Russia fired ballistic missiles and drones at Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, overnight into Saturday, killing at least nine people and wounding 28, Ukrainian officials said.
Saudi Arabia and 13 other countries founded a new alliance on July 30, 2026 to protect Red Sea shipping routes after Yemen's Houthi fighters declared a naval blockade and hit several oil tankers.
Poland says a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile crossed into its airspace overnight and crashed, leaving a 10-metre crater, and scrambled fighter jets in response.
A suspected Russian missile crashed inside Poland, a NATO member, leaving a 10-metre crater near a village during a Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Lviv.
This week's defense-industry news, from NATO picking five companies to build anti-drone systems to Greece buying a €3.5 billion Israeli air-defense system, Israel warning its own weapon stocks are running low, and Britain and Japan struggling to expand their arms production, all show the same problem.
The Pentagon has begun cutting thousands of troops from Europe. Days earlier, Romania shot down three Russian drones on its own authority rather than call on NATO or Washington — a live test of how Europe's eastern flank responds as the U.S. security shield thins.
A second drone down over Romania in a day looks like a pattern — but the minister's ‘consistent with’ is not the same as ‘confirmed,’ and the wreckage is still being analysed.
Prague plans to grow its army even as its defence minister rejects talk of a recruitment crisis. For a small NATO member, adding soldiers rather than only spending is a pointed move amid transatlantic strain.
One report says a Romanian jet downed a suspected Russian drone. Before the escalation talk: what is confirmed, and what isn't.
Slovakia's president told a TV talk show that the Czech NATO delegation drew ridicule at the Ankara summit. Read closely, the mockery targets Andrej Babiš's attempt to sideline President Petr Pavel — a small remark with an awkward message about how Prague is seen among allies.
Brussels and London jointly blacklisted 33 Russia-linked cyber targets tied to FSB operations, drawing a NATO condemnation and a Russian threat of retaliation. The move lands while the EU's broader 21st package remains hostage to internal bargaining — evidenced by Bulgaria's confirmed removal of Patriarch Kirill.
A Paris summit of Ukraine's allies promised more air-defence help on Monday, but the gathering exposed a widening gap between wartime rhetoric and delivered capability, with the EU's 21st sanctions package still unagreed and NATO's Ankara summit offering warnings rather than resolution.