The new NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte currently does not see any danger of a Russian attack on the defence alliance's territory, but looks to the future with concern. "No fear for now," he said in an interview with dpa when asked whether NATO countries should be afraid of Russia,
NATO’s secretary-general says he wants to discuss ways to put Ukraine in a position of strength for any future peace talks with Russia during a meeting Wednesday with Ukraine’s president and a small number of European leaders.
Eagle S is being held on suspicion of causing damage to an undersea power line and four telecoms cables by dragging its anchor
The first speech by NATO’s new secretary-general, Mark Rutte, on December 12 was ominous for more than one reason. The obvious one was what Rutte explicitly wanted to tell us. He said we are “not yet at war but definitely no longer at peace.
The Russia-linked tanker which damaged an undersea electricity cable on Christmas Day also dropped sensors in the English Channel, sources have said.
Moscow has warned Donald Trump against resuming the testing of nuclear weapons when he takes office, saying it would “not rule anything out” in response to US aggression. Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister who oversees arms control, noted that Mr Trump refused to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty during his first term.
The Estlink 2 power transmission cable was ruptured on Christmas Day. An oil tanker suspected of being part of Russia's so-called shadow fleet is under investigation.
NATO's secretary-general Mark Rutte has said he wants to discuss ways to put Ukraine in a position of strength for any future peace talks with Russia.
Russia and Ukraine have been locked in an intractable-seeming conflict that has thrown not only the two nations into a state of prolonged chaos but huge swaths of Eastern Europe as well. While ostensibly a war over territorial expansion and ethnic sovereignty,
North Koreans suffering mass casualties says US as Zelensky set for £1bn arms boost - South Korea, Ukraine and the US previously accused Pyongyang of sending thousands of soldiers to help Russia