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Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda dismissed suggestions that his country represents a weak link in NATO’s eastern flank, emphasizing strengthened regional defense efforts with Poland and growing support from Germany.

A 59-year-old man in Greece has been charged with espionage-related offences and jailed pending trial after allegedly filming supply convoys for Russia at the strategic northeastern port of Alexandroupolis.

NATO chief Mark Rutte has proposed that alliance members boost defense spending to 3.5% of GDP and commit a further 1.5% to broader security-related spending to meet Donald Trump’s demand for a 5% target, people familiar with the idea told Reuters.

All NATO members, including the U.S., agree that Russia is a “long-term threat,” Mark Rutte, the alliance’s secretary general, has said after talks with President Donald Trump.

Sikorski also said EU and NATO membership are key to Poland’s defense.

British Typhoon fighter jets based in Poland were scrambled three times this week to intercept Russian military aircraft flying close to NATO airspace, the UK Ministry of Defense said on Sunday.

Poland will boost the number of its troops stationed in Latvia as the two countries look to invest in the arms industry together, Poland’s defense minister has said.

An announcement about the planned relocation of U.S. troops within Poland was widely misunderstood on Polish social media, according to a study.

Defense ministers from some 30 countries met in Brussels on Thursday to discuss a “reassurance force” for Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire in the war with Russia but key questions about its mission and any U.S. support remained unanswered.

Major telecommunications companies have called for urgent action to secure Europe’s digital lifelines following a string of suspected Russian attacks on cables in the Baltic Sea

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U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, who holds a senior position in NATO, has been fired as part of what appears to be an expanding national security purge of top officials by the Trump administration, three sources told Reuters on Monday.

United States President Donald Trump remains committed to NATO's Article 5 on mutual defense and will be present at a NATO summit in The Hague in June, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told reporters in Brussels on Friday.

Finnish technology conglomerate Insta said on Friday it is interested in producing anti-personnel land mines in Finland once the Finnish government leaves the international mine ban treaty.

The U.S. will not suddenly reduce its military presence in Europe, NATO’s secretary-general has said.

Poland wants to spend 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defense in 2026, Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Thursday after a meeting of his EU counterparts in Warsaw.

The move aims to bolster NATO’s eastern flank.

Hundreds gathered outside the U.S. Embassy to honor the fallen soldiers.

A ceasefire in Ukraine would be used by Moscow as an opportunity to rearm and redeploy forces to the north, raising the security threat to the Baltic states, defense ministers from Estonia and Lithuania have warned.

Six Swedish Gripen multirole combat aircraft and six British Eurofighter Typhoons have landed in northern Poland to take part in NATO deterrence operations.