Two Ukrainian citizens working for Russia are suspected of blowing up a railway line in Poland over the weekend, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

Finland turned on the beauty for @apnews.com interview with President Alexander Stubb. Stubb’s jacket references “sisu” - the Finnish concept of resilience and grit which the Finns displayed when fighting two wars with Russia. Stubb is trying to make “sisu” the new “sauna.” youtu.be/djjsEo8D5WU

A ceasefire in Ukraine is unlikely before spring and Europe must boost support, Finland’s president says in AP interview.

Finland’s President Alexander Stubb spoke with me for @apnews.com about Ukraine, Russian sabotage & how he built a good relationship with Trump over golf. Stubb said he talks to Trump about Ukraine & dealing with Putin: “If he accepts 1 out of 10 ideas, that’s good.” apnews.com/article/stub...

AP Exclusive: Poland & Romania are deploying new anti-drone tech backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to tackle Russian drones. The Merops system uses AI, fits in the back of a pickup truck & fires drones against drones. Denmark will also use it, NATO officials said. apnews.com/article/russ...

5 men were just jailed in London for their roles in a arson attack masterminded by Russia - part of a wider sabotage campaign. At @apnews.com I have now tracked at least 25 arson or explosives plots across Europe linked to Russia by Western officials since 2022. Map 👉 apnews.com/article/brit...

Almost all news outlets - including @apnews.com colleagues - leave the Pentagon after not agreeing to new reporting rules. apnews.com/article/pent...

How @apnews.com photographer Lindsey Wasson broke the news to Mary E. Brunkow that she’d just won the Nobel Prize in medicine. www.ap.org/the-definiti....

September has been fraught for Europe… Joined @npr.org @the1a.org today to talk drone incursions, Russian fighter jets, sabotage and Europe’s “drone wall” project. the1a.org/segments/why...

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.

Thank you! bsky.app/profile/matt...

Europe has a drone problem I went to Latvia, Lithuania Estonia - NATO’s Russian border - & spoke to officials about what they need. Estonia’s Lt. Gen Andrus Merilo wants “affordable” & mass produced tech. “I don’t need high-end capabilities” to fire against cheap drones apnews.com/article/russ...

Russian jets violating Estonian airspace ignored signals from NATO pilots, Estonian officials told @apnews.com The Russian jets “acknowledged” communication but didn’t follow signs which is partly why they were in Estonian airspace for so long - 12 minutes. apnews.com/article/russ...

Difficult for Nato to defend against drone incursions. Missiles are expensive, drones cheap, but the damage a drone strike can do (to an energy plant, say) far outweighs even the cost of a missile. Analysis from @eburrows.bsky.social for @apnews.com

NATO got a taste of Ukraine's drone fight & responded by scrambling million dollar jets against cheap drones. It's hard to know if the Russian drone incursion was deliberate but experts said electronic countermeasures likely wouldn't have pushed drones so far into Poland. apnews.com/article/pola...

Another meeting - today in Paris - about security guarantees for Ukraine. More meetings, more statements of European “support” but big challenges remain - no ceasefire, unclear US involvement & US president Trump who sometimes echoes Putin’s talking points apnews.com/article/ukra...

Great piece from @bbcstever.bsky.social in Russian Far East where the para ice hockey team were all injured in Ukraine & a local graffiti artist spray painted a state-backed mural of Putin hugging a Siberian tiger on a wall with the words "The dawn starts here.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Russian GPS jamming has been increasing since Putin invaded Ukraine. Nordic & Baltic states have to live with it - pilots can still safely land planes but it can send taxi apps haywire, cause drones to crash and is potentially extremely dangerous at sea. apnews.com/article/russ...

apnews.com/article/mide... AP freelancer among 4 journalists killed in Israeli strike on hospital in Gaza, health officials say

Fiona Hill said other leaders might look at Trump and think he’s “not the big guy that he thinks he is and certainly not the dealmaking genius…All the way along, Trump was convinced he has incredible forces of persuasion,” but he didn’t get a ceasefire from Putin. apnews.com/article/trum...

Fiona Hill, Trump’s former Russia advisor, told me he’s met his match because “Putin is a much bigger bully.” Trump wants to negotiate “a big real estate deal between Russia & Ukraine, but in his mind he can “apply real pressure” only to one side — Kyiv. apnews.com/article/russ...

The Alaska summit “produced nothing for Trump & gave Putin most of what he was looking for..Unless Putin is absolutely convinced he can’t win militarily, the fighting is not going to stop. That’s the big takeaway from the Anchorage summit”-Laurie Bristow fmr ambo to Russia apnews.com/article/russ...

According to a senior European official on call with Trump: ‘Putin allegedly wants all of Donetsk & Luhansk’ regions; for Ukraine to withdraw troops & then may agree to freeze along current battle lines in Kherson & Zaporizhzhia. That would give Russia MORE territory than it now occupies in Ukraine

Gen. Grynkewich, NATO’s top commander in Europe is in Alaska to give “military advice” to Trump as he meets Putin, a NATO military official told me. This likely to be welcomed by Europeans as G. is a supporter of Ukraine & views Russia as a serious threat. apnews.com/live/donald-...

