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UK and EU back on course for SAFE defence fund deal
European Council President António Costa says Britain and the EU are moving towards an agreement on UK participation in the bloc’s SAFE defence-financing instrument, reopening a file that had stalled and giving new weight to the wider reset in defence…
Zaluzhnyi says Ukraine has already shown how a wider Iran war could unfold
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom and former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, argues that the war against Russia has rewritten the logic of modern conflict, and that those lessons now apply directly to the confrontation…
Britain’s Hollow Shield: A Nation Exposed in the Age of Missiles
Britain has long taken comfort in the mythology of its own resilience. From the Battle of Britain to the Cold War, the national story has leaned heavily on ingenuity, deterrence, and a quiet confidence that, when pressed, the country could…
Allegations over Szijjártó’s contacts with Lavrov raise wider NATO security concerns
Fresh reporting alleging that Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó shared details of closed-door EU foreign ministers’ discussions with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov has sharpened a question that goes well beyond Brussels politics: whether Viktor Orbán’s Hungary has become a…
Britain Finally Aligns With Washington After Weeks of Dangerous Drift
Britain’s decision to finally permit the United States to use its bases for strikes against Iranian missile sites in the Strait of Hormuz is, without question, the right one. It is also, by any reasonable measure, far too late. After…
From Black Sea strikes to ocean operations: Zelenskyy outlines Ukraine’s new drone ambitions
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine is close to fielding new unmanned maritime systems capable of operating not only in the Black Sea but in ocean conditions, marking a further step in Kyiv’s rapid wartime expansion of drone warfare. He…
Canada and the Nordics move to deepen defence-industrial cooperation
A joint statement from Canada and the Nordic countries places defence production, procurement, resilience and support for Ukraine at the centre of a wider effort to tighten security cooperation among like-minded states. Canada and the five Nordic countries have agreed…
From Guernica to Kyiv: How Strategic Bombing Doctrine Evolved from Hitler to Putin
From the shattered Basque town of Guernica to the pulverised apartment blocks of modern Ukraine, aerial bombardment has evolved from experimental terror tactic to grimly familiar feature of industrialised war. Yet the philosophy behind it has changed markedly since the…
From FPVs to ground robots: Ukrainian firms at BEDEX show how battlefield technology is evolving
From bomber drones and interceptors to ground robots and autonomous control, Ukrainian companies at BEDEX showed how wartime innovation is reshaping the future of combat At this week’s BEDEX exhibition in Brussels, Ukraine’s defence technology sector did not merely display…
Kyiv region bears brunt of new Russian strike on Ukraine’s energy network
Russia’s latest large-scale air attack on Ukraine has again underlined a central reality of this war: Moscow continues to treat energy and civilian infrastructure as a primary target, even as the broader geopolitical environment grows more volatile. Overnight, Russian forces…