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NATO Jets Shoot Down Drone After Latvian Airspace Alert
NATO fighter aircraft shot down a drone over eastern Latvia on Monday after the aircraft entered Latvian airspace from Russia, according to Latvian military statements cited in regional reporting on the incident. The alert affected several eastern municipalities and added…
London Ukraine Talks Expose Europe’s Missile Defence Problem
European leaders used their London meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to underline the need to expand Ukraine’s protection against Russian ballistic missiles, but the statement also exposed a wider European capability problem. Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosted Zelenskyy, French President…
NATO Pushes Further North as Arctic Security Takes Centre Stage
NATO has launched a new initiative aimed at strengthening its operational awareness in the Arctic, underlining how rapidly the High North has moved from a peripheral concern to a central theatre in the alliance’s strategic calculations. The departure of the…
Ukraine Hits Crimea Fuel Network as Chonhar Bridge Strike Points to Wider Logistics Campaign
Ukrainian forces have struck fuel facilities and a key road bridge linking occupied Crimea with occupied southern Ukraine, in what appears to be an expanding effort to disrupt Russian military logistics across the peninsula. Ukraine has reported a new series…
Britain’s Defence Crisis Is the Product of Political Failure Across Two Governments
The revelation that Britain’s entire available fleet of hunter-killer submarines has reportedly been confined to dockyards for maintenance and repair should have triggered a political earthquake. Instead, it has been greeted with the sort of weary resignation that has become…
Russian Drone Strike Hits Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility Near Chornobyl
Radiation levels remained within normal limits after a Russian drone damaged a building at Ukraine’s centralised spent nuclear fuel storage site, officials said. Russia struck a building at Ukraine’s Centralised Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility near Chornobyl in the early…
US urges Taiwan to prioritise drones after parliament cuts defence budget
The United States has urged Taiwan to spend more effectively on defence and prioritise unmanned systems after Taiwan’s parliament approved only part of a major supplementary defence package requested by President Lai Ching-te. Raymond Greene, director of the American Institute…
Turkey seeks larger defence role as Europe rearms and alliances shift
Turkey is seeking a larger role in Western defence markets as European governments increase military spending, expand procurement and reassess their dependence on the United States for long-term security guarantees. The shift reflects both Turkey’s growing defence-industrial capacity and the…
Ukraine’s Drone Strikes on Kronstadt Expose Russia’s Expanding Vulnerability
Ukraine’s latest long-range drone strikes on Russian military and energy infrastructure have underlined a growing vulnerability inside Russia’s rear areas, including locations once considered beyond the normal reach of the war. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that Ukrainian drones…
Ukraine Says Drone Forces Struck Five Russian Logistics Vessels in the Sea of Azov
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces said they had struck five vessels linked to Russian logistics in the Sea of Azov overnight on 4–5 June, in what appears to mark a widening of Kyiv’s campaign against Russian supply routes in the occupied…