At NATO headquarters, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered a thunderous message: Europe must pay its share, and Russia will face “costs” if the war doesn’t end. Speaking beside allies, Hegseth called for “peace through strength” and urged nations to ramp up funding for the new PURL arms program,

Here is how things stand on Thursday, October 16, 2025: The Russian Ministry of Defence has announced that its troops had pushed Ukrainian forces out of two settlements of Oleksiivka in Dnipropetrovsk region and Novopavlivka in Donetsk region.

In response, NATO swiftly scrambled fighter jets and placed air defense units on high alert, particularly in neighboring Poland, to secure the alliance’s eastern flank. Newsweek contacted representatives for Russia, Ukraine, and Poland via email and NATO ...

Ukraine's leader to push for "robust action" against Russia at U.N. gathering, as America's NATO partners accuse Putin of dangerous incursions, and lies.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. President Donald Trump said Tuesday NATO countries ...

President Donald Trump is “optimistic” he can achieve peace in Ukraine on the heels of the successful hostage exchange in the Middle East, a White House official told POLITICO.

"He's respected by Russia. Ukraine, I can't tell you about, but he is respected by (Russian President Vladimir) Putin," Trump told journalists.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday, per a Public Telegram Board, that NATO and the European Union are waging war against Russia “using Ukraine as a proxy” and are “directly participating” in the conflict.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that any supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine would threaten the U.S. relationship with Russia, but that Moscow’s defense systems will swiftly

A federal judge sentenced a former civilian employee of the U.S. Air Force on Wednesday to nearly six years in federal prison on one felony count of conspiring to transmit classified national defense information via a foreign online dating platform in 2022 regarding the Russia-Ukraine war.

As a recent wave of drone incursions marks some of the most serious violations of NATO airspace in the history of the alliance, experts are warning that member states might find themselves unprepared to handle a sustained campaign by a foe like Russia.

United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth warned Moscow on Wednesday that if its war on Ukraine does not come to an end, the US and NATO allies would “impose costs on Russia for its continued aggression.