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Denmark is more than doubling the period of mandatory service, calling up more young people, and requiring women to enrol for the first time.

Russian again threatens nuclear war, but Putin moderates remarks by saying he believes the United States will exercise “restraint”. 

Leonid Volkov, Alexei Navalny’s close associate and top strategist, accused Putin´s “henchmen” of hospitalising him.

Russian citizens fighting for Ukraine counter-invaded Russia on Tuesday morning, Ukrainian state media claimed.

“Your children will not be killed in Ukraine, but if Russia invades NATO countries, your children may be sent to one of these countries.”

Ukraine launched a wave of long-range drones deep inside Russia on Tuesday, Russian officials said, hitting at least two oil facilities.

Poland’s president on Monday called on other members of the NATO alliance to raise their spending on defense to 3% of their GDP.

Under a steady rain, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, Crown Princess Victoria and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg looked on.

Poland’s Foreign Minister said NATO soldiers are already in Ukraine, thanking alliance member states so deployed for taking “this risk”.

Zelensky backed the appointment of former armed forces commander and his top political rival Valerii Zaluzhny as the next UK ambassador.

Ukrainian authorities said two people including a teenage boy were killed Saturday in Russian artillery attacks.

Poland’s foreign minister said sending NATO troops into Ukraine “is not unthinkable” while praising French President Macron for not ruling it out.

President Emmanuel Macron summoned the leaders of French opposition parties to his Palace, laying out his vision and leaving attendees worried and confused.

Germany’s newspaper of record postulates whether Ukrainian men of military age should be encouraged or forced to go home.

Sweden formally ended its long history of quasi-neutrality on Thursday as it signed articles with NATO in Washington.

Germany has refused to apologise to the United Kingdom for appearing to disclose that British troops are active on the ground in Ukraine.

UK has reverse-engineered old Soviet designs from tank parts and documents held in museums to keep Ukraine’s army going. 

Ukraine stepped up attacks behind Russian lines on Wednesday with the apparent killing of a Russian election.

A large explosion reverberated around Odesa as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Greece’s prime minister ended a tour of the war-ravaged city.

Emmanuel Macron demanded that Europe not be “cowardly” while claiming his suggestion of sending troops to Ukraine was merely to “open debate”.

A modern Russian coastal warship has been swarmed by drones and sunk, Ukraine claims, the latest strike against the dwindling Black Sea Fleet.

Top European Union officials outlined ambitious plans to boost its defense industry at an unprecedented pace.

While the war in Ukraine has become more static over the past year, the butcher’s bill continues to mount, approaching 1,000 men a day.

Berlin confirmed leaked conversation between military officers about British soldiers assisting Ukraine in using advanced missiles took place.

Ukraine took responsibility for “disabling” a railway bridge in the Russian mainland region of Samara in the early hours of Monday morning.

A drone crashed into an apartment building in St. Petersburg Saturday morning, according to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.

Three people were killed when a Russian drone hit an apartment block in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa overnight.

German Chancellor Scholz stands accused of handing Russia a propaganda coup in order to smooth over his own political difficulties.

Macron is first NATO leader to discuss deploying soldiers to Ukraine, but despite blowback he insists his position is “measured”.

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal branded Marine Le Pen and her party as Putin’s “troops”.for questioning President Macron’s war rhetoric.

Russia will “definitely not stop” with Ukraine if it is allowed to “survive” its war against Ukraine, warned Volodymyr Zelensky. 

Ukraine´s president pleaded Wednesday for more ammunition to repel Russian advances as he co-hosted a summit with Albania’s government.

Zelensky said the EU has only delivered 30 per cent of its pledged shells, underscoring the hapless state of Europe’s military capabilities.

Transnistria, a sliver of land and unrecognised republic since 1990 is asking Russia to step in for protection from pro-Europe Moldova. 

Talk of sending troops has suddenly broken into the open for first time, prompting Russia to warn of invevitable “direct military conflict”.

Denmark said they concluded there was deliberate sabotage but “not the sufficient grounds” to pursue a criminal case.