March 3, 2024 - MOSCOW, Feb 29 (Reuters) - President ... Ukraine, warning that Moscow had the weapons to strike targets in the West. The war in Ukraine has triggered the worst crisis in Moscow's relations with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Putin has previously spoken of the dangers of a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia, but ...

September 26, 2024 - Joe Biden has just confirmed he will provide Ukraine with additional long-range munitions - but he has not relented on allowing the missiles to be launched into Russia. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin is changing Russia's nuclear doctrine in a new escalation threat.

March 1, 2024 - President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said the West faced the prospect of nuclear conflict if it intervened more directly in the war in Ukraine, using an annual speech to the nation on Thursday to escalate his threats against Europe and the United States. Mr. Putin said NATO countries that ...

February 27, 2023 - All the updates from February 26 as they happened.

October 3, 2022 - President Joe Biden warned Russian President Vladimir Putin the United States is ready to defend NATO territory as Putin continues to escalate the war in Ukraine. "America's fully prepared with our NATO allies to defend every single inch of NATO territory. Every single inch," Biden said. "So, Mr. Putin, don't misunderstand what I'm saying. Every inch." Prior to his speech, the Biden administration announced new economic sanctions on hundreds of Russian officials and ...

October 1, 2022 - Putin called for the referendum ... called us to a battlefield to fight for our people, for the grand historic Russia, for future generations.” ... Biden on Friday warned Vladimir Putin that America and its allies are “fully prepared” to “defend every single inch of NATO territory.” ...

July 18, 2022 - Published 22:39 IST, July 17th 2022 · 22:39 IST, July 17th 2022

May 2, 2022 - The Ukrainian president says a group of about 100 people have left the besieged steel plant in the city.

April 29, 2022 - The United States pressed allies ... Russia warned of the "real" danger of World War III. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin pledged to “move heaven and earth” to help Kyiv win the war as he opened a meeting of NATO defense officials at a U.S. air base in Germany. Meanwhile, officials in Poland and Bulgaria said Russia is suspending natural gas deliveries starting Wednesday, which would be the first since Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded payment ...

April 18, 2022 - One of Russian President Vladimir Putin's closest allies warned NATO on Thursday that if Sweden and Finland joined the U.S.-led military alliance then Russia would deploy nuclear weapons and hypersonic missiles in a European exclave.

April 16, 2022 - The diplomatic note, dated Tuesday, was delivered in the same week that President Biden announced $800 million in additional military aid to Ukraine, including heavy weapons and Soviet-made Mi-17 helicopters.

March 27, 2022 - President Biden arrived in Brussels ... with NATO leaders.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times · By David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper and Julian E. Barnes ... BRUSSELS — The White House has quietly assembled a team of national security officials to sketch out scenarios of how the United States and its allies should respond if President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia — frustrated by his lack of progress in Ukraine or determined to warn Western nations ...