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Ukraine may have gotten support and vague assurances from NATO leaders in Vilnius this week, but ultimately it received no clear commitment that it will be joining the club any time soon.

President Joe Biden will close out his five-day trip to Europe on Thursday standing alongside Nordic leaders.

NATO leaders have wrapped up a two-day summit with pledges of long-term support for Ukraine but no offer of membership yet.

President Joe Biden spoke from the NATO summit in Lithuania on Wednesday, praising the alliance for its defense of Ukraine against the Russian invasion. “[Putin] was betting NATO would break apart… He thought wrong.”

NATO leaders say they will allow Ukraine to join the alliance “when allies agree and conditions are met.” The plan emerged Tuesday at the annual NATO summit in Lithuania. It came just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted the organization’s failure to set a timetable for his country as “absurd.” Although many NATO members have funneled arms and ammunition...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to send Sweden’s NATO accession protocol to the Turkish Parliament “as soon as possible.”

Sweden gave up a history of non-alignment to apply to join NATO after Russia invaded Ukraine last year. Turkey accuses Sweden of being too lenient toward groups that Ankara says pose a security threat.

An air deployment exercise billed as the biggest in NATO’s history and hosted by Germany is getting underway.

Along with more than 1,550 armored vehicles, 230 tanks and other equipment, Ukraine’s allies have sent “vast amounts of ammunition” and also trained and equipped more than nine new Ukrainian brigades.

Finland officially joined NATO on Tuesday in a move that began after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Finland officially became the 31st member of NATO and take its place among the ranks of the world’s biggest security alliance.

Finland has received the green light to join NATO after Turkey ratified the Nordic country’s membership. The vote by the Turkish parliament late Thursday followed Hungary’s ratification of Finland’s bid earlier in the week.

A senior EU official says that Russia has taken its war against Ukraine to “a different stage” by making indiscriminate attacks on civilians and non-military targets

Finland’s top diplomat appears to have suggested that the country may have to join NATO without Sweden, after Turkey’s president cast doubt on expansion of the military alliance.

Kosovo police and the local media have reported explosions, shooting and road blocks over night in the north of the country

In their only Florida U.S. Senate debate, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic Rep. Val Demings discuss how the U.S. should respond to Russian attacks on NATO allies.

President Joe Biden said the U.S. won’t be intimated by Vladimir Putin and vowed to defend “every inch” of NATO territory if needed.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned Thursday that Ukraine and its supporters face a tough winter in coming months but he urged the public in Western nations to keep faith in their efforts, saying that the war is at a critical point as Russia loses some territory. “We need at least to be prepared for this winter, because there is no…

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has been buried in Moscow after a ceremony attended by thousands of mourners but snubbed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin’s refusal to formally declare a state funeral reflects its uneasiness about the legacy of Gorbachev. Gorbachev has been venerated worldwide for bringing down the Iron Curtain but reviled by many at home for...

A leaked video that shows Finland’s 36-year-old prime minister dancing and singing with friends at a private party has triggered a debate among Finns about what level of reveling is appropriate for their leader.