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Slovakia is dependent on gas passing through neighbouring Ukraine, and it has ramped up efforts to maintain those flows from 2025, after a five-year agreement expires

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.

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.

Mark Rutte said US president-elect Donald Trump was ‘right’ that there should be more spending on defence

Nato’s new general secretary has warned member states that they need to spend more on defence

The world must prepare for a US president who will be even more chaotic and less open to diplomacy and compromise than before

NATO foreign ministers met in Brussels to address Russia's escalating aggression and how to counter it by providing financial aid and strengthening their support of Ukraine in order to broker peace.

Kyiv’s forces claim Russia is losing troops at a record rate in its push to advance in eastern Ukraine.