NATO members are 'deeply concerned' about recent attacks they attribute to Russia that namely affected the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and the
May 17, 2024
Polish President Andrzej Duda has submitted to parliament a draft bill aimed at increasing defence readiness, citing new forms of threat from Russia, the National Security Bureau (
May 17, 2024
Finland's new armed forces chief said Russia was unlikely to test NATO's mutual defence clause by attacking a NATO member state in the coming years, but may well
May 17, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told NATO members on Friday that Ukraine needed a minimum of seven Patriot or other high-end air defence systems to
May 06, 2024
NATO allies on Friday agreed to provide Kyiv with additional air defence systems, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said after a special meeting of allied defence ministers with
May 05, 2024
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will soon host the British prime minister in Poland, Tusk told reporters Thursday evening as European countries eye initiatives to improve their
May 03, 2024
Hungary will need to boost defence spending further next year if the war in neighbouring Ukraine drags into 2025, reducing the amount of funds available for other expenditure,
May 18, 2024
Germany says Russia will face consequences after accusing its military intelligence service of masterminding an “absolutely intolerable” cyberespionage campaign
May 03, 2024
Russian state media say Moscow has put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on its wanted list, citing the interior ministry's database
May 04, 2024
NATO's four-month long military exercises near Russia's borders, known as Steadfast Defender, are proof the alliance is preparing for a potential conflict with Russia, a spokeswoman
May 20, 2024
Russia will have to increase its entire missile arsenal to deter the West as Moscow is now in an open confrontation with the United States and its allies, a Russian diplomat was
May 20, 2024
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to European ally Serbia falls on a symbolic date: the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy during NATO’s air war over Kosovo
May 07, 2024
President Joe Biden has hosted Klaus Iohannis, the president of Romania, at the White House
May 07, 2024
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said on Tuesday he was open to discussing sending a Patriot missile system to Ukraine after German appeals to European Union and NATO member
May 22, 2024
Russia said on Wednesday that sending NATO troops into Ukraine would potentially be extremely dangerous, and Moscow was closely watching a Ukrainian petition that called for such an
May 22, 2024
Poland's prime minister wants to revive a Polish commission investigating Russian influence, he said on Wednesday, amid heightened fears about espionage after a Polish judge who had
May 22, 2024
Hungary will not participate in NATO's long-term plan to aid Ukraine, its foreign minister said on Wednesday, calling the plan a "crazy mission".
May 22, 2024
British foreign minister David Cameron urged fellow NATO members on Thursday to meet pledges to spend 2% of GDP on defence, saying a tougher foreign policy is needed in a world more
July 02, 2024
Lithuania is holding a presidential election on Sunday at a time when Russian gains on the battlefield in Ukraine are fueling greater fears across all of Europe about Moscow's intentions
May 10, 2024
NATO will step up intelligence sharing and improve the protection of critical infrastructure in the face of "hostile" acts of sabotage against allies by Russia and China, NATO
December 03, 2024
A number of NATO members are waiting for the new U.S. administration to take office before making up their minds on Ukraine’s request for an invitation to join the U.S.-led
December 03, 2024
Italy is preparing a new military aid package for Ukraine, two sources close to the matter said on Tuesday, in a renewed show of support for Kyiv from Prime Minister
December 03, 2024
Ukraine declared it would not settle for anything less than NATO membership to guarantee its future security, as the alliance sidestepped Kyiv's call
December 03, 2024
Lithuanians have voted in a presidential election at a time when Russian gains on the battlefield in Ukraine are fueling greater fears about Moscow’s intentions
May 12, 2024
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda appeared on track to secure his second and final term in office after the first round of voting on Sunday, following a campaign
July 02, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during talks in Ankara on Monday that there were "no
July 02, 2024
If the West wants to fight for Ukraine on the battlefield, Russia is prepared for it, acting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Monday.
May 28, 2024
The U.S. will stand by Ukraine until its security sovereignty is guaranteed, Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged on Tuesday in a visit to Kyiv, at a time when
July 02, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is set to visit Madrid on May 17 and meet with Spain's King Felipe, the Royal Palace said in a statement on Tuesday.
May 29, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has postponed all upcoming foreign visits including a trip to Spain and Portugal this week, his press secretary said on Wednesday, amid Russia's
May 30, 2024
Finland plans to change its conscription rules to allow thousands of reservists to help patrol its border with Russia should there be a sudden wave of migrants, the government
May 30, 2024
Scrambles of NATO jets to intercept Russian aircraft approaching allied airspace over the Baltic Sea region went up 20% to 25% in the first quarter of 2024, a NATO
May 31, 2024
NATO's top commander said on Thursday he did not believe Russia's military has deployed enough troops to make a strategic breakthrough in the region around Kharkiv in northeastern
June 01, 2024
Opposition groups in Serbia are planning protests against a real estate development project that will be financed by the firm of Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, at the site of the former Serbian army headquarters destroyed in a U.S.-led NATO bombing campaign in 1999
May 17, 2024
Russia's diplomacy with the West is in crisis management mode and is focused on trying to ensure that tensions do not spill over into a large-scale conflict, the TASS news agency on
June 02, 2024
Poland's prime minister says it is investing about $2.5 billion to step up security and deterrence on its border with Russia and its ally Belarus
May 18, 2024Western allies are taking too long to make key decisions on military support for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told
June 04, 2024
Finland's Market Court has rejected German gun maker Heckler & Koch's complaint over the Finnish government's direct arms purchase from a local manufacturer, according to a ruling on
June 05, 2024A Russian defence ministry proposal to revise Russia's maritime border in the eastern Baltic Sea was deleted on Wednesday from an
June 06, 2024
Finland's plan to allow border agents to block asylum seekers from trying to enter from Russia received both praise and criticism on Wednesday, as
June 07, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Europe needs closer military collaboration, and said he also favors the deterrent of French nuclear weapons as suggested by President Emmanuel
June 08, 2024
Hungary's prime minister says that he will seek to opt his country out of any NATO operations aimed at supporting Ukraine
May 24, 2024
Czech President Petr Pavel was released from hospital on Friday after sustaining minor injury in a motorbike accident on Thursday, his office said.
June 10, 2024
Romanian prosecutors said on Friday they have opened a criminal investigation against a Romanian citizen accused of treason and spying for Russia for more than two years.
June 10, 2024Fears that Russia would mount an attack on any NATO member are unfounded, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday, adding that the war in Ukraine that is now in its
June 10, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to eastern Europe next week as concerns mount about Russia's advances in Ukraine, potential Russian interference in neighboring Moldova and pro-Moscow legislation being promoted in the former Soviet republic of Georgia
May 24, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to the Czech Republic and Moldova next week, the U.S.
June 10, 2024
Lithuanian Gitanas Nauseda announced his re-election in a presidential ballot on Sunday, following a campaign dominated by security concerns in the European Union
July 02, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will meet Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Madrid on Monday, the Spanish government said on Sunday.
June 11, 2024
Poland fleshed out details on Monday of "East Shield", a 10 billion zloty ($2.55 billion) programme to beef up defences along its eastern border with Belarus and Russia, saying it
June 12, 2024
Defense officials in NATO member Poland have presented a plan to strengthen surveillance and defense along its eastern border with Russia and Russian ally Belarus
May 27, 2024
The Kremlin scolded NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday for suggesting alliance members should let Ukraine strike deep into Russia with Western weapons, and said it
June 12, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has received a second $1 billion promise of military aid in as many days during a whirlwind tour of three European Union countries
May 28, 2024
Poland should not rule out sending troops to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said in comments published on Tuesday, as Kyiv struggles to repel Russian advances, but
June 12, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Tuesday that NATO members in Europe were playing with fire by proposing to let Ukraine
July 02, 2024
France and Germany's leaders said on Tuesday Ukraine should be allowed to hit military sites inside Russia from which missiles were being fired at Ukrainian territory, but not
June 13, 2024
France’s president has joined the head of NATO in pushing for a policy shift that could change the complexion of the Ukraine war: allowing Kyiv to strike military bases inside Russia with sophisticated long-range weapons provided by its Western partners
May 29, 2024
Ukraine has urged its allies to allow Kyiv to use Western-supplied arms to conduct strikes inside Russia and abandon an official position some of them have held throughout Russia's 27-
June 13, 2024
The delivery of U.S. weapons to Ukraine is helping stabilize the frontline of the battlefield, U.S.
June 14, 2024
The United States on Wednesday accused China's leadership of supporting Russia's war in Ukraine and warned that Beijing could face further sanctions in response from the United
June 14, 2024
NATO needs to send a signal that it will contain "Russian imperialism" and every move to aid Ukraine will help it do this, Czech Foreign Minister Jan
June 13, 2024
Leaders of NATO's 32 member countries meet this week in Washington for a summit of the transatlantic security alliance, with further support for
May 29, 2024
Ukraine’s air force says that Russia has conducted an array of aerial attacks on Ukraine with cruise missiles, drones and ballistic missiles
May 30, 2024
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday said the "time has come" for members of the military alliance to re-consider some of the restrictions attached to the use of weapons they
June 14, 2024
Finland's parliament should reject proposed laws that would prevent migrants arriving across the long, forested border with Russia from seeking asylum, the Nordic country's non-
June 14, 2024President Joe Biden quietly has authorized Kyiv to launch U.S.-supplied weapons at military targets inside Russia that are
June 17, 2024
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg will ask allies to pledge a minimum of 40 billion euros ($43.37 billion) annually to fund military aid for Ukraine, an alliance source
June 15, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he will sign bilateral security agreements with the United States and Japan on the sidelines of the Group
June 28, 2024
The slow pace of donor contributions poses the main obstacle to shipping desperately needed ammunition to Ukraine faster, a leading official in the
June 15, 2024
NATO foreign ministers are meeting in the Czech capital to prepare for this summer’s leaders’ summit as the alliance boosts support for Ukraine and countries one-by-one remove restrictions on how Kyiv can use western-supplied weaponry to combat Russia’s invasion
May 31, 2024
Germany has joined the United States in authorizing Ukraine to hit some targets on Russian soil with the long-range weapons they are supplying
May 31, 2024
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is pushing back against some NATO proposals that would allow Ukraine to use Western weapons to strike targets within Russia
May 31, 2024
Russia's small neighbours on Friday lobbied the West at the Shangri-La Dialogue for arms production, spending and military planning to protect against Russian
June 17, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy concluded long-term security agreements with Sweden and Norway on Friday, a sign of Western
June 18, 2024
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Friday dismissed warnings by Russian President Vladimir Putin that allowing Ukraine to use Western
July 02, 2024
Germany said on Friday that Ukraine could use weapons supplied by Berlin to defend itself against attacks launched from just inside Russia against the Kharkiv region, insisting this
June 17, 2024
NATO's plans to get more involved in the war in Ukraine are like a firefighter trying to put out a fire with a flamethrower, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday.
June 17, 2024
Poland is currently organising its 45th package of aid for Ukraine, the foreign minister said on Friday.
