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European authorities have seized over €33 million in assets during a major crackdown on an international criminal network accused of smuggling damaged U.S. vehicles into the EU, evading taxes and endangering consumers.

The U.S. president also repeated his claim that Zelenskyy started the war.

Poland’s foreign minister has said Putin is ‘mocking’ the U.S. with his continued attacks.

Romanian hard-right opposition leader George Simion, the favorite to win a presidential election re-run, said on Friday he is the only candidate who could stop a potential withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country.

Ukraine may be divided into zones of control as part of a peace settlement, like Berlin after the Second World War, President Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia has suggested.

The European Union will pause its first countermeasures against U.S. tariffs after President Donald Trump temporarily lowered the hefty duties he had just imposed on dozens of countries, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday.

Ksenia Karelina was serving a 12-year sentence in Russia after being found guilty of treason.

“Let's make the most of the next 90 days,” Donald Tusk wrote on X.

Polish explosives maker Nitro-Chem signed a deal on Wednesday to supply explosives worth 1.2 billion zlotys ($310 million) to a U.S. firm, intended for the U.S. military, the deputy defence minister said.

The U.S. is reviewing its “military structure” in Europe but has not yet decided whether its military presence will be cut in Poland or elsewhere on the continent, the Pentagon said.

Asian markets fell as the tariffs took effect on Wednesday.

Romanian media said the visit was part of a wider Central European tour.

Giorgia Meloni, the Italian prime minister, is to visit Washington to talk directly to Donald Trump about tariff relief for the EU.

The U.S. sent an additional 20,000 troops to Europe in 2022.

The U.S. said it will move troops from a Ukraine support hub in southern Poland.

The Warsaw Stock Exchange opened on Monday with a massive sell-off.

Polish authorities are hoping to crack a 16-year-old murder mystery after an American DNA firm created a facial reconstruction of the victim, whose headless body was discovered in northern Poland.

Multiple Ukrainians legally in the United States under a humanitarian program received an email this week telling them their status had been revoked and they had seven days to leave the country or the “federal government will find you.”

Ukraine’s Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko has called new U.S. tariffs on Ukrainian goods “tough, but not critical”, while officials warned of a broader indirect impact on the country’s economy.