Ukraine has to be in the strongest possible position when it decides to sit down with Russia as this is the global geopolitical context, said NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the Ramstein meeting.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Thursday urged continued military support for Ukraine after nearly three years of war, warning that reduced support could embolden countries like China, North Korea and Iran.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Thursday that he is working to persuade US President-elect Donald Trump to ease access for European partners to US weapons systems. Rutte told dpa that European allies are already investing hundreds of billions of dollars in the US defence industry.

Finland says a ship affiliated with Russia's "shadow fleet" is linked to a 60-mile-long anchor drag mark on the seafloor. A power cable in the Baltic Sea was severed last week.

Finland said last week it detained a ship that may be from Russia's shadow fleet of oil tankers as part of a probe into a damaged undersea cable.

In a post on X, Rutte said that he had spoken to Finland ... Finland, which shares a 1,340-kilometer (832-mile) border with Russia, joined NATO in 2023, abandoning a decades-old policy of ...

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has warned that the threat of hybrid attacks by Russia against Western countries in the Baltic Sea remains constant. Source: Boris Pistorius quoted by French news agency AFP,

“All the revolutions since the late 1980s in ex-Soviet republics and former Warsaw Pact countries ... are seen by the Russians as western-backed coups that constitute aggression against Russia and its interests and its sphere of influence as a great power,” says Milevski.

President-elect Donald Trump said he is planning a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he wants to end the "bloody mess" of the Ukraine war.

Finland has paraded the enormous anchor allegedly used by an oil tanker belonging to Russia's shadow fleet to snap several critical undersea cables on the bed of the Baltic Sea.

Ukraine's leader says partners sending ground troops would help "force Russia into peace," as America's European allies ponder Trump's next move.

Following meetings with allies in Germany, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Rome to discuss security and recovery plans with Italian leadership.