60 h. ago Russia 'willing to legally confirm it has no intention of attacking NATO'

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Moscowis willing to confirm in a binding agreement that it has 'no intention of attacking' either the EU or the US-led NATO military alliance.

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6 d. ago Russia has few legal options to challenge EU frozen asset plan

A core question for European Union leaders discussing whether to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine is whether the idea is legally sound

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7 d. ago Bulletin AM briefing: Bondi suspect charged, Russia rejects Christmas truce, BBC’s huge legal bill

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1 week ago Ukraine willing to drop ambitions to join Nato, Zelenskyy says

The move marks a major shift for Ukraine, which has fought to join Nato as a safeguard against Russian attacksVolodymyr Zelenskyy has offered to drop Ukraine’s aspirations to join the Nato military alliance, as he held five hours of talks with US envoys in Berlin on Sunday to end the war with Russia.Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff said “a lot of progress was made” as he and the US president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met Zelenskyy in the latest push to end Europe’s bloodiest conflict since the second world war – though full details were not divulged. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Would you fight voluntarily if WW3 broke out? Take our poll and have your say

The UK is facing the "greatest military threat in a generation," experts have urged, with the NATO Chief warning that within the next five years, Russia could attack a member state

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2 w. ago Kremlin says European claims Putin wants to attack NATO and restore the USSR are 'complete stupidity'

Opponents say Putin's Russia is decaying in a potent brew of absurdity and repression that is comparable to the Leonid Brezhnev-era of the Soviet Union.

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2 w. ago NATO scrambles fighter jets as Putin unleashes deadly strikes threatening Europe

Vladimir Putin's forces launched one of the harshest missile and drone onslaughts of the Ukraine war overnight, with NATO fighter jets scrambled following the attacks

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2 w. ago Harbadus attacks Andvaria: cyber war game tests Nato defences against Russia

Power blackouts, public chaos and loss of communication with space were all thrown at troops in seven days Russia and China were barely mentioned, but they were the threats in everyone’s minds in Tallinn this week, where Nato hosted its largest ever cyber war game.The goal of the war game, conducted 130 miles from the Russian border in Estonia, was to test the alliance’s readiness for a rolling enemy assault on civilian and military digital infrastructure. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Russia could be behind cyber attacks on British businesses like M&S, Nato general warns

Moscow has been linked to a string of hybrid attacks across Europe in recent months

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3 w. ago NATO plans to be 'more aggressive' in dealing with Russia in the wake of cyber attacks, sabotage and drone 'attacks'

The alliance's most senior military commander warned that simply reacting to threats from Putin was no longer working and that NATO must now consider striking first to deter future attacks.

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3 w. ago Ireland 'is Europe's weak spot' due to its lack of military spending and 'an open goal in Russia's crosshairs' if Putin looks to attack the EU without provoking NATO, experts warn

Military experts have sounded the alarm that Ireland has become 'Europe's weak spot' due to its commitment to military neutrality, and an 'open goal' if Putin looks to attack the EU.

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3 w. ago Germany's Secret Plan for War With Russia: Classified blueprint shows how 800,000 troops will be dispatched to Europe's frontlines with Putin ready to attack NATO territory 'before 2029'

It comes after senior officials at the organisation warned Vladimir Putin could be ready to test NATO's borders before 2029.

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