NATO’s defenders on Capitol Hill aren’t planning to let the Trump administration diminish U.S. support for the transatlantic alliance without a fight — even as the Pentagon moves to draw down U.S. troops from Europe’s eastern flank.

"It’s very easy to draw the wrong conclusions from the war in Ukraine," Drummond said, referring to slow progress on the front line, adding that a future conflict with a reconstituted Russian armed forces would be "fast paced" with a greater use of air power in the opening weeks.

A spokesperson for Poland's special services minister accused Russian intelligence Tuesday of orchestrating a railway blast that destroyed a key track on a route used to deliver aid to Ukraine. Jacek Dobrzyński told reporters that "everything indicates" Russian intelligence was behind the sabotage of Polish railways.

Tensions rose after a blast damaged the Warsaw-Lublin rail line, which has been used to deliver aid to Ukraine, and a Russian missile attack killed at least 25 people in Ternopil.

The U.S. NATO envoy supports a German general taking command of all allied forces, a job that has been held by an American officer.

Footage shows a decommissioned ship sinking after a Nato submarine fired a torpedo during a naval exercise off Andøy, Norway. The video, published on Saturday (15 November), shows debris and container fragments being hurled from the deck as the vessel jolts from the blast.

Nato countries, with the exception of Spain, agreed in June to increase defence spending by 2035 to 5 per cent of GDP a year, 1.5 per cent of which can be spent on infrastructure. In Germany, defence officials are lobbying to ensure that vital routes are prioritised as part of a €500bn plan to upgrade roads, bridges and railways.

U.S., Polish and Romanian Soldiers demonstrated a new counter-unmanned aircraft system capability on Nov. 18, underscoring how

NATO fighter jets were scrambled and ground-based air defense systems put on high alert in Poland and Romania during an overnight Russian attack on Ukraine.