Poland and the Baltic states also withdrew from the Ottawa Convention despite pleas from some leaders to maintain decorum in the face of Russian aggression.

NATO was forced to scramble fighter jets today due to the intensity of Vladimir Putin's death and destruction strikes on Ukraine.

Russia has criticised the planned deployment of longer-range U.S. missiles in Germany as a serious threat to its national security.

Romania has said it will acquire the Iron Dome missile defense system used by Israel to protect the NATO country from short-range missiles. Defense minister Ionuț Moșteanu told Romanian television that a deal would be signed this year with manufacturer Rafael "to defend our cities."

President Donald Trump told NBC News in a Thursday night interview that NATO will foot the bill for U.S.-supplied Patriot missile shipments to Ukraine.

The NATO secretary-general said that China could spark World War III by seeking to take control of Taiwan while making sure that the Kremlin would simultaneously launch an attack against NATO territory.

Trump, however, has long been a NATO skeptic. He has excoriated NATO as a financial drain on the United States, and it was reported that several times during his first term he even privately threatened to withdraw from it.

President Trump announces arrangement where NATO pays for US weapons sent to Ukraine, as Russian strikes intensify across Ukraine, including an attack on a maternity hospital.