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The US President stated that he has “kind of made a decision” regarding the provision of long-range missiles, while Denmark intensifies oil checks following drone observations, writes The Guardian in an analysis. US President Donald Trump said he would like to know what Ukraine intends to do with the American Tomahawk missiles before agreeing to supply them, as he does not want to escalate Russia’s war against Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked the United States to sell Tomahawk missiles to European countries that would be willing to then send them to Ukraine. Tomahawk missiles have a range of…

A Russian soldier released in a prisoner exchange with Ukraine has been sentenced to 4 years in prison by a Moscow court, after giving interviews to a Ukrainian blogger while in captivity, according to Moscow Times, which cites the news publication Mediazona. The Moscow city court found Pavel Guguyev guilty of the charges of “confidential cooperation” with foreign citizens, notes the aforementioned source. Guguyev was serving a 12-year sentence in a high-security prison for murder, bodily harm, and theft before joining the invasion. From prison, he went to the front With two years of his sentence remaining, he signed a…

The populist ANO party, led by former Prime Minister and businessman Andrej Babiš, achieved a clear victory in the Czech parliamentary elections, but failed to reach an absolute majority. According to official data from the Czech Statistical Office, his party accumulated 34.51% of the votes, equivalent to 80 seats out of the 200 in the Chamber of Deputies. The acting Prime Minister, Petr Fiala, acknowledged the defeat of the governing coalition SPOLU and publicly congratulated his political opponent: “I congratulate Andrej Babiš on his victory, as well as all the other parties for their results,” Fiala declared on network X.…

Housing under construction is almost 50% more expensive than recently completed ones in Moscow. The prices of houses in buildings under construction in Moscow are 47.8% higher than those in newly commissioned blocks, according to data from bnMAP.pro, cited by Kommersant. In September 2025, a square meter in a building under construction cost on average 619,500 rubles (approx. €6,195), while homes in blocks completed after 2020 were sold for 419,100 rubles (approx. €4,191)/m². The difference is significant, and in some central districts of Moscow, it even exceeds 300%. The largest price discrepancies were recorded in the luxury neighborhoods of the…

China has tightened export restrictions, making it practically impossible for Russia to purchase Chinese machinery with a precision of 3-4 microns. This was stated by Ildar Nuriev, the owner of the company “Tatpromstan”, at the forum dedicated to metal processing and additive technologies “TEMP”. “China has limited the delivery of high-tech equipment, although it is not much discussed. If before we could get machine tools with a precision of 3-4 microns, now this is no longer possible. A special export license is required,” Nuriev said (quoted by MașTeh). He added that even the export of already purchased machinery has begun…

In the first six months of the year 2025, courts in Russia have issued 224 sentences in cases of state treason, espionage, and confidential collaboration with foreign states — an absolute record for the entire modern history of the country. According to data from Kirill Parubets’ Analytical Center, prepared for the “First Department” project, 232 people were involved in these cases. Taking into account that there were 117 working days in the first semester, it turns out that in Russia, on average, courts issued almost two sentences per day (1.98). For comparison, throughout the year 2023, 167 people were convicted…

In Russia, the fight against “fraudsters” has become a favored pretext for tightening digital legislation. Some of the new measures are genuinely aimed at cybercrime, but others seem designed to expand the state’s repressive apparatus, Meduza points out in an analysis. After banning voice and video calls on Telegram and WhatsApp – which deprived millions of Russians of their preferred communication channels -, the government is preparing a new series of restrictions. The Ministry of Digital Development has presented a new package of draft laws targeting alleged telephone and Internet fraud. However, Meduza notes that some of the proposals range…

In a war of numbers, drones, and propaganda, the story of “Rus”, a Ukrainian soldier who defended two strategic bridges in the Donetsk region for nearly two months, reminds us that sometimes history is written in dark basements, with dirty hands, clenched teeth, and an unyielding will. For 50 days, “Rus” and his comrade Artis held off Russian troops in a locality near Dobropilia, a village west of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk. They arrived there at night, carrying on their backs the supplies they could gather — canned food, ammunition, water, and wet wipes. The latter, in the absence…

Following the violent protests in Tbilisi, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze announces a harsh campaign against dissidents and accuses the EU ambassador of interfering in his country’s internal affairs. Political tensions in Georgia reach a new critical point. Georgia’s Prime Minister, Irakli Kobakhidze, stated that he will impose drastic measures against dissidents, following the protests erupted in Tbilisi. The official claims that the protesters who tried to enter the presidential palace were aiming for “the overthrow of the constitutional order”, accusing the European Union of direct involvement in internal tensions. The statements came a day after the clashes during the local…

In recent weeks, Vladimir Putin seems to have raised the level of provocations against NATO, testing the limits of the alliance and the patience of the West. Beyond displays of power and deliberate air incursions, experts talk about a strategy of confusion and exhaustion, meant to distract attention from the real front: the war in Ukraine. In an analysis broadcast in the most recent edition of the Battle Plans Exposed series, former British intelligence officer Philip Ingram explains the true purpose of these maneuvers. “It’s a game of chicken, but played on a global scale,” Ingram says. “Putin knows exactly…