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After the removal of dozens of key figures from Iran’s leadership, power was taken over, at least officially, by hardliners towards the West. However, the new officials and service chiefs are afraid to speak or meet: many of their comrades were killed precisely because their phones were intercepted or because they were in the same place at critical moments. The fragmentation of the state apparatus and the total lack of communication raise questions about who is actually responsible for negotiations with the USA and how the Iranians could coordinate their diplomatic positions, writes The New York Times, picked up by…
Russia is in the midst of a vast but slow effort to “break its internet” from the rest of the world, say activists and experts cited by The Guardian. They say this move will have significant consequences for the millions of people who are gradually being separated from the rest of the online world. Unlike this year’s internet “feathers” in Iran, the blackout in Russia is kept as “secret” as possible by the Putin regime – a very gradual and very opaque effort. It is defined by a gradual escalation of internet penalties across the breadth and length of Russian…
Bulgaria will become the first member state of the European Union to introduce a support scheme dedicated to large energy-consuming industries, as part of measures intended to offset the impact of the energy crisis caused by the war in Iran, reports Reuters, according to Agerpres. Speaking at the cabinet meeting in Sofia, the Minister of Energy, Traicho Traikov, announced that the scheme, submitted for approval to the European Union, is expected to be launched “in two to three weeks”. According to the plan, the Government will reimburse 50% of the additional electricity costs when market prices exceed 63 euros per…
The former foreign minister of Ukraine, Dmitro Kuleba, stated that in September 2021, Victoria Nuland, then the deputy secretary of state of the United States, conveyed to him and Andrii Yermak that a Russian invasion was inevitable. The Ukrainian diplomat stated that a representative of the White House directly told them they needed to “dig trenches” because Putin would attack, but nobody in the world believed this, except for the United States, writes focus. “Victoria Nuland came and said: ‘Well, boys, dig trenches’. Shock. We went out. We spoke calmly and decided: if such a thing happens, it cannot be…
The EU Commissioner for Energy, Dan Jorgensen, stated that the governments of the European Union should prepare for a “prolonged disruption” of energy markets as a result of a war with Iran. In a letter addressed to energy ministers on March 30, reviewed by Reuters, the head of the energy department added that governments are “advised to take timely measures to address potential prolonged disruptions of the market”. Europe’s strong dependence on imported fuels means that the continent is extremely vulnerable to the impact of the Middle East conflict on global energy prices. European gas prices have risen by over…
Russia has begun to equip Shahed drones with fake air-to-air missiles (mock-ups), a tactic intended to deceive Ukraine’s defense systems, said Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov, advisor to the Ukrainian Minister of Defense, according to Kyiv Post. Beskrestnov says that Russian forces have installed replicas of R-60 missiles on attack drones, trying to intimidate Ukrainian aviation and attract the attention of interception units. “The goal is to intimidate our aviation and attract the attention of interception units,” Beskrestnov explained. Saturation tactic of air defense The use of decoy drones has become a common practice in Russian attacks, intended to complicate Ukraine’s response…
The Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin sharply criticized Hungary on Tuesday, following revelations about the relations of the Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó with Russia, calling his conversations with his counterpart in Moscow “repulsive” and “sinister,” reports The Guardian. In an unusually harsh comment, Tusk said: “What we have heard and what we already suspected is just a confirmation of the deeply disturbing political dependence of Viktor Orbán’s government and his foreign minister, Mr. Szijjártó, directly on the authorities in Moscow.” “It’s been a long time, if it ever passed, since I last…
One of Ukraine’s largest drone manufacturers, General Cherry, has signed an agreement to produce unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in the United States, the company announced in a statement released on Monday, March 30. FPV (first-person view) drone and interceptor manufacturer General Cherry has reached an agreement with American defense industry company Wilcox Industries to build the latter’s drones in the former’s factories in New Hampshire, writes Kyiv Independent. “We are delighted to have this unique opportunity to build together the production, which will manufacture the latest means of defense and attack”, declared the co-founder General Cherry, Yaroslav Hrișin. “First and…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated on Monday that there are fractures within the leadership in Tehran, and expressed optimism about the possibility of collaborating with Iranian officials who, he said, have conveyed some positive messages to Washington in private, according to AFP and EFE agencies, quoted by Agerpres. At the same time, the US Secretary of State spoke about the US objectives in Iran. Rubio also said that the Strait of Hormuz will “reopen in one way or another”. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio listed, on ABC, what he considers to be the objectives of the war…
A private mobile air defense group from Ukraine has achieved its first concrete results in combat, managing to shoot down a Shahed attack drone and a Zala reconnaissance drone over the city of Kharkov, announced the Minister of Defense, Mihailo Fedorov, on his official Telegram channel. The published images show the operation of the Sky Sentinel turret, which detected and destroyed targets using artificial intelligence, without direct human operator intervention. According to the Ukrainian official, the private group was tested in the Kharkov region and has already been integrated into the command system of the Ukrainian Air Forces, being used…