At least one person has died and three others have been injured after a cargo plane crashed near Vilnius airport in Lithuania in the early hours of Monday.
The Boeing 737, operated for DHL by the Spanish cargo airline Swiftair, crashed near a house (...)
Russian opposition activist Leonid Volkov, who is the former chief of staff of the late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, was attacked Tuesday outside his house in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, according to Navalny's spokesperson Kira (...)
The Biden administration told Congress it intends to sell F-16 fighter jets to Turkey after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed off on Sweden's accession to NATO on Thursday – a development that caps off more than a year of quiet, complicated (...)
Turkish legislators on Tuesday endorsed Sweden's membership in NATO, lifting a major hurdle on the previously nonaligned country's entry into the military alliance.
The legislators ratified Sweden's accession protocol by 287 votes to 55, with four (...)
Two Russian missiles have struck a hotel in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, injuring 11 people, the Kharkiv governor says.
Photos from Ukraine's State Emergency Service showed the hotel heavily damaged and firefighters at the scene.
Governor (...)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has made an unannounced visit to Lithuania, a key ally of Kyiv as it battles Russia's invasion.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said in a statement he was welcoming Zelensky to his country, where the two (...)
Politicians in Lithuania want to widen access to automatic firearms, claiming it would make the country safer, though others warn the changes could bring new dangers.
Two conservative MPs have put forward a bill amending the Arms and Ammunition (...)
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg Wednesday said that the issues that NATO defense ministers will discuss over the next two days in Brussels, includes support for Ukraine, strengthened deterrence and defense, NATO operations and missions and (...)
Lithuania has closed two of its six border crossings into Belarus, as Latvia and Poland bolster their borders with Russia's ally.
There has been tension in the Baltic states and Poland over the presence of Wagner mercenaries in Belarus.
Landlocked (...)
Western countries announced new sanctions against Belarus on Wednesday, three years after the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko.
The 9 August 2020 vote sparked a massive protest movement in Belarus, with hundreds of thousands of people (...)
Russia's Wagner mercenary group could stage an attack to sever the Baltic states from NATO, an expert has said, though he doubted if such a "suicidal" step would be taken.
Dr Stephen Hall, lecturer of Russian politics at the University of Bath, (...)
Lithuania has revoked the residency permits of more than 100 Russians living inside the country, deeming some a security threat.
In figures shared with Euronews on Monday, the country's Migration Department said it had stripped 38 Russians of their (...)
G7 members are expected to ratify a wide-ranging security pact with Ukraine at the Nato summit on Wednesday.
But they stopped short of providing a timeframe for Kyiv to join the security alliance, provoking the anger of President Volodymyr (...)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has met with NATO leaders after they declined to commit to a timeline for Ukraine's accession to the alliance.
Speaking alongside Zelensky, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that NATO would be (...)
President Joe Biden and alliance leaders enter the first day of the high-stakes NATO Summit Tuesday with a reinvigorated sense of unity after a major win on Monday evening when Turkey agreed to Sweden's bid to join the alliance.
The leaders gather (...)
This is a historic moment for Sweden, which has spent the past year fighting hard to get accepted into Nato.
The Nordic country previously embraced wartime neutrality for more than 200 years, but applied for membership last May as part of efforts to (...)
NATO states have said Ukraine can join the military alliance "when allies agree and conditions are met" after President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized the "absurd" delay to accession.
In a communique, NATO said it recognized the need to move faster (...)
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to support Sweden's bid to join NATO, the military alliance's chief Jens Stoltenberg has said.
He said the Turkish leader would forward Sweden's bid to the parliament in Ankara and "ensure (...)
US President Joe Biden has landed in the UK ahead of a Nato summit in Lithuania later this week - which comes after several allies questioned his call to send cluster bombs to Ukraine.
The UK and Canada are among those who voiced concern about (...)
Turkey's president has said his country will support Sweden's bid to join NATO if the European Union opens membership talks for his country.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would state his demand at the NATO summit in Lithuania later this week. He (...)
A Swedish court has jailed a Kurdish man for four-and-a-half years for crimes including attempting to finance terrorism.
It is the first time Sweden's updated terror laws have been used in a case involving the Kurdish militant PKK.
Turkey has long (...)
The North Atlantic Council, which includes NATO ambassadors, Tuesday announced the extension of the mandate of Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg by a further year, until Oct. 1, 2024.
The decision will be endorsed by NATO Heads of State and (...)
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to have confirmed that his country's long-awaited counter-offensive against Russia has started.
"Counteroffensive and defensive actions are taking place," he said on Saturday.
But he added that he would (...)
Ukrainian forces have advanced around Bakhmut, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar has said, describing the eastern city as the "epicenter of hostilities".
She did not say whether a long-awaited counter-offensive had begun.
Separately, Russia's (...)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg discussed Sunday Sweden's bid for the membership of the alliance and Turkiye's fears about this step.
The meeting between the two sides was held at Dolmabahce Palace (...)
