The US-led military alliance will appoint a new head after Jens Stoltenberg’s term ends in October The United Kingdom’s defense minister Ben Wallace would be a “very qualified” leader of NATO if he launches a bid to become the US-led military bloc’s secretary general, US President Joe Biden said on Thursday.

Kiev’s long-anticipated push to retake lost territories has started, the Russian president says The much-anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive has started, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. He cited the deployment of Kiev’s strategic reserves as a telltale sign of the operation.

Russia previously reported that Kiev had lost over 30 armored fighting vehicles in a failed counteroffensive Videos emerged on Friday purporting to show the destruction of a Leopard 2A6 tank as well as several US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles during a failed Ukrainian offensive in Russia’s Zaporozhye Region.