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Although Russia has bet on the passage of time, a new Ukrainian strategy is beginning to yield unexpected results. In a forest near the front line, two Russian soldiers emerged from the trees and slowly walked down a dirt road, seemingly unaware that they were being watched from the air. A low-flying Ukrainian drone launched a projectile that exploded between them with an intense orange light. Despite the explosion, the two soldiers got up and limped back into the forest. The attack had failed. The images were monitored from a Ukrainian command post about 15 kilometers from the front line.…
Hungarians are alleged to have operated for years with networks of influence in Brussels and have attempted, according to an international investigation, to even recruit staff from the European Commission to work in favor of the secret services in Budapest. The information was published in a joint investigation conducted by the German daily Der Spiegel, the Belgian publication De Tijd, and the Hungarian portal Direkt36, quoted by European Pravda. This is the first time concrete evidence has emerged that Hungarian agents have tried to penetrate the structures of European institutions. A former European official recounted in the investigation about an…
More and more industrial companies in Russia are reducing their working weeks, sending employees on unpaid leave, or making layoffs, all in an attempt to cut costs. The problems affect various sectors – from rail transport and the automotive industry, to metallurgy, diamond mining, and cement production. Russian Railways have asked their headquarters employees to take three additional days off per month, at their own expense, in addition to legal holidays, reports Reuters. In the automotive industry, manufacturers GAZ, VAZ and KAMAZ have switched to a four-day working week, and Cemros, the largest cement producer in Russia, implemented the same…
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Tajikistan on Wednesday, October 8, after not having visited the country since 2022. Although Tajikistan is a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and should have, according to international obligations, arrested the Kremlin leader, the authorities in Dushanbe gave him a lavish welcome. The Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization had previously asked the Tajikistan government to either ban Putin from entering the country or to detain him upon arrival, reminding them of the warrant issued by the International Criminal Court, reports Radio Liberty. “Putin should be tried in The Hague, not welcomed at…
Four men born in the Republic of Moldova will be tried on February 23, 2026, at the Correctional Tribunal in Paris, accused of having inscribed, in June 2024, coffins and walls with messages referring to the war in Ukraine. French prosecutors believe that the action was part of a “demoralizing enterprise” against the French army, according to sources close to the case cited by AFP. The four, aged between 30 and 50 years — three Moldovan citizens and one of still unknown nationality — are suspected of having acted between June 18 and 20, 2024. On June 20, around 11.00…
Internal documents of the Russian conglomerate Rostec suggest that China has collaborated with Russia in the development and supply of electronic warfare (EW) systems, intended to protect Russian strategic infrastructure from Ukrainian drone attacks, writes militarnyi.com. The information was published by the hacker group Black Mirror, which claims to have gained access to the company’s correspondence and technical reports. Technological collaboration in defense According to the documents, Chinese electronic warfare equipment began to be used by the Russian army at least from August 2023, especially for the protection of air bases. The file mentions that the Russian Ministry of Defense…
A major Russian forces attack on central Kiev sparked a fire in a multi-story residential building and targeted energy facilities on Friday morning, disrupting power supply in some parts of the capital, officials said. The Mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, said that nine people were injured, five of them being transported to the hospital. He noted that power outages and water supply disruptions affected neighborhoods on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River, which runs through the city, according to Reuters. Images posted online showed apartments in flames, as firefighters intervened on the scene. Fragments from downed drones also hit…
Beijing and Moscow seem to have found a common goal: a divided and weakened Europe, caught between Russian military pressure and China’s economic influence. Behind seemingly isolated incidents, analysts see a coordinated strategy of attrition, primarily targeting transatlantic cohesion. In recent weeks, Europe has been the scene of a wave of incidents with geopolitical stakes. Drone flights have disrupted civil air traffic, Russian military aircraft have violated Estonian airspace, and Moscow’s agents have unsuccessfully tried to influence the elections in the Republic of Moldova. In August, Russia allegedly jammed the navigation signals of the plane of the President of the…
On Tuesday, October 7, Vladimir Putin turned 73. Having been in power for over a quarter of a century, he has become the hero of his own legends – with doubles, harems, a “black suitcase”, and the quest for immortality. Focus magazine presents the most common rumors surrounding the dictator – the same ones that the Kremlin itself has helped to create. Every system builds a legend around itself. The Kremlin is a whole global saga. It has everything: doubles in bunkers, frozen corpses, harems guarded by the FSO protection and security service, and experiments on achieving immortality. At the…
Russia has significantly altered the way it strikes Ukrainian territory, shifting to a more sophisticated and dangerous strategy. According to military analyst Julian Röpcke from the German publication Bild, some of the “Shahed” drones used in recent weeks are now equipped with cameras and transmitters capable of sending real-time coordinates of Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense systems directly to Moscow. This new approach allows Russian forces to obtain precise data about the locations of Ukrainian defenses and subsequently launch ballistic missile attacks, aiming to completely neutralize the defense of entire regions. A Ukrainian officer quoted by Bild explains that Russia has also…