French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that the United States under Donald Trump is 'breaking free from international rules' and 'turning away' from its allies, as tensions escalate within Nato over US threats to take control of Greenland. The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said he plans to meet Danish officials next week to discuss the semiautonomous territory, but did not rule out military action.
An urgent meeting was requested by the foreign ministers of Greenland and Denmark, who have stated that any invasion or seizure of the territory by its Nato ally would mark the end of the western military alliance and 'post-second world war security'. Rubio told reporters in Washington that every US president retains the option of addressing national security threats through military means.
Meanwhile, European governments have been accused of fuelling Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, as new data shows the Kremlin earned an estimated €7.2bn (£6.2bn) last year from exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the EU. More than 15m tonnes of Yamal LNG was transported through the Arctic ice to reach EU terminals in 2025, according to the human rights NGO Urgewald. The EU's share of global shipments from Yamal rose to 76.1% in 2025, up from 75.4% in 2024.
Russia has warned that any western troops sent to Ukraine as part of the Coalition of the Willing would be deemed 'legitimate combat targets'. A Russian foreign ministry statement described the coalition's 'militaristic declarations' as increasingly dangerous, and Moscow labelled Ukraine and its European backers an 'axis of war'.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier strongly criticised US foreign policy under Trump, warning of 'the breakdown of values by our most important partner, the USA'. He called for more to be done to 'prevent the world from turning into a den of robbers'.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy responded to overnight attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, stating there is 'absolutely no military rationale' in strikes that leave people without electricity and heating in winter. He urged that support for Ukraine's resilience must function at full capacity, and that diplomatic discussions cannot be a pretext for slowing down air defence supplies.
