While the U.S. has taken part in previous iterations of the military exercise, this year's U.S. footprint was smaller as allied nations are pressed by the Trump administration to put more into European defense.

Tensions rose after a blast damaged the Warsaw-Lublin rail line, which has been used to deliver aid to Ukraine, and a Russian missile attack killed at least 25 people in Ternopil.

NATO scrambled fighter jets in Polish and Romanian airspace overnight as Russia carried out massive drone and missile strikes in western Ukraine, killing at least 25 people, three of them children.

Some of America's closest European allies say they're already in a gray zone between peace and war with Russia.

Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish Armed Forces General Michael Claesson has said that Russia may soon attempt to test NATO's collective defence. Source: Micael Claesson in an interview with Politico,

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the NATO-bloc has been in a race against time to increase it’s defensive capabilities out of fear that Putin won’t stop with Ukraine. Earlier this year,

A web of undersea cables connects our lives and our global economy. As U.S. adversaries are accused of sabotage, they're proving to be targets of choice.

Professor Michael Clarke has been answering your Ukraine war questions - scroll down for the best of his answers or watch back in the video below.