Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Russia’s former president claimed NATO’s newest members are potential targets for revenge strikes using nuclear weapons in the event of war — as the Kremlin expands its military bases along ...

In response, Putin declared it would take the "necessary measures" to counter the aggressive decisions of Finland and its NATO allies. Russia has repeatedly accused Nato of acting as an aggressor ...

At talks in Antalya, Turkey, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said that more investment and military equipment are needed to deal with the threat posed by Russia and terrorism, but also by China ...

Both NATO and Russia scrambled warplanes in a dramatic dogfight above the Baltic after a major standoff over a tanker in Vladimir Putin’s shadow fleet. Estonian forces attempted to board the ...

At talks in Antalya, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said more investment and military equipment are needed to deal with threats posed by Russia and terrorism but also by China, which has become ...

The likely result would be a new arms race with NATO. As in the Cold War, the West would presumably try to counter the Russian masses with technical superiority. However, whether Russia's ...

However, Russia has already achieved one of its war aims. Since 1990, NATO has been expanding in only one direction: eastward. First the former Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe joined ...

Russia could be ready to launch fresh attacks on NATO's eastern flank as early as 2027 if a ceasefire in Ukraine is agreed this year, a security think tank has claimed. The International Institute ...