Vladimir Putin yesterday snubbed Joe Biden’s request to hold a summit amid soaring tensions over Russia’s massive build-up of troops at the Ukrainian border. The US President, facing his first major foreign policy test against an experienced foe, invited Putin ‘to de-escalate tensions’ and proposed a summit ‘in the coming months,’ the White House said. The … Read more
Russia has warned the US to keep its warships away from Crimea ‘for their own good’ as it accused the West of turning the region into a ‘powder keg’. At a press conference today, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov called the US’s deployment in the Black Sea, due to arrive this week, a provocation designed … Read more
NATO scrambles fighter jets TEN times in one day to intercept unusually high number of Russian bombers and fighters over Europe Britain, Belgium, Italy and Norway were among the nations to scramble fighters Six groups of Russian jets were intercepted in the space of six hours, NATO said It comes with relations between Russia and … Read more
A Royal Navy warship has monitored a Russian attack submarine as the vessel travelled through British waters. Portsmouth-based patrol ship HMS Mersey tracked the surfaced submarine, RFS Rostov Na Donu, as it moved through the North Sea and the English Channel. The Kilo-class diesel powered attack submarine was moving through on its journey from the Baltic … Read more
Labour’s support for UK’s Trident nuclear deterrent is ‘non-negotiable’, says shadow defence secretary John Healey as he signals split from Corbyn era Shadow defence secretary said Labour support for deterrent is ‘non-negotiable’ John Healey also said Labour support for NATO military alliance is ‘unshakeable’ Comments represent a significant shift to approach taken under Jeremy Corbyn … Read more
Newly released US intelligence files show how close the Soviet Union came to launching a nuclear attack during a NATO weapons exercise in 1983. The Communist bloc put fighter bombers strapped with nuclear bombs on high alert in East Germany during a ‘war scare’ prompted by NATO’s Able Archer command exercise in November 1983. Soviet … Read more
NATO leaders are set to discuss withdrawing from Afghanistan this week as they meet for their first talks since Joe Biden took office. The US is currently committed to withdrawing its remaining 2,500 troops by May under a peace deal signed by President Trump, with NATO unlikely to leave its 9,600 soldiers in the country … Read more
The calamitous state of the British Army is revealed today in a leaked briefing. All but one of its 33 infantry battalions are dangerously short of combat-ready troops, according to the alarming Ministry of Defence report. Marked ‘Official: Sensitive’, it shows that key frontline units have barely half the manpower needed for operational deployment. A … Read more
Britain could be poised to join an alliance known as ‘Asian NATO‘ in order to restrain China’s ambitions, it is believed. Reports in Indian media have floated the idea of Britain joining the so-called ‘Quad’ which currently consists of the United States, Japan, India and Australia. With Britain lining up what Dominic Raab has called … Read more
Russia has been ‘flexing their muscles’ in the UK’s backyard in a way not seen since the Cold War, the Chief of the Defence Staff has said, after 10 warships entered British waters. Delivering his Royal United Services Institute Christmas lecture, General Sir Nick Carter said Moscow wanted to test Britain and the Nato allies … Read more