Author: disinfo1
American President Donald Trump’s attempts to acquire Greenland have reignited the debate on the need for European countries to develop their own nuclear capabilities. The discussion has even reached Sweden, a country that has supported nuclear disarmament for decades. In January, one of the most important Swedish newspapers, Dagens Nyheter, proposed the creation of a “common Scandinavian nuclear program”, possibly in cooperation with Germany. According to The Economist, similar debates are taking place in other European countries, where politicians are discreetly analyzing the prospect of a Europe less dependent on the American nuclear umbrella. At the center of these discussions…
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has called for the US President, Donald Trump, to start delivering Tomahawk cruise missiles to Kiev following Russia’s massive overnight attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. “Following this massive attack last night, I would urge President Trump to initiate the process of supplying Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine, which would change the rules of the game from a military standpoint,” Graham wrote on the X network. He emphasized that previous attempts to pressure Vladimir Putin to stop the aggression and sit down at the negotiating table have not yielded results and proposed intensifying measures that undermine Russia’s…
A man working for the Polish Ministry of Defense was detained on Tuesday morning, February 3, suspected of collaborating with Russian intelligence services. According to the Polish news site Onet, a mid-level staff member was detained by the Polish Military Counterintelligence Service at his workplace, shortly after 08:00 local time (07:00 GMT), and was subsequently escorted out of the building. The Warsaw Defense Ministry later confirmed the detention of a long-serving employee, stating that he is accused of “collaborating with a foreign intelligence service,” without explicitly mentioning the involved country. The Russian Embassy in Poland has not yet responded to…
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has removed thousands of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein from its website, after victims claimed their identities had been compromised. Epstein’s victims’ lawyers claimed that the faulty redaction of the files published on Friday had “turned upside down” the lives of nearly 100 survivors. Email addresses and nude photos in which the names and faces of potential victims could be identified were included in the published documents. Survivors issued a statement calling the disclosure “scandalous” and stated that they should not be “named, scrutinized, and retraumatized,” writes the BBC. The DOJ stated that…
Investments in the economy have stopped growing, acknowledged Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak in a discussion with senators: “The growth of investments in the first nine months of 2025 was 0.5%. For the whole year, it will most likely be zero or slightly above”. In September, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation forecasted a 1.7% increase in investments for 2025. However, shortly after, Rosstat recorded the first annual decline in investments in the last five years — a 3.1% decrease in the third quarter. The Ministry of Economic Development also anticipates a contraction for this year:…
In a speech delivered on Tuesday in the Ukrainian parliament, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stated that concluding a peace agreement with Russia will require complex decisions, but assured that the alliance’s support for Ukraine will not diminish. Mark Rutte conveyed to the parliamentarians from Kiev that Ukraine “is and will remain essential for our security”. Speaking through an interpreter, he highlighted the crucial role of the PURL weapons procurement program, which provides 90% of Ukraine’s air defense missiles. “Putin has long believed that he can wait for us to give up. That Ukraine is weak, that your supporters will…
The Polish Public Television (TVP) has launched news in Romanian for the Republic of Moldova, focusing on Russian disinformation and the benefits of Chisinau’s accession to the European Union as the country awaits the opening of negotiations. On Monday, February 2, TVP launched a Romanian version of its news service dedicated to the Republic of Moldova. This comes after in August 2025 it launched the service “Vot Tak” (“That’s right. Moldova”), that is, news in Russian with the aim of addressing the realities of the post-Soviet region and counteracting the narratives of Kremlin propaganda. Although Russian is widely spoken in…
The irrational confidence of the Russians in the prosperity of the Russian economy, which emerged against the backdrop of patriotic enthusiasm at the start of the war, began to erode rapidly. The index of citizens’ expectations regarding the country’s development prospects for the next year dropped to 107 points in January 2026 — the lowest level since the end of 2022, according to a monthly survey conducted by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. The index’s drop, by 10 points in a single month, is the most abrupt since the mobilization shock of the fall of 2022. At the…
Russia is prepared for the new reality of a world without limits in nuclear arms control, after the New START treaty expires at the end of this week, declared on Tuesday the main Russian representative for arms control. Unless Moscow and Washington reach a last-minute bilateral agreement of some kind, the “New START” treaty, signed in 2010 by US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, will expire on February 5th. “The absence of a response is also a response”, declared Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, quoted by Reuters. He made the comments during a visit to Beijing,…
In the Moscow metro, following Saint Petersburg and Ekaterinburg, checks of passengers’ mobile phones will begin, reported the publications Kommersant and RBC, citing the press service of the Moscow Metro. The basis for these checks is an order from the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation dated February 4, 2025, which stipulates that mobile phones, along with radio and TV equipment, photography and filming devices, personal computers, as well as audio-video technology, can be subject to control “by turning on the device and checking its operation”. Representatives of the metro clarified that the phones of Moscow passengers will be…