Good morning! SOFREP’s Morning Brief is back with the latest insights on defense and global affairs for Sunday, June 8, 2025.

Ukraine sent dozens of its own citizens to Russia last month, releasing them from prisons in an attempt to secure the release ...

The foreign affairs committees of the parliaments of Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia have issued a joint statement calling for ...

The war in Ukraine is often presented in Western media and political discourse as a noble and necessary defense of democracy ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth honored the sacrifices of the soldiers who died landing in France 81 years ago. But there was ...

The idea is to better integrate the group’s work with NATO's Ukraine aid mission and the smattering of so-called capability ...

Luxembourg pledged more; Belgium announced a long-term package valued at over a billion dollars; Norway is allocating $7 ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Officials organising a NATO summit in The Hague this month are expected to keep it short, restrict ...

At least five people, including a 1-year-old child, his mother and grandmother, were killed Thursday in a nighttime Russian ...

French President Emmanuel Macron spoke recently of “double standards” in international politics. Germany’s Friedrich Merz ...

Shares of Musk’s electric vehicle maker Tesla fell 14%, knocking about $150 billion off the company’s market valuation.

Trump’s presidency has replaced expertise with flattery and impulsive decisions, empowering authoritarian leaders like Putin. His isolationist instincts and misjudgments on Russia risk destabilizing ...