The headline in this morning’s Kommersant newspaper captured the drama.“Vladimir Putin draws his red line.”Will the West cross it? And, if it does, how will Russia respond?Speaking in St Petersburg, President Putin sent a clear warning to the West: don’t allow Ukraine to use your long-range missiles to strike Russian territory.Moscow, he said, would view […]
It is a week of reckoning for Joe Biden.Twelve days after a halting debate performance that may go down as one of the most damaging in modern American history, the president is fighting for his political survival under intense domestic and global scrutiny.This week’s Nato summit in Washington DC may be his path to at […]
NATO countries are discussing putting more nuclear weapons on standby amid the threat posed by Russia and China, the alliance’s secretary general said, according to The Telegraph. Jens Stoltenberg outlined the plans in an interview in which he called for NATO members to show their nuclear arsenal to the world to send a strong message […]
There is nothing to prevent NATO from deploying its troops on Ukrainian soil to act in training and assistance roles, Czech Republic President Petr Pavel has said, as a thorny debate over alliance limitations regarding the ongoing war in Ukraine develops. Pavel—a former general who previously served as the chair of the NATO Military Committee—spoke […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not being shy about his dissatisfaction over his country currently being denied NATO membership, taking to social media to express his outrage. Ukraine will be present at the NATO summit taking place Tuesday and Wednesday in Vilnius, Lithuania, but Zelenskyy lamented that the alliance continues to keep his country from […]
President Joe Biden said before a critical trip to Europe that Ukraine is not yet ready to enter NATO. More to the point, the alliance is not yet ready for Ukraine to join in a historic step that could deter Moscow but that might also increase the risk of a US-Russia war. Biden has staked […]
Finland has become the 31st member of the Nato security alliance, and its flag will soon be raised at the alliance’s headquarters. The Finnish foreign minister handed the accession document to the US secretary of state who declared Finland a member. Finland’s accession is a setback for Russia’s Vladimir Putin, who repeatedly complained of Nato’s […]
NATO has touted exercises in Europe that it says show the military strength and unity of the alliance amid concerns that Russia could widen its invasion of Ukraine beyond its borders. In a series of tweets, the U.S. mission to NATO shared images and video of recent drills in Poland, the Mediterranean and the Adriatic […]
Russia has vowed to take “retaliatory steps” in response to Finland’s announcement that it plans to apply to join NATO. “Moscow will be left with no choice but to respond to Finland’s decision to join the military alliance,” Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement. “Finland joining NATO is a radical change in the country’s […]
Leaders of the Nato military alliance are meeting in Brussels to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They are expected to approve major increases to their forces in eastern Europe. Nato – the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – is a military alliance formed in 1949 by 12 countries, including the US, Canada, the UK and France. […]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he was not considering unilaterally sending U.S. troops to Ukraine, a day after he met virtually with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “We have a moral obligation and a legal obligation to our NATO allies,” Biden said, adding that the obligation did not extend to Ukraine. “It would […]
May 9 (Reuters) – Despite fierce opposition from NATO ally Turkey, U.S. President Donald Trump has approved supplying arms to Kurdish YPG fighters to support an operation to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Ankara views the Kurdish YPG militia fighting within a larger U.S.-backed coalition as […]
