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.

Russia's mysterious UVB-76 radio station sent coded messages mentioning Latvia. This has fueled fears of a Russian attack and a possible World War III. The station, known as 'The Buzzer,' is linked to Russia's military communication.

A spokesperson for Poland's special services minister accused Russian intelligence Tuesday of orchestrating a railway blast that destroyed a key track on a route used to deliver aid to Ukraine. Jacek Dobrzyński told reporters that "everything indicates" Russian intelligence was behind the sabotage of Polish railways.

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.

Romanian authorities said drone fragments were found inside the country's southeastern border region after Russian strikes on Ukrainian Danube River ports.

A blast ripped through Poland’s vital Warsaw-Lublin railway line early Sunday, shattering the calm near the village of Mika and sending shockwaves across Europe. The explosion, caused by military-grade C4,

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,

Russia stands accused of sabotage on Poland’s railways. The Kremlin attacked a gas-loaded tanker on the Romania border, forcing the evacuation of several villages in the country. Moscow has repeatedly flown drones into European airspace,