Defence Matters https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Kyiv Protesters Rally for Second Day over Mykhailo Fedorov’s Removal Turkey Says Work on S-400 Dispute Continues as F-35 Talks Gather Pace Macron-Merz Talks Expose Industrial Disputes Behind Europe’s Defence Ambitions Why Domestic PAC-3 Production Would Not Solve Ukraine’s Immediate Missile Shortage Europe’s Defence Innovation Push Gains Momentum Russian Strikes Put Ukraine’s Black Sea Grain Corridor Under Renewed Military Pressure PwC Fined over Babcock Audits as Defence-Contractor Accounting Returns to Scrutiny Fedorov-Syrskyi Dispute Exposes Competing Visions for Ukraine’s Armed Forces Britain’s Paratroopers Prepare for the Age of Autonomous Warfare Fedorov Decision Tests Ukraine’s Wartime Defence Command Structure Ukraine’s Campaign to Isolate Crimea Enters a New Phase Protests Spread Across Ukraine as EU Questions Fedorov’s Removal Why Ukrainian Strikes Are Moving from Fuel Storage to Complex Refinery Units Russia’s Air-Defence Dilemma: Moscow, Refineries or Strategic Nuclear Bases? Ukraine’s Patriot Licence and Freyja Project Open Two Routes to Missile Defence Ukraine Defence Shake-Up Puts Interior Minister Klymenko in Line for Wartime Procurement Role Emergency Airlifts Expose Continuing Weakness in Aerospace Supply Chains EU-Ukraine Drone Deal Exposes Europe’s Dependence on Chinese Components Poland to Host British and French Exercises for Possible Ukraine Security Mission Lithuania Tightens Infrastructure Security After Warning of Possible Russian Attacks Airbus, Thales and MBDA Join Bliksem EXO Bid to Build Sovereign Missile Interceptor Ukraine Turns European Loan Facility into Rafale and Air-Defence Procurement Plan Britain Plans Largest Home-Defence Exercise in Decades to Test Hybrid-Attack Readiness FCAS Breakdown Exposes the Limits of Europe Joint Defence Projects Europe Turns to Ukraine to Build a New Ballistic-Missile Defence System Russian Drone Incident Adds Urgency to EU-Funded Moldovan Air Defence Deadly Chornomorsk Strike Raises the Risk to Civilian Shipping in Ukraine Ports Leaked files reveal Russian-Chinese plans to disable and destroy Starlink Germany Funds 50,000 Ukrainian Strike Drones in 90 Million Euro Battlefield Procurement Kongsberg Orders Rise of 53 Percent as Missile and Air-Defence Demand Accelerates The Great MRE Heist: History’s Least Appetising Criminal Enterprise Turkey Weighs Entry Into Global Defence Bank as Arms Financing Moves Beyond NATO Budgets Russia’s Diesel Export Ban Turns Ukraine’s Refinery Campaign Into a Global Fuel-Market Issue Ballistic Attack on Kyiv Shows Patriot Production Deal Cannot Solve Ukraine’s Immediate Shortage Ukraine Says SBU Drone Strike Destroyed Russian Tu-95 Bomber at Engels Airbase Exercise Viking Strike: Britain’s digital battlefield begins to take shape UK Set to Join EUR60bn EU Ukraine Arms Scheme After Defence-Fund Dispute Ukraine’s Patriot Production Deal Cannot Close Its Immediate Missile-Defence Gap Germany Turns to Tomahawk Purchase After US Cuts Planned European Deployment NATO’s EUR70bn Ukraine Pledge Puts Europe’s Delivery Capacity on Trial Sea of Azov Tanker Strikes Extend Ukraine’s Crimea Isolation Campaign NATO Turns Baltic Air Policing Into an Air-Defence Mission Czech Opt-Out Exposes Weak Point in NATO’s €70bn Ukraine Pledge Proposed Patriot Licence Could Shift Ukraine Support From Supply to Co-Production Attack on Four Russian Vessels Expands Ukraine’s Sea of Azov Campaign Trump’s Turkey F-35 Signal Reopens NATO’s Unresolved S-400 Problem Eleven NATO Allies Choose Saab GlobalEye for the Alliance’s Next Airborne Warning System UK’s $50bn Deep-Strike Initiative Tests Europe’s Ability to Arm Without Washington Ukraine’s Three New Drone Deals Turn Battlefield Experience Into NATO Partnerships Home