Europe’s top five defence powers to name Russia as greatest threat

“Europe’s top five defence powers to name Russia as greatest threat”

Europe’s five largest defence spenders are set to warn that Russia represents the most acute and long-term threat to the continent’s security as they pledge unflagging support for Ukraine. “Russia’s ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine, on the one hand, and its continued violations of Allied airspace, acts of sabotage and growing use of multi-domain hybrid attacks, on the other, do not undermine our unity, solidarity and cohesion,” said a draft joint statement from France, Germany, Italy,…