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Finland seizes ship it suspects of damaging cable connecting Estonia and Finland on Christmas Day

NATO will bolster its military presence in the Baltic Sea after the suspected sabotage of an undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia this week, the Western military alliance's chief Mark Rutte said on Friday.

As the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, held his carefully stage-managed annual phone-in and press conference to answer questions from journalists and ordinary Russians, EU leaders were hosting Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky in Brussels at their final meeting of the year. Unsurprisingly, the war in Ukraine loomed large at both events.

Here are the key developments on the 1,029th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets Wednesday with NATO chief Mark Rutte and key European leaders in Brussels to discuss "next steps" on Russia's war as Donald Trump prepares to take office in the United States.

In a dramatic intervention, Richard Shirreff says Britain must ‘fight a second cold war to avoid a third world war’

The controversial figure is picking up committee support for his confirmation. Plus, Nato chief urges Europe to adopt a ‘wartime mindset’

Nato secretary general Mark Rutte says people should gird themselves for the prospect that Russia might try to use ‘swarms of drones’ in Europe. What we know on day 1,024

Mark Rutte said US president-elect Donald Trump was “right” that there should be more spending on defence.