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The recruitment of Ukrainians for hybrid operations in Europe is part of a systematic campaign aimed at convincing Europeans that supporting Ukraine is costing them too much.

Democrats won control of both chambers of the US Congress in the 3 November midterm elections, NBC News projected , and will take over when the new Congress meets in January. The result ends Trump's Republican majority but leaves him the veto. For Ukraine, voters removed some of Kyiv's critics and several of its staunchest Republican allies. Hours before Americans voted, Russia fired 59 cruise missiles at Ukraine's power grid. For two years, a Republican Congress left Ukraine policy largely to the White House, which struck a diesel deal with Moscow that senators of both parties said clashes with a 2022 jaban. Congress writes the budget and sanctions laws and can investigate the administration. That puts real levers over US help for Ukraine back in lawmakers' hands. Texas and Kansas elect Democratic senators for the first time in decades As of publication, Democrats hold 54 Senate seats to the Republicans' 43, with races in Alaska, Mississippi, and Nebraska still uncalled. They flipped seven, including Texas and Kansas. Kansas last sent a Democrat to the Senate in 1932, Le Monde noted . In the House, NBC News has called 231 races for Democrats and 144 for Republicans, and expects ab

The power struggle between the country’s Euroskeptic president and pro-EU government escalated as riot police surrounded the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw The longstanding power struggle between Poland’s right-wing, Euroskeptic president and its pro-EU government over control of the country’s top court escalated dramatically on Friday night as riot police surrounded the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw. The latest stand-off was triggered by Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, a judge backed by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government, who ordered the suspension of the Constitutional Tribunal’s president, Bogdan Swieczkowski, and vice president, Bartlomiej Sochanski. Police were deployed as an announcement of their suspensions appeared on the court’s website, from which their profiles were reportedly removed. Shortly afterward, the tribunal’s official X account claimed that its website had been subjected to an “unlawful takeover” and insisted that both officials remained in their posts. “All persons participating in these actions are committing the crime of a coup d’état,” the account stated. Piotrowska meanwhil

Only €41.7 billion of the €100 billion reported by the German government actually went to Kiev, according to the Kiel Institute Germany has counted billions of euros spent at home as aid to Ukraine, overstating the amount that actually reached Kiev, according to a study published on Thursday by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Berlin has reported providing or earmarking €100 billion ($112 billion) in support since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. However, the institute found that only €41.7 billion qualified as actual bilateral aid, while €35.9 billion was spent in Germany and another €22 billion consisted of future military commitments. ”The €100 billion figure is misleading and wrongly labeled as ‘bilateral aid to Ukraine’,” said Christoph Trebesch, head of the institute’s Ukraine Support Tracker. He nevertheless described Germany as Europe’s largest donor to Kiev. Of the €43.3 billion Berlin classified as civilian assistance, roughly 80% remained in Germany. The bulk covered benefits and accommodation for Ukrainian refugees, while €1.3 billion went toward export and investment guarante

Only €41.7 billion of the €100 billion reported by the German government actually went to Kiev, according to the Kiel Institute Germany has counted billions of euros spent at home as aid to Ukraine, overstating the amount that actually reached Kiev, according to a study published on Thursday by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Berlin has reported providing or earmarking €100 billion ($112 billion) in support since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. However, the institute found that only €41.7 billion qualified as actual bilateral aid, while €35.9 billion was spent in Germany and another €22 billion consisted of future military commitments. ”The €100 billion figure is misleading and wrongly labeled as ‘bilateral aid to Ukraine’,” said Christoph Trebesch, head of the institute’s Ukraine Support Tracker. He nevertheless described Germany as Europe’s largest donor to Kiev. Of the €43.3 billion Berlin classified as civilian assistance, roughly 80% remained in Germany. The bulk covered benefits and accommodation for Ukrainian refugees, while €1.3 billion went toward export and investment guarante

У Харкові відкрили відділення стаціонарного догляду для внутрішньо переміщених людей похилого віку та людей з інвалідністю.

Moldova is ready to receive a new wave of Ukrainian refugees if Ukraine faces a severe humanitarian situation this winter.

У 2027 році в Україні має запрацювати загальнодержавний реєстр житла для внутрішньо переміщених осіб, який міститиме актуальні дані про наявний житловий фонд.

