On October 10, 2025, the leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Germany issued a joint statement agreeing on moving forward to using frozen Russian sovereign

A major warning has been issued by experts after Russian troops were spotted near a significant NATO border. On October 10, Estonian officials temporarily shut down a section of road passing through Russian territory near the border after spotting a small group of individuals believed to be part of Vladimir Putin's military personnel,

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russian forces had captured almost 5,000 square km (1,930 square miles) of land in Ukraine in 2025 and that Moscow retained complete strategic initiative on the battlefield.

Russia might be able to turn its defense industry into a viable source of revenue by selling weapons to allies like China, but the glut of tanks and missiles Russian factories are churning out also risk becoming a liability for an economy already grappling with sanctions and flagging growth.

The Russian president said terminating the 2010 New START would have negative consequences for global stability.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has said that Russia continues to act within the framework of the understandings on the war in Ukraine reached with US President Donald Trump during their meeting in Alaska.

The Russians are said to have entered a new phase in their preparations for a possible future conflict with the west.

Russia has a sliver of land on the eastern corner of the sea where Saint Petersburg sits, and another slice with its Kaliningrad territory, located between Lithuania and Poland. But nearly all the Baltic coast is firmly in the hands of the alliance.

Gould-Davies, a Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies who has served as the U.K. ambassador to Belarus, wrote recently that foreign-policy setbacks and economic challenges have put Russia in a bind,