Bloomberg Russia threatened to deploy nuclear weapons in and around the Baltic Sea region if Finland and Sweden join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) as tensions fuelled by President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine spread. “In this case, there can be no talk of non-nuclear status for the Baltic,” Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chief of Russia’s Security Council and former ...

Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron has become the latest leader to warn a major Russian assault in eastern Ukraine is imminent. If that’s the plan, its troops risk repeating at least some of the mistakes made in trying to take the capital, Kyiv. According to European and Nato diplomats familiar with the matter, Ukraine’s allies see a two-week window to ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson revealed a controversial plan to send asylum seekers who cross the English Channel to Rwanda, a move the UK prime minister said will face significant legal hurdles as he tries to position his government on a flash-point political issue. Migrants who come to Britain on small boats risk being sent to the African state, Johnson said in ...