The spat comes amid an investigation into the suspected involvement of a Chinese ship in severing two undersea data cables, one of which runs under the Baltic Sea between Lithuania and Sweden.

Police in the Georgian capital have again moved to disperse thousands of demonstrators after over 200 people were detained during four previous nights of protests against the government’s decision to suspend negotiations to join the European Union.

The package includes counter-drone systems and munitions for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, which could indicate more of the longer range missiles are headed to the battlefield.

Pro-Western parties have won the most votes in Romania’s parliamentary election and will look to form a coalition government as the European Union country faces a surge of support for far-right nationalists who made huge gains in the country’s legislature.

Shoring up allied support for Ukraine ahead of President-elect Donald Trump return to the White House will top the agenda at the NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Tuesday.

The visit Monday comes just weeks after he was criticized by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for having a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The German chancellor said that in his meeting with Zelenskyy he will announce further military supplies this month totaling $680 million.

The world’s 100 largest defense companies increased their combined revenues from sales of arms and military services by 4.2% last year, totaling $632 billion, according to a report released Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the parliament Saturday night, throwing stones and setting off fireworks, while police deployed water cannons and tear gas.

“He doesn’t want to divide Ukraine. He wants to divide the world. He wants his own sphere of influence where no one, including the United States, can get into without his permission. I don’t know why Americans do not see it, because if they make a deal with Putin, they will hand him this victory.”

Icelanders voted to elect a new parliament Saturday after disagreements over immigration, energy policy and the economy forced Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson to pull the plug on his coalition government and call an early election.