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Ben Hall is Europe editor of the FT, writing interviews, analysis and comment and managing the European network of correspondents. He has worked at the FT since 2000. He was previously world news editor, Europe news editor, Paris correspondent, UK political correspondent, deputy comment editor and a leader writer.
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  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Tracking Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia in maps

    A visual guide to the war

    Montage of map of Ukraine and tanks
  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    Global InsightUkrainian politics
    Ukraine’s democracy is facing a wartime election test

    Zelenskyy has hinted presidential vote may still be possible next year, alarming civil society groups

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy holds his voting paper in his right hand above the ballot box as he casts his vote
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    The Big Read
    The hard lessons from Ukraine’s summer offensive

    The country’s military is enjoying some success but it will be slow-going and requires allies to increase ammunition supplies

  • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
    Ukrainian politics
    Ukraine open to minority rights concessions in quest to join EU

    Kyiv prepared to change rules on languages used in schools to unlock accession talks

    Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Olga Stefanishyna
  • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Biden edges closer to decision on supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles

    Washington fears striking Russian territory risks escalating the conflict

    A missile being fired
  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Musk gave biographer Ukrainian official’s private messages without permission

    Mykhailo Fedorov says disclosure of exchange about military access to Starlink internet service ‘not pretty’

    Elon Musk and Walter Isaacson on a stage
  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine seeks French help in wooing global south

    Foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba in Paris to counter Russia’s influence on countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America

    Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba, left, shakes hands with Catherine Colonna, France’s foreign minister
  • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine27 min
    Ukraine tech sector goes to war | FT Film

    How start-ups help the war effort with cheap drones and AI-powered missile detection

    FT Film: Ukraine's tech war
  • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
    Nato
    Sweden poised to strengthen Nato’s northern defences

    Membership of alliance marks historic shift for non-aligned country, precipitated by Russia’s war against Ukraine

    Swedish soldiers pose for a photo as troops from Poland, the US, France and Sweden take part in a military exercise in Poland
  • Sunday, 9 July, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    US and Germany resist pressure to advance Ukraine’s Nato bid

    Fraught negotiations on membership application threaten to expose divisions at Vilnius summit

    Nato and Ukraine flags fly in Vilnius
  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    InterviewWar in Ukraine
    Ukraine urges US to follow EU’s four-year funding pledge

    Finance minister Serhii Marchenko says Brussels’ €50bn package is a ‘good signal’ for G7 nations

    Serhiy Marchenko
  • Friday, 30 June, 2023
    Instant InsightFrench society
    Riots underscore depth of France’s social tensions

    The death of a teenager at the hands of the police presents Emmanuel Macron with a new challenge

    A protester throws an object at police in Nanterre. The latest protests demonstrate that France’s impoverished, ethnically-mixed neighbourhoods remain a powder keg
  • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
    Europe Express
    Why Ukraine will continue to dominate the EU leaders’ summit Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Denmark gives up its bid for the Nato secretary-general’s job

    European Council President Charles Michel, right, greets Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas prior to a meeting at the European Council building in Brussels
  • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
    EU enlargement
    EU should not ‘lower the bar’ to take in Ukraine, says Denmark

    Foreign minister warns bloc risks ‘importing instability’ if it relaxes standards on democracy and corruption

    Lars Løkke Rasmussen
  • Monday, 26 June, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Germany pushes back against EU plan to raid frozen Russian assets

    Berlin and other capitals are wary of legal and financial repercussions

    Aerial footage of an apartment block on fire in city of Bakhmut, Ukraine
  • Sunday, 25 June, 2023
    FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: military strategies
    Military briefing: Will the Wagner insurrection affect the Ukraine war?

    Prigozhin’s threatened putsch came at an opportune moment for Kyiv’s counteroffensive

    Wagner group troops prepare to leave Rostov
  • Saturday, 24 June, 2023
    Europe Express
    Ukraine’s missing Marshall Plan Premium content

    Despite setting low expectations of London conference, Kyiv officials were still disappointed by response on urgent matter of war insurance

    A firefighter in front of a destroyed residential building following a Russian strike in the city of Kryvyi Rih on June 13, 2023
  • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleads for ‘real’ reconstruction projects

    Two-day London conference aims to encourage private sector investment in Ukraine’s recovery

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses virtually the opening session of the Ukraine Recovery Conference
  • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
    Europe Express
    How the west is grappling with the sheer scale of rebuilding Ukraine Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter: the latest twist in the EU’s Qatargate lobbying scandal

    British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks at a news conference held with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy (not pictured)
  • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
    News in-depthUkraine military briefing
    Military briefing: Russian ‘Alligators’ menace Ukraine’s counteroffensive

    Shortage of air defences leaves Kyiv’s forces vulnerable to helicopter attacks

    Russian Ka-52 “Alligator” helicopter fires at a Ukrainian target
  • Monday, 12 June, 2023
    Ukraine
    Bank fraud trial tests Ukraine’s efforts to curb corruption

    PrivatBank has taken its former owners Igor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Bogolyubov to court in England

    A PrivatBank branch in Kyiv in 2016
  • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    ‘I compare it with Chernobyl’: Ukrainians confront consequences of dam disaster

    Humanitarian disaster compounded by damage to crucial farming industry and transport routes

    Flooded streets in Kherson, Ukraine
  • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
    Instant InsightWar in Ukraine
    Dam breach gives Russia a new weapon in Ukraine war

    The humanitarian disaster of catastrophic flooding will draw attention away from the unfolding counter-offensive

    Video footage shows the Kakhovka dam after it was partially destroyed
  • Saturday, 20 May, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    US signals support for allies to send their F-16 jets to Ukraine

    Washington’s policy shift on fighter planes is diplomatic victory for Kyiv’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy

    US air force F-16 fighter jet on tarmac
  • Friday, 12 May, 2023
    FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: military strategies
    Ukraine’s counteroffensive: the war reaches a ‘decisive moment’

    A successful operation could shift the momentum of the conflict in Kyiv’s favour. Anything less risks eroding western support

    A soldier from the Bureviy assault brigade on exercise in woods near Kyiv, next to a map showing eastern Ukraine
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