The Latest Breaking News from NATO

The United States is pressing allies to hastily build for Ukraine a patchwork air defense network using NATO-compatible equipment -- some ultra-modern, others older -- to protect strategic targets from Russian strikes. The effort was given added urgency after Moscow pummeled Ukraine with missiles this week, damaging energy facilities nationwide…

Russian president says any direct clash with Nato troops would be ‘global catastrophe’ as he says 220,000 will be called up

The UN has apparently verified over 100 cases of rape and sexual assaults in Ukraine since Russia invaded in February

Russia evacuates civilians from Ukraine’s Kherson; Moscow’s forces would be ‘annihilated’ if Putin used nuclear weapons, says EU foreign policy chief

Some 13 civilians were killed in 'moronic' Russian missile attacks in Ukraine on Wednesday with more than 40 cities targeted in the bloodshed as Ben Wallace says Vladimir Putin's 'indiscriminate strikes on civilian areas in Ukraine warrant further support'

Residents encouraged to ‘take their children and leave’

With Russia expected to soon carry out large-scale drills of its nuclear forces as President Vladimir Putin threatens to use them, the United States and its allies will be challenged to ensure they can spot the difference between exercises and the real thing.

Moscow and NATO are both proceeding with nuclear exercises, even as tensions escalate over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats to use “all means available” — including atomic weapons — to defend land he claims to be Russian.

Russian President Vladimir Putin would be crossing a “very important line” if he were to order the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned Thursday, with the military alliance and Russia both due to hold nuclear exercises in coming days. NATO is holding its exercise, dubbed…

NATO will monitor an expected upcoming Russian nuclear exercise very closely, the alliance's chief said on Thursday, in particular in light of Moscow's latest nuclear threats related to its conflict in Ukraine.

A nuclear conflict will affect ‘the whole world’, a Russian Security Council official says