Hate crimes have risen by around 30%, Kiev’s ambassador to Warsaw has said Attacks on Ukrainians in Poland have continued to rise as public attitudes toward Ukrainian refugees deteriorate, Kiev’s ambassador to Warsaw, Vasily Bondar, has said. His remarks came a day after a Ukrainian man was detained over a deadly knife attack at a Catholic abbey in southeastern Poland. Polish police recorded 180 attacks or acts of aggression against Ukrainians in the first half of 2026, Bondar told RBK Ukraine in an interview published on Friday. There were 275 such incidents in all of 2025, up from 267 in 2024. “We do see an increase of around 30%,” the diplomat said. He added that more incidents are now being classified as hate crimes against Ukrainians rather than ordinary domestic offenses. Bondar also said Ukrainians committed 10,800 offenses in Poland during the first half of 2026, but argued the figure was statistically insignificant given that around 2 million Ukrainian nationals live in the country. His comments came a day after a 31-year-old Ukrainian man allegedly stabbed five people at a Benedictine abbey in Jaroslaw, killing a priest and injuring four others. Polish a

Одна з російських ракет влучила в овочесховище агропідприємства у Старій Гнилиці на Харківщині, де в цей момент працівники фасували овочі. Внаслідок атаки загинули шестеро людей, ще 12 постраждали. Джерело: староста Старогнилицького старостинського округу Валерій Дерека у коментарі "Ґвара Медіа" Деталі: За словами Дереки, росіяни завдали два удари: перший припав на дорожнє покриття, другий – на овочесховище. У момент атаки працівники фермерського господарства фасували овочі. фото: Харківське медіа "Ґвара Медіа" фото: Харківське медіа "Ґвара Медіа" Внаслідок удару загинули шестеро людей – двоє чоловіків і четверо жінок. Ще 12 людей постраждали, чотирьох із них у тяжкому стані госпіталізували до Харкова. фото: Харківське медіа "Ґвара Медіа" фото: Харківське медіа "Ґвара Медіа" Староста розповів, що на підприємстві працювали жителі навколишніх населених пунктів. За його словами, серед загиблих були троє жителів Малинівки, а також переселенці з Куп'янська. фото: Харківське медіа "Ґвара Медіа" Зазначається, що на фермі були системи оповіщення про загрозу, однак Дерека не знає, чи спрацювали вони. Поблизу підприємства укриттів немає. Що передувало: Вранці 24 вересня російські війська ата

A survey conducted by the Rating Group in August has shown that more than 30% of Ukrainian refugees in Poland have experienced discrimination over the past 12 months because of their nationality or ethnicity. Source: European Pravda, citing the survey results Details: The survey found that over the past 12 months, 31% of Ukrainian refugees surveyed had been discriminated against because of their nationality or ethnic origin, while 22% had experienced prejudice for speaking Ukrainian. Six per cent reported negative treatment for speaking Russian, 5% because of their age, and 3% because of their gender. However, almost half of the respondents (49%) said they had not been discriminated against on any of the grounds listed in the survey. The Ukrainian refugees' attitudes towards the local population were mostly neutral (44%) or warm (50%), but their perception of Poles' attitudes towards them was more cautious: 30% described them as warm, 46% as neutral and 22% as cold. The Rating Group conducted the survey of Ukrainian refugees in Poland and their experience of living abroad from 21 to 25 August 2026. Background: The same survey found that 51% of Ukrainian refugees in Poland plan to r

A survey conducted by the Rating Group conducted in August states that 51% of Ukrainian refugees surveyed in Poland plan to return to Ukraine, although most are putting off the move until the war is over. Details: European Pravda, citing the survey Details: According to the survey, 8% are ready to return in the near future, while 43% plan to return after the war. Another 26% do not plan to return, while 23% are unable to give a definite answer. For 71% of respondents, the key conditions that would encourage them to return are security and stability in Ukraine. Economic development is important to 36%, employment prospects to 26% and the absence of internal linguistic, religious and other conflicts to 21%. The development of social infrastructure and the opportunity to influence social change were each cited by 12%, while participation in rebuilding the country and worsening living conditions abroad were each cited by 11%. The survey also found that 44% of respondents would like to remain abroad permanently, while 43% would not. Among those who want to live abroad, 40% would choose Poland, 17% another European country and 6% a country outside Europe. Meanwhile, 37% were unable to na

Рівненщина отримала 23 мільйони гривень на облаштування житла для ВПО, громади готують проєкти.

