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The Logistics Commander of the Ukrainian Air Forces and the head of a regional Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) were detained on Wednesday for embezzling funds from the budget allocated for the construction of aircraft shelters, announced Ukrainian Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, according to The Kyiv Independent. The suspects in the embezzlement scheme were caught “red-handed” while trying to illegally transfer the money, and $320,000 were confiscated from them, according to Kravchenko. While Kravchenko refrained from identifying the officers, the Ukrainian news agency Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing its own sources, that Andrii Ukrainets, the Logistics Commander of…
The German Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius, criticized the American President Donald Trump on Wednesday, accusing him of sending the wrong signals to Vladimir Putin and weakening Ukraine’s position in the war. In an interview given to Deutschlandfunk Radio, four years after Russia’s large-scale invasion, the social democrat — the most popular German politician in recent polls — stated that Trump has increased the confidence of the Kremlin’s leader through an excessively cordial approach. “Unfortunately, the American president has influenced the course of the war and Putin’s self-confidence when he rolled out the red carpet and greeted him as a friend…
The disabling of the SpaceX Starlink terminals used by the Russian units on the front has caused chaos in their communications, according to interceptions obtained by Politico journalists, part of the Axel Springer group. “Nobody has internet. Everything has fallen,” complains a Russian soldier in one of the recordings. Another soldier says: “It seems they have stopped all the Starlinks. There is no more communication. No images are being transmitted.” Communications cut off at the front line According to the publication, interceptions made by the Ukrainian armed forces show that Russian troops relied on Starlink terminals obtained through smuggling for…
The Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, accused European leaders on Wednesday of having “agreed on Tuesday with President Zelenski” to continue the war. “This is bad news for Europe,” emphasized Viktor Orban, who believes they are prolonging a war “that clearly has no solution on the front, but involves terrible destruction,” according to a message posted on Facebook on Wednesday, quoted by MTI, writes Agerpres. “About 35,000 people die or are maimed every month, while the front lines barely move, leaving hundreds of thousands of widows, orphans, mothers mourning their sons – this is what Brussels is supporting,” Orban…
Iran is on the verge of acquiring a supersonic missile from China, designed to destroy aircraft carriers, reports The Telegraph. Officials from the Islamic Republic are in advanced negotiations with Beijing to acquire the CM-302 cruise missile, designed to damage warships, British journalists report. Negotiations are said to have started two years ago, but have accelerated after the 12-day war between Israel and Iran last June, sources told Reuters, an agency quoted by The Telegraph. It is believed that the devices have never been used in combat. However, according to their manufacturer, China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, they can…
Kirilo Budanov, the head of the presidential office, who leads the negotiations with Russia regarding military issues, stated on Tuesday, February 24, that even in war conditions, there must be clear limits that no belligerent party should violate, such as targeting political centers and locations where national leaders are located, reports the Ukrainian press. In a comment for RBC-Ukraine, Budanov emphasized that, although war brings destruction and loss, certain principles should not be abandoned. “It is a terrible event that takes thousands of lives, destroys cities and breaks destinies. But even here there must be certain limits that cannot be…
The Polish authorities have discovered a series of underground tunnels crossing the country’s eastern border with Belarus, describing the situation as a significant escalation of what they call a hybrid campaign coordinated by Moscow and Minsk to destabilize Europe, reports The Telegraph. According to Polish officials, four tunnels were detected in 2025 along the heavily fortified border. The structures would have been used to introduce migrants into the European Union. The tunnels were discovered by the Podlaskie Border Guard Unit, with the help of thermal imaging cameras and other detection systems. “The officers of the Podlaskie Border Guard Unit discovered…
The President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, has signed a decree on the withdrawal of citizenship for nine individuals who hold or have held positions in the separatist Transnistrian region, as well as those who fought on the side of the separatists in the 1992 war. The decree targets nine men, among whom one was born in Russia, and the other eight in the Republic of Moldova. “People who have held and continue to hold various positions within the so-called unconstitutional entities on the left bank of the Dniester. At the same time, two of those targeted fought…
Historian and international relations expert, Sarah Paine, from Johns Hopkins University and Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, explains in a podcast, the blunder made by the Russian Federation that will affect the medium and long term future of this country. The imperial ambitions of the Russian Federation and the miscalculations of strategists in Moscow ironically hasten the decline of Kremlin power. To challenge the European Union and the United States of America, Moscow has intensely courted China with the aim of obtaining an alliance that does not even place it on an equal footing with Beijing. Historian and…
The New York Times analyzes Russia’s new strategy of waging its shadow war in Europe. Ordinary European residents are being recruited to serve as intermediaries between Russian intelligence services and their personal network of petty criminals. “In April 2024, a Ukrainian woman nearing the end of her thirtieth year of life, whom I will call Anna, received an unexpected call from an old acquaintance, a man named Daniil Gromov. They had met in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, located near the border with Russia. Two years earlier, after Russia had invaded Ukraine, Anna had fled with her family to Vilnius, the…