June 17, 2024The Czech Republic will at some point seek more contributions to its initiative to source ammunition supplies for Ukraine from around the world, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said on
June 17, 2024U.S.
June 17, 2024
Biden trying to ‘put Ukraine in the strongest possible position’ with new aid package, White House says
December 03, 2024
NATO's recent move to strengthen its eastern border is aimed at deterring Russia, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday, adding that it should be clear to Moscow that the
June 18, 2024
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Monday the United States could face "fatal consequences" if it ignored Moscow's warnings not to let Ukraine use weapons
June 19, 2024
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has sidestepped questions about Ukraine’s possible membership in the military alliance
December 03, 2024
Just back from a visit to Ukraine, a U.S. Treasury official is describing a country whose wartime economy has proven resilient in the face of Russia’s invasion, and he says U.S. and allied budget assistance is designed to help Ukraine combat corruption and increase transparency
June 04, 2024
President Joe Biden landed in France on Wednesday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day on a trip designed to underscore his commitment to U.S. allies in Europe
July 02, 2024
Germany will buy 20 additional Eurofighter jets from Airbus, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday, as the NATO member spends more on defence in the wake of Russia's full-scale
July 02, 2024
President Vladimir Putin is warning that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets elsewhere in the world in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to launch attacks on Russian territory
June 05, 2024
Hungary confirmed on Thursday it would attend a Ukraine summit on June 15 in Switzerland despite having cordial ties with Russia, which has not been invited to the gathering.
June 23, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he could deploy conventional missiles within striking distance of the United
June 23, 2024
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday that western allies should ensure that gaps in military support to Ukraine are not repeated.
June 23, 2024
Officials say the U.S. will send about $225 million in military aid to Ukraine, in an new package that includes ammunition that Kyiv’s forces could use to strike threats inside Russia to defend the city of Kharkiv from a heavy Russian assault
June 06, 2024
Atop the cliff that U.S.
July 02, 2024
Germany's defence ministry believes it will need at least 75,000 additional troops to fulfil its NATO commitments as the alliance adapts to face what it sees as an
June 25, 2024
The NATO alliance is expected to set its members more demanding targets to bolster their air defence, long-range missiles and logistics capability, a European diplomat told Reuters
June 25, 2024
Ukraine has the right according to international law to attack legitimate military targets in Russia to defend itself, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said during a
June 25, 2024
Germany is looking into buying eight additional F-35 fighter jets made by U.S. defence giant Lockheed Martin, a military source told Reuters on Friday, on top of
June 25, 2024
A senior Ukrainian military officer says that the country's air force may keep some of the F-16 fighter jets it’s set to receive from its Western allies at foreign bases to protect them from Russian strikes
June 10, 2024
Hungary's President Tamas Sulyok will not attend the summit of the Bucharest Nine, a group of European countries on the eastern edge of NATO in Riga on Tuesday,
June 26, 2024
Ukraine on Tuesday blasted an agreement struck 30 years ago under which it relinquished nuclear weapons in exchange for security assurances that never materialised,
December 03, 2024
Russia may be behind an attempted arson attack on Prague city buses last week, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Monday.
June 26, 2024
Only the whine of mosquitoes mars the tranquility of this idyllic spot amid the rolling forests and blue lakes of eastern Finland, on
June 26, 2024
Budget infighting within Germany's governing coalition is jeopardising its plan to meet defence commitments to Western allies even as tensions
June 26, 2024
NATO's eastern flank leaders will have a more coordinated approach towards supporting Ukraine after the Hungarian president stayed away from their
June 27, 2024
Russia's malign hybrid activities in NATO countries are a source of deep concern, the presidents of Romania, Poland and Latvia said on Tuesday in a statement released to coincide with a
June 27, 2024
Finland on Tuesday made its first deployment for NATO since joining the alliance in April 2023, sending seven F-18 fighter jets to a military base in southeastern
June 11, 2024
Russia said on Wednesday that soldiers and sailors from its northern Leningrad military district bordering NATO members Norway, Finland, Poland,
July 02, 2024
Hungary has agreed not to veto NATO support for Ukraine
June 12, 2024
Germany's defence minister presented a proposal on Wednesday for a selective military service focused on volunteers to boost its depleted armed forces in the face of
June 28, 2024
Turkey remains firmly anchored in the West and its partnership with the United States has never been stronger even as the sides remain split on
June 27, 2024
In a rare reference to the Western nuclear arsenal, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday highlighted the alliance's efforts to adapt its capabilities to
June 28, 2024
NATO defense ministers are trying to agree on a new plan to provide long-term security assistance and military training to Ukraine
June 13, 2024
Recruiters are struggling to find enough men to counter a Russian invasion that has gained momentum in recent months.
June 13, 2024
Russia's advance in the Kharkiv area is slowing and the frontline is stabilizing after some allies lifted restrictions on Kyiv's use of donated weapons on Russian territory, U.S.
June 28, 2024
NHIndustries has signed a contract worth more than 600 million euros ($648.18 million) with the NATO helicopter management agency (NAHEMA) to develop an upgrade of the NH90 military
June 28, 2024
NATO members are set to take tougher action against Russian spies across the alliance in response to a campaign of hostile activities by Moscow that includes
June 28, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine and to begin negotiations if Kyiv started withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 and renounced plans to join NATO
June 14, 2024
Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair says his country looks on track to meet NATO’s military spending guideline by 2030
June 14, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia would end the war in Ukraine only if Kyiv agreed to drop its NATO ambitions and hand over the entirety of four
June 28, 2024
Finland will host a new land command unit of the NATO military alliance, Minister of Defence Antti Hakkanen told reporters on Friday following a meeting of the alliance in
June 28, 2024
NATO will assume a greater role in coordinating arms supplies to Ukraine, the alliance said on Friday, taking over from the United States in a bid to safeguard
June 28, 2024
Finland now suspects that four Russian military planes violated the Nordic NATO country's airspace on June 10, three more aircraft than previously thought, the Finnish Border
June 28, 2024NATO is in talks to deploy more nuclear weapons, taking them out of storage and placing them on standby, in the face of a growing threat from Russia and China, the head of the
June 28, 2024
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says a record 23 of NATO's 32 member nations are hitting the Western military alliance’s defense spending target this year as Russia’s war in Ukraine has raised the threat of expanding conflict in Europe
June 17, 2024
More than 20 NATO members will meet the alliance's target of allocating at least 2% of GDP to defense this year, NATO
June 28, 2024
The Kremlin said on Monday a remark by NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg that the military alliance was holding talks on deploying more nuclear weapons was an "escalation of tension".
June 28, 2024
Canada does not think the time is right to send military trainers back to Ukraine, given hesitation among NATO allies about such a step, Defence Minister Bill Blair said on Monday.
June 28, 2024Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is considering visiting Germany to meet Chancellor Olaf Scholz when he attends a NATO summit in the United States in early July, public
June 29, 2024
A consortium of NATO allies has confirmed the first tranche of companies awarded funding as part of the group’s one billion euro ($1.1 billion) innovation fund.
June 30, 2024
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, a staunch ally of Kyiv and a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, will succeed Jens Stoltenberg as NATO chief, Dutch
July 02, 2024
NATO’s treaty has loopholes that give member countries, including the US, power over whether or not they want to intervene in a particular conflict.
June 18, 2024
Russia has turned increasingly to blackmail and financial incentives to hire Germans to spy for it after the blow dealt to its intelligence services
July 01, 2024
Finland's parliament will be able to accept a government proposal to temporarily reject asylum seekers arriving across the border from Russia if some amendments are made, an
July 01, 2024
NATO is concerned about support Russia could provide for North Korea's missile and nuclear programs, the alliance's head said on Tuesday as
July 01, 2024
Hungary has lifted its veto on Mark Rutte becoming the next head of NATO
June 18, 2024
The far-right leader angling to become France’s prime minister after the country’s upcoming parliamentary election has backtracked on the party’s previous promise to pull out of NATO’s strategic military command
June 19, 2024
French far-right leader Jordan Bardella said on Wednesday that he backed Ukraine's right to defend itself against Russia, but if elected prime minister he would not provide Kyiv with
July 01, 2024
Russia's new defensive pact with North Korea shows increasing alignment among authoritarian powers and underscores the importance of democracies presenting a
July 02, 2024
Romania’s president has withdrawn from the race to become NATO’s next secretary general
June 20, 2024
NATO member Romania’s top defense body says the country will donate a Patriot missile system to neighboring Ukraine to help Kyiv in its war against Russia as Moscow’s forces continue to bombard civilian areas and energy infrastructure
June 20, 2024
Norwegian defence manufacturer Kongsberg Gruppen opened a new missile factory on Thursday to meet surging demand for weapons from Western countries
July 02, 2024
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis withdrew from the race to lead NATO on Thursday, clearing the way for Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to become the next secretary
July 02, 2024
Mark Rutte has gotten to know a thing or two about finding consensus among fractious coalition partners over the course of more than a dozen years at the top of Dutch politics
June 20, 2024
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the NATO military alliance of creating a security threat for Russia and other nations in Asia.
July 02, 2024
Germany plans to order 105 Leopard 2 A8 tanks from armsmaker KNDS for 2.93 billion euros ($3.14 billion), according to a confidential budget draft seen by Reuters
July 02, 2024
The Biden administration has thanked Romania for its president withdrawing from the race to lead NATO, saying the move would help ensure the Western military alliance stays properly focused
June 21, 2024
German Defence Ministry has submitted a request for around 652 million euros ($697.18 million) to the parliament's budget committee to finance a hypersonic weapons development project with
June 21, 2024Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain's right-wing Reform UK party, said the eastward of expansion of the European Union and NATO had provoked Russian President
June 22, 2024
North Macedonia’s center-right leader Hristijan Mickoski has secured parliamentary approval to lead a new coalition government
June 23, 2024
Polish President Andrzej Duda has met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for talks on Ukraine, peace and bilateral trade on a visit to Beijing that brings the leader of a NATO member to a country that has backed Russia in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine
June 24, 2024
France, Germany and Poland announced plans on Monday to join forces to buy longer-range precision weapons to fill a gap in European arsenals that they say has been exposed by
July 03, 2024
The first shipment of ammunition from a Czech initiative has arrived in Ukraine, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said in a post on social media platform X on Tuesday.
