Trump tells Putin ‘Keep fighting,’ Putin obliges, Hegseth invokes mettle of D-Day troops in Normandy, Trump’s Qatari AF1 may cost $400 million.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer unveils a defense strategy to counter Russian aggression, focusing on nuclear deterrence and NATO collaboration amid global tensions.

Putin signed a decree on the requisition of defense enterprises during the war. ISW sees this as preparation for a prolonged conflict with NATO, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

Donald Trump’s ambassador to Nato has demanded that the UK and other allies increase their spending on defence to 5 per cent of GDP in order to deter the threat of a Russian attack. Current UK and European targets are “not good enough” and the White House expects Nato countries to dramatically increase spending,

Eastern bloc hits out at US sympathy for Putin’s anti-Nato demands - Exclusive: Backlash from top Eastern European officials after Donald Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine said Moscow’s opposition to N

NATO expects that President Vladimir Putin will seek retaliation against Ukraine for its audacious “Spider’s Web” drone operation, which dealt a significant blow to Russia’s strategic air bases, a senior NATO official told The Moscow Times.

Vladimir Putin is reeling from Ukraine's successful Operation Spider's Web, which wiped out a third of Russia's strategic cruise missile carriers and a third of its airborne nuclear weaponry. The Secu

The head of Ukraine's SBU sec urity service, Lieutenant General Vasyl Malyuk, said on Monday that Kyiv hit 41 aircraft, including Tu-95 and Tu-22 strategic bom bers Russia has used extensively to fire long-range missiles at Ukraine.

Two U.S. senators are warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin is stalling on peace while preparing a fresh military offensive against Ukraine.