Poland's governing coalition under Prime Minister Donald Tusk misread how far Kyiv's ambitions had grown and kept presenting Warsaw as Kyiv's indispensable guide to Europe, Polish journalist Mateusz Mazzini argued in The Guardian on 26 August 2026. It also never readied Polish society to treat refugees as its equals, and it encouraged the belief that Warsaw could decide whether Ukraine gets into the EU, he wrote. The two countries built their partnership during Russia's full-scale invasion, with Poland becoming Ukraine's main supply route for Western weapons, a leading provider of military and humanitarian aid, and a leading advocate for Kyiv's bid to join the European Union. That relationship has since frayed over refugee policy, historical disputes, and attitudes toward Ukrainians. A July poll by CBOS, Poland's biggest pollster, found that 52% of Poles opposed accepting Ukrainian refugees, compared with 42% who supported it, the first such reversal since the survey began in 2015. He also points to Russian propaganda on Polish social media, where false stories about Ukrainian "welfare queens" living off Polish

Poland's governing coalition under Prime Minister Donald Tusk misread how far Kyiv's ambitions had grown and kept presenting Warsaw as Kyiv's indispensable guide to Europe, Polish journalist Mateusz Mazzini argued in The Guardian on 26 August 2026. It also never readied Polish society to treat refugees as its equals, and it encouraged the belief that Warsaw could decide whether Ukraine gets into the EU, he wrote. The two countries built their partnership during Russia's full-scale invasion, with Poland becoming Ukraine's main supply route for Western weapons, a leading provider of military and humanitarian aid, and a leading advocate for Kyiv's bid to join the European Union. That relationship has since frayed over refugee policy, historical disputes, and attitudes toward Ukrainians. A July poll by CBOS, Poland's biggest pollster, found that 52% of Poles opposed accepting Ukrainian refugees, compared with 42% who supported it, the first such reversal since the survey began in 2015. He also points to Russian propaganda on Polish social media, where false stories about Ukrainian "welfare queens" living off Polish

Germany currently hosts the largest number of Ukrainian refugees in the EU at 29.2%, amounting to 1.29 million people

Some municipalities in the country are under “severe pressure” due to a large number of asylum seekers, the immigration minister has said Denmark plans to stop issuing temporary residence permits to Ukrainian refugees from regions least affected by the conflict with Russia, the EU nation’s immigration minister, Morten Bodskov, has said. The announcement follows a wider trend among European nations to cut benefits to those fleeing the conflict with Russia and strip protections for military-aged males from Ukraine. In June, the government in Copenhagen presented a bill aimed at preventing military-aged men from Ukraine, who do not have an official exemption from service, from receiving asylum. In a statement on Saturday, Bodskov said that Denmark wants to further tighten the rules for those who escaped the fighting, despite prolonging the Ukraine Special Act that allows them to stay in the country until March 2028. Denmark has accepted 47,600 displaced Ukrainians since the escalation between Moscow and Kiev in February 2022, according to the minister’s data. Read more Ukraine at 35: How a country’s population halved in three decades The “large number” of refug

According to the agency, more than 6,000 Ukrainians left Poland in June alone

According to te newspaper, the majority of Ukrainian territory could become practically unsuitable for living this winter

A Polish man in Łódź beat a passerby he thought was Ukrainian. The victim was Polish. Police are now searching for the attacker, who approached a local resident talking on the phone near the city center on 11 July, struck him, and told him his place was not in Poland, Polish broadcaster RMF24 report s. The incident comes amid a rising number of attacks and verbal aggression against Ukrainians in Poland, which has drawn growing concern from Polish authorities and civil society organizations . Polish support for taking in Ukrainian refugees has fallen from 94% in March 2022 to 48% by early 2026, with 46% opposed — the highest opposition since the invasion began, per Euromaidan Press reporting . Victim was hospitalized The victim's account indicates the attacker took him for a Ukrainian, Łódź police spokesperson Maksymilian Jasiak said. The man was hit at least twice in the head and hospitalized with a broken nose and jaw injuries. He filed a police report the next day. Officers have seized CCTV footage. The legal classification of the crime and the attacker's motive will be determined after his arrest. Beating ha

