The Latest Breaking News from NATO

The Biden administration has finally agreed to send its most advanced air-defence system to Ukraine to help repel Russian aerial attacks. But analysts say the move is less about weapons and missiles, and much more about politics.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington on Wednesday marks a high point in ties between Ukraine and its most important ally, putting the spotlight on a relationship strengthened by Russia's invasion, but not without some friction along the way.

Türkiye’s foreign minister on Tuesday called the refusal of Sweden’s top court to extradite a man wanted by Türkiye a “very negative development,” as Ankara continues to delay Sweden and Finland’s membership in NATO. Mevlut Cavusoglu said Türkiye’s request for the extradition of Bulent Kenes was rejected despite a memorandum…

(Corrects to Swedish Foreign Ministry, not Turkish, in fifth paragraph of Dec 20 article)

Providing systems to defend against Russia risks weakening the west’s deterrence posture towards China, says Jack Watling of the Royal United Services Institute

China and Russia have increased military exercises in an alignment of foreign policies and in opposition to the West.

The Prime Minister dished up Christmas dinner for soldiers at the Tapa military base.

The Prime Minister handed out Christmas lunch alongside his Estonian counterpart Kaja Kallas.

Sweden's Supreme Court on Monday blocked the extradition of exiled Turkish journalist Bulent Kenes, a key demand by Ankara to ratify Stockholm's NATO membership. There were "several hindrances" to sending back the former editor-in-chief of the Zaman daily, who Türkiye accuses of being involved in a 2016 attempt to topple…