July 03, 2024
Ukraine wants to see a "strong" decision taken at the NATO summit in Washington next month as Kyiv tries to advance its strategic goal of joining the military
July 03, 2024
NATO will formally decide on Wednesday to appoint Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as its next boss, as the war in Ukraine rages on its doorstep and uncertainty hangs over the
June 25, 2024
NATO has appointed Mark Rutte as its next secretary-general, putting the outgoing Dutch prime minister in charge of the world’s biggest security organization at a critical time for European security as war rages in Ukraine
June 26, 2024
NATO on Wednesday selected Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as NATO's next boss, as the war in Ukraine rages on its doorstep and uncertainty hangs over the United
June 26, 2024
Mark Rutte knows a thing or two about finding consensus among fractious coalition partners
June 26, 2024
The European Union is expected to sign a security agreement with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday, pledging to keep delivering weapons, military training and
June 26, 2024
Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia called on Wednesday for the European Union to build a defence line along the bloc's border with Russia and Belarus to protect the EU from
June 26, 2024
More Ukrainian army recruits could receive basic training in Germany from next year if Kyiv moves some further military education back to Ukraine, an EU commander
June 27, 2024
The European Union and two of its member countries, Lithuania and Estonia, signed security agreements with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at a summit in Brussels on
June 27, 2024
Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov has ordered the army's General Staff to come up with proposals on how to promptly deal with "provocations" by U.S. strategic drones
June 28, 2024
Russia’s Defense Ministry says officials have been ordered to prepare a response to U.S. drone flights over the Black Sea, in an apparent warning that Moscow may take forceful action to ward off the American reconnaissance aircraft
June 28, 2024
Poland will almost certainly sign a bilateral security agreement with Ukraine before July's NATO summit in Washington, the Polish prime minister said on Friday.
June 28, 2024
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who will be NATO's next secretary-general, was criticised by other European Union leaders at a summit for his opposition to joint EU funding of
June 28, 2024
Russia protested to Japan on Friday about Tokyo's plans to hold joint military exercises on the island of Hokkaido and accused Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of placing his country "on a
June 28, 2024Foreign diplomats react with horror to Biden’s dismal debate performance
June 28, 2024
Slowly but steadily this summer, Russian troops are forging through Ukraine’s outgunned and undermanned defenses along the front line of the battlefield in a relentless onslaught, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv
June 29, 2024
North Korea criticised a joint military exercise by South Korea, Japan and the United States held this month, state media said on Sunday, saying such
June 29, 2024Russia wants to confront NATO but dares not fight it on the battlefield – so it’s waging a hybrid war instead
June 30, 2024
Long-serving Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has urged his country to support Ukraine and international cooperation in his final address to his compatriots
June 30, 2024
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the U.S. will soon announce an additional $2.3 billion in security assistance for Ukraine, to include anti-tank weapons, interceptors and munitions for Patriot and other air defense systems
July 02, 2024
Ukraine is expected to get "good news" in its quest for more air defence systems at a NATO summit in Washington next week, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday.
July 02, 2024
US to announce new $2.3 billion military aid package for Ukraine
July 02, 2024
The United States will soon announce more than $2.3 billion in new security assistance for Ukraine, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday
July 02, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading back to Europe for what will likely be the last high-level NATO meeting before the Biden administration leaves office next month
December 02, 2024
NATO allies have agreed to fund military aid for Ukraine with 40 billion euros ($43 billion) next year, two Western European diplomats told Reuters on Wednesday,
July 03, 2024
Russia will respond to Finland's decision to grant the United States access to its military bases, a spokesman for Russia's foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
July 03, 2024China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin pressed their case on Thursday for closer security, political and economic cooperation between countries of the vast Eurasian
July 04, 2024
Poland hopes to bring in border guards and police from Finland, Germany and Greece to help patrol its frontier with Belarus, a senior official said on Thursday, amid mounting
July 04, 2024
NATO is set to issue its first ever defence industrial pledge at its Washington summit on Wednesday, pushing countries to boost arms production and return to a
July 05, 2024
Biden’s uncertain future set to overshadow NATO summit as concerns about Trump winning election grow
July 05, 2024
Question: When is a mission not a mission?
July 05, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday he wanted to double Ukraine's air defence capacity over the summer after receiving the country's third German-supplied Patriot system in
July 05, 2024
NATO was informed of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's trip to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in advance, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday.
July 05, 2024
NATO leaders plan to pledge to keep pouring arms and ammunition into Ukraine at current levels for at least another year
July 05, 2024
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg sidestepped questions on Friday about U.S.
July 05, 2024
New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that London would keep providing support for Kyiv in its war against Russia and the Ukrainian
July 05, 2024
NATO allies at their summit in Washington next week will unveil a "bridge to membership" plan for Ukraine and announce steps to bolster Kyiv's
July 05, 2024
President Joe Biden and his Western counterparts are meeting in Washington this week to mark the 75th anniversary of NATO
July 07, 2024
The newly appointed Dutch defence and foreign affairs ministers have said the Netherlands' support for Ukraine is "rock solid".
July 07, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on world powers to help Russia and Ukraine resume direct dialogue during a meeting with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
July 08, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said he would discuss with NATO leaders the distinct threat North Korea poses to Europe by deepening military ties
July 08, 2024
NATO will need between 35 and 50 extra brigades to fully realise its new plans to defend against an attack from Russia, a military source told Reuters.
July 08, 2024
Russia blasted the main children's hospital in Kyiv with a missile in broad daylight on Monday and rained missiles down on other cities across Ukraine,
July 08, 2024
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Monday his ministry had received "significantly less" in 2025 budget funding than he had sought for plans to boost
July 08, 2024
The Kremlin on Monday said that Russia appreciated the efforts of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to clarify the positions of Russia and Ukraine on resolving their conflict.
July 08, 2024
Opinion: The Washington heat won’t be the only thing making NATO leaders sweat
July 08, 2024China and Belarus conduct joint military exercises right next to NATO and EU’s border
July 08, 2024
Leaders of NATO member states arrive in Washington this week intent on deepening support for Ukraine but will find themselves
July 08, 2024
Armenia's foreign minister will travel to Washington on July 9-10 during the NATO summit, his ministry said on Monday, as the country, once a top Russian ally, seeks to build
July 08, 2024
Italy is planning to spend just under 7.5 billion euros ($8.1 billion) over the next 11 years on 24 new Eurofighter jets, according to a document
July 08, 2024
Ukraine will retaliate after a Russian missile strike killed at least 29 people and damaged a children's hospital in Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday during a
July 08, 2024
NATO leaders meet this week for a summit commemorating the 75th anniversary of the military alliance, which has never been larger and more focused
July 08, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he expects the upcoming NATO summit to provide specific steps to strengthen his country’s air defenses against Russia
July 08, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban could not mediate between Russia and Ukraine to end the 28-month war, a task he said could only be
July 08, 2024
The three-day meeting is touted as a time to celebrate the alliance’s 75th anniversary. But gathered leaders face serious questions that will affect NATO’s future.
July 08, 2024
Draft NATO communique describes Ukraine’s path to NATO as irreversible, sources say
July 08, 2024
U.S.
July 08, 2024
Leaders of NATO's 32 member countries meet this week in Washington for a summit of the transatlantic security alliance, with further military and financial support for Ukraine high on the
July 08, 2024
China and Belarus started joint military exercises on Monday, the Belarusian and Chinese defence ministries said, holding the drills just few miles (km) from the border of NATO-member
July 09, 2024New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and Australia are sending leaders or their deputies to the NATO summit in Washington this week as the military alliance shows growing interest beyond Europe and the Western Hemisphere
July 09, 2024
NATO’s next leader knows how to handle Trump but would he be able to rein him in?
July 09, 2024
Russia's deepening military cooperation with North Korea has underlined the need for Japan to forge closer ties with NATO as regional security threats
July 09, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he could not predict what Donald Trump would do if he regains the U.S. presidency in
July 09, 2024
Neutral Switzerland has applied to join the European Sky Shield Initiative (ESSI) air defence scheme at a time of heightened anxiety over security due to Russia's war in Ukraine.
July 09, 2024
Germany and eight other countries on the Baltic Sea aim to jointly procure naval mines, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Tuesday, as Russia is taking an
July 09, 2024
Zelensky arrives in Washington for NATO summit with support for Ukraine’s war effort top of the agenda
July 09, 2024
NATO has signed a nearly $700 million contract to have member countries produce more Stinger missiles
July 09, 2024
Ukraine's state-owned arms manufacturer Ukroboronprom has opened its first foreign office in Washington as Kyiv seeks to work more closely with allies to step up weapons production and
July 09, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has proven to be an adept navigator of international relations in defense of his country, publicly cajoling to get the military assistance Ukraine needs to defend itself against Russia
July 09, 2024
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan outlined a series of measures to strengthen U.S. and NATO support for Ukraine on Tuesday, as leaders of the military alliance
July 09, 2024
NATO has placed an order for Stinger anti-aircraft missiles worth almost $700 million in the name of several member states, the alliance's Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said
July 09, 2024
Russia lacks the munitions and troops to start a major offensive in Ukraine and would need to secure significant ammunition supplies from
July 09, 2024
New poll data released by the Pew Research Center show that global views towards China appear to be divided between high-income countries and middle-income ones, and the gap is apparently widest among China’s neighbors in the Indo-Pacific region
July 09, 2024
Biden to open NATO summit by announcing new air defenses for Ukraine
July 09, 2024
The U.S. and an array of other NATO allies will send Ukraine dozens of air defense systems in the coming months, including at least four of the powerful Patriot systems that Kyiv has been desperately seeking to help fight off Russian advances in the war
July 09, 2024
Opinion: Ukraine deserves to hear the truth about NATO
July 09, 2024Biden surprises NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
July 09, 2024
Several high-ranking European officials have met with a top foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump during the ongoing NATO summit in Washington this week, as
July 09, 2024
The United States and its allies will deliver to Ukraine five additional air defense systems, including Patriot missile batteries and Patriot
July 09, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged U.S. political leaders in Washington on Tuesday not to wait for the outcome of America's November presidential election to move
July 09, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he expected he might be passed a few notes updating him on the score in the England-Netherlands Euro 2024 soccer match on Wednesday if a
July 10, 2024
The United States will start deploying longer range missiles in Germany in 2026, the two countries announced at a meeting of the NATO
July 10, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy returned to the U.S.
July 10, 2024
Poland will do whatever it takes to resolve a migrant crisis on its border with Belarus, a deputy defence minister said, as Warsaw weighed options that may include
July 10, 2024
Norway will donate six F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine to help it in defense efforts against Russian air attacks, the Norwegian government said in a statement on Wednesday as NATO leaders
July 10, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Ukraine is on an “irreversible” path to NATO membership
July 10, 2024
NATO allies will pledge to support Ukraine on an "irreversible path" to integration and call on China to cease all support for Russia's war effort against Kyiv, according to a
July 10, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he expected Ukraine's allies to take a decision on Wednesday to pledge more F-16s to help Kyiv's war effort.
July 10, 2024
As NATO leaders gather in Washington for their 75th anniversary summit this week, a dozen U.S. senators asked them on Wednesday to plug what they see as a
July 10, 2024
Norway says it will donate six F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine
July 10, 2024
Hungary sees a potential return of former U.S.
July 10, 2024
The United States will start deploying long-range fire capabilities in Germany in 2026 in an effort to demonstrate its commitment to NATO and European defense, the United States
July 10, 2024
The pending NATO summit statement in Washington will include an intention to bolster air defences along the eastern flank of the alliance, Romania's president said on Wednesday.
