With little chance of NATO membership for Ukraine, the country’s Western allies have bought into an alternate strategy for helping it repel Russia: invest billions in Ukraine’s weapons industry so it

Russian pilots who entered Estonian airspace waved at Italian pilots flying Nato’s most advanced jets during a tense 12-minute standoff, according to reports. Initiating a routine interception, the Nato pilots rocked their wings from side to side.

Now that Donald Trump has finally come around to publicly stating that besieged Ukraine could use military support from the U.S. and the European Union to fully recover all of the territory taken over by Russia,

Ukraine is making progress in intensive talks to formalise legally binding security guarantees with the United States and European allies, a key part of its bid to end the war with Russia, First Deputy Foreign Minister Sergiy Kyslytsya said.

Later calls for shooting down Russian planes and taking back Russian-held Ukrainian land mean nothing unless the president puts muscle behind words.

The aid will be the first use of the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL), a mechanism developed by NATO members and the United States to coordinate and fund Kyiv's most urgent battlefield needs.

The Trump administration's first U.S. weapons aid packages for Ukraine have been approved and could soon ship as Washington resumes sending arms to Kyiv - this time under a new financial agreement with allies - two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters.

President Trump has shown dwindling interest in mediating a peace accord, joining European “security guarantees” for Ukraine or providing aid and intelligence to the Ukrainians.

At the United Nations General Assembly, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sounded like a wartime leader carrying the weight of more than three years of fighting. He warned the global delegates that international law does not work without the backing of "powerful friends" and ultimately,