The US-led NATO alliance must prepare for the possibility that Russia and China could launch wars in Europe and the Pacific simultaneously, with 2027 being a potential flashpoint year, a top military officer said.

"Putin's criminal war is getting closer to our borders," Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said on Wednesday.

Kyiv’s European allies have welcomed the European Union’s 18th sanctions package targeting Moscow’s oil and gas industry over its war in Ukraine.French President Emmanuel Macron said the package was “unprecedented” in a post on X.

The European Union on Friday agreed an 18th package of sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine, including measures aimed at dealing further blows to the Russian oil and energy industry.

Flight data showed how American and British reconnaissance aircraft flew from England toward Russia on Monday.

Ukraine says it will give defense firms a detailed report of how their weapons tech fares in combat against Russia's troops.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned that Brazil, China and India will face secondary sanctions from the US if Russia doesn’t negotiate a peace deal with Ukraine, and said they should lean on President Vladimir Putin to agree to a ceasefire.

NATO's threat of secondary sanctions against emerging economies to pressure them into swaying Russia is not only impractical but also doomed to fail." In truth, the root cause of the Russia-Ukraine conflict lies in NATO's continued eastward expansion,

Poland's scrambling of aircraft comes amid heightened tensions across the alliance's eastern flank over Russia's aggression. It follows another NATO member, Romania, announcing it would implement an Iron Dome defense system similar to that used by Israel.

NATO members that border Russia are buying US-made HIMARS. One defense minister told BI that the war shows deep strike abilities are needed.

NATO allies have developed a plan to neutralize the Kaliningrad region. Modern weaponry will allow it to be done faster than ever before, said General Christopher Donahue, Commander of the US Army in Europe and Africa and Commander of NATO's Land Forces,