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After a long delay, Budapest finally approved Stockholm’s application to join the North Atlantic Alliance. On Monday, February 26, the Hungarian parliament ratified Sweden’s application to join NATO. This was reported by the Hungarian edition of Index. On the first day of the spring session, parliamentarians approved the ratification of Sweden’s membership in NATO. In […]
A group of North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries wants to provide one million drones to Ukraine’s defenders as part of military aid. He reminded that a regular meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council was held today, February 15. In particular, Ukraine’s Defense Minister Rustem Umerov briefed the allies on the situation at the front, and NATO […]
On Monday, January 22, the North Atlantic Alliance begins its largest four-month military exercise in decades, Steadfast Defender 2024, which will simulate a conflict with a “virtually equal adversary.” The exercise will involve about 90 thousand people, DW reports. It will be attended by all NATO countries and a candidate country for membership in the […]
The secret document of the German Defense Ministry outlines the possible development of the conflict between Russia and NATO, culminating in the deployment of hundreds of thousands of NATO soldiers and the inevitable outbreak of war in the summer of 2025. NATO is preparing for a major Russian attack on its eastern flank. Bild writes […]
The Russian army’s long-term restructuring and expansion efforts are aimed at preparing Russia for a future large-scale war against NATO. The country allocates expensive naval resources to areas outside Ukraine and Eastern Europe. This was reported by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). According to analysts, Russia’s deployment of expensive naval resources to […]
The North Atlantic Alliance is preparing to conduct the largest military exercises in Poland since the end of the Cold War. The Dragon-24 maneuvers will begin on February 25, the second anniversary of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, and end on March 14. This was reported on November 21 by the Polish agency Rzeczpospolita. The article […]
As drones become more efficient and sophisticated, they are being used to solve increasingly narrow, highly specialized tasks. The Navy is not standing aside either. NATO’s recent REPMUS exercise in Portuguese coastal waters demonstrated new UAV capabilities. The T-600 cargo drone, developed in the UK by the defense company BAE System and engineers from Malloy […]
The Alliance wants to take a longer and deeper look at what is happening in Russia, so it is deploying two AWACS aircraft to the Baltic state NATO is sending AWACS E-3 Sentry aircraft to Lithuania, where they will be stationed at Siauliai International Airport and will be “monitoring Russian military activities near the Alliance’s […]
Latvia will host an exercise during which allied forces will assess the prospects of using 5G networks for military applications. NATO’s Transformation Command, which is responsible for the digitalization of the alliance, has agreed with Latvia to test the capabilities of the 5G data network for military purposes at the country’s military training ground, C4ISRNET […]
At the NATO summit in Vilnius, U.S. officials wanted to withdraw Ukraine’s invitation to join the alliance. This was reported by The Washington Post, citing six people familiar with the matter. According to the sources, Washington’s dissatisfaction was caused by Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Twitter post, in which he criticized the vague wording of the summit’s final […]