Any offensive against the Suwaki Corridor would constitute a direct assault on NATO territory and trigger Article 5, which ...

I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I am drilling down on two issues: the EU’s attempt to ramp up its ...

It has been decided to reduce the scale of the Zapad-2025 exercise and relocate its main manoeuvres from the western border deep into ...

As Germany’s new chancellor increases military spending, he has presided over the activation of a German tank brigade based ...

Germany’s decision to deploy a permanent force of 5,000 soldiers to Lithuania is extremely significant because it signals the next phase of a new ...

What does Russian dictator Vladimir Putin value? My question's immediate frame of reference: Donald Trump says Ukraine ...

The Russian defense minister noted that “in the Eastern European region, NATO countries are using the Ukrainian crisis as a pretext to build up their presence in Eastern and Central Europe, and in the ...

Russia accuses Finland of NATO escalation through military drills We've told you about reports of Russia starting "major" naval drills in the Baltic Sea (see 12.15 post).

Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said Minsk is ready "for dialogue, compromises and decreased tensions both in words and deeds" ...