July 10, 2024
Joining this week's meeting of NATO leaders in Washington will be some countries far from Europe or North America - Australia, Japan, New
July 10, 2024
British Defence Secretary John Healey said on Wednesday other NATO members would need to go beyond the alliance's target of committing 2% of GDP to military
July 10, 2024
Poland is hoping a new NATO training center in the country can help recruit more volunteers for the fight in Ukraine
July 10, 2024
NATO is expected to use the summit this week to launch a new program to provide reliable military aid to Ukraine and help it get ready to join the alliance
July 10, 2024
In its most serious rebuke against Beijing, NATO allies have called China a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s war against Ukraine and expressed concerns over China’s nuclear arsenal and its capabilities in space
July 10, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will tell NATO leaders on Thursday they must send a clear message to Russian President Vladimir Putin of unity in their
July 10, 2024
A new U.S. air defense base in northern Poland, designed to detect and intercept ballistic missile attacks as part of a broader NATO missile shield, is mission
July 10, 2024
NATO leaders jointly affirm ‘Ukraine’s future is in NATO’ and its path is ‘irreversible’
July 10, 2024
Canada, looking to shore up its defense of the Arctic, is moving ahead to acquire up to 12 submarines and has started a formal process to meet with manufacturers,
July 10, 2024
Leaders of NATO countries stressed a membership pledge for Ukraine and took a stronger stance on China's support for Russia in a
July 10, 2024
Taiwan said on Thursday that it was closely watching the Chinese military, which it said posed a rising threat to the region, after a flurry of
July 11, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida shared concerns over growing ties between Russia and North Korea and agreed to continue their security
July 11, 2024
China on Thursday criticized a communique from the NATO summit in Washington that described it as decisive enabler of Russia's war effort in Ukraine as biased and 'sowing discord'.
July 11, 2024
NATO allies call China a ‘decisive enabler’ of Russia in Ukraine war as bloc eyes Asia security threats
July 11, 2024
China has accused NATO of seeking security at the expense of others and told the alliance not to bring the same “chaos” to Asia
July 11, 2024
Russia will act to counter the planned U.S. deployment of long-range missiles in Germany, the Kremlin said on Thursday, as it regarded the NATO military alliance's
July 11, 2024
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday denounced NATO's summit promise to grant eventual membership to Ukraine and said Russia should work towards the "disappearance"
July 11, 2024
Ukraine on Thursday urged NATO allies to lift restrictions on its use of long-range weapons against targets in
July 11, 2024
Norway will give 1 billion crowns ($92.69 million) to boost Ukraine's air defences, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said on Thursday at a NATO summit where alliance members
July 11, 2024
A plan to allow the deployment of U.S. long-range missiles in Germany drew praise and misgivings on Thursday, as supporters said it made Europe
July 11, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said U.S.
July 11, 2024
The United States, Canada and Finland will work together to build up their icebreaker fleets as they look to bolster their defenses in the Arctic, where Russia is increasingly active
July 11, 2024
The U.S., Canada and Finland will form a consortium to build icebreaker ships, a senior U.S. administration official said, a move intended to bolster the
July 11, 2024France, Germany, Italy and Poland signed a letter of intent on Thursday to develop ground-launched cruise missiles with a range beyond 500 km (
July 11, 2024U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts are set to hold talks with Asia-Pacific leaders amid concerns about tensions with China
July 11, 2024
Canada to announce plan to reach NATO target, spend 2% of GDP on defence: sources
July 11, 2024Exclusive: US and Germany foiled Russian plot to assassinate CEO of arms manufacturer sending weapons to Ukraine
July 11, 2024
Ukraine's top presidential aide on Thursday called for an end to restrictions imposed on the use of allied-supplied weapons against targets deep inside Russia
July 11, 2024
Romania, Bulgaria and Greece signed a deal on Thursday to enable swift cross-border movement of troops and weapons to NATO’s eastern flank, Romania's defence ministry said.
July 11, 2024Joe Biden was on "really good form" when he met Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Britain's new leader said on Thursday, praising Biden's leadership as more Democrats called on the
July 11, 2024
U.S. intelligence discovered that Russia planned to assassinate the chief executive of German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall which has been producing artillery shells and military
July 11, 2024
Jens Stoltenberg has said farewell to U.S. President Joe Biden and his counterparts after chairing his last NATO summit
July 11, 2024
The United States on Thursday announced a new security package for Ukraine worth $225 million, which includes a Patriot missile battery,
July 11, 2024
Canada will increase defense spending to the NATO target of 2% of gross domestic product by 2032, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday, making a commitment
July 11, 2024
NATO allies are discussing reclaiming some Chinese-owned infrastructure in Europe
July 11, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron once shook up NATO by declaring it was suffering "brain death".
July 11, 2024
The U.S. commitment to deterrence against North Korea is backed by the full range of U.S. capabilities, including nuclear, U.S.
July 11, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called on other NATO allies on Thursday to do more to increase their defence spending, saying it was needed to protect the alliance's values
July 11, 2024
The NATO summit in Washington showcased a series of significant deals for top U.S. defense companies and others, including RTX, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Norway's Kongsberg
July 11, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday it is not possible for NATO to continue its partnership with the Israeli administration.
July 11, 2024
Takeaways from Biden’s critical NATO news conference
July 12, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday he has no reason to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin right now unless the Russian leader changes his behavior.
July 11, 2024
New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on Thursday that his country needed to stand up for the international rules-based order as potential military
July 11, 2024
Finland's parliament passed a law on Friday granting border guards the power to block asylum seekers crossing from Russia, after more than 1,300 people arrived in the
July 12, 2024
China will never accept the "unfounded accusations" made against it at the NATO summit this week in Washington, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said to his Dutch counterpart over a phone
July 11, 2024
Germany's armed forces are in talks to order about 100 Boxer armoured vehicles from German-French defence contractor KNDS for use by Ukraine, news
July 12, 2024
The Kremlin said on Friday that it had noted some Western countries' statements at this week's NATO summit permitting Kyiv to use arms they had supplied to strike Russian territory
July 12, 2024
The Kremlin said on Friday that the whole world had paid attention to Joe Biden's verbal slips at a NATO summit and said the way the U.S. president had spoken about
July 12, 2024
Western intelligence agencies have uncovered Russian plots to carry out assassinations, arson and other sabotage in Europe against companies and people linked to support for Ukraine’s military
July 12, 2024
Canada's promise this week to increase defense spending to 2% of GDP by 2032 was welcome news to the country's NATO allies, but meeting that commitment could
July 12, 2024
North Korea said on Saturday it "most strongly denounces" a NATO declaration accusing Pyongyang of helping Russia's war against Ukraine and U.S. efforts to expand its alliances with
July 12, 2024
Poland will spend 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence in 2025, the foreign minister told Bloomberg Television in an interview broadcast on Friday evening.
July 13, 2024
European allies in NATO are stepping up their military spending, just as Donald Trump wanted
July 13, 2024
European countries would be putting themselves at risk if they accept deployments of long-range U.S. missiles, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a video published on Saturday.
July 13, 2024
Poland considers shooting down Russian missiles heading to Ukraine
July 13, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country needs 25 Patriot air defense systems to fully defend its airspace and protect the entire country from Russian missile attacks
July 15, 2024
Britain said it would boost its "hollowed out" armed forces to make sure the country was prepared to face what the head of a defence review called a "deadly quartet," comprising
July 16, 2024
Former NATO leader George Robertson will lead a review of Britain’s military strategy
July 16, 2024
Romania expects to sign a government-to-government agreement with the United States to purchase latest-generation F-35 fighter jets as early as this fall, the defence ministry
July 16, 2024
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said the accession of Ukraine to NATO would be a declaration of war against Moscow and only "prudence" on behalf of the alliance could prevent the
July 16, 2024
Germany plans to halve its military aid to Ukraine next year, despite concerns that U.S. support for Kyiv could potentially diminish if Republican
July 17, 2024
Republican former President Donald Trump says he plans to fundamentally alter the U.S. relationship with NATO should he win a second four-year term in November.
December 18, 2023
NATO said on Wednesday it had appointed a senior official to lead the alliance's work in Ukraine as part of a broader effort to intensify support for Kyiv as it fights Russia's
July 17, 2024
Italy is planning to improve weaponry aboard some of its F35 fighter jets, a defence ministry document showed, in what analysts see as a move to secure well-stocked,
July 17, 2024
In a relative rarity for presidential elections, both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have long records on foreign policy and clearly stated positions on many of the world’s hot spots
July 17, 2024
Britain's new prime minister, Keir Starmer, hailed European unity on Thursday, saying deeper defence and security cooperation
July 17, 2024
Leaders from across Europe are gathering at an English country mansion for a summit of the European Political Community
July 18, 2024
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged on Thursday to create "a true European Defence Union" over the next five years, with flagship projects on air and cyber
July 18, 2024
There will be celebrations in the north, and mourning in the south of Cyprus on Saturday, the 50th anniversary of a Turkish invasion triggered by a brief Greek inspired coup.
July 18, 2024A NATO command to coordinate support for Ukraine will be operational in Germany from September, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday.
July 18, 2024
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia would consider any plans to establish a permanent presence of NATO warships in the Black Sea as a threat, given the alliance's involvement
July 18, 2024
Russia does not rule out new deployments of nuclear missiles in response to the planned U.S. stationing of long-range conventional weapons in Germany, Deputy Foreign
July 18, 2024
Canada's Foreign Minister Melanie Joly will meet with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on Friday for talks on bilateral relations and security issues, Ottawa said on
July 18, 2024
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that Armenia's tilt towards NATO was a cause for regret and concern, and said Yerevan's actions risked
July 18, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addressed British government ministers on Friday, a rare appearance by a foreign leader at a cabinet meeting that new Prime Minister Keir
July 18, 2024
Europe faces a hostile Russia and the prospect of an isolationist US. Unity is more crucial than ever
July 19, 2024Swedish defence equipment maker Saab reported a slightly bigger-than-expected rise in quarterly operating earnings and maintained its outlook for surging sales
July 19, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Ukraine is on its way to being able to “stand on its own feet” militarily and more than 20 other countries have pledged to maintain their own military and financial aid to the country even if the U.S. were to withdraw its support under a different president
July 19, 2024
Three pro-Russian hackers have been arrested for alleged cyberattacks against Spain and other NATO countries for terrorist purposes, Spanish police said on Saturday.
July 20, 2024
Europe turns to conscription as threat of wider war with Russia grows
July 21, 2024
President Tayyip Erdogan believes a potential change in the U.S. administration after November's election may be positive for Turkey's growing defence industry, he was quoted as
July 21, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday that U.S.
July 21, 2024
Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the U.S. presidential race injects greater uncertainty into the world at a time when Western leaders are grappling with wars in Ukraine and Gaza, a more assertive China in Asia and the rise of the far right in Europe
July 22, 2024
Italy's defence minister has accused NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg of betraying Rome by not appointing an Italian as the alliance's new envoy tasked with coordinating NATO's
July 22, 2024
Slovakia received on Monday the first two of 14 new F-16 fighter jets that will replace Russian-made planes it had already donated to Ukraine.
