The Olympic Games aim to bring nations together to compete in the spirit of friendship, but sometimes countries get banned from this show of goodwill. The 2024 Paris Olympics features a notable case, with Russia having faced an IOC ban since 2022, when Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
John Psaropoulos, an independent journalist based in Athens and Al Jazeera’s Southeast Europe correspondent, joins Thanos Davelis to look into the assistance agreement Greece is negotiating with Ukraine.
Greece officially announced its membership in the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ trip to the US for the NATO anniversary summit was dominated, if anything, by his strong messages to North Macedonia, both during his speech at the meeting and in the press conference that followed.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has welcomed the “clear commitment” by all NATO member states to commit to spending at least 2% of GDP on defense spending, adding that European countries cannot “just rely” on the US for their defense.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said that military aid to Ukraine has “created holes in our own defense capabilities,” sparking a backlash from opposition parties.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated NATO’s support for Ukraine in his first comment upon arrival at the NATO summit in Washington on Wednesday.
The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued an announcement condemning the Russian missile attack on several Ukrainian cities on Monday.
Hours after a battle in eastern Ukraine in August, a wounded and unarmed Russian soldier crawled through a nearly destroyed trench, seeking help from his captors, a unit of international volunteers led by an American.
Athens and Riga agree that European defense spending should be exempt from fiscal rules, Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics told Kathimerini in an interview ahead of his two-day visit to Athens on Wednesday, where he met with political and state officials. Rinkevics furthermore said that regardless of who wins the upcoming presidential elections in the United States, Europe will need “to be more serious about its own defense and security.”
Understanding Turkey’s relationship with its Western allies is challenging, at times, non-sensical.
Ten Ukrainian civilians held prisoner for years by Russia arrived in Kyiv overnight Saturday after the mediation of the Vatican, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
The organizers of the Ukraine Peace Summit, held earlier this month in Switzerland, removed the Ecumenical Patriarchate from the list of signatories of its final statement following protests from Turkey, according to reports.
They had won one battle and then sat to watch a battle of a different kind. Eight Ukrainian national guard soldiers who had helped stall a Russian offensive in the northern Kharkiv region of Ukraine took the afternoon off Monday to watch the men’s national soccer team play its first game of the European Championship.
US ambassador to Turkey Jeff Flake on Wednesday said that the US military buildup at the northern Greek port of Alexandroupoli, just a few kilometers from the Greek-Turkish border, has nothing to do with Turkey but with the war in Ukraine.
Amid a new Russian offensive on various fronts in Ukraine, Athens is examining a list of old and newer requests from Kyiv for military aid from the reserves of the Hellenic Armed Forces.
