Source link Western personnel are on the ground to oversee Kiev’s use of foreign-supplied weapons, the newspaper has claimed Active and former military personnel from NATO states have long been operating in Ukraine, overseeing Kiev’s use of Western-supplied weapons, El Pais reported on Monday. The US-led military bloc has been involved “in virtually every possible […]
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Ukrainian neighbor building largest NATO base in Europe – media — RT World News
Source link The facility in Romania will be “the size of a small town,” Euronews has reported Romania has started work on rebuilding an airbase that will become the largest NATO facility in Europe, according to Euronews. The base is located near the city of Constanta on the Black Sea, around 130km from the border […]
Europe $56bn behind on NATO spending target – FT — RT World News
Source link Germany, Italy, Spain, and Belgium had the largest shortfalls last year, the newspaper has reported European members of NATO are €56 billion ($61 billion) short of meeting the US-led bloc’s defense spending target, research for the Financial Times by Germany’s Ifo Institute has revealed. Washington accounted for two-thirds of NATO’s $1.3 trillion total […]
NATO has boots on the ground in Ukraine – Putin — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Source link The bloc’s service members are dying in large numbers, the Russian President says It is no secret that NATO soldiers are present on the ground in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, noting that those service members are facing extremely grim prospects. DETAILS TO FOLLOW You can share this story on social […]
NATO troops in Ukraine could trigger WW3 – Italy — RT World News
Source link Going into a war with Russia risks triggering a global conflict, the Italian foreign minister warns Deploying troops of the US-led NATO bloc to battlefields in Ukraine might result in an all-out global conflict, effectively a Third World War, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has said. He has ruled out any possibility that […]
NATO member state’s defense minister resigns — RT World News
Source link Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda will meet with Arvydas Anusauskas on Saturday Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas has handed in his resignation to Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte, the government’s press office said in a statement on Friday. Anusauskas was also scheduled to meet with President Gitanas Nauseda on Saturday, according to the agenda of […]
New NATO member supports French position on troops in Ukraine — RT World News
Source link Finnish FM Elina Valtonen has argued that nobody knows how “serious” the conflict could become Helsinki agrees with Paris that all options must remain on the table to support Kiev’s war effort against Moscow, but at this point is not willing to send its own troops to Ukraine or even discuss such a […]
NATO chief warns allies against ‘historic mistake’ — RT World News
Source link Jens Stoltenberg has called for more Ukraine aid, insisting that allowing Russia to prevail in the conflict would be a “grave” error NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has warned members of the bloc against committing a “historic mistake” by allowing Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, to secure victory in the Ukraine conflict. Speaking […]
Majority disagree with Macron’s comments on sending NATO troops to Ukraine – poll — RT World News
Source link The French president has refused to rule out the possibility of deploying NATO troops to help Kiev’s forces A majority of French people believe President Emmanuel Macron’s increasingly hawkish stance on Russia is dangerous and will only increase tensions with Moscow, a new poll has found. Some 57% of respondents believe Macron was […]
NATO member won’t rule out sending troops to Ukraine — RT World News
Source link Estonian PM Kaja Kallas on Wednesday refused to offer guarantees to the parliament that she would not send the Baltic country’s ground forces to aid Kiev. Only Estonia and Lithuania had shown any enthusiasm for the idea of sending soldiers to Ukraine, after French President Emmanuel Macron argued at the end of February […]
NATO has secret agenda for troops in Ukraine – Russia — RT World News
Source link All the talk of sending ground forces is really about partitioning the country, Maria Zakharova has said The reason French President Emmanuel Macron has brought up the idea of sending NATO soldiers into Ukraine is that members of the US-led bloc are plotting to divide up the country, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria […]
Romanian president enters race for NATO leadership — RT World News
Source link Klaus Iohannis will face stiff competition from Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte for the position of secretary general Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has announced his candidacy to replace Jens Stoltenberg as NATO’s secretary general. Iohannis entered the race despite the bloc’s leading members already backing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte for the role. […]
NATO head slams Pope’s ‘white flag’ appeal to Ukraine — RT World News
Source link The pontiff suggested that Kiev should “find the courage” to end the conflict with Moscow through talks Ukraine needs more military aid before it can start negotiating a peace deal with Russia, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said. His comments came after Pope Francis told Swiss broadcaster RSI that Kiev should have “the […]
NATO chief rebukes Macron — RT World News
Source link The French president previously implied that the bloc could send troops to Ukraine NATO is not planning to deploy troops to Ukraine, the secretary-general of the US-led bloc, Jens Stoltenberg, has insisted. His remarks contradict suggestions by French President Emmanuel Macron, who faced a backlash last month when he said the West “cannot […]
NATO should not cross ‘red line’ by sending troops to Ukraine – EU nation — RT World News
Source link The world is already witnessing the results of “war to the last Ukrainian,” Slovakia’s defense minister has warned Slovak Defense Minister Robert Kalinak has slammed the idea of sending NATO forces to Ukraine by calling it a “red line” that should not be crossed. Politicians in the West are exploiting “the war and […]