As US’s NATO allies in Europe are feeling the pressure from Moscow, putting them on edge in an already-febrile atmosphere with Russian drones entering Poland’s airspace, Russia and its main ally Belarus are conducting massive military drills right on the alliance’s doorstep.

A swarm of Russian drones flew last week into Poland in what officials there regarded as a deliberate provocation.

BORISOVSKY TRAINING GROUND, Belarus and LONDON -- Russia put on a display of firepower as part of its major military exercises in Belarus on Monday, with neighboring NATO nations on alert amid some of the highest tensions in Europe since Moscow began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

The European Commission will delay presenting its next Russia sanctions package, EU officials said on Tuesday, as the bloc tries to respond to the Trump administration's demand that it play a stronger role in depriving Russia of energy revenues.

Ukraine attacked the Saratov crude-oil refinery in Russia’s Volga region overnight as Western nations seek to push President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table.

Denmark is leading a military exercise with hundreds of troops from several European NATO members in Greenland.

Ukraine is struggling to defend itself against the growing number of attack drones that Moscow has started using in its onslaughts.

Turkish media said that Moscow had approached Ankara with a proposal to buy back the S-400 systems delivered in 2019 in a deal that caused ructions in the NATO alliance and prompted the U.S. to expel Turkey from its F-35 fighter jet program.

The strike on the Kirishi refinery, in Russia’s northwestern Leningrad region, follows weeks of Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil infrastructure that Kyiv says fuels Moscow’s war effort.