You are listening to the audio version of the Wider Europe newsletter, published on June 10, 2025, read by an AI-generated voice of RFE/RL's Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak.

There were emotional reunions as Ukraine and Russia exchanged several busloads of prisoners of war under the age of 25 on June 9. The exchange could last several days with 1,200 from each side ...

Russia's Defense Ministry says a new prisoner swap, agreed with Ukraine on June 2, has started, with an unspecified number of ...

Ukraine said Russia launched almost 500 air strikes overnight, the largest total in more than 3 years of war, as Moscow continues to increase pressure on Kyiv ahead of an expected summer offensive and ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would press on with plans for a prisoner swap with Moscow, although he ...

Iran on June 8 said it would restrict its cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog a resolution finding Tehran in ...

When Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and Uzbek leader Shavkat Mirziyoev travel to Moscow for talks with senior officials, it's ...

Russia said its forces are advancing into Ukraine’s eastern industrial Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time in three ...

Living next to the Chinese-owned Zijin mines, villagers near Bor in eastern Serbia and Panjakent in western Tajikistan face ...

Villages near Bor in Serbia and Panjakent in Tajikistan share a growing concern: pollution from Chinese-owned mines. While Belgrade and Dushanbe welcome Beijing’s investment, locals fear for their ...

Ukrainian officials have rejected Russian accusations that Kyiv is stalling the exchange of prisoners of war and the ...

Iran’s state media has reported what it describes as one of the largest intelligence operations in history against Israel, ...