Trump & Putin’s Alaska summit is a “profoundly alarming moment for Europe.” Putin might persuade Trump to accept Russian sovereignty over parts of Ukraine or lift sanctions. That would cause a “really serious” transatlantic alliance split @nigelgould-davies.bsky.social apnews.com/article/euro...

New START is the only remaining nuclear arms treaty between the US and Russia and it’s on the ropes and set to expire. The end of nuclear weapons agreements between the U.S. and Russia doesn’t make nuclear war more likely but it “certainly” doesn’t make it less likely. apnews.com/article/russ...

BREAKING: The Trump administration has resumed sending some weapons to Ukraine a week after the Pentagon pause, U.S. officials say.

An arson in London was organised by Russia's intelligence services. 4 European intel officials told AP they’re worried the risk of serious injury or death is rising as untrained saboteurs set fires near homes, plant explosives or build bombs. apnews.com/article/russ...

Conflict cross-over: Iran supplies drones to Russia for use in Ukraine. Ukrainian drone hunters find sophisticated new components in debris, including anti-jamming technology. US and Israeli bombings in Iran could hamper Russia's drone campaign. Investigation by @eburrows.bsky.social on @apnews.com

Last week, Ukrainian drone hunters found a weapon that stood out from the rest - a drone possibly made in Iran. Russia has made most of its own drones since 2023. This one had an AI platform & camera and shows how Russia is likely still getting tech from Iran. apnews.com/article/russ...

apnews.com/article/iran... There is “no question” Israeli strikes did substantial damage to Iran’s nuclear program. Israel targeted the brains and equipment behind it - hitting enrichment facilities & probably destroying many centrifuges which are critical for nuclear production.

Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb was not only a success for Kyiv but a wake-up call for the West to bolster its air defense systems against drone warfare. “How many targets are there in a country? How well can you defend every single one of them against a threat like that?” apnews.com/article/russ...

Keir Starmer appears to be walking a line between calling on "every part of society" to play a role in defence vs not scaring people. In the Nordics, people are told to be ready for war. Some experts think more "freaking out" of public needs to be done in Western Europe. apnews.com/article/norw...

A sobering read on the lengths Putin will go to try to kill his enemies - from Masha Gessen on the remarkable @christogrozev.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o...

How does Trump expose for his frustrated supporters the deep state he long railed against but which doesn’t exist? “He built part of this universe, which at the end of the day is a fictional universe,” said Yotam Ophir, at the University at Buffalo. apnews.com/article/epst...

Nordic nations are preparing the whole of society for anything from war to a Spanish power outage type scenario. Civilians need 7 days of food and water while authorities and businesses in Norway are preparing to host the military & deter Russian sabotage. apnews.com/article/norw...

Three people in Germany were charged with working for one of Russia’s intelligence agencies and could have been plotting to kill a man, federal prosecutors said. It’s not the first attempted killing linked to Russia in Germany. apnews.com/article/russ...

Meanwhile in Norway… “Five metres further south and it would’ve entered the bedroom. And that wouldn’t have been particularly pleasant.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great story from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/w...

AP is recruiting for a Poland Correspondent! This is the chance to cover Poland at a critical time in its history and at a vital moment for European security. Link here careers.ap.org/job/Warsaw-P...

Great to see that Global Initiative picked up on our AP exclusive reporting which exposed how Russia recruits African women to make killer drones. Women told me how they worked long hours, under constant surveillance and some used caustic chemicals. globalinitiative.net/analysis/who...

apnews.com/article/denm... Denmark PM Mette Frederiksen told me in Oslo that “of course, you cannot spy against an ally” after reports of the US stepping up intelligence gathering on Greenland. Trump wants to annex the strategic Arctic island, even though Denmark is - supposedly - a NATO ally.

apnews.com/article/army... Army plans for a potential parade on Trump's birthday call for 6,600 soldiers, AP learns

Trump is pushing Zelenskyy to cede Crimea to Russia and his top officials say they'll walk if a deal is too difficult. The pressure is now on Europe to work out how to fill gaps left by Trump if the U.S abandons Ukraine - it won't be easy. apnews.com/article/ukra...

Defense Secretary Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal. It’s the latest about his use of the app & raises the possibility that sensitive info could’ve been put at risk of potential hacking or surveillance @taracopp.bsky.social apnews.com/article/hegs...

apnews.com/article/russ... Trump says Zelenskyy is prolonging war in Ukraine by resisting calls to cede Crimea to Russia. Russia illegally invaded and annexed Crimea in 2014 and ceding it to Moscow would effectively mean recognizing borders can be changed by force, experts said.

President Trump and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said there was no classified information in the signal chat group discussing strikes on Houthis. So @theatlantic.com published the whole chat. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Spoke to European officials about the Signal group chat which exposed US war plans to a journalist. “Scary” and “reckless” were the words used. Someone said they hoped it was due to a lack of experience in government rather than a deliberate disregard for security. apnews.com/article/atta...

This is a very handy interactive map showing ATTRIBUTED AND CONFIRMED Russian attacks in Europe. 👇

Senator Cornyn asked US intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard in the Senate Intelligence Committee if AP reporting documenting at least 59 Russian attacks across Europe is consistent with her info. Gabbard said US is assessing the Russian sabotage threat. Sabotage map👇 apnews.com/article/russ...