With transit routes through Ukraine for Russian gas cut off, a few EU countries now need to rethink their gas supply. For others – including Germany and Switzerland – the impact will be minimal.

The destruction I have seen in Ukraine is heart-breaking. Families separated as mothers and fathers, sons and daughters serve in the armed forces. Lives upended as Russian missiles strike apartment buildings,

In the first trading day after Ukraine ceased the flow of Russian gas and oil, benchmark natural gas prices in Europe surged 4%.

With uncertainty lingering over US support for Ukraine after Donald Trump's January 20 inauguration, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to meet with Western allies in Germany on Thursday

A Russian drone attacked a civilian passenger bus in Ukraine's southern city of Kherson on Monday, killing at least one person and injuring nine more, the Kherson regional governor said.

On December 18, Zelensky met with NATO secretary general Mark Rutte in Brussels to discuss enhancing air defense for Ukraine and ensuring the sustainability of peace. In the following days, he met with top EU officials in Brussels to discuss the importance of Western efforts to achieve a "just peace."

A map made by Newsweek shows some of the 80 attacks Ukraine conducted on Russian oil refineries and depots in 2024.

The EU says most states will not be affected but other European countries, including Moldova, are facing shortages.

António Costa, the President of the European Council, has emphasised at the opening ceremony of the Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union that supporting Ukraine must remain the top priority in the near future.

The Polish government at the time also frequently voted against more EU integration, pushing instead for more national sovereignty. This was most prominently on display when the Polish constitutional court’s decision challenged the primacy of EU law,

Kyiv has finally turned off Russia’s gas supply to Europe, ending a source of income that helped pay for Moscow’s war against Ukraine. The decades-old deal, which allowed the transit of natural gas produced by Russian energy giant Gazprom through Ukraine, ended at midnight on December 31, shutting down Russia’s last major gas corridor to Europe.