July 22, 2024
NATO confirmed on Tuesday the appointment of Spanish diplomat Javier Colomina as the military alliance's new envoy tasked with coordinating actions on its southern flank, a move that has
July 23, 2024
The war in Ukraine and the looming U.S. presidential election dominated a NATO summit in Washington this month but, away from the public stage, the alliance's military planners
July 24, 2024
Britain and Germany signed a joint defence declaration on Wednesday, pledging to work more closely to strengthen their defence industries, reinforce European security and support
July 24, 2024
Romania said it found Russian drone fragments on its territory on Thursday and NATO said it saw no sign of an intentional attack on the alliance's territory after Moscow troops fired
July 25, 2024
Finland suspects a Russian vessel violated the Nordic country's territorial waters on Friday, the government said, in the latest incident to cloud relations between the two
July 26, 2024
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Saturday Russia's leadership was "hyper rational" and that Ukraine would never be able to fulfil its hopes of becoming a member of
July 27, 2024
Russia may deploy new strike weapons in response to the planned U.S. stationing of longer-range and hypersonic missiles in Germany, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday
July 28, 2024
Israel's foreign minister urged NATO to expel Turkey on Monday after its President Tayyip Erdogan threatened his country might enter Israel as it had entered Libya and Nagorno-
July 29, 2024
A Slovenian court sentenced two Russians on Wednesday in a secret trial to one year and seven months in prison after they pleaded guilty to charges of espionage and using fake
July 31, 2024According to U.S. and Ukrainian officials, Ukraine has received the first F-16 fighter jets that it has sought for months to fight back against an onslaught of Russian missile strikes
July 31, 2024
One of the handful of F-16 warplanes that Ukraine has received from its Western partners to help fight Russia’s invasion has crashed while countering a Russian barrage, killing the pilot
August 01, 2024
Turkey has blocked cooperation between NATO and Israel since October because of the war in Gaza and said the alliance should not engage with Israel as a partner
August 01, 2024
Germany joined the U.S.-led United Nations Command (UNC) in South Korea on Friday, becoming the 18th nation in a group that helps police the heavily
August 02, 2024
North Korea said Germany's entry into a U.S.-led U.N. border monitoring force on the Korean peninsula would raise tensions, accusing Washington of creating an Asian version of NATO,
August 06, 2024
As instructors shout commands, dozens of students taking part in a pilot Czech army programme aimed at boosting flagging enlistment numbers crawl
August 09, 2024
Turkey is fully committed to its responsibilities to NATO, its defence minister told Reuters, amid concern amongst some Western allies that
August 12, 2024Turkey is pleased with its deal with the United States regarding the procurement of Block-70 F-16 fighter jets and modernisation kits, and the process is continuing as planned,
August 12, 2024
A German military base next to Cologne airport was temporarily sealed off on Wednesday and soldiers there were told not to drink tap water as authorities investigated possible
August 14, 2024A NATO air base in the German town of Geilenkirchen was sealed off due to a suspected case of sabotage on Wednesday morning, a spokesperson for the German military's Territorial
August 14, 2024Kosovo’s prime minister is calling for the full reopening of a bridge in the flashpoint city of Mitrovica, saying it would be another step toward free movement and not a threat to anyone
August 14, 2024
Ukraine has stolen the initiative from Russia with its cross-border offensive into the Kursk region
August 14, 2024
Germany closes military base over suspicion water supply was sabotaged
August 14, 2024
NATO member Poland is paying tribute to its historic victory over the Red Army by honoring fallen Poles and displaying its modern armed forces, which it hopes will deter the threat it sees in modern-day Russia
August 15, 2024
Kosovo's president Vjosa Osmani has warned that opening a bridge to traffic in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica without NATO's coordination risks a conflict
August 15, 2024
The U.S.
August 15, 2024A Russian parliamentary deputy said on Friday that the Western-backed Ukrainian incursion has brought the world close to an all-out global war, Russia's RIA news agency reported.
August 16, 2024An influential aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the West and the U.S.-led NATO alliance had helped to plan
August 16, 2024
Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian reconnaissance and sabotage unit that was armed with weapons from NATO countries in Russia's western Kursk region, the RIA state-run media
August 16, 2024Test results have shown that the tap water at a German military base in Cologne was not contaminated, a military spokesperson said on Friday, two days after authorities briefly
August 16, 2024Lithuania on Monday began construction of a military base, which will accommodate up to 4,000 combat-ready German troops once completed by the end of
August 19, 2024
Donald Trump's potential White House return has helped spur a flurry of investment in defence-technology startups across Europe, according to eight prominent
August 22, 2024
Ukraine's air force said on Thursday it used a U.S.-made GBU-39 bomb to strike a Russian platoon command post in the Kursk region of Russia, where Ukraine has mounted an incursion.
August 22, 2024
The NATO air base in the German town of Geilenkirchen has raised its security level "based on intelligence information indicating a potential threat," it said late on Thursday.
August 22, 2024
NATO has lowered the security level for its base in the German town of Geilenkirchen, it said on Friday, after the state of alert had been raised overnight "based on intelligence
August 23, 2024
NATO says security at an air base in western Germany was raised temporarily because of intelligence information pointing to a “potential threat.”
August 23, 2024
Canada needs to spend more on defence faster to make inroads with next U.S. administration: former finance minister
August 23, 2024Norway said on Friday it had agreed to Norwegian-developed artillery ammunition being produced in Ukraine.
August 23, 2024Last week's alert at a NATO base in Germany housing the Western alliance's fleet of AWACS surveillance planes was due to a potential drone threat, a security source said on Monday.
August 26, 2024
Poland said that a drone had likely entered its airspace early on Monday morning during a Russian bombardment of Ukraine, adding that the object
August 26, 2024The Pentagon is preparing for what it calls ‘great power competition’ among the US, Russia and China.
August 26, 2024
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will convene a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council on Wednesday at Kyiv's request, a spokesperson for the Western military alliance said on
August 27, 2024
Britain and Germany's leaders agreed in Berlin on Wednesday to work on an ambitious treaty covering issues from defence to trade that would be
August 27, 2024
Slovakia's government approved plans on Wednesday to buy six mobile air defence systems from Israel for 554.3 million euros ($616.88 million), it said on its website, as the NATO member
August 28, 2024Poland’s budget proposal for 2025 includes record defense spending of 187 billion zlotys or $48.7 billion
August 28, 2024
NATO members reaffirmed their commitment to further strengthen Ukraine's defences at a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council, which brings together officials from Ukraine and the
August 28, 2024
Romania's lower house of parliament approved a draft law on Tuesday greenlighting the donation of a Patriot missile defence system to Ukraine.
September 03, 2024
Ukraine's military says that one of the handful of F-16 warplanes that Ukraine has received from its Western partners to help fight Russia’s invasion has crashed
August 29, 2024
The European Union has not yet done enough to boost its own arms production capacities in light of geopolitical threats, in particular Russia's war on Ukraine, Commission President
August 30, 2024
Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk region is legitimate and covered by Kyiv's right to self-defence, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told German weekly Welt am Sonntag
August 31, 2024
Romania's coalition government approved a draft law on Monday enabling the donation of a Patriot missile defence system to Ukraine and sent it to parliament for a final vote.
September 02, 2024Finland's government is proposing to ban most Russian citizens from buying property in the Nordic country in a move to protect national security, Defence Minister
September 02, 2024
Two U.S. researchers say they have identified the
September 02, 2024
Russia says it will make changes to the doctrine that sets out the circumstances in which it might use nuclear weapons. What might that mean?
September 02, 2024
More than a dozen members of a Turkish national youth organization were taken into custody in the port city of Izmir after local authorities say they assaulted two US Marines.
September 02, 2024A senior official has confirmed a report that Turkey wants to join the BRICS bloc of developing economies but fell short of confirming that the NATO country had formally applied for membership
September 03, 2024
Turkey has taken no concrete steps towards meeting its stated desire to join the BRICS group of emerging economies but "a process is underway", the spokesperson for the country's
September 03, 2024
The Dutch army will have its own tank unit for the first time in more than 10 years, local media reported on Tuesday, quoting some extracts from a defence white paper that the
September 03, 2024Serbia's deputy prime minister has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and vowed that his country will remain an ally of Moscow despite its proclaimed bid to join the European Union
September 04, 2024
Poland wants to ramp up its production of 155 mm artillery
September 04, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he intended to discuss a gas supply contract with Serbia that expires in March 2025 with Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin.
September 04, 2024
A top Kremlin official says Turkey has formally applied for a membership in the BRICS bloc of developing economies as Russia and China seek to counter the West's global influence
September 04, 2024
Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said on Wednesday he will step down next week after almost two years in office, during which his traditionally non-aligned country joined
September 04, 2024
The Netherlands will increase defence spending by more than 10% next year, investing in new tanks, fighter jets, frigates and air defence systems in a push to strengthen its
September 05, 2024
Ukraine has achieved "a lot" in its Kursk offensive into Russia but it's hard to say how the situation will develop next, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
September 05, 2024
Poland backed away on Thursday from earlier claims that a drone had likely entered its airspace during a Russian attack on Ukraine in August, after a 10-day analysis and search for
September 05, 2024
The U.S. Justice Department has widened its indictment of Russians in the so-called ‘WhisperGate’ malware attack aimed at destroying computer systems in Ukraine and 26 NATO allies including the United States
September 05, 2024
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday called on China to stop supporting Russia's war in Ukraine and said Beijing's assistance has been a significant factor
September 06, 2024
Two NATO members say that Russian drones have violated their airspace
September 08, 2024
Romania and Latvia, both NATO members and supporters of Ukraine in its 2 1/2-year-old war with Russia, on Sunday were investigating instances of Russian drones that crashed after
September 08, 2024European Union countries are buying too much of their defense equipment abroad, much of it U.S.-made, and failing to invest in joint military projects, a landmark report is warning
September 09, 2024
A Russian military drone which crashed in Latvia on Saturday carried explosives that were likely to have been intended for Ukraine when it strayed into its air space, Latvian
September 09, 2024Ukraine on Monday expressed disappointment at allegations by Slovakia's pro-Russian prime minister that Kyiv should act to remove from its military ranks what he described as fascist
September 09, 2024
Sweden appointed Maria Malmer Stenergard as foreign minister on Tuesday, choosing the former migration chief to lead policy on Ukraine just
September 10, 2024
The United States is urging its European partners to be more forceful in expressing their disquiet about China's growing defence collaboration with Russia, U.S.
September 10, 2024
U.S.
September 10, 2024
Poland added its voice on Thursday to calls to allow Ukraine to fire Western-supplied missiles deep into Russia as it hosted U.S.
September 12, 2024
Russia should clearly state its willingness to use nuclear weapons against countries that "support NATO aggression in Ukraine", according to an influential foreign
September 12, 2024
NATO member Turkey’s intention to join the 9-member body that functions as an alternative to the Western-led order shows Ankara’s global ambitions.
