5 h. ago Lithuania tells citizens to start building bomb shelters as fears grow of war with Russia

The country, which borders Belarus and Russia's Kaliningrad enclave, has been urging its residents to prepare for more than a year.

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22 h. ago Russia says 'Cold War' is over and a 'fiery conflict' with the West has now begun

Russia has declared that a Cold War is over and a 'fiery' conflict with the West is now under way.

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46 h. ago Europe in ‘most dangerous situation’ since second world war, Danish PM warns

Mette Frederiksen tells EU leaders all countries are affected by ‘Russian hybrid war’ via drones or sabotageEurope live – latest updatesEurope is in its “most difficult and dangerous situation” since the end of the second world war, Denmark’s prime minister has said at an EU summit dedicated to advancing the continent’s battle readiness by the end of the decade.Mette Frederiksen is hosting EU leaders in Copenhagen for talks on aiding Ukraine and firming up European defence projects intended to ensure the continent is ready to deter invaders by 2030. Continue reading...

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46 h. ago Russia stages nationwide nuclear war alarm test amid mounting WW3 fears a day after Trump warned Putin he has more nukes than anyone else

Sirens blared with loudspeaker announcements as part of a system designed to warn the population in the event of war or a chemical or biological attack.

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51 h. ago Europe ‘in most difficult and dangerous situation since second world war,’ Danish PM warns – Europe live

Mette Frederiksen says she backs the European Commission’s proposal for a reparation loan for Ukraine, secured on frozen Russian assetsSiliņa says the EU should move on drones very quickly, as she rejects some criticism that fully developing the bloc’s “drone wall” could take up to three-four years.“We don’t need three years, and I believe we can do it in a much shorter time.It just depends on the leaders [if] we can agree on a much shorter time, because with drones, how they’re developing so fast, three years is too long.” Continue reading...

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53 h. ago Danish PM warns security situation in Europe will get worse and more serious – Europe live

Mette Frederiksen says Europe faces threats arising from the ‘real war’ in Ukraine and a new, broader hybrid warin PalermoA flotilla seeking to break Israel’s aid blockade of Gaza said on Wednesday that several of its boats had been approached by patrol vessels and a submarine, as crews braced for an Israeli raid. Continue reading...

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57 h. ago Russia’s hybrid war is ‘only the beginning’, warns Danish PM

Mette Frederiksen says Nato needs to adjust its response to Russian provocations

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57 h. ago The European Union was designed for peace – it is never going to be a war machine | Anand Menon

Reacting to the Russian military threat would require the bloc to be agile and decisive. It is many great things, but it is not thatIn her 2025 state of the union speech last month, Ursula von der Leyen didn’t mince her words. Europe, the president of the European Commission declared, is engaged in a “fight for a continent that is whole and at peace”. Her analysis of the problem was pretty accurate. What is increasingly clear, however, is that the European Union is not the whole solution. The EU is good at many things. Being an effective defence organisation is not one of them.Don’t get me wrong: European integration has, over the decades, performed an important security function. By binding former enemies together, it helped them overcome centuries-old rivalries. By incorporating new members, it calmed potential tensions (not least among those countries formerly within the Soviet bloc).Anand Menon is director of UK in a Changing Europe and professor of European politics and foreign...

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65 h. ago Vladimir Putin can be beaten by Ukraine using one key weapon says top US general

Decorated former General David Petraeus has identified how Ukraine can win the war with Russia - but says it could take a well-executed treble strike to take victory

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3 d. ago Russia 'testing the water' with sinister WW3 tactics to 'send message to UK'

Eliza Manningham-Buller, former head of MI5, recently suggested that those who believe the UK is already at war with Russia "may be right" after a series of sinister incidents

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4 d. ago Russia’s provocations are menacing Nato. The cold war shows how it needs to respond | Sergey Radchenko

Despite the cost of shooting down fighter jets and drones, small skirmishes remind both sides of the dangers of escalationEarlier this month, a swarm of Russian drones violated Poland’s borders. Some were shot down. A few days later, another Russian drone overflew Romania en route to Ukraine. The Romanian air defence let it get away. Then, on 19 September, three Russian MiG-31 fighters intruded into Estonia’s airspace. Italian F-35s – in the area on a Nato mission – intercepted the Russians and saw them off.Although this is hardly the first time Russia has violated Nato’s airspace, the extent and the brazen nature of these latest provocations make them stand out. Incursions will end only when the intruders are shot down. Fortunately, shooting down an occasional Russian fighter jet, never mind drones, is very unlikely to lead to a broader escalation. It may even help cool down tensions by reinforcing the red lines.Sergey Radchenko is Wilson E Schmidt distinguished professor at the He...

