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Ukraine intends to increase the production of its own long-range cruise missiles FP-5, nicknamed “Flamingo” — weapons that, according to reports, can hit targets several thousand kilometers away and which have probably already been used in attacks on Russian territory. Fire Point Defense management says it currently manufactures between two and three missiles a day; the plan is to increase the rate to seven pieces per day by the end of the month. Costs and comparisons Such a missile costs around 500,000 dollars. For context: an American Tomahawk is about four times more expensive — but it has a different…
Just a few hours before the commemorative ceremony for American activist Charlie Kirk, one of Russia’s most influential clerics published a laudatory text with evident political connotations. On the websites Pravoslavie.ru and OrthoChristian.com, an article signed by Metropolitan Tihon Shevkunov, often considered the closest spiritual advisor to President Vladimir Putin, appeared. The publication of the text exactly on the day of the ceremony in Glendale, Arizona, was not accidental. The message, immediately promoted by Kirill Dmitriev, the director of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, betrayed a clear intention: the glorification of Kirk and the use of his symbol for geopolitical…
The incidents with Russian drones that recently crossed the borders of Poland and Romania have not only sparked political concern in Brussels — they have revealed a technological weakness of the West. Out of approximately 20 Russian Gerbera drones that crossed the border into Poland, at least 15 were not intercepted: they fell from the sky when their fuel ran out. Some were shot down, but the price paid was huge — AMRAAM missiles launched for each drone, costs orders of magnitude greater than the UAVs, plus the expense of getting fighter planes airborne, writes the Russian publication Meduza.io. After…
The German Chancellor suspects that Moscow is behind the majority of drones observed in German airspace in recent days, which have forced the temporary closure of the Munich airport, according to Politico. “We suspect that a significant part is probably controlled by Russia. But we are investigating the issue and, regardless of where it comes from, it represents a serious threat to our security,” Merz declared on public television Sunday evening. Drones have been observed around the Munich airport in recent days, forcing authorities to close the runways and cancel flights. The cancellations stranded thousands of travelers, many of them…
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…