September 12, 2024
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will take over from German diplomat Christoph Heusgen as chair of the Munich Security Conference, a person familiar with the matter told
September 12, 2024
The chairman of Russia's State Duma, the lower house of parliament, on Friday accused NATO of being a party to military action in Ukraine, suggesting it was already heavily involved
September 13, 2024
President Vladimir Putin has delivered a clear message to the West about the consequences it will face if it allows Ukraine to hit Russian territory with Western long-range missiles
September 13, 2024
Since Russia's full-scale invasion more than 30 months ago, Ukraine has relied heavily on supplies of weapons from its Western allies to beat back its much larger enemy.
September 13, 2024
Two pilot instructors were killed when a two-seater aircraft crashed during a training flight in Bulgaria on Friday, ahead of a military air show scheduled the next day, the prime
September 13, 2024As the U.S. and Britain discuss allowing Ukraine to use Western weapons to strike deep within Russia, some U.S. officials
September 13, 2024
NATO could have done more to arm Ukraine to try to prevent Russia's invasion in 2022, the outgoing head of the Western military alliance said in an interview released on Saturday.
September 14, 2024
Ukraine has made a new call on the West to allow it to strike deeper into Russia after a meeting between U.S. and British leaders produced no visible shift in their policy
September 14, 2024
The head of NATO’s military committee says that Ukraine has the solid legal and military right to strike deep inside Russia to gain combat advantage, reflecting the beliefs of a number of U.S. allies
September 14, 2024
Ukraine would have a good military reason to strike deeper into Russia using Western weapons, a senior NATO military official said on Saturday.
September 14, 2024
The Finnish government is happy for Sweden to lead the establishment of NATO land forces in Finland to boost defences against neighbouring Russia, the two Nordic
September 16, 2024
The outgoing head of NATO Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday he welcomed talks on Ukraine's use of long-range missiles to strike inside Russian territory, but any decision on the issue
September 16, 2024
NATO's newest member Sweden plans to raise its defence spending by 13 billion crowns ($1.3 billion) in the state budget for 2025 to a total of 138 billion, Defence Minister Pal
September 17, 2024
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that an order by President Vladimir Putin to transform Russia's army into the second largest in the world was needed to address growing threats on
September 17, 2024
Turkey and Sweden will hold their first meeting on Wednesday addressing a security pact the sides agreed to ensure Ankara's approval of Stockholm's NATO membership bid, a Turkish
September 17, 2024
Greece plans to buy Switchblade drones from the United States to further strengthen its armed forces as it recovers from a decade-long debt crisis, two sources said on Wednesday.
September 18, 2024The Kremlin on Wednesday described as "dangerous" comments by Jens Stoltenberg, the outgoing head of NATO, that a decision by the West to allow Ukraine to use Western long-range
September 18, 2024
An airplane carrying Sweden's foreign minister and justice minister has returned to Stockholm after suffering a technical problem while on the way to Turkey, and a key security
September 18, 2024
NATO must enact a "robust coordinated" response to incidents in which Russian missiles or drones fired at Ukraine enter the alliance's airspace, Romanian Defence Minister Angel
September 18, 2024
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey would not stop deepening ties with the East, including the BRICS group of nations and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (
September 18, 2024
The European Union must be quick to increase its defences as Russia may be ready for a confrontation in six to eight years, the nominee to be the EU's first
September 18, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris is pushing a new initiative to connect with Polish American voters
September 19, 2024
Former NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana has a narrow lead over Romanian leftist Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu in the first round of Romania's presidential election, an
September 19, 2024
Greece will start negotiations to buy a fourth Belharra frigate from France to strengthen its navy as it recovers from a decade-long debt crisis, the country's defence minister said
September 19, 2024
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov vowed in an interview published on Friday that Moscow would defend its interests in the Arctic both in diplomatic and military terms.
September 19, 2024
NATO concluded a major anti-drone exercise this week, with Ukraine taking part for the first time as the Western alliance seeks to
September 20, 2024
Hundreds of paratroopers have dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands to commemorate the 80th anniversary Operation Market Garden
September 21, 2024
Donald Trump said on Monday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wanted the Democrats to win the 2024 U.S. election, in which the former
September 24, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called for U.S. sanctions blocking some defence purchases by his country and for other "unilateral" measures that hinder the NATO allies' ability to
September 24, 2024
Sweden says that Iran was behind thousands of text messages that were sent to people in the Scandinavian country calling for revenge over the burnings of Islam's holy book in 2023
September 24, 2024
The U.S. Department of State has approved the potential sale of 720 Stinger missiles to Egypt for $740 million, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
September 24, 2024The United States will sign a $920 million direct loan agreement with Romania on Wednesday to support its defence modernisation program, the Romanian government said.
September 25, 2024Greece and Turkey will explore whether they can start talks aimed at demarcating their maritime zones, Greece's foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
September 25, 2024
NATO plans to coordinate the transport of a large number of wounded troops away from front lines in case of a war with Russia, potentially via hospital trains as
September 25, 2024
President Vladimir Putin says any nation’s conventional attack on Russia that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country
September 25, 2024
Ukraine should be able to freely use arms it has been provided, Lithuania's foreign minister told Reuters on Thursday, adding he hoped Kyiv would be able to
September 26, 2024
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says his country always has and always will defend itself against foreign attacks in response to controversial statements by one of his closest aides suggesting Hungary wouldn’t have fought against a Russian invasion as Ukraine has done
September 27, 2024NATO will set up a new land command in Finland near the Russian border next year, tasked with leading the alliance's land force operations in northern Europe in the event of a
September 27, 2024
An aide to President Vladimir Putin accused the West on Friday of trying to isolate Russia's European exclave of Kaliningrad as much as possible by restricting the supply of goods
September 27, 2024
A Russian drone may have breached the national airspace of NATO member Romania for "a very brief period of under three minutes" overnight during an attack on neighbouring Ukraine
September 27, 2024NATO's new chief Mark Rutte voiced strong support for Ukraine on Tuesday and said he was not worried about the upcoming U.S. election as he could work with former President Donald
September 30, 2024
The new head of NATO is vowing to help shore up Western support for war-ravaged Ukraine and says he can work with whoever is elected president of the United States, the alliance’s most powerful member
October 01, 2024
New NATO secretary general Mark Rutte said on Tuesday that China had become a decisive enabler of Russia's war in Ukraine.
October 01, 2024
Russia said on Tuesday it did not expect any change of policy from new NATO chief Mark Rutte, the former Dutch prime minister who has replaced Norway's Jens Stoltenberg as secretary
October 01, 2024
Japan's foreign and defence ministers said on Wednesday they are not working on a proposal by Japan's new prime minister to establish an "Asian NATO", as the U.S. and India had
October 02, 2024
Russia has dismissed the possibility of nuclear talks with the United States citing Washington's stance on NATO expansion, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said
October 02, 2024
Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto summoned the German ambassador on Thursday to complain about a speech in which she urged Hungarian public figures to
October 03, 2024
NATO chief Mark Rutte told Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy "your security matters for ours" on Thursday during his first visit to Kyiv since becoming the
October 03, 2024
Poland will need a much larger army, something that could be hard to achieve given its aging population, if it is to defend itself from what seems to be a war this
October 05, 2024
Romania's top court has removed a pro-Russian far-right politician from the list of presidential candidates in upcoming elections, prompting concerns about democratic values from
October 06, 2024
Russia said on Tuesday that it still had an emergency hotline with the United States and the NATO military alliance to deflate crises as nuclear
October 08, 2024
Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will take over from German diplomat Christoph Heusgen as chair of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Feb. 2025, the MSC said in a
October 08, 2024
Ukraine could be facing its toughest winter since Russia's full-scale invasion began in February 2022, as Moscow continues to attack the country's critical energy infrastructure,
October 08, 2024
US military compiled list of American weapons systems that could help Ukraine in the war with Russia
October 08, 2024
Zelensky wants to ‘work directly’ with Trump on ending Ukraine’s war with Russia
November 30, 2024
Ukraine aims to organise a new peace summit by the end of this year and wants Russia to attend this time, its ambassador to Turkey said on Wednesday, but ruled out
October 09, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that the current state of play on the battlefield had created an opportunity for steps to end Russia's more than 2-1/2-year-
October 09, 2024
Ukraine’s president says he intends to present his “victory plan” to Western leaders this week
October 09, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday discussed his proposed "victory plan" with the leaders of Britain, France and
October 09, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been city-hopping across Europe to promote a “victory plan” that he said “aims to create the right conditions for a just end to the war” against Russia
October 10, 2024
An assertion by the head of the UK's MI5 security service that Russia's GRU military intelligence agency is bent on causing chaos across Britain and Europe is baseless and deserves
October 10, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy discussed the support Ukraine would need in its war against Russia in the coming months during talks
October 10, 2024
NATO will begin its annual nuclear exercise on Monday, alliance Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Thursday, against a backdrop of heightened nuclear rhetoric from Russian
October 10, 2024
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan will give a "considerable" number of kamikaze drones of an unspecified type to Albania, the country's Prime Minister Edi Rama said on Thursday.
October 10, 2024Persistent ethnic tension in north Kosovo could trigger a repeat of violence seen in the area last year, when four people died in a gun battle and NATO
October 12, 2024
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will visit Greece to discuss and find solutions to bilateral issues, including maritime zones and airspace, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan
October 12, 2024
Lithuania's centre-left opposition Social Democrats (SD) will attempt to form a majority coalition government together with two other parties
October 12, 2024
Donald Trump insists that Project 2025, a nearly 1,000-page blueprint for a hard-right turn in American government and society, does not reflect his priorities for a White House encore
October 14, 2024
The leader of Lithuania's main opposition Social Democrats said on Monday she expected to become the next prime minister of the frontline NATO member state after
October 14, 2024
The Kremlin said that NATO's annual nuclear exercise involving nuclear-capable military aircraft, which began on Monday, was fuelling tensions in light of the "hot war" unfolding in
October 14, 2024
NATO will not be cowed by Russian threats but keep up its strong support of Kyiv, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said on his first visit to the
October 14, 2024
Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis will meet his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan in Athens on Nov. 8 to discuss bilateral issues including the demarcation of an exclusive
October 15, 2024
Sweden will bolster the size of its armed forces by some 27,000 men and women by 2030 to around 115,000 people, including professional soldiers and conscripts, as the country
October 15, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told lawmakers that Ukraine’s Western partners are increasing pressure to negotiate with Russia, but he hinted such talks would be unfavorable to Kyiv as he unveiled what he called his “victory plan” for the war
October 16, 2024
Ukraine is asking for a NATO membership invitation before Joe Biden leaves the White House, arguing it would be a fitting legacy for the U.S.