A Polish man in Łódź beat a passerby he thought was Ukrainian. The victim was Polish. Police are now searching for the attacker, who approached a local resident talking on the phone near the city center on 11 July, struck him, and told him his place was not in Poland, Polish broadcaster RMF24 report s. The incident comes amid a rising number of attacks and verbal aggression against Ukrainians in Poland, which has drawn growing concern from Polish authorities and civil society organizations . Polish support for taking in Ukrainian refugees has fallen from 94% in March 2022 to 48% by early 2026, with 46% opposed — the highest opposition since the invasion began, per Euromaidan Press reporting . Victim was hospitalized The victim's account indicates the attacker took him for a Ukrainian, Łódź police spokesperson Maksymilian Jasiak said. The man was hit at least twice in the head and hospitalized with a broken nose and jaw injuries. He filed a police report the next day. Officers have seized CCTV footage. The legal classification of the crime and the attacker's motive will be determined after his arrest. Beating ha

Ukrainian refugees in Moldova have paid approximately $90 million in taxes and social contributions, and opened more than 200 businesses since the start of Russia's full-scale war in 2022 , Moldovan business outlet Mold-Street reported , citing data from the Economic Council under Moldova's prime minister. The findings invert the standard "refugees as burden" framing in a country where Ukrainian arrivals have, in practice, become part of the tax base and a source of new business activity. More than 47,000 Ukrainian refugees have extended their temporary protection status in Moldova since the start of 2026, with another 4,700 submitting new applications. The pattern mirrors Poland on a smaller scale, where 1.55 million Ukrainian citizens contributed approximately $5 billion to the Polish budget in 2024. Integration barriers remain despite legal labor-market access Moldovan law gives Ukrainian refugees access to the labor market, but integration remains complex due to language barriers, difficulty in recognizing professional qualifications, and the need to adapt to local market requirements. Business circles in M

Poland arrested nine Ukrainian and two Belarusian nationals on charges of organizing paid demonstrations among Ukrainian refugees using Russian funds, Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak announced on 29 June. The arrests mark a documented case of Russian-backed influence operations targeting Ukraine's refugee diaspora in a NATO member state—using Ukrainian citizens as instruments against their own country's interests. What happened The suspects recruited participants and paid them to attend "demonstrations" among Ukrainians in Poland beginning in autumn 2025, Siemoniak said. "According to the Internal Security Agency, the funds for this purpose came from Russia. This is classified as an attempt at an influence operation targeting Ukrainian migrants in Poland," he stated. All 11 will be deported, Siemoniak added. How the scheme operated The organizers exploited politically charged topics—including news about corruption scandals in Ukraine—to inflame emotions and provoke protests among Ukrainian refugees, Polish law enforcement reported. Their stated aim was to manipulate the mood of the refugee community and use p

Poland has detained and intends to deport nine Ukrainian citizens and two Belarusians who intelligence services say recruited Ukrainians and paid them to take part in demonstrations , acting on instructions from Russia. Source: a statement by Tomasz Siemoniak, Poland's Minister and Coordinator of the Special Services, as reported by European Pravda Details: Siemoniak said officers of Poland's Internal Security Agency, working with the Border Guard Service, detained the nine Ukrainian citizens and two Belarusian citizens, who will be immediately deported . Quote: "Since autumn 2025, these individuals have been recruiting people and paying them to take part in demonstrations organised by Ukrainian refugees living in Poland. Based on the findings of Poland's Internal Security Agency, the initiative and funding for this activity originated from Russia, and these actions are classified as an attempt to influence Ukrainian migrants in Poland." More details: Siemoniak did not specify which demonstrations he was referring to. Background: In May, Spain extradited a Ukrainian man suspected of spying for Russia to Germany. Your support on Patreon helps us keep the news free and accessible.

The bloc has said it will keep supporting refugees from the country, while also taking Kiev’s defense needs into account The European Commission has proposed excluding military-age Ukrainian men from temporary refugee protections granted by the EU, while maintaining the scheme for others who fled the conflict with Russia for another year. Kiev announced a general mobilization shortly after the escalation of the conflict in February 2022, barring almost all men considered eligible for service from leaving Ukraine. However, many of them still managed to escape the country; adult males currently account for around 27% of all Ukrainians benefiting from EU protections, with the rest being women and minors, according to the bloc’s data. In a statement on Friday, the European Commission said that it is asking member states to back the prolongation of the scheme, providing Ukrainian refugees with residence permits, the right to work and access to medical assistance, social welfare and education, until March 2028. The EU executive body stressed that by making the proposal it “reinforces its unwavering commitment to support Ukraine for as long as it takes.” Read more Ukrain

