Russia flexes nuclear muscles as tensions rise with NATO

By Guy Faulconbridge and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW, May 21 (Reuters) - Russia launched nuclear-capable missiles and issued nuclear munitions to some units on Thursday as part of major nuclear exercises amid heightened tensions with NATO over the Ukraine war and drone activity in the Baltic.

NATO fear Russia planting nuclear missiles on Arctic seabed in secret project

NATO intelligence officials believe Russia is developing underwater nuclear missile systems which could be hidden on the Arctic seabed, according to reports

Residents of Lithuania’s capital told to shelter as drone alarm underlines NATO’s eastern jitters

Residents of Vilnius were told to take shelter and Lithuania’s president and prime minister were taken to safe locations Wednesday because of an alarm over drone activity near the border with Belarus,

Europe’s risk from Ukrainian drones as Russia’s jamming tech throws them off course

Ukrainian drones have increasingly breached the airspace of NATO and European Union member states in the Baltics, raising serious questions about the alliance's eastern flank air defences. Recent months have seen drones crash into an Estonian power plant chimney,

Ukrainian drone shot down by NATO jet over Estonia; Kyiv blames Moscow for steering it there

By Andrius Sytas and Janis Laizans VILNIUS/RIGA, May 19 (Reuters) - Ukraine blamed Russia on Tuesday for steering one of its drones into Estonian airspace where a NATO jet shot it down, the latest cross-border drone incident that has caused a political uproar in the Baltic states.
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Russia warns Latvia ‘NATO membership will not protect you' amid drone tensions

Tensions between Russia and NATO escalated after Moscow warned that Baltic states could face retaliation over alleged Ukrainian drone activity. Russia’s ambassador to the United

Russia's Permanent Representative to the OSCE—NATO: Do you want to test our resolve? Go ahead!

EADaily, May 21st, 2026. The military activity of NATO countries near the borders of Russia is so great that we have to admit: until there is a tough military reaction, Europe will not understand. This was stated by the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE Dmitry Polyansky.

Latvia and Lithuania issue drone alerts, scramble NATO fighter jets

Latvia's armed forces said on Thursday that there was at ​least one drone flying in the country's airspace and that NATO fighter ‌jets were activated to combat the threat, the latest in a series of such security incidents in the Baltic region.

Russia launches nuclear war-games on Europe’s doorstep as Nato issues stark warning

ANALYSIS: Russia’s massive war games in Belarus an attempt to regain military initiative by threatening armageddon, World affairs editor Sam Kiley writes