North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato)

In Poland 40,000 troops watch the border as Vladimir Putin’s forces make manoeuvres at the bloc’s weak point

UK will also contribute to defence against future Russian drone incursions as Ukraine peace talks stall again

Investigators say many of the 16 drones recovered were unarmed

Polish prime minister Donald Tusk described the incident as ‘a large-scale provocation’

Australian defence analyst frames book as ‘a buyer’s guide’, highlighting challenges facing Trump or anyone else sizing up the world’s largest island

This powerful and clear-headed study deftly debunks the notion of the rational ‘grand strategy’ and received notions of the ‘art’ of warfare

Rheinmetall’s new artillery shell factory marks Germany’s dramatic pivot from pacifism to military powerhouse

Kremlin spokesman praises Donald Trump’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine as ‘very important’

Kyiv’s deputy foreign minister, Sergiy Kyslytsya, on Moscow’s deceit, progress on peace and why Ireland and Ukraine have a similar history

Trump now says he would ‘rather not’ be involved in any Ukraine-Russia leadership talk

It’s doubtful anyone is willing to listen to our lectures on affairs of international morality

Continent’s leaders need to lean on personal rapport with US president to avoid end of war on Vladimir Putin’s terms

Kyiv says White House talks marked ‘significant step’ but Russia opposes western troops in Ukraine

It’s one thing to promise Ukraine security, but it’s quite another to deliver

US president reiterates optimism for trilateral meeting involving Putin, even without ceasefire

Trump presses Ukraine to strike an agreement after meeting Vladimir Putin on Friday in Alaska

Meeting of US and Russian leaders not expected to pave the way for a breakthrough given gulf between Moscow and Kyiv on key issues

Months of effort by Kyiv and Europe have not prompted tougher US action against Putin

US president’s patience with Kremlin wearing thin at lack of progress in ending Europe’s largest armed conflict since 1945

Ukrainian president tries to defuse domestic and western concern over anti-corruption efforts

Worldview: Trump basically gave Putin 50 days’ protection from new sanctions, says Phillips Payson O’Brien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews in Scotland

Kyiv to receive more Patriot missiles ‘as soon as possible’, Nato commander says

Some in Ukraine question why Trump gave Russia 50 more days to bombard them

US leader says phone calls with Vladimir Putin are ‘very pleasant - and then the missiles go off’ 

US president appears to cool on Vladimir Putin and welcomes move for further sanctions against Russia

Invasion of Ukraine has led Danes to rethink previous scepticism about closer EU ties

Japan’s prime minister Shigeru Ishiba raises security issue with Micheál Martin during Tokyo meeting

New capability targets aimed at readying the West for war with Russia within five years

From a Dáil row over the GPO to further housing woes, your essential end-of-week politics catch-up

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Ireland must find its way through an uncomfortable world of increased defence spending

While its defence budget has more than doubled since 2010, its forces have not been in a war since the 1970s

Russian foreign minister says decision to increase Nato defence spending to 5% of allies’ GDP not ‘significant’

CIA, however, says intelligence indicates Iran’s nuclear programme severely damaged

Nato endorses spending goal of 5 per cent of GDP by 2035 as allies hope pledge will prompt Trump to dispel doubts over commitment to alliance

If the White House capitulates to Putin on Ukraine, it will grossly and perhaps fatally betray the principles on which Nato was founded

Initial classified US assessment of strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites says they are only likely to set back programme by months

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends meetings at edge of summit and says he expects to have talks there with the US president

Seventeen killed and more than 200 injured in southeastern Ukraine in latest Russian missile attack

Text message shows extent of efforts to made by officials to curry favour with US president