Estonia is extending a fence along its border with Russia and building anti-tank ditches and bunkers in preparation for a potential conflict with Moscow. But those defenses won’t guard against the threat that Estonia and its NATO allies face from Russian drones and electronic warfare.

The European Union opened an investigation into urea imports from Russia after fertilizer producers in the bloc complained the shipments undercut market prices.

Russia rivals Qatar as one of the largest exporters of liquefied natural gas to the European Union after the United States. L.N.G. is chilled, liquid fuel shipped by tanker. The European Union is now proposing to phase out these shipments by 2027.

More unidentified drones were spotted over Denmark late Thursday near military airbases as a Russian landing ship, with its location responder turned off, was found loitering in waters off the Scandinavian country.

The European Union proposed introducing tighter checks on Russian diplomats on the continent as the bloc works on a new round of sanctions to pressure Moscow to end its war against Ukraine.

Germany’s chancellor is the latest to back a loan plan that is meant to send a message to Moscow that Ukraine will not collapse. But the idea carries risks.

Europe is, but EU- level facilities are all but tapped out and many national governments are on the financial skids ( dans la merde, in the original French). Thus all are willing to listen to financial whizzes who claim they have devised a way for Russia itself to bankroll its Ukrainian foe.

The EU is exploring a plan to turn frozen Russian assets into a reparation loan for Ukraine, bypassing Hungary’s veto, to fund reconstruction and defence amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.

"We do consider President Trump as the only hope for peace in Ukraine," Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told Newsweek.

As Moldova prepares for a crucial parliamentary election on Sunday, Russia is ramping up its efforts to interfere in the vote, officials say, in what they describe as a brazen attempt to halt the westward lurch of the former Soviet state and install a government more pliant to Moscow.