The European Commission will present on 26 June its proposal to extend the Temporary Protection Directive for Ukrainians fleeing the war in the EU. Source: European Pravda correspondent in Brussels, citing the European Commission's press service Details: The substance of the proposal on extending temporary protection for Ukrainians in the EU will be announced by European Commissioner for Migration Magnus Brunner at 10:30 Kyiv time. According to European Pravda, temporary protection will be extended for a further year – until 4 March 2028. The European Commission has not yet clarified whether amendments will be made to the Temporary Protection Directive, in particular whether the EU will propose denying shelter to those who left Ukraine in breach of the law – for example, men of conscription age. It should be noted that the next step will be discussion and approval of the European Commission's proposal by the Council of the EU. Background: The European Union plans to make a decision on the status of Ukrainian refugees in July 2026; if this is not achieved , then in September. The Temporary Protection Directive, which came into force in March 2022, gave millions of Ukrainians access

The Polish-Ukrainian memory war is no longer in the past. In 2026, it has spilled into the streets of Poland and its chambers of power. Four years ago, Poland and Ukraine’s relationship looked nothing like this. In February 2022, Poles met Ukrainian refugees at the border with food, beds, and other vital supplies; within months, Poland had taken in 1.6 million refugees, provided 318 tanks to Kyiv, and supplied Western military aid to Ukraine’s defense. In a March 2022 poll, 94% of Poles backed taking in Ukrainian refugees; by early 2026, the figure had fallen to 48 %, with 46% opposed. The opinion reversal has turned violent. On a Warsaw bridge in May 2026, a 16-year-old Ukrainian refugee named Artem had his skull fractured . He had fled Russian missiles in Zaporizhzhia, only to be assaulted abroad. Weeks later, Lublin 's city hall took the Ukrainian flag down . In Kielce, a Law and Justice (PiS)-dominated council cancelled a bus donation to its Ukrainian sister city over a street named after Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera. Pro-Ukrainian Polish activists raised the funds anyway. These incidents come as re

Markus Soeder also called for deportations to be boosted and the promotion of voluntary departures as part of a cost-cutting plan Unemployed Ukrainians should be stripped of access to Germany’s unemployment and welfare benefits system, the leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), Markus Soeder, has said. He added that deportations and voluntary departures should be stepped up as part of a cost-cutting scheme. Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, Germany has been the main destination for Ukrainian refugees in the EU, ahead of neighboring Poland. Of the 1.3 million people it has taken in over the past four years, only 341,000 were employed as of June 2025, according to government figures. The authorities in Germany have increasingly warned that the cost of supporting refugees is straining public finances. In an interview with Bild published on Saturday, Soeder called for a reduction of payments under Buergergeld, Germany’s primary tax-funded welfare and long-term unemployment scheme, in an effort to secure funding. “The legal framework must now be changed so that Ukrainians are no longer financed through the Burgergeld system,” he

In a letter sent to EU leaders ahead of a European Council meeting, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has reportedly urged governments to introduce restrictions on accepting Ukrainian refugees. Source: Der Spiegel , dpa and AFP, which have seen the letter, as reported by European Pravda Details: The letter states that the European Commission will propose extending the duration of temporary protection for Ukrainians, but the scope of this protection should be limited so that it does not undermine Ukraine's capacity to defend itself. Although the letter does not specify concrete measures, this can be interpreted as a suggestion that the intake of military-age men should be restricted, as has been repeatedly reported by Western media. Background: According to Euractiv , the EU is discussing the possibility of excluding Ukrainian men of conscription age from the expanded temporary protection scheme introduced in response to Russia's full-scale invasion. Any such restriction would apply to new applicants seeking temporary protection. The European Union plans to make a decision on the status of Ukrainian refugees in July 2026, or if that is not possible , in September. T

On 26 May, Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree honoring a special forces unit as "Heroes of the UPA" — the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in WWII. In Ukraine, the UPA is often seen as an anti-Soviet resistance movement. In Poland, it is remembered for the 1943-1945 Volhynia massacres, in which the UPA killed up to 100,000 ethnic Poles . Within two weeks, the decree handed Poland's nationalist right a lever it had sought for years. The timing could hardly be worse. Poland is the land corridor for Western weapons, the host of some 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees , and one of the votes Kyiv needs to enter the EU. The quarrel over the decree now strains all three at once: weapons to Kyiv, Ukrainian refugees in Poland, and Ukraine's EU ambitions. The damage is already visible where you would least expect it. Polish and Ukrainian forensic teams exhuming the Volhynia dead now keep cameras away from the graves, fearing images of the remains will be fed into Russian propaganda or AI deepfakes. Citing Zelenskyy's decree naming a special operations unit for the "Heroes of the