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As the former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson himself says, his hostile relationship with President Vladimir Putin can be traced back to a conversation at the beginning of 2022, when the Kremlin’s forces were concentrated on the border with Ukraine, notes The Times. In the 2023 BBC documentary, Putin vs. the West, Johnson reflected on the phone conversation he had with Putin, warning the Russian leader that an invasion would be a “total catastrophe”. Johnson recalled Putin’s reaction. “At one point, he somewhat threatened me and said: «Boris, I don’t want to hurt you, but with a rocket, it would…

The romantic relationship between a Spanish NATO commander and a Russian-origin citizen he met on Tinder has shaken the North Atlantic Alliance. The military man, who was stationed at the British base in Northwood — the main command center for all the Alliance’s naval operations — was investigated by the military organization’s security services and by the authorities in Madrid, for fear that he could constitute a breach for Russian espionage. The high-ranking naval commander was suspended last summer, according to an investigation by The Telegraph newspaper, which had access to the judicial documents of the case. The case of…

Donald Tusk has convened a high-level security meeting after Ukrainian railway officials declared that a Russian drone struck the locomotive of a train on the Kiev-Warsaw route on Sunday. Poland has entered a heightened state of alert. Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned that Poland must prepare for the possible use by Moscow of jet-powered drones, after Russia hit targets near the country’s border with Ukraine, railway officials claiming that a passenger train’s locomotive was struck. Tusk made these statements on Sunday, during a high-level security meeting he convened in response to Russian attacks near the Polish border. The meeting…

Moscow is now striking targets indiscriminately throughout Ukraine, in response to the intensification of attacks from Kiev on Russian territory, stated the Kremlin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, on September 13. Peskov maintained that Russia has so far avoided indiscriminate attacks, but has changed its approach after Ukraine began targeting Russian economic and strategic infrastructure. “The Russian Federation did not strike anything and anyone,” Peskov told reporters. “It began to do this after the Ukrainians themselves opened Pandora’s box.” Peskov’s statements echoed the previous warning of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to whom Ukraine “opened Pandora’s box” by hitting Russian economic targets.…

Chinese President Xi Jinping stated at the BRICS summit in New Delhi that China will take the initiative to contribute to the development and strengthening of cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence among developing countries. China will be at the forefront in creating an open-source BRICS community dedicated to artificial intelligence and will support cooperation for the development and application of large-scale linguistic models. Beijing will also organize seminars and training courses in the field of AI and will contribute to the construction of an open artificial intelligence ecosystem. The proposals were presented by Xi Jinping in a statement…

The leaders of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland will meet on September 14, in Cardiff, to sign a joint declaration on the right to self-determination and the organization of referendums on independence, reports The Telegraph. The meeting will be attended by the Prime Minister of Scotland, John Swinney, the Prime Minister of Wales, Rhun ap Iorwerth, and the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Michelle O’Neill. Alongside them will also be the president of Sinn Féin, Mary Lou McDonald. The participants intend to discuss about the right of their own countries to independently decide their constitutional future. Among the topics of…

The new Russian Geran-5 drones, powered by a jet engine, demonstrate that the Kremlin’s army is also capable of innovation. One of them hit the headquarters of the Ukrainian Security Service, the first direct drone attack on a government building in Kiev. Another nearly hit the plane of President Volodimir Zelenski as he was about to take off from Moldova. Hundreds of other drones have set fire to warehouses and shut down Ukraine’s ports. The new drones fly at speeds and altitudes similar to cruise missiles, writes Financial Times. The new Russian jet drones Geran-4 and Geran-5 have been bombing…

The Russian army would increasingly struggle to cover its losses on the front, claims the head of the Ukrainian military intelligence services (GUR). Oleh Ivashchenko asserts that troop morale is very low, while Moscow is preparing a new mobilization. Oleh Ivașcenko, the head of the Main Directorate of Information of the Ministry of Defense, asserts that Russian authorities are preparing to mobilize at least 800,000 soldiers immediately after the elections, according to Dialog.UA. He expressed his doubt about Russia’s ability to mobilize such a large number of people in such a short time. “The average life expectancy of a Russian…

A region in Siberia has increased the amount paid to those who recruit foreign citizens for the Russian army, reaching the highest reward of this kind ever offered by a Russian region. The government of the Irkutsk region has established a payment of 1.5 million rubles (approximately 17,800 dollars) for each person who assists a foreign citizen or a stateless person to sign a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense, writes kyivindependent.com. The Governor of the Irkutsk region, Igor Kobzev, signed the decree at the beginning of this week. The region has been offering incentives for the recruitment of…

A research project titled The Ethnographic Dictionary of War, published in June by anthropologist Alexandra Arkhipova and psychologist Yuri Lapshin in collaboration with ECHO, the Russian Anti-War Committee, analyzes nearly 7,000 letters, messages, and communications between Russian soldiers and their families, revealing a harsh reality of the soldiers sacrificed by Putin. The documents were accessed following a leak of information from the digital platform used for registering calls to the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, between April and September 2025, reports Kyiv Post. Although the commission is presented as independent, the authors note that, being appointed by the State…