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4 d. ago Britain might 'already be at war with Russia' as Putin launches cyber

Eliza Manningham-Buller said Moscow's 'extensive' deployment of cyber attacks, intelligence work, 'physical attacks' and 'sabotage' in Britain are tantamount to conflict.

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4 d. ago Britain may already be at war with Russia, former head of MI5 says

Eliza Manningham-Buller points to extent of cyber-attacks and other hostile activity orchestrated by MoscowBritain may already be at war with Russia because of the depth and intensity of cyber-attacks, sabotage and other hostile activity orchestrated by Moscow against the UK, according to a former head of MI5.Eliza Manningham-Buller, who led the domestic spy agency two decades ago, said she agreed with comments made by the Russia expert Fiona Hill, who argued in a Guardian interview earlier this year that Moscow was at war with the west. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy urges west to cut off Russia’s energy revenues, saying decisive action ‘long overdue’

President’s plea comes after Russia bombards Kyiv and elsewhere in one of its most sustained attacks of the war. What we know on day 1,314See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageVolodymyr Zelenskyy has again urged the international community to act decisively to cut off Russia’s energy revenues that fund its Ukraine war after Moscow carried out one of its worst attacks on Kyiv of the war. “The time for decisive action is long overdue, and we count on a strong response from the United States, Europe, the G7 and the G20,” the Ukrainian president said on Telegram. While the United Nations was holding general assembly sessions, Russia had “literally used every day, every hour, to strike at Ukraine”, he said in his nightly video address. Ukraine has so far failed to convince US president Donald Trump to impose punitive sanctions on Moscow.The onslaught on Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine killed at least four people in what Zelenskyy called a described as a “vile and cowardly” attack, Luke ...

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5 d. ago Zelenskyy condemns ‘vile’ and deadly Russian strikes on Ukraine; drones spotted over Danish military sites – Europe live

Twelve-year-old girl among those killed in Kyiv; unidentified drones spotted over Danish military bases on Saturday nightIn an address at the UN general assembly in New York on Saturday, Moscow’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov warned that “any aggression against my country will be met with a decisive response” but insisted Russia has no intention of attacking EU or Nato member states.In a wide-ranging speech, Lavrov said threats against Russia by western countries were becoming “increasingly common”. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Zelenskyy says Russia launched 500 drones and 40 missiles in ‘vile attack’ on Ukraine – Ukraine war live

Twelve-year-old girl among those killed in Kyiv as Ukraine president condemns ‘brutal’ Russian strikesHere are some of the latest images being sent to us over the newswires from Kyiv, where some residents have fled to metro stations for safety to escape the Russian attack:In a post to Telegram this morning, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia launched about 500 drones and over 40 missiles in the overnight attack on Ukraine, killing four people and damaging civilian infrastructure. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Russia launches one of biggest drone strikes on Kyiv since war began

Poland responded by closing airspace near its southeastern cities of Lublin and Rzeszow

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5 d. ago World War 3 'now inevitable' as Russia 'has little to deter it from taking on the West'

Estonia's defence minister has issued a stark warning that Moscow's latest hybrid attacks are designed to force NATO to drop support for Ukraine

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5 d. ago Conflict with Vladimir Putin's Russia 'is inevitable' as experts sound WW3 alarm

Vladimir Putin will not see any reason to be deterred from a war with the West were the US not involved, an expert has warned, with war against Russia branded 'inevitable'

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6 d. ago More mystery drones menace air base in Denmark as Danish PM warns of ‘hybrid war’ after days of airport incursions

MYSTERY drones shut down another Danish airport overnight, authorities confirmed. It comes just days after Copenhagen Airport - the busiest hub in the Nordic region - was plunged into chaos amid claims Moscow is behind a string of sabotage across Europe. Drones were spotted flying over the Karup Air Base on Friday evening. Cops were involved in "an...

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