10+ hour, 29+ min ago   (633+ words) The Eastern Herald US Embassy in Kyiv Purchases iPhone 17 for Ukrainian Law Enforcement in $86,000 Deal KYIV – One day after Apple introduced the iPhone 18 and retired the model it replaced, the United States Embassy in the Ukrainian capital signed a contract…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (171+ words) KYIV — Ukraine’s most concrete peace signal in months came Friday from an unlikely backdrop: an air-raid alert that had been sounding since before dawn. Kyrylo Budanov, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a security conference in Kyiv, said preparations…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (676+ words) US Army ARTEMIS II Logs Nine-Hour Patrol Along Russia’s Black Sea Coast, Sweeping Crimea to Abkhazia The Eastern Herald US Army ARTEMIS II Logs Nine-Hour Patrol Along Russia’s Black Sea Coast, Sweeping Crimea to Abkhazia MOSCOW — For nine consecutive hours…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (178+ words) MOSCOW — The statement Dmitry Medvedev delivered to the Vedomosti business daily this week was not intended as an escalation. That, he said, was precisely the misreading he wanted to correct. “Nuclear weapons can be used in certain cases,” Russia’s Security…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (426+ words) BRUSSELS — The European Commission spent much of the summer defending a proposal to increase EU spending by 60 percent over its previous seven-year budget. Friedrich Merz spent Wednesday explaining why that number has to come down by several hundred billion euros....

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (320+ words) BUDAPEST — The expulsion order came without an extended warning or diplomatic back-channel conversations. Hungary’s foreign minister summoned Russian ambassadorial staff on Monday and ordered ten of them to leave the country, ending an eight-year accommodation between Budapest and Moscow that…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (254+ words) KYIV — The missiles arrived before dawn. Two people were dead in Kyiv by Tuesday morning and seven wounded, the city’s administration confirmed, the ceasefire that Vladimir Putin had granted as a diplomatic courtesy to Donald Trump’s peace envoys having quietly…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (192+ words) KYIV — In the towns along Ukraine’s northern border, where the memory of the 2022 encirclement of Chernihiv still shapes every threat assessment, the question has shifted from whether Russia can sustain its eastern offensive to whether Moscow is quietly preparing to…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (647+ words) The Eastern Herald is an international digital news publication covering geopolitics, global economy, emerging powers, BRICS developments, Middle East affairs, and strategic realignments shaping the Global South. Founded to provide analytical and investigative reporting beyond Western narratives, it delivers in-depth…...