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(REUTERS) Britain, Germany and the United States advanced plans on Tuesday to spearhead a new NATO force on Russia’s border from next year, and Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered snap checks on combat readiness across his armed forces. Weeks before a critical NATO summit in Warsaw, three of NATO’s biggest military powers said they would each command a battalion across the eastern flank to help deter any show of force such as that deployed by […]
(REUTERS) The Russian Foreign ministry said Moscow would respond to a U.S. naval ship’s entry into the Black Sea with unspecified measures, saying it and other deployments were designed to ratchet up tensions ahead of a NATO summit, the RIA news agency reported. Russian state media reported that the USS Porter, a U.S. naval destroyer, entered the Black Sea a few days ago on a routine deployment, a move it said raised hackles in […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) – NATO said Friday it will hold formal talks with Russia before a landmark July summit in Warsaw endorses the alliance’s biggest military build-up since the end of the Cold War, to counter a more assertive Russia. In April, the NATO Russia Council (NRC) held its first meeting since June 2014 but the talks ended in “profound disagreements” over Ukraine and other issues, although alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg said at the time […]
STUTTGART, Germany (AFP) Tuesday 5/3/2016 – US Defence Secretary Ash Carter warned Tuesday that NATO would defend its allies against Russian “aggression” as he presided over the passing of the alliance’s European command to a new general. Carter said NATO would “keep the door open for Russia” for cooperation on global security challenges if Moscow abandoned its “sabre-rattling”. “But it’s up to the Kremlin to decide. We don’t seek a cold, let alone hot, war with […]
(REUTERS) The NATO alliance is weighing rotating four battalions of troops through Eastern member states, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Monday, in the latest proposal by allies to guard against aggressive behavior by Russia. The Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – which joined NATO in 2004, have requested greater presence of the alliance, fearing a threat from Russia after it annexed the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014. Carter acknowledged NATO […]
SIAULIAI, Lithuania (AFP) — Two American stealth F-22 fighter jets landed in Lithuania on Wednesday in an apparent show of force, after tensions with Moscow flared this month when a Russian aircraft buzzed an American warship in the Baltic Sea. The US air force’s most advanced planes landed at the Siauliai air base which currently also hosts Spanish jets from NATO’s air policing mission, created to help small Baltic members protect their borders with Russia. […]
The United States began its biggest European deployment of F-22 fighters with a visit to the Black Sea in an exercise aimed at beefing up military support for NATO’s eastern European allies who say they face aggression from Russia. President Barack Obama promised in 2014 to bolster the defences of NATO’s eastern members which were spooked by Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and the Kremlin’s use of pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine. A U.S. […]
ARLINGTON, Virginia, United States (Reuters) — Russia’s military activity in eastern Ukraine has increased and broaden recently, NATO’s top commander said on Tuesday (March 1), warning that the risk of confrontation between Turkey and Russia over Syria remained high. U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove, the NATO supreme allied commander, said that Russia’s involvement in the conflict in Syria has “complicated the problem”. “Despite public pronouncements to the contrary, today Russia has done little to […]
UPDATED (Eagle News) — Twin explosions outside the main train station in the Turkish capital Ankara killed at least 95 people on Saturday (October 20) as hundreds gathered for a peace rally, in what government officials described as a terrorist attack. Ambulances rushed to the scene where bodies were lying scattered on the ground, while security forces evacuated the area as crowds of people gathered. At least 95 bodies were covered by flags and banners, […]
(Reuters) — Turkey will seek moral support for its campaign against militants in Syria and in Iraq at an emergency meeting on Tuesday (July 28) with its military allies, NATO said, playing down any idea that Ankara would call for help from the alliance. Turkey asked for urgent consultations with its 27 NATO partners in Brussels after Ankara intensified its role in the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State, also striking Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps […]
(Reuters) – NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg denounced on Tuesday what he called a serious Russian military buildup both inside Ukraine and on the Russian side of the border and urged Moscow to pull back its troops. Stoltenberg said NATO saw movement of troops, equipment, tanks, artillery and also of advanced air defense systems in violation of a ceasefire agreement. Russia denies providing arms or troops to support a separatist pro-Russian rebellion in eastern Ukraine, which began after the removal […]
(Reuters) – Russia used its annual appearance at the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday to accuse the United States and its Western allies of bossing the world around, complaining they were attempting to dictate to everyone “what is good and evil.” The speech by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the 193-nation assembly was the latest example of the deteriorating relations between Moscow and Western powers, which have imposed sanctions on Russia over the conflict in neighboringUkraine. “The U.S.-led […]
