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Vladimir Putin’s notorious ‘doomsday radio’ crackled into life with a string of codewords after a suspected Russian missile hit NATO territory in Poland.

Three Nato ships with very different jobs have made a scheduled replenishment visit to Glasgow.

Friedrich Merz is drawing up secret plans to prevent German pro-Kremlin “traitor states” from obstructing Nato’s plans to defend against a Russian invasion.

Prime minister Andy Burnham has declined to commit to the UK increasing its defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP by 2030.

The United States began reviewing its military presence in Europe on Monday, officials said, after US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth told his NATO counterparts last month that Washington was planning such an analysis.

Britain and its NATO allies face a direct challenge from Vladimir Putin ’within months’ to test Andy Burnham’s new government and Donald Trump’s focus on Iran, UK intelligence sources have warned.

Britain ‘stands ready 24/7 to defend itself’, the Government has said, after Iran threatened to strike a Royal Air Force base used by the US.

Over the course of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, Belarus has become an indispensable logistical and industrial stronghold for the Russian military. By providing infrastructure, training grounds, and capabilities for hybrid pressure on Europe, the Lukashenka regime is helping Russia prolong the conflict.

Babcock Land Defence, acting for the UK Ministry of Defence, has awarded BAE Systems a four-year, £4 million contract to supply components for artillery, howitzers and armoured vehicle weapon systems, including the 105mm Light Gun.

Pursuit of ‘deep strike’ weapons capable of hitting Russian interior brings Berlin and London together – and sidelines French arms industry

A Russian warship carried out a live-fire artillery exercise 46 miles off the coast of Plymouth on Monday.

The European Union and Britain on Monday blamed a highly specialized unit of Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, for a decade-long campaign of cyber-espionage and attempted sabotage targeting critical infrastructure, including power grids and defense networks, across Europe.

Under Helsinki, there is a network of over 5,500 bomb shelters capable of sheltering nearly a million people in the event of a nuclear attack or Russian invasion. The shelters are equipped with autonomous systems and are used in peacetime as sports complexes.

I’m a recovering diplomat. For the last decade of my career I focused on cognitive influence. That work began in earnest for me following Russia’s invasion of Crimea in 2014, when I started working on the Russian file with an emphasis on cognitive influence.

What does a world leader do with a gun and six bullets? That was the conundrum Nato leaders faced after the Turkish president offered them each a revolver after the Ankara summit.

Russia is “chapping on the door of NATO countries,” Labour MP Frank McNally has warned, in a debate over the Defence Investment Plan,

Twelve countries, including the UK, are set to spend more than £37bn ($50bn) over the next 10 years on a new long-range missile to protect Europe.

Donald Trump has threatened to pull US troops out of Europe as he revived his demand for control of Greenland.

The United Kingdom has joined five NATO allies in launching a multinational project to develop new ground-based deep precision strike capabilities, including new launchers and missiles, NATO has announced.

A wave of Russian missiles and drones has struck across Ukraine, killing 21 people, and heavily damaging apartment blocks and other buildings, in an attack on the eve of a Nato summit in Turkey that has exposed widening gaps in Ukraine’s air defences.

UK fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a Russian plane after it came “unnecessarily close” to Britain’s flagship carrier in the Arctic Circle.

Only four months ago, Ella Adman had just finished school and had never before held a gun. Now, standing in the shade in between drills at a military base on Gotland, the strategically important Swedish Baltic island where she grew up, the 19-year-old conscript is carrying a powerful assault rifle.

Donald Trump’s America First policy, his dismantling of USAID, and his war against Iran have led to the revival of the long-forgotten phenomenon of Somali piracy.