October 16, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy unveiled his much anticipated "victory plan" on Wednesday, calling on his allies to take urgent steps to
October 16, 2024
Ukraine's five-point "victory plan" calls for an unconditional invitation for Kyiv to join NATO and a strategic non-nuclear deterrent package in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy
October 16, 2024
The Kremlin said on Wednesday it was too early to comment in detail on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's "victory plan," but that Kyiv needed to "sober up" and realise the
October 16, 2024
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico sees high probability of the war in Ukraine ending soon, news agency TASR quoted him as saying on Wednesday before his departure to a European Union
October 16, 2024
Here are the five main points of a Ukrainian plan for victory against Russian invading forces no later than next year as outlined by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on
October 16, 2024
NATO will make a fresh push for common munitions standards, Secretary-General Mark Rutte said on Wednesday, aiming to drive down costs and improve ease of use on the battlefield as
October 16, 2024
Zelensky unveils ‘Victory Plan’ after failing to drum up additional support from allies
October 16, 2024
NATO chief Mark Rutte said he was aware of the details of Ukraine's "victory plan" that was presented by the country's president on Wednesday, and that he was in touch with the
October 16, 2024
Russia on Wednesday denounced a "victory plan" presented by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, saying he was trying to push NATO into a direct conflict with Moscow.
October 16, 2024
Any deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons to Japan in the framework of an "Asian NATO" would lead to a collapse in regional stability, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria
October 16, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will attend a NATO defence ministers' meeting on Thursday, according to NATO's revised agenda published late on Wednesday.
October 16, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pitched his "victory plan" to the European Union and NATO on Thursday, receiving pledges of continued
October 16, 2024
NATO is showing no sign it would be willing to invite Ukraine to join its ranks anytime soon
October 16, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his government has intelligence information that 10,000 troops from North Korea are being prepared to join Russian forces fighting against his country, warning that a third nation wading into the hostilities would turn the conflict into a “world war.”
October 17, 2024
Turkey has been conducting technical works aimed at accelerating its planned purchase of Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets, a defence ministry official said on Thursday.
October 17, 2024
Ukraine’s former commander-in-chief, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, has expressed his support for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s “victory plan,” despite the tensions between the two that led to his dismissal in February
October 17, 2024
Ten years to the day after the formal launch of the U.S.-led operation against the Islamic State, the United States and its NATO allies gathered in Brussels on
October 17, 2024
Britain will join a programme of European nations to develop long-range missiles, Defence Secretary John Healey said on Thursday, aiming to plug a gap in military inventories that
October 17, 2024
Romania scrambled four fighter jets on Thursday after a small flying object, likely a drone, breached national airspace up to 14 km inland in the southeastern county of Constanta
October 17, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia would not let Ukraine get nuclear weapons, after Ukraine's leader said that since Kyiv had given up its Soviet-era nuclear
October 18, 2024
Ukraine is not considering developing nuclear weapons and recent reports on the topic were driven by an incorrect interpretation of remarks by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, his
October 18, 2024
NATO countries will need to discuss conditions for Ukraine to get a membership invitation and to join the alliance in response to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's "victory plan",
October 18, 2024
Belgrade’s iconic Hotel Yugoslavia was once a symbol of progress in the former socialist state of Yugoslavia, and a gathering place for local residents and world leaders
October 19, 2024
Romania's radar systems detected a second drone in as many days breaching its national airspace that fighter jets scrambled overnight did not see, the defence ministry said on
October 19, 2024The involvement of North Korean regular troops to support Russia's invasion of Ukraine would be a serious escalation of the war, France and Ukraine's
October 19, 2024
France's foreign minister has pledged his support for Ukraine’s plan for ending the war with Russia
October 19, 2024
Defence Ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies support Ukraine's "irreversible path to full Euro-Atlantic integration, including NATO membership," they said
October 19, 2024
U.S.
October 19, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plan to end Ukraine’s nearly three-year war with Russia is getting mixed reactions from Western allies
October 19, 2024
If North Korea were to send troops to Ukraine to fight on Russia's behalf it would significantly escalate the conflict, NATO Chief Mark Rutte said on social media platform X on
October 21, 2024
Germany inaugurated on Monday a new multinational naval headquarters for the Baltic Sea capable of leading operations for NATO during a conflict, as the military alliance increases
October 21, 2024
Georgia's saviour. Russia's stooge. Philanthropist. Oligarch. Bidzina Ivanishvili has been called all these things, and more.
October 22, 2024
Swedish defence material maker Saab on Tuesday reported a slightly bigger-than-expected rise in third-quarter operating earnings and affirmed its outlook for
October 22, 2024
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni carefully courted Donald Trump when he was U.S. president and could be well-placed to serve as a bridge
October 22, 2024
Ukraine’s president is hoping allies will take a more positive stance on his so-called “victory plan” after the U.S. election, but concedes that its key demand — an invitation to join NATO — is not welcome by some Western partners, in particular Germany
October 22, 2024
The deployment of North Korean troops in Ukraine would be a sign of Russian desperation more than two-and-a-half years into its full-scale invasion of its neighbour
October 22, 2024
Britain and Germany signed a landmark defence agreement on Wednesday and pledged to co-operate on exercises on NATO's eastern flank as they
October 22, 2024
Poland's NATO-leading surge in defence spending is raising budget concerns because it will bake in higher long-term expenditure on its military
October 23, 2024
Officials say German submarine-hunting planes will patrol the North Atlantic from a base in Scotland under a new Britain-Germany defense pact in response to the growing threat from Russia
October 23, 2024
Romania's radar systems detected two separate signals, likely from drones, breaching its national airspace that scrambled fighter jets did not see, the country's defence ministry
October 23, 2024
Turkey's foreign minister will travel to Djibouti next week to attend a Turkey-Africa ministerial meeting and discuss improving cooperation between Ankara and the
October 25, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that it was Russia's business whether or not it decided to use North Korean troops and said that if Ukraine wanted to join NATO then Moscow
October 25, 2024
The opposition Social Democrats claimed victory in Lithuania's parliamentary election on Sunday, which was dominated by frustration with the cost of living and
October 27, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that Russia's defence ministry was working on different ways to respond if the United States and its NATO
October 27, 2024
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance says Russia is a U.S. adversary but suggests it’s counterproductive to approach Moscow as an enemy
October 27, 2024
A high-level delegation from South Korea will brief the North Atlantic Council about North Korea's troop deployment to Russia on Monday, NATO said on Sunday, after the U.S.
October 27, 2024
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Admiral James Stavridis (Ret.) speaks with CNN's Jessica Dean about North Korea sending troops to fight with Russians in Ukraine.
November 08, 2024
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that cooperation within the 'Ukraine plus Northern Europe' format is gaining speed with more steps that can increase pressure on
October 27, 2024
Lithuania's incoming Social Democratic government will target defence spending of at least 3.5% of its gross domestic product, the party's leader said on Monday.
October 28, 2024
Norway has agreed with U.S. authorities to buy air defence missiles for more than 4 billion Norwegian crowns ($363 million), the Norwegian military said on Monday.
October 28, 2024
Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh says North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to train and likely fight against Ukraine within “the next several weeks.”
October 28, 2024
The U.S. will not impose new limits on Ukraine's use of American weapons if North Korea joins Russia's war, the Pentagon said on Monday,
October 28, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Monday that the actual deployment of North Korean troops to the front lines of the war in Ukraine may come sooner than expected.
October 28, 2024
Croatia will buy up to 50 Leopard 2A8 tanks from Germany in order to be able to replace Soviet-era tanks that it will in turn send to Ukraine, Croatia's defence minister said after
October 28, 2024
Ukraine would not see any new restrictions on the use of U.S. weapons against North Korean forces should they enter the fight against Ukrainian forces, the Pentagon said on
October 28, 2024
North Korea's foreign minister, Choe Son Hui, is on her way to Moscow, state media KCNA and Russian officials said on Tuesday, for her second trip to Russia in six weeks amid rising
October 28, 2024
Romania could shoot down drones illegally breaching its airspace, based on threat levels and risks to human life and property, a draft law published by the Defence Ministry
October 29, 2024Saudi Arabia is ready to act as a mediator between Russia and Ukraine, Russian state news agency TASS cited the Saudi ambassador to Moscow as saying on Tuesday.
October 29, 2024Finnish President Alexander Stubb said he told China's President Xi Jinping that North Korean activities with Russia were an escalation and
October 29, 2024
As Kamala Harris and Donald Trump enter the final days of their close-fought White House contest, Europe is jittery about the potential
October 29, 2024
The United States assess that some North Korean soldiers are in Russia's Kursk region, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday, confirming an assessment made by NATO a day
October 29, 2024President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkey aimed to have its own "Steel Dome" multi-layered air defence system soon, adding that Ankara would also increase its long-range
October 29, 2024
An Italian parliamentary committee approved on Tuesday a government plan worth some 8.2 billion euros ($8.86 billion) to buy new-generation tanks and revamp the army's ground forces,
October 29, 2024
The U.S. presidential election on Tuesday carries significant stakes for the Kremlin
October 30, 2024
Ukraine has received only 10% of U.S. military aid approved by Congress earlier this year, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video released on Wednesday.
October 30, 2024
Canada would have to double current defense spending by fiscal 2032-33 to achieve its stated goal of meeting NATO targets, an increase that could violate fiscal
October 30, 2024
Lithuania's opposition Social Democrats, the winners of Sunday's parliamentary election, have decided on deputy leader Gintautas Paluckas to be the Baltic
October 30, 2024
The United States’ European allies are bracing for an America that’s less interested in them no matter who wins the presidential election — and for old traumas and new problems if Donald Trump returns to the White House
October 31, 2024
Poland is preparing to start talks on ordering over 100 HIMARS rocket launchers under a framework agreement with U.S. arms maker Lockheed Martin
October 31, 2024
Germany’s top diplomat has arrived in the Ukrainian capital on an unannounced visit
November 04, 2024
A Donald Trump victory in the race for the White House is widely seen as bullish for European defence stocks, given his warnings to scale back U.S. military support
November 04, 2024
Poland plans to invest 3 billion zlotys ($750 million) to boost ammunition production, according to a bill published late on Monday, aiming to ensure it has sufficient supplies in
November 05, 2024
A security grouping in Southeast Asia similar to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is not possible at present given diverging interests and alliances in the region, the
November 05, 2024
Parcels that exploded at logistics depots in Europe were part of a test run for a Russian plot to trigger explosions on cargo
November 05, 2024Polish prosecutors have indicted two men in a case concerning cooperation with Belarusian intelligence services, they said on Tuesday, one of a string of espionage cases in the NATO
November 05, 2024French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed his support for Ukraine and reiterated his condemnation of an escalation in Russia's attacks against the country in a phone call with
November 29, 2024
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has urged his NATO counterparts to issue an invitation to Kyiv at a meeting in Brussels next week to join the
November 29, 2024
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius wants to purchase four submarines in a deal worth more than 4.7 billion euros ($5 billion) that will require parliamentary spending committee
November 29, 2024
Germany has offered to re-deploy Patriot air defence systems to NATO ally Poland at the
November 28, 2024
What the term ‘escalation’ gets wrong about Ukraine striking Russia
November 28, 2024NATO chief Mark Rutte congratulated Donald Trump on Wednesday for being elected president of the United States, and emphasised that members were increasing their military spending
November 06, 2024
Donald Trump's victory in the race to become the next U.S. president will have economic consequences for the rest of the world that are likely to be deep and
November 06, 2024
Soldiers in a Ukrainian artillery battery on the front lines of the country’s east were only vaguely aware of American election results pointing to Donald Trump’s victory
November 06, 2024
Germany's cabinet on Wednesday approved a draft law that would allow the army to gauge the readiness of the country's 18-year-olds to serve in the Bundeswehr as it looks to boost
November 06, 2024
NATO-member defense spending may come back into focus as former U.S. President Donald Trump returns to office.
