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By Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) – The German army’s battle-readiness is less than when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, military officials, lawmakers and defence experts told Reuters. Even if a new government boosts defence spending, it will remain hamstrung for years, particularly by a lack of air defence, artillery and soldiers, they said. “Before Russia’s …

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PARIS (Reuters) – Ukraine and Europe should not be excluded from future peace talks on the Ukraine war, Kyiv’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha told Le Monde newspaper in an interview released on Thursday. European leaders were scrambling to try to get a seat at the table in Ukraine peace talks after U.S. President Donald Trump …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – Elon Musk will face consequences for meddling in Germany’s election campaign, Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become the country’s next chancellor, said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published on Thursday. “What happened in this election campaign cannot go unchallenged,” conservative opposition leader Merz told the paper. “It can be …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Europe is jealous and angry over the phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump because it shows that its power on the global stage has been weakened, Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. Wednesday’s Trump-Putin call has raised concerns among some European politicians that …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on Thursday that Russian drones violated Moldova’s airspace with two drones exploding on its soil. “Shahed drones violated our airspace, two exploded on our soil, putting Moldovan lives at risk,” Sandu wrote on X. (Reporting by Anastasiia Malenko; Editing by Sharon Singleton)