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“The US and its allies abandon diplomacy and demand that relations be clarified on the battlefield” claimed Russia, ironically enough.

Hungarian Prime minister Viktor Orbán shot down claims from NATO cheif Jens Stoltenberg that “all members” agreed on allowing Ukraine to join the alliance.

Pentagon leaders at a meeting on Friday with Western allies supporting Ukraine did not address pessimistic assessments contained in leaked Pentagon documents about the war effort and instead tried to paint an upbeat picture of the coming counteroffensive.

Ukraine’s future is in the “Euro-Atlantic family” says the head of NATO, revealing every member now agrees the country will join.

Finland’s much-delayed and costly new nuclear reactor, Europe’s most powerful by production capacity, began energy production on Sunday.

Thousands rallied again in the Czech capital on Sunday to protest high inflation and the government’s support of the war in Ukraine.

The construction of barbed-wired fence along Finland’s border with Russia – primarily meant to curb illegal migration – has broken ground.

Dutch Prime Minsiter Mark Rutte backed French President Macron’s as he was mocked by Donald Trump for “kissing Xi Jinping’s ass” in China.

Estonian PM Kaja Kallas said her centre-right Reform Party struck a deal to form a coalition government five weeks after the general election.

Finland’s President will attend a ceremony at the NATO headquarters in Belgium today to mark the 12th new member this century. 

The British defence minister appeared to have an unguarded moment on Wednesday, before his office walked the comments back hours later.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted that defeat in Bakhmut, despite the narrative that it is strategically unimportant, would result in the international community and a “tired” Ukrainian public pressuring him to compromise with Russia – which he does not want to do.

The armed forces of the United Kingdom have been degraded to such a degree that they would need “five to ten years” advanced warning to be able to fend off an invasion from a power such as Russia, a former top general warned.

Budapest has been irked by “the very disrespectful behaviour of the political elites of [Finland and Sweden] towards Hungary.”

NATO member Hungary has said it does not support Britain sending depleted uranium ammunition to Ukraine, warning it could cause unwanted “escalation”.

The leader of Bulgaria, a European Union and NATO member-state, says his country will not use its arsenal of Soviet-era warplanes, air defence missiles, and tanks to bolster the Ukrainian war machine. 

NATO cheif Jens Stoltenberg said the West should prepare for supporting Ukraine’s military efforts against Russia for the long-haul.

Only seven of the thirty members met the two per cent of GDP military spending floor according to a NATO annual report.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and his Russian junior partner Vladimir Putin emerged from meetings in Moscow on Tuesday to issue various declarations and joint statements. One of them expressed “serious concern” about the “military biological activities” of the United States and demanded “clarifications” from the U.S. government.

Swedish lawmakers voted in favour of Sweden joining NATO, signing off on the country’s membership along with the required legislation.

Spanish Minister of Defence Margarita Robles has announced that her country will be providing an additional four Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks to Ukraine, along with more infantry vehicles.

Typhoon jets from the RAF and Luftwaffe with the NATO Baltic air policing mission scrambled to intercept two Russian jets.

A parliamentary delegation from Hungary said that it supports Sweden’s NATO membership bid after meeting the Swedish parliament’s speaker.

A nuclear-armed Russia “cannot lose” the current war, and any ceding of territory would lead to a “civil war,” according to Russian ultra-right ideologue Alexander Dugin, also known as “Putin’s brain” and “the most dangerous philosopher in the world,” who described the West as the “source of absolute evil.”

Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius admitted this week that the German military is incapable of defending the nation if needed.

The United States and NATO were warned by Russia on Thursday they face “catastrophic consequences” if they pursue further involvement in the Ukraine war.

Finland’s Parliament gave final approval to the bid to join NATO, with lawmakers signing off on membership and the required legislation.

Ukraine’s long-standing pleas for NATO membership received an affirmative response Tuesday with the promise of it joining “in the long term” sure to infuriate Moscow.

President Zelensky declared that if America pulls military support from Ukraine, the U.S. will “lose NATO” and its global leadership position.

(AFP) – President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed Friday to do everything to defeat Russia this year, as the first Leopard tanks arrived in Ukraine on the anniversary of the start of Europe’s largest conflict since World War II.

(AFP) – China called Friday for urgent peace talks as it released its plan to end the war in Ukraine, but several Western powers rebuffed the proposals while warning against Beijing’s closening ties to Moscow.

The UK will replenish stocks of any country that sends Russian or Soviet-era fighter jets to Ukraine, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine a year ago was an “abhorrent” but “entirely predictable” result of European Union and NATO expansionism, according to Nigel Farage. 

NATO has been mocked for comparing Ukraine’s war against Russia as a struggle comparable to the likes of Harry Potter and Marvel movies.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) argued that European NATO states need to “bring up their defense spending so that it equals or exceeds 2% of their GDP. And number two,

Sweden’s Security Service warned the risk of a possible conflict with Russia is at the highest level since the Cold War.