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A pair of F-35s stationed in northern Europe were dispatched to intercept a trio of Russian warplanes, including two jet fighters.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned Ukraine is using up ammunition far faster than its allies can provide it.

Moldova´s President outlined Monday what she described as a plot by Moscow to use external saboteurs to overthrow her country’s government.

The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine believes is likely that Russia is employing “Kurdish mercenaries” to fly kamikaze drones against Ukrainian targets.

A growing debate is emerging in Germany as to whether military conscription should be reintroduced after it was abolished in 2011.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces over the weekend continued to shell Ukrainian cities amid a grinding push to seize more land in the east of the country, with Ukrainian officials saying that Moscow is having trouble launching its much-anticipated large-scale offensive there.

Representative Mike Turner (R-OH) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that it is “very disappointing” that those on the “far-right,” like many on the left, do not see the importance of the United States arming Ukraine for its fight against Russia.

The Finnish president said in an interview published Saturday that he trusts that Finland and Sweden will be admitted into NATO by July, and hinted that he wants the United States to put pressure on Turkey to approve their membership bids.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – The owner of the Russian Wagner Group private military contractor actively involved in the fighting in Ukraine has predicted that the war could drag on for years.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a small coal-mining town on Ukraine’s eastern front line, a fight for strategic superiority is being waged in a battlefield steeped with symbolism as the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion nears.

The Kremlin on Friday confirmed a report that Russian President Vladimir Putin will give his long-delayed 2022 annual address to the Federal Assembly on February 21, 2023, a date chosen to coincide with the anniversary of his attack on Ukraine. 

The former commander of British forces in Afghanistan’s dangerous Helmand province has warned people in the West to be prepared for “significant” Russian advances in the coming weeks.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has suggested that British long-range missiles, with the capability of hitting Crime, could be sent to Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov continued his swing through Africa on Thursday by meeting with the ruling junta in Sudan immediately after pledging Russia’s support to the military coup that rules Mali.

The act of sending a wide variety of weapons to Ukraine is putting the British army at risk should donated armaments not be sufficiently replaced, the Labour Party has warned.

Rishi Sunak said “nothing is off the table” in terms of sending jets to Ukraine after demands from President Zelenksy and Boris Johnson.

Over four in ten Germans believe the sanctions against Moscow over the war in Ukraine have done more harm to their country than Russia.

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) reported this week that sub-Saharan Africa has become “the new global epicenter of violent extremism,” accounting for half of the world’s terrorism-related deaths last year. On Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited Mali, one of the four African nations with the highest number of terrorism deaths, in a bid to extend Moscow’s influence over Africa by helping the ruling junta fight jihadi rebels.

Zelensky addressed Parliament, praising ‘the coalition of NLAW’ and thanking the United Kingdom “in advance” for the gift of its warplanes.

The UK is expanding training of Ukraine to “fighter jet pilots”, PM Sunak announced as Zelenskyy arrived in London on a surprise visit.

CLAIM: President Joe Biden claimed during the State of the Union address that Americans are united in support for Ukraine. VERDICT: FALSE.

Ukraine Prez making a surprise trip to London in a bid to get more advanced weapons which will see meetings with parliament and the King.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, who has held his post since the Russian invasion began in February 2022, will be replaced by military intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov to “strengthen military-industrial cooperation,” according to leaders of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People Party. 

Why can’t we all get along? That was the metaphorical question posed by a frustrated U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday as he warned the world may be heading towards a “wider war” on the back of the Russia-Ukraine conflict adding to strains already imposed by “climate change.”

Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that “Republicans continue to want to side with Russia.”

A coal power plant that was due to shut down last year is among those brought online today to cover a potential shortfall of electricity.

India has found a way to profit greatly from Russia’s sanctions situation, purchasing cheap Russian crude and using its tremendous refining capacity to sell America and Europe gasoline and diesel, Bloomberg News revealed on Sunday.

Oil-rich Norway is looking to donate 75 billion kroner ($7.3 billion) to Kyiv as part of a five-year support package.

The engine on a flight from Thailand to Moscow went up in flames while trying to takeoff a runway on Saturday.

Students in the Colorado State fan section at Saturday’s game were heard yelling taunts of “Russia, Russia” at Utah State player Max Shulga.

“There will be planes, too,” Reznikov predicted. “The question is just what kind exactly… Consider that this mission is already completed.”

Naftali Bennett, the Prime Minister of Israel towards the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, says the West “blocked” a ceasefire he was helping to broker early in the war.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) – A former Israeli prime minister who served briefly as a mediator at the start of Russia’s war with Ukraine says he drew a promise from the Russian president not to kill his Ukrainian counterpart.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Dozens of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners of war have returned home following a prisoner swap, officials on both sides said Saturday.

The British military’s supply of ammunition would run dry in just one day in a direct engagement with Russia as a result of years of spending cuts to the nation’s defence, a former top general has warned.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the strongman leader of NATO member Turkey, has expressed misgivings about sending Ukraine advanced weapons such as tanks, and suggested it is about filling the arms industry’s pockets.