NATO
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The UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) will track potential threats to undersea infrastructure and monitor the Russian shadow fleet after reported damage to a major undersea cable in the Baltic Sea. The Ministry of Defence has said the operation, named Nordic Warden, was activated last week and will calculate the risk posed by each vessel…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a “tragic incident” following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people, but stopped short of acknowledging that Moscow was responsible. Putin’s apology came as allegations mounted that the plane had been shot down by Russian air defenses…
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Donald Trump on Sunday called for an immediate cease-fire in Russia’s war with Ukraine and the president-elect renewed warnings that he was open to pulling the United States out of NATO. Trump made his cease-fire proposal after a weekend meeting in Paris with French and Ukrainian leaders, claiming in a social media post that Kyiv…
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The US is not considering the idea of returning to Ukraine the nuclear weapons it gave up after the Soviet Union collapsed, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan has told ABC. The New York Times had reported unidentified Western officials suggested Joe Biden could give Ukraine the arms before he leaves office. “That is…
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has held a joint news conference with the new EU president Antonio Costa in Kyiv. He told reporters there is “still time” for the US to convince “sceptics” in Europe that Ukraine should be allowed to join NATO. He said that any invitation to join must apply to all of Ukraine’s territory –…
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Britain’s armed forces would be ready to fight their Russian counterparts “tonight” if Vladimir Putin invades another Eastern European nation, a top U.K. military chief said Thursday. “If the British Army was asked to fight tonight, it would fight tonight,” Rob Magowan, the deputy chief of the British defense staff, told the House of Commons…
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North Korean soldiers have actively joined fighting alongside Russian forces, according to the US State Department. “Over 10,000 DPRK (North Korean) soldiers have been sent to eastern Russia, and most of them have moved to the far western Kursk Oblast, where they have begun engaging in combat operations with Russian forces,” state department spokesperson Vedant…
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US secretary of state Antony Blinken is heading to Europe for urgent meetings on Ukraine with NATO and European Union officials ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. The state department will hold talks in Brussels on Wednesday on how to boost support for Ukraine, as Trump has suggested US military assistance to…
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Last week, Donald Trump was elected as the next president of the United States and while the decision will impact the country, it will also have an effect around the world, especially for Ukraine. Meziesblog believes the US election result has seen Russia make a “last push” in anticipation of Trump’s inauguration in January. “His…
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Russia’s ties with North Korea, Iran and China “threaten peace” around the world, NATO chief Mark Rutte has said. In a news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, the secretary-general said Russia was continuing its “onslaught against Ukraine”, all the while “drawing ever closer to its allies – China, Iran and North Korea”. “After delivering…
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Moldova has summoned the Russian ambassador over two Russian drones which fell in Moldovan territory at the weekend. Chisnau said the two “decoy” drones used to try and confuse Ukrainian air defences violated its airspace and crashed deep inside its territory on Sunday. They were found in the northern village of Borosenii Noi and the southern…
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Viktor Orbán’s proposal for a quick ceasefire in Ukraine led to a rebuke by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who called it “nonsense and disharmony”. Viktor Orbán and Volodymyr Zelenskyy brought their long-simmering showdown to Budapest on Thursday with separate press conferences that laid bare their diametrically opposed visions on how to end the war in Ukraine. The…
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World leaders and top officials reacted to the unfolding results of the 2024 presidential election as the contest drew to a conclusion. With former President Donald Trump significantly ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in the race for the White House and claiming victory, French President Emmanuel Macron offered his congratulations to Trump in post to X.…
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Recent ballots in Georgia and Moldova have shown how the Kremlin is working to counter the EU’s eastern expansion. An annual assessment of candidate countries’ progress towards becoming EU members, unveiled by Brussels on Wednesday, showed none of the hopefuls making big strides despite a renewed sense of urgency to expand the European bloc eastwards.…
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Russia on Friday returned to Ukraine the bodies of 501 soldiers, Ukrainian authorities said, in what appeared to be the biggest repatriation of war dead since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Most of the soldiers were killed in action in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, mostly around the city of Avdiivka that Russian forces captured in February…
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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. In his speech, Zelenskiy called on his allies to take urgent steps to bolster Kyiv at a precarious moment in a bid to end the conflict with Russia next…
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