June 29, 2022 - They want to join NATO, go ahead," Putin told Russian state television on Wednesday after talks with regional leaders in Turkmenistan. "But they must understand there was no threat before, while now, if military contingents and infrastructure are deployed there, we will have to respond in kind and create the same threats for the territories from which threats towards us ...

May 15, 2022 - The Finnish president told Putin by phone that his country would apply for Nato membership. Photograph: Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva/AFP/Getty Images ... Russian president tells Finnish counterpart the move would be an error and ‘negatively affect’ ties ... The Russian president has warned his ...

February 24, 2022 - The Russian military claimed to have wiped out Ukraine's entire air defenses in a matter of hours.

April 2, 2020 - Jens Stoltenberg, Nato's secretary general, warned Vladimir Putin the alliance could still respond to any Russian threat.

April 2, 2020 - Russia sends medical supplies to US despite own doctors struggling · Russia coronavirus cover up fears over Putin's EXTREME measures · Our primary objective is to ensure that this health crisis does not become a security crisis ... But NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg insisted “operational readiness” had not been affected by the coronavirus crisis and ...

December 6, 2019 - NATO, the U.S. and Russia have a new domain to compete and conflict over: space. Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that the U.S. saw space as as "theater of military operations" and that the development of the U.S.

July 19, 2018 - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday warned NATO against cultivating closer ties with Ukraine and Georgia, saying such a policy was irresponsible and would have unspecified consequences for the alliance.

June 14, 2019 - Russia has warned NATO that US President Donald Trump's pledge to send 1,000 US troops to Poland will "destabilize" Europe. NATO forces in member Poland already include a rotating pool of 4,500 US soldiers.

December 23, 2019 - Offer comes as Western alliance rethinks stance on Russia.

October 28, 2024 - Putin said in mid-September that if Western nations allowed Ukraine to use these weapons to strike Russia, "it will mean nothing short of direct involvement" in the conflict. NATO countries have been very wary to avoid escalating the war. "It will mean that NATO countries, the United States, and ...

June 24, 2024 - Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hanoi on Thursday. (Athit Perawongmetha/AP) ... June 21, 2024 at 7:30 a.m. EDT · The Biden administration is warning its NATO allies that Russia is intensifying a covert campaign of sabotage and hybrid warfare against supporters of Ukraine. To counter this rising Russian threat, U.S. intelligence agencies are pushing to their European partners information they can use ...

June 22, 2024 - Ramping up the war rhetoric, Putin this year warned NATO of the potential for nuclear conflict, if the coalition pressed ahead with a suggestion from French President Emmanuel Macron over deploying Western troops into Ukraine. ″[The West] must realize that we also have weapons that can hit targets on their territory. All this really threatens a conflict with the use ...

February 29, 2024 - Russian President Vladimir Putin issued explicit nuclear threats to the West, even as he assured Russians their country could both win the war in Ukraine and thrive economically.

June 21, 2024 - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the NATO military alliance of creating a security threat for Russia and other nations in Asia.

February 16, 2024 - Western defence figures warn of Moscow’s capabilities and heightened threat beyond Ukraine

January 23, 2024 - Europe sounds the alarm amid growing concern that the Russian president’s veiled threats against the military alliance could turn real.