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Ihor Malcevski, aged 69, was in the headquarters of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, on Monday, when the historic building was hit by a drone from the Russian forces. In Monday’s attack at the Academy of Sciences in Kiev, one person was killed and three others were injured, according to local authorities. In the vicinity of the nineteenth-century building are the German Embassy, the National Opera, Saint Vladimir Cathedral, and a series of government buildings, wrote The Guardian. Malcevski, the deputy director of a department within the institution, looked out from the window of his office located on…
Calin Georgescu, held in preventive detention. A twist in the fraud case involving 1.1 million euros
The Bucharest Court of Appeal has overturned the decision of the first instance and ruled that the former presidential candidate be preventively arrested for 30 days. Likewise, businessman Ionel Rusen, his alleged accomplice in the case where DIICOT accuses him of fraud. Călin Georgescu, who was under judicial control, has already been taken into custody. In front of the Police, there were at least 300 supporters of his. The same decision was also made in the case of the businessman Ionel Rusen. The court’s decision is final. The first two judges who reviewed the DIICOT prosecutors’ request initially reached diametrically…
CIA