Poland scrambled fighter jets on Christmas morning after detecting a Russian reconnaissance aircraft near its airspace over the Baltic Sea.

For countries like Poland, having eyes on and under the Baltic is a pressing matter of national security. The sea teems with telecoms and energy infrastructure. A natural-gas pipeline, the Balticconnector,

When a group of defense insiders gathered in Whitehall, the home of the British government, last month to discuss how prepared the United Kingdom and its allies were for a war they believe could come in the next few years,

Russian border guards crossed into Estonia without permission using hovercrafts, authorities in Tallinn have said, in a move which will add to concerns about Moscow’s provocations near the border with NATO.

European nations are constructing a defensive wall along NATO's eastern frontier as Western intelligence agencies warn Russia could be militarily capable of attacking the alliance within five years. To assist with the construction of defensive works,

Intelligence agencies from two NATO countries suspect that Russia is developing new weapons aimed at satellites, in particular Elon Musk's Starlink satellite communications system. Source: AP news agency,

In a speech in Berlin, Rutte said too many allies of the military alliance did not feel the urgency of Russia's threat in Europe and that they must rapidly increase defence spending and production to prevent a war on the scale of that seen by past generations.

October 24, 2025: Since 1949, NATO has been preparing to defend Western Europe from a Russian attack. Until 1989, Russia had massed several hundred thousand troops in East Germany, along with several thousand tanks, most of them T-72s. Thousands more tanks ...

The first draft essentially called for Ukraine’s surrender. The revised version includes the security guarantees Kyiv wants to prevent future Russian aggression.

U.S. president Donald Trump, accompanied by commerce secretary Howard Lutnick (left) takes a question from a reporter in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Andrew Harnik) U.S. president Donald Trump has said ...

Russian nuclear-capable bombers neared UK waters on Christmas Day, prompting NATO to scramble jets and stoking fears of escalation as Putin tests Western resolve amid the Ukraine war.