Russia's growing aggression prompts NATO warning as recent railway blast in Poland and airspace violations signal escalating security threats across Europe.

Poland detained a Russian archaeologist who works on an ancient site in Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014. Ukraine calls the work illegal.

The Ukrainian negotiating team is “finalizing work on the 20 points of a fundamental document that could define the parameters for ending the war,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X Wednesday.

Russia is pushing to take over all of eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, where one resident tells NPR that she feels her "life depends on how our guys at the front hold on."

After the latest restriction on the internet, officials describe receiving “many” letters from children wanting access to the game-creation platform restored.

In a speech in Berlin, Rutte said too many allies of the military alliance did not feel the urgency of Russia's threat in Europe and that they must rapidly increase defence spending and production to prevent a war on the scale of that seen by past generations.

Some Danes say they are worried about security because of what they see as the growing threat from Russia and concerns over the reliability of the Trump White House as an ally.

Roblox, the California-based platform that allows users to create and share their own games, stopped working for Russian users on Dec. 3.

Following President Donald Trump’s claim that Ukraine is “losing” the war against Russia’s ongoing invasion and that Russia now has the “upper hand”, multiple officials told CNN there are no new US or European assessments suggesting there have been significant changes on the battlefield and they don’t see any indications Moscow is likely to win the conflict quickly.