The pro-Russian Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who is blocking Ukraine's EU accession talks, criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Orbán accused him of "theatrical threats." Orbán shared an excerpt from his interview with Hungarian media on social networks.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has stated that his country is proposing "strategic cooperation" to Ukrainians rather than full integration into the European Union due to fears of the EU being drawn into the war.

The European Union was one step away from opening its first negotiating cluster with Ukraine despite Hungary's blockade - but the decision, planned for 18 July, never came to fruition. Source: an article by European Pravda (English translation coming soon) Details: European Pravda has learned that a legally unconventional but potentially effective scheme had been developed in Brussels that would enable Budapest's formal veto to be circumvented.

European nations like Germany and Norway say they will spend billions on U.S. weapons for Ukraine under a deal with the Trump administration.

The shift to a foreign military sales model is explicitly intended to invigorate the U.S. defense industrial base.

Top EU leaders told their Chinese counterparts at a summit in Beijing on Thursday that Beijing must do more to level the huge trade surplus it has with Europe.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian forces are holding back a concerted summer push by Russia’s bigger army to break through defenses along parts of the front line

A war that bloodies but does not beat Russia is China’s obvious favorite choice. A weak Russia implicated in an unwinnable war would be chastised but still exist as Beijing’s vassal and have no alternative to kowtowing to its Chinese overlord. That kind of Russia suits China perfectly.