November 06, 2024
Ukraine is forced to confront a brutal Trump reality that it hoped would never happen
November 07, 2024Around 50 European leaders have reassessed their trans-Atlantic relations at a special summit in Budapest, in the hope that Donald Trump's second U.S. presidency will avoid the strife and political pitfalls of his first
November 07, 2024
The strengthening ties between Russia and North Korea are not only a threat to European security, but also for the United States, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said on
November 07, 2024
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday Poland would work on strengthening its relations with the United States following Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election.
November 07, 2024
Italy urged the European Union on Thursday to guarantee bond issuance needed to finance defence, saying a NATO spending target of at least 2% of
November 07, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday described NATO as a "blatant anachronism" which was needed by the United States in order to dominate its zone of influence.
November 07, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday he was not aware of any details of U.S.
November 07, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Ukraine should remain neutral for there to be a chance for peace, adding that the borders of Ukraine should be in accordance
November 07, 2024
War in Ukraine could end easily if the U.S. administration under Donald Trump takes a solution-based approach, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Friday.
November 08, 2024
Greece and Turkey still disagree on the extent of issues needing to be tackled over the designation of their maritime boundaries but talks will continue, the Greek
November 08, 2024
The EU must focus on setting its own house in order, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Friday, citing tariffs, competitiveness and defence as the most pressing issues
November 08, 2024
President Tayyip Erdogan called Donald Trump a "friend" in welcoming his return to the White House, and invited him for a visit despite longstanding strains in Turkish-U.S. ties including
November 08, 2024
Poland signed a 1.3 billion zloty ($323.19 million) contract to purchase domestically produced accompanying vehicles for WR-40 Langusta multiple rocket launchers, Defence Minister
November 08, 2024
NATO members said on Friday that the deployment of North Korean troops is a "dangerous expansion" of the country's support for Russia's war against Ukraine.
November 08, 2024Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will meet France's president, Britain's prime minister, the head of NATO, and leaders of Nordic and Baltic states soon to discuss transatlantic
November 09, 2024
U.S.
November 10, 2024
British defence minister John Healey said on Monday he expected the incoming Donald Trump administration to remain committed to NATO and to Ukraine in its conflict against Russia
November 11, 2024
Ukraine's allies must not prejudge how Donald Trump will handle the war there, France's foreign minister said on Monday, as French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister
November 11, 2024
Turkey is pressing the United States to reconsider its support for Kurdish militants in Syria, according to comments by its leaders including President Tayyip Erdogan, who has again
November 11, 2024
Brazilian planemaker Embraer's defense unit is planning to open an office in Europe, as sales of its C-390 Millennium military cargo aircraft gain pace in the region.
November 11, 2024
Forcing neutrality onto Ukraine will not bring about a peaceful solution to the crisis with Russia, Finland's foreign minister said on Monday, adding
November 11, 2024
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke on Monday with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, congratulating him on his election victory and inviting him to visit Greece.
November 11, 2024
Blinken heads to Brussels as European diplomats brace for four more years of Trump
November 12, 2024
The outgoing Biden administration's top diplomat, Antony Blinken, heads to Brussels on Tuesday for talks with European allies concerned that President-elect
November 12, 2024
Kaja Kallas, the European Union's incoming foreign policy chief, cautioned on Tuesday against making assumptions about what U.S.
November 12, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to Europe for urgent meetings on Ukraine with NATO and European Union officials following last week’s U.S. presidential election and the return of Donald Trump to the White House in January
November 12, 2024
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte called on Western allies to provide further support to Ukraine “to change the trajectory of the conflict.”
November 12, 2024
Russia's growing economic and military cooperation with China, North Korea and Iran is threatening Europe, the Indo-Pacific and North America, NATO Secretary General
November 12, 2024
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Wednesday he was "cautiously optimistic" after discussing with U.S.
November 13, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump's selection of Pete Hegseth as U.S. defense secretary was met on Wednesday with surprise at the
November 13, 2024
Turkey was offered partner country status by the BRICS group of nations, Trade Minister Omer Bolat said, as Ankara continues what it calls its efforts to balance its Eastern and
November 14, 2024
Foreign hackers broke into the IT systems of a Hungarian government agency responsible for defence procurement but no sensitive data about Hungary's military have been compromised
November 14, 2024Greece is in talks with Israel to develop a 2 billion euro ($2.11 billion) anti-aircraft and missile defence dome, part of a wider push to modernise its armed
November 14, 2024
Germany needs to step up its role in defence if the U.S. is to focus less on Europe, defence minister Boris Pistorius said on Thursday, adding it will take a modification of the
November 14, 2024
Poland has ordered 52 FlyEye surveillance drones in a contract worth 100 million zlotys ($24.49 million), its defence minister said on Friday, adding that a drone military
November 15, 2024
Russia unleashed its largest air strike on Ukraine in almost three months on Sunday, launching 120 missiles and 90 drones that killed at least seven
November 17, 2024
A Turkish diplomatic source dismissed on Monday reports that Hamas had moved its political office to Turkey from Qatar, adding that members of the Palestinian militant group only
November 18, 2024Rheinmetall aims for 20 billion euros ($21.08 billion) in sales for 2027, boosted by increased defence spending by EU and NATO country leaders in response to the Ukraine war, the
November 19, 2024
Groups of European countries agreed on Tuesday to work together to develop missile defence, electronic warfare and other military assets as part of a drive to foster closer
November 19, 2024
The United States opened a new air defence base in northern Poland on Wednesday, an event the European nation's president said
November 13, 2024
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November 13, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addressed Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday in a speech marking 1,000 days since Russia's full-scale invasion.
November 19, 2024
Russia will retaliate against NATO countries that facilitate long-range missile strikes against Russian territory by Ukraine, foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin said in an
November 20, 2024
President Vladimir Putin's spy chief warned the West on Wednesday that it risked disastrous consequences if the United States
November 20, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump chose lawyer Matthew Whitaker on Wednesday to be U.S. ambassador to NATO, selecting a loyalist with little foreign
November 20, 2024
Hungary is going to install an air defence system in the northeastern part of the country as the threat of an escalation of the Ukraine-Russia war is "greater than ever", its
November 21, 2024
Russia said on Thursday that a new U.S. ballistic missile defence base in northern Poland will lead to an increase in the overall level of nuclear danger, but Warsaw said "
November 21, 2024
Romanians vote in the first round of a presidential election on Sunday, with the second round due to be held on Dec. 8. A parliamentary ballot is also set for Dec.
November 21, 2024
Recent events show that there is a real risk of a global conflict breaking out, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday, after Russia fired a hypersonic intermediate-range
November 22, 2024
NATO chief Mark Rutte is visiting U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at his residence in Florida, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported on Friday, citing sources.
November 22, 2024
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday, a spokesperson for the transatlantic military alliance said on Saturday.
November 23, 2024
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday condemned violence and antisemitism at anti-NATO and pro-Palestinian protests in downtown Montreal on Friday night, where
November 23, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will discuss the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine war with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday during his visit to Ankara, a
November 24, 2024
Calin Georgescu, a Romanian hard-right NATO critic, appeared in a dead heat with leftist Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu after the first round of presidential elections on
November 25, 2024
Russia's land forces are bigger now than at the time of Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 but their quality has decreased since, a NATO top military
November 25, 2024
Germany is currently working on a proposal to expand the number of shelters available for civilians by looking at public and private facilities that could be converted if necessary,
November 25, 2024
Britain and its allies will not be intimidated by Russian cyberthreats into stopping supporting Ukraine, British cabinet office minister Pat McFadden said on
November 25, 2024
A top NATO military official on Monday urged businesses to be prepared for a wartime scenario and adjust their production and distribution lines accordingly, in order to be less
November 25, 2024
Republican President-elect Donald Trump says he plans to fundamentally alter the U.S. relationship with NATO during his second four-year term and rapidly bring the war in
November 25, 2024
Conservative lawmakers in the Polish parliament exulted at Donald Trump’s victory
November 16, 2024
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November 18, 2024
Hungary’s foreign minister is criticizing U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to authorize Ukraine to use missiles supplied by Washington to strike deeper inside Russia
November 18, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a revamped version of his country's nuclear doctrine that lowers the bar on when he could use Moscow’s atomic arsenal
November 19, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump says he's chosen former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker to serve as U.S. ambassador to NATO
November 20, 2024
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November 20, 2024
Donald Trump has tapped former acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker as U.S. ambassador to NATO, set to make him the nation’s representative to a bedrock Western alliance that the president-elect has repeatedly relished criticizing
November 20, 2024
The new ballistic missile fired by Russia struck a military-industrial facility in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, but its real mission was delivering a deadly new message to NATO
November 21, 2024
Nordic and Baltic states and Poland said on Wednesday they would in the coming months step up support for Ukraine, including to the country's defence industry, and invest
November 27, 2024A senior official at Romania's telecoms regulator called on Wednesday for TikTok to be suspended pending an investigation into the platform's
November 27, 2024
Russia's deputy U.N. ambassador said on Wednesday any decision by President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration to cut support for Ukraine would be a "death
November 27, 2024
Russia's acts of sabotage against Western targets may eventually prompt NATO to consider invoking the alliance's Article 5 mutual defence clause, the head of Germany's foreign
November 27, 2024
NATO says its leader and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump have met for talks on global security
November 23, 2024
Electoral data shows a far-right populist leads in Romania’s presidential election and will likely face leftist Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu in a runoff in two weeks
November 24, 2024
Romania is reeling after a little-known, far-right populist secured the first round in the presidential election
November 25, 2024
The European Union needs to boost its defence role and arms industry and improve cooperation with NATO, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday after talks with the
November 26, 2024
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November 26, 2024NATO members on Tuesday reaffirmed their support for Ukraine during talks with the country's officials held in response to Russia's launch of an experimental intermediate-range
November 26, 2024
Turkey has reduced its planned $23 billion acquisition of an F-16 fighter jet package from the United States, scrapping the purchase of 79 modernisation kits for its existing fleet,
November 27, 2024
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday that he would urge Baltic and Nordic countries to take joint action regarding security of Baltic Sea waters during a two-day trip
November 27, 2024
Kosovo plans to build its first state-owned ammunition factory and drone design lab, to prop up the country's defence industry, Prime Minister Albin Kurti said on Wednesday at a
November 27, 2024
A member of Romania's coalition government threw its weight behind the centrist candidate in a presidential election run-off late on Monday, as the NATO member braces for a ballot
November 26, 2024
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