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Two naval ships returned to Halifax after four months at sea on Tuesday. HMCS Kingston and HMCS Summerside, each carrying crews of 46, set sail in June to support NATO in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “They’ve been doing a very important mission with the NATO standing maritime mine countermeasure …
Read More »NATO chief warns Canada that Russia, China have designs on the Arctic
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg ended his trip to Canada’s Arctic on Friday by underlining the threats to the region posed by both Russia and China. Standing alongside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at one of the country’s principal northern fighter jet bases in Cold Lake, Alta., Stoltenberg cited a list of actions Moscow has taken …
Read More »Finland, Sweden take huge step toward NATO membership
The 30 NATO allies signed off on the accession protocols for Sweden and Finland on Tuesday, sending the membership bids of the two nations to the alliance capitals for legislative approvals — and possible political trouble in Turkey. The move further increases Russia’s strategic isolation in the wake of its …
Read More »Victory or not losing: Ukraine knows what it wants, but experts wonder if NATO leaders do
The sunlit conference room at the luxury German resort of Elmau Castle, nestled in the green mountain folds of Bavaria, was about as far removed from the bloody, missile-littered landscape of Ukraine as one can get. That is both a literal and figurative statement. The leaders of the world’s wealthiest …
Read More »U.S. increases its firepower in eastern Europe while Canada discusses next steps at NATO
The United States opened the NATO leaders summit in Madrid on Wednesday by putting some serious firepower on the table to bolster the alliance’s defences throughout Europe. It will be adding a rotational brigade of troops to Romania where a battle group led by France was recently established, and plans to further …
Read More »Bigger battle groups, more reinforcements: What overhauling NATO means to Canada
Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary general of NATO, likely didn’t set out to steal anyone’s thunder — but it was hard for anyone at the G7 Summit in Germany to ignore the man on Monday. Affable, seemingly awkward sometimes, the former prime minister of Norway has been a steady, usually unflappable …
Read More »NATO to boost its rapid reaction force to 300,000 troops
NATO will increase the strength of its rapid reaction force nearly eightfold to 300,000 troops as part of its response to an “era of strategic competition,” the military alliance’s secretary general said Monday. The NATO reaction force currently numbers around 40,000 soldiers that can deploy quickly when needed. Foreign Minister Anita …
Read More »NATO meets again as Russian ultimatum passes for Ukraine to surrender besieged city
Ukraine ignored a Russian ultimatum to surrender the eastern city of Severodonetsk on Wednesday as NATO defence ministers gathered in Brussels to discuss sending more heavy weapons to replenish Kyiv’s dwindling stocks. Russia had told Ukrainian forces holed up in a chemical plant in the shattered city to stop “senseless …
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