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.

2 days ago - Putin, who casts the West as a decadent aggressor, and US President Joe Biden, who casts Russia as a corrupt autocracy and Putin as a killer, have both warned that a direct Russia-NATO confrontation could escalate into World War Three.

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.

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

2 days ago - We use Google reCaptcha to protect ... Policy and Terms of Service apply. ... In the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin frequently invoked Moscow’s nuclear arsenal, the world’s biggest, repeatedly pledging to use all means necessary to defend Russia. He later seemed to moderate his rhetoric, but officials close to the Russian president have recently warned Nato countries ...

July 13, 2023 - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Ukraine’s membership in NATO will pose a threat to

2 weeks ago - Russia started the conflict in Ukraine and can end it "straight away”, Sir Keir Starmer has said. It comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Moscow would regard Western missiles being fired into Russia as a serious escalation of the war. Putin told Russian state television that this would “mean nothing other than the direct participation of Nato countries - the US ...

September 18, 2023 - Ukrainian military continued its counteroffensive, with drone attacks targeting Crimea and Moscow. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg | Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images ... NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned that the war Russian President Vladimir Putin is waging on ...

January 8, 2024 - Since Russia began its aggressive actions against Ukraine, Russian officials have accused NATO of a series of threats and hostile actions. This webpage sets out the facts.

1 week ago - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, warned on Friday that Moscow's nuclear weapons are in "full combat readiness." Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, tensions between North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries and the Kremlin ...