With Europe imposing sanctions on Moscow, there has been a growing network of vessels sailing without a valid flag from Russia through European waters.

A web of undersea cables connects our lives and our global economy. As U.S. adversaries are accused of sabotage, they're proving to be targets of choice.

European gas prices have soared as tensions escalate between Russia and the West after Moscow ordered troops into two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine.

On the rest of Europe he soon imposed a grimmer fate: the Great Northern war, which embroiled bits of Scandinavia and the Baltics for two decades. Three centuries after Peter’s odyssey, and three years after his wannabe successor Vladimir Putin launched his own protracted war in Ukraine,

Russian President Vladimir Putin “has put us on notice that we need to quickly build those steps of the ladder of the defense of our outer perimeter,” Poland's foreign minister said.

A Russian national, now in Azerbaijan, is suspected of coordinating a 2024 parcel plot targeting air cargo planes in Europe.

Poland has been especially outspoken about Russia’s actions and at the forefront of European rearmament. Its planned defence budget for 2026 is a record €46.9bn (around £41.3bn), equivalent to 4.8 per cent of the country’s GDP, the highest level in Nato.