Frank Gardner
Security Correspondent at BBC
BBC Security Correspondent. Author of Invasion, Blood & Sand, Outbreak, Crisis, Ultimatum, Arabic grad. BTO Pres.
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5 days ago |
yahoo.com | Frank Gardner |Tessa Wong
Members of the Western alliance Nato need to prepare for a possible attack from Russia within the next four years, according to Germany's chief of defence. General Carsten Breuer told the BBC that Russia was producing hundreds of tanks a year, many of which could be used for an attack on Nato Baltic state members by 2029 or even earlier.
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5 days ago |
bbc.com | Frank Gardner
His comments come weeks ahead of a summit of Nato nations at The Hague where they are expected to discuss defence budgets, among other topics. Gen Breuer said that Nato was facing "a very serious threat" from Russia, one that he has never seen before in his 40 years in service. At the moment, he said, Russia was building up its forces to an "enormous extent", producing approximately 1,500 main battle tanks every year.
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1 week ago |
bbc.co.uk | Frank Gardner
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, US and Philippines warships conducting an exercise in AprilChina does not want to go to war with anyone, especially the US. But Beijing does have aspirations to be the number one economic power in the world. And that means flexing its muscles to rid the seas around East and South East Asia of their US military presence, so it can dominate the shipping lanes so vital for global trade.
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3 weeks ago |
bbc.co.uk | Frank Gardner |Paul Kirby
Putin had initially called for direct talks in Turkey's second city "without pre-conditions", before Zelensky announced that he would go in person and expected the Russian president to travel as well. The US is also expected to send a high-level delegation. By confirming his visit to Turkey at a hastily-convened news conference, Zelensky clearly sought to intensify pressure on Russia to respond.
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3 weeks ago |
bbc.com | Frank Gardner |Paul Kirby
Putin had initially called for direct talks in Turkey's second city "without pre-conditions", before Zelensky announced that he would go in person and expected the Russian president to travel as well. The US is also expected to send a high-level delegation. By confirming his visit to Turkey at a hastily-convened news conference, Zelensky clearly sought to intensify pressure on Russia to respond.
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