Germany won’t send Taurus missiles to Ukraine – and now Merz says Ukraine doesn’t need them anyway
Berlin points to Ukraine's domestically produced long-range systems as a reason the issue is no longer live.
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Germany expands Ukraine air defense funding by $231.5 mn
Germany's Bundestag President Julia Klöckner told Ukrainian lawmakers Wednesday that Berlin will send $231 mn to expand Ukraine's reconnaissance drone capacity and civilian protection infrastructure.
Germany secures 35 Patriot missiles from European allies for Ukraine
Ukraine consumes roughly 60 Patriot interceptors per month. Germany has now scraped together 35, pooled from Bundeswehr stocks and several unnamed European partners, buying the country about two weeks of ballistic missile defense.
Before Russia’s all-out war, Ukraine imported almost no weapons. Four years later, it buys more than any country on Earth
Even as Washington reduced military aid to Ukraine in 2025, European states, Australia, and Canada stepped up deliveries, with 25 countries buying US-made weapons under the PURL mechanism specifically for transfer to Kyiv, SIPRI reported.
Russian military intel hid fire bombs in sex toy parcels targeting European cargo planes, investigators say
A parcel caught fire at a DHL depot in the UK, another in a Polish delivery truck, a third at Leipzig airport minutes before a cargo flight.
Ukraine kept the F-16 missile shortage secret for months — sources say pilots were flying with rotary cannons as Russia ramped up winter strikes
The nearly month-long AIM-9 drought forced dangerous daytime-only sorties.
Ukraine’s defense industry is building a direct pipeline into Europe’s weapons market — one NATO certification at a time
Finland became the eighth Alliance member to finalize a mutual quality assurance deal, with five more in negotiation.
Germany triples, Britain doubles: Kiel data shows who stepped up for Ukraine in 2025
Germany, the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands emerged as the core group funding Ukraine's defense in 2025, collectively dominating weapons deliveries, procurement from Ukraine's own defense industry, and purchases from US stockpiles
Ben Hodges: stop treating Russian sabotage like a crime scene
Former US Army Europe commander Ben Hodges on why Europe keeps treating Russian sabotage like a crime scene
“We simply don’t have any left”: Germany has run out of air defense missiles for Ukraine, foreign minister says
Wadephul calls on European partners to step up as newly produced missiles go straight to front lines.
Third round of Ukraine-Russia-US talks opens in Geneva with European presence
Umerov says Kyiv working "without excessive expectations" as discussions expand beyond Abu Dhabi format.
Ukraine’s battle-hardened soldiers to teach Bundeswehr—Germany braces for real-world drone and mass-strike warfare
German troops will gain hands-on lessons in high-intensity combat scenarios that only Ukrainian soldiers have faced daily since 2022.
Munich-2026 marks shift: Ukraine is no longer just frontline state but core pillar of Europe’s security system
Ukraine and Europe are increasingly creating joint industrial bases.
Russia is prosecuting a German carnival float builder — he responded by making another Putin float
Moscow charges Jacques Tilly with "defaming Russian state organs" and threatens him with up to 10 years in prison, but Düsseldorf's legendary satirist says he won't be intimidated and is rolling out a new Putin wagon for Monday's Rose Monday parade.
Ukrainian House opens at Munich conference as Sybiha declares “outsourcing security for Europe is over”
Ukraine has a dedicated house at the Munich Security Conference alongside the United States and Germany—a symbolic recognition of Kyiv's role in European security
$38bn, 35 Patriot missiles, long-range drones: What Ukraine got at Ramstein
Fedorov says most funding targets air defense and unmanned systems.
US envoy names Norway, Netherlands, Germany as PURL program leaders with $4.5 billion in weapons commitments
A US-NATO weapons purchasing program for Ukraine has doubled its funding from $2.1 billion in September to $4.5 billion by February
Two-thirds of Germans now see US as threat to global peace, up from 24% in 2024
German perceptions of the United States have deteriorated sharply, with 65% now viewing America as a serious threat to world peace in the coming years, according to an Allensbach Institute survey conducted in January.
HUR: German streets to rally ahead of Munich Security Conference —yet events will be secretly run by Russian spies
Messages: "Supporting Ukraine provokes WWIII," "NATO is aggressor," "Russia poses no threat."
Wargame reveals Germany would freeze as Russia seizes Lithuanian territory in three days
In the simulation, Berlin chose consensus-building while Russian forces seized the Suwalki Gap connecting Moscow-controlled Kaliningrad with Belarus