discussion before deciding to publish, and this reflects the new doubts starting to dominate Moscow. globalaffairs.ru/articles/chugu…

NATO will strengthen defence of eastern flank with new structure that would facilitate rapid deployment of forces in Latvia and Estonia in the event of a war with Russia, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. @sasilink @reporter_polina report: reuters.com/business/aeros…

Von der Leyen proposes EU-NATO review of Baltic counter-drone systems dlvr.it/TSkNKC

Italian PM Meloni: If you do not know how to defend yourself, if you ask someone else to guarantee your security, you will pay for it in terms of autonomy, sovereignty, and the ability to defend your national interests. Defense spending is the price of freedom, and I want Italy to be a free nation.

The Telegraph: Macron tore up 65 years of doctrine to defend Europe with French nukes, with or without the US. Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Sweden, Denmark, and now the Czech Republic will host French nuclear-armed Rafales. 1/

Everybody knows that, before elected President of Ukraine, @ZelenskyyUa was a famous comic actor. (In fact, perhaps the most famous comic actor not only in Ukraine, but in Russia as well.) What's less known is that he has a genuinely fine sense of humor even as a war-time president. Today, he recalled Belarus strongman Lukashenka's grand-standing suggestion that "President of Ukraine should meet President of Belarus" and immideately turned to @Tsihanouskaya, who won the 2020 presidential elections in Belarus but was forced out of the country by Lukashenka's regime. That's both fine diplomacy and a genuinely light moment.

I’m in Vilnius to send a clear message: Europe stands in full solidarity and unity with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. And we are stepping up our support. Because when Baltic States are being tested, Europe as a whole is being tested.

Russia again threatens diplomats & foreigners, urging us to leave Kyiv. But we are not going anywhere! Russia wants fear. Panic. Isolation of Ukraine. It will not work. 🇪🇺 is not going anywhere. We stay in Kyiv. We stay w/ Ukraine. 🇺🇦🤝🇪🇺

We extend our warmest congratulations to the people of Georgia on their Independence Day! 🇧🇬🤝🇬🇪 Wishing you peace, prosperity and continued friendship between our nations. Happy 26 May! #GeorgiaIndependenceDay #Georgia #Bulgaria

⚡️ Lavrov informed Rubio that Russia is beginning systematic strikes on Kyiv Russian Foreign Minister requested the evacuation of American diplomats. So how’s Trump’s peace plan going, by the way?

Днес в Украйна, в град Одеса, се отбелязва „Денят на българската култура и азбука“. Подчертавам ! Не на славянската , а именно на българската ..

EU Ambassador to Kyiv, Katarina Mathernova, responds firmly to Russian threats demanding foreign diplomats and embassies to leave Kyiv immediately: "We are not going anywhere. The EU will not leave. We will stand by Ukraine" I feel proud to be European in moments like these 🇪🇺🇺🇦