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Poland and Romania are set to deploy a new weapon system to defend against Russian drones, following a series of incursions into NATO’s airspace in recent months, which have exposed the Alliance’s vulnerabilities and increased tensions in Europe, reports The Associated Press. The American system Merops, compact enough to be transported in the bed of a medium-sized truck, can detect and intercept drones using artificial intelligence, even when satellite communications or electronic signals are jammed. According to NATO military officials quoted by AP, Merops will be used not only in Poland and Romania, but also in Denmark, as part of…
A civil war could break out in Russia due to accumulated social, economic, and political conflicts, warned Alexander Kharichev, the head of the Presidential Executive Office for Monitoring and Analysis of Social Processes, according to The Moscow Times. According to Kharichev, the civil war is one of the five challenges that Russia is facing. In addition, the country is dealing with the loss of political, territorial, and cultural sovereignty, depopulation, loss of public trust in the government, and the collapse of the political system, as well as the “dehumanization” and transformation of Russians into “consumer subjects”. The Kremlin’s chief sociologist…
The US authorities have begun an investigation into the oil trader Gunvor, the multinational company set to take over the foreign assets of Lukoil, in order to prevent a situation where sanctions will be effectively bypassed by Russia with the help of a proxy, according to Bloomberg. The US government’s investigation comes in the context where it is well known that Gunvor is de facto owned by a close associate of Vladimir Putin, who sold his stake in 2014 to circumvent the sanctions imposed after the invasion of Crimea by the aggressor state. According to Bloomberg sources, quoted by Moscow…
Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 116 journalists have been killed and 26 are in captivity, announced the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine on Monday, November 3. From the onset of the war in Ukraine, Russian forces have killed and captured journalists, violating international humanitarian law and the Geneva Convention on the protection of civilians in times of war. The total number of 116 killed journalists also includes those who enlisted in the army after the war began. Eighteen journalists lost their lives while performing their professional duties, according to the Ministry of Culture, writes kyivindependent. The National…
In the summer of 2022, analyst CNNBrett McGurk, who held leading positions in national security during the presidencies of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden, accompanied President Joe Biden to a summit in Saudi Arabia with Middle Eastern leaders. During a working session, someone asked Biden to name a problem that kept him awake at night. Without blinking, Biden spoke about nuclear war. McGurk was surprised by the response, as the threat seemed to have been under control in recent decades. But, at that time, with Europe involved in a war initiated by Russia, a nuclear…
The two chambers of the Russian parliament have approved a bill on the creation of military units composed of reservists employed by contract and exclusively dedicated to the defense of Russia’s critical infrastructures, threatened by Ukrainian drone attacks. The project only needs the promulgation of President Vladimir Putin to come into effect, but several Russian regions have already started creating such units, according to Agerpres. The current legislation allows the use of reservist units by contract only during mobilization periods or in times of war. The bill adopted by the Russian parliament includes an amendment to the defense law, under…
They promised to be the “eyes and arm” of the modern army, with artificial intelligence and performance inspired by the war in Ukraine. In reality, they turned into a lost PR exercise. The Virtus drone, produced by the German startup Stark Defence, missed all targets during two series of military tests conducted in October — one in Kenya, alongside the British army, and another near the German city of Münster. The information was published by the Financial Times, which cites industry sources and European military officials. The result: a complete fiasco. In Germany, one of the devices lost control and…
Russian authorities are sharply increasing their purchases of prosthetics to provide for the disabled from the war in Ukraine, whose number is estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands. In the budget for 2026, for “providing disabled people with technical means of rehabilitation”, 98.16 billion rubles (over a billion euros) are allocated, highlighted Janis Klug, a researcher at the German Institute for International Security Issues. Compared to the period before the war, public purchases of prosthetics have tripled: in 2020-2021, 33 billion rubles per year were allocated for these. In 2022, the amount increased to 37.2 billion rubles, in…
The Ukrainian partisan group Atesh claims that one of its agents, infiltrated in the Russian army, set fire to the unit’s truck to prevent its departure to Pokrovsk, a city on the front line where the situation remains extremely tense. For years, Russia has been trying to capture this important logistical node for the troops from Kiev in the Donetsk region, and the recent intensified attacks have breached the city’s defense. The Ukrainian partisan group Atesh asserts that one of its agents within Russia’s 115th Motorized Rifle Brigade set fire to a truck to prevent the deployment of troops in…
American President Donald Trump revels in power — its constant consolidation domestically and its aggressive use in foreign policy. In his first ten months in office, Trump has used America’s strength to revise key alliances and resolve long-standing disputes. However, this approach, which analysts call the “Trump doctrine”, has so far been primarily directed against weaker actors on the global stage. Now, the White House leader is entering a stage where he faces stronger rivals — Russia and China — and is forced to temper some of his most controversial traits, writes analyst Hal Brands in Bloomberg. Trump has frequently…