Source link The bloc wants to find a “middle ground” in helping Kiev as it “is in danger of losing the war,” the paper reports The US and Germany are reluctant to accept Ukraine into NATO despite fears of Kiev’s military collapse under Russian pressure, the New York Times reported on Thursday. Officials in the […]
Source link All Western troops in Ukraine will be treated as enemies, Russia’s former leader said Bounties should be offered for the killing of NATO soldiers if they are deployed in Ukraine to fight against Russian troops, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said on Thursday. In a post on social media, Medvedev lashed out […]
Source link Finland has decided to keep land crossings closed indefinitely and to ban boats from entering several ports The Finnish government has indefinitely extended a shutdown of its land border with Russia and banned maritime boundary crossings by leisure boats near its Baltic Sea ports. Finland’s Interior Ministry announced the decision on Thursday, saying […]
Source link Denmark has suspended navigation in the Great Belt over a technical problem with a warship A malfunctioning missile launcher on board a Royal Danish Navy frigate caused a six-hour closure of the Great Belt strait on Thursday. HDMS Niels Juel, named after a 17th-century Danish admiral, was moored at the Korsoer naval base […]
Source link Secretary of State Antony Blinken has insisted that Kiev will be allowed to join the Western military bloc US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has capped a meeting of NATO diplomats by doubling down on an issue that helped trigger the Russia-Ukraine conflict: allowing Kiev to join the Western military alliance. “Ukraine will […]
Source link The new initiative will allow the bloc to support Kiev in a “more coordinated manner,” Radoslaw Sikorski said NATO countries have created a joint mission in Ukraine in order to expand the scope of support the US-led bloc can provide to Kiev, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski announced on Thursday. Speaking to journalists […]
Source link The bloc’s expansion and its involvement in the Ukraine conflict have put Europe’s security in jeopardy, Dmitry Peskov has said The current state of relations between Russia and NATO can be described as a “direct confrontation,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. He claimed that the US-led military bloc has been a destabilizing […]
Source link The US-led alliance would not survive without an external adversary, according to Aleksandr Grushko NATO perpetuates an imaginary Russian threat because having an external adversary is vital for the military bloc’s survival, a top diplomat has told RT. In an exclusive interview, Russian deputy foreign minister and former permanent representative to NATO, Aleksandr […]
Source link With Kiev fighting Moscow, the bloc has saved its own troops, Jens Stoltenberg has said Western military support for Ukraine has allowed the bloc to weaken Russia without sending its own soldiers to die on the battlefield, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said. Speaking at a summit of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels […]
Source link Several European countries are reportedly worried that an effort to extend aid for Kiev will give the bloc even more power NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg’s idea to create a long-term €100 billion ($107 billion) plan to support Ukraine has sparked a lot of doubt within the organization, with many wondering where it came […]
Source link The chief of the US-led bloc has reportedly suggested a five-year, $107 billion plan to provide Kiev with weapons Ukraine should be able to enjoy a stable stream of Western arms supplies in the long term rather than relying on voluntary donations, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said. Speaking ahead of the […]
Source link The military bloc is reportedly debating ways to institutionalize the arming of Ukraine against Russia NATO leaders are devising ways to limit Donald Trump’s potential leverage over Ukraine by ensuring the continued supply of arms to Kiev does not depend on Washington, according to Western media reports. Trump has suggested he would reassess […]
Source link The US Secretary of State has criticized Kiev’s cross-border drone attacks, while France’s foreign minister has tacitly endorsed them The US and France, two key NATO members, have failed to see eye to eye on Ukraine’s drone strikes, which are increasingly targeting facilities deep inside Russia. Standing next to each other during a […]
Source link The US-led bloc seeks to keep Ukraine as an “anti-Russian” bridgehead, the Russian Security Council secretary has said NATO is aiming to retain control over Ukraine and turn it into an “anti-Russian” proxy, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolay Patrushev, claimed in an interview published on Tuesday. The US-led military bloc […]
Source link Western advisers and instructors are actively supporting Kiev’s forces against Russia, the defense minister has said Every NATO member already has military personnel in Ukraine, Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur claimed on Monday. Under no circumstances, however, will forces from the US-led bloc take part in the hostilities against Russia, the minister insisted […]