Intensifying Russian attacks on civilians and Ukraine's infrastructure, including the use of the Oreshnik missile, have underlined the need to urgently supply Ukraine with air defence systems and interceptor missiles.

As NATO prepares for war games around Greenland, Russia is highlighting the Trump administration's disagreement with its closest allies over the island.

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Trump’s threat to annex an autonomous part of Denmark has plunged NATO into an unprecedented situation: An alliance based on collective defense now faces the prospect that one member might attack another.

STUTTGART, Germany — President Donald Trump on Wednesday said anything less than full American control of Greenland would be unacceptable, and he urged NATO to back his bid to wrest the huge island territory from fellow ally Denmark.

NATO's Mark Rutte reports Russia's monthly military losses in Ukraine reach 25,000, a rate likened to ten years of Soviet losses in Afghanistan.

Nathalie Tocci, director of the Institute of International Affairs in Italy, described Trump as pursuing a policy that is “consistently imperial” which will allow other empires, such as Russia and China, to flourish. Tocci added, “Certainly it’s more comfortable for Putin and Xi Jinping to be their imperial selves where that’s the new norm.”

All NATO member states, including the US, have a common interest to defend Greenland, the coalition government said. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

To many Europeans, the most urgent threat to Greenland right now seems not to be China, Russia or North Korea but rather their longtime U.S. ally.