Ankara’s cooperation with the economic group does not contradict its membership in the US-led military bloc, Mark Rutte has said

The top priority in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's "victory plan" is an urgent integration into NATO, a plea he is making to alliance defence ministers on Thursday as they meet for talks in Brussels. An immediate invitation to the alliance seems unlikely, as the US and Germany are strongly opposed.

NATO's new chief Mark Rutte took over the leadership of the military alliance from outgoing NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg at a ceremony in Brussels on Tuesday. In his acceptance speech, Rutte downplayed fears over the impact of a potential Donald Trump victory in upcoming US president election and pledged to keep backing Ukraine.  

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has decried President Vladimir Putin’s comments on theUkriane issue as “irresponsible”

Kyiv is pushing Washington and London to lift a restriction on firing long-range weapons, sparking an alarming warning from Putin.

Moscow’s envoy to the UN has made the Kremlin’s red line clear

Bill Burns calls Vladimir Putin a ‘bully’ whose ‘sabre-rattling’ should not always be taken literally

Donald Trump has ramped up his online election campaign with a left-field appearance on a YouTube podcast.

The US-made jet reportedly crashed, killing the Western-trained pilot

Finland, as an immediate neighbor of Russia, expressed concern it could be attacked from their side 

Foreign Minister Wang Yi has responded to the military bloc’s claims that Beijing is shoring up Russia’s defense industry

Moscow is learning how to defeat Western precision munitions in Ukraine. “The Russians have gotten really, really good.”

Militants have targeted synagogues, churches, and the police in the Russian region of Dagestan

Pyongyang has the right to defend its sovereignty against the US, the Russian leader has said

Allowing Ukraine to fire Western weapons into Russia strengthens an ally, but risks violating an unknown red line.

Moscow knows who would be behind long-range “Ukrainian” strikes, the president has said

The exercise will involve the delivery of nuclear weapons to troops, covert deployment, and preparations to a strike, the Defense Ministry has sai

Russia remains open to dialogue and it is up to the other side to decide how to move forward, the president has said