BELFAST — British, Danish, French and German “assets” will be deployed to NATO’s eastern flank imminently, under a newly announced Eastern Sentry mission by the alliance to bolster its defenses in the wake of Russia’s drone incursion in Poland. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said during a press briefing today that the operation will launch…
Warsaw — Poland’s most senior officials on Friday dismissed President Trump’s suggestion that a major Russian drone incursion into Polish airspace could have been a mistake by Vladimir Putin’s military. “We would also wish that the drone attack on Poland was a mistake. But it wasn’t. And we know it,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk said…
Russia’s military operations in Ukraine are being funded through Russian oil sales to countries including India, China, and Brazil, according to the latest claim by US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker. Whitaker, during an interview with Fox News this week, called for additional sanctions and tariffs on these countries to increase economic pressure on Moscow….
Vladimir Putin is on a roll the past few weeks. First President Trump invited him to Anchorage. Then he got a three-way hug with China’s President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a summit in China. And an invitation to a grand military parade in Beijing. Since the 2014 annexation of Crimea,…
If Brussels bureaucrats returning from their long summer breaks this week were wondering what they missed, the local press had them covered. Unbecoming scenes at June’s Nato summit, the “hopelessly one-sided” trade deal with the United States in July, as well as President Xi Jinping’s refusal to travel to Belgium for that month’s summit with…
NATO chief Mark Rutte has warned the United States that China is building its military at rapid speed – nearly 200 times faster than America. The secretary general said China has specifically been building ships equipped with sophisticated weapons faster than the US and its western allies, making him ‘really worried.’ Rutte’s concerns come after…
China’s display of advanced military technology at its Victory Day parade could help it overtake Russia in global arms sales, but geopolitical factors might keep it from entering markets with ties to the US, according to analysts. During the military parade on Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War II,…
The Russian president defends the military campaign in Ukraine, blaming NATO and Western policies for the conflict. Published On 1 Sep 20251 Sep 2025 Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed the West for igniting the war in Ukraine, insisting Moscow’s assault was provoked by years of Western provocations. Speaking at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday defended his Ukraine offensive while blaming the West for triggering the three-and-a-half-year war that has killed tens of thousands and devastated much of eastern Ukraine. “This crisis was not triggered by Russia’s attack on Ukraine, but was a result of a coup in Ukraine, which was supported and provoked…
By Laurie Chen and Lidia Kelly TIANJIN (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin, after talking with China’s Xi Jinping and India’s Narendra Modi, said on Monday the issue of NATO’s eastward enlargement would have to be addressed for there to be sustainable peace in Ukraine. Putin ordered tens of thousands of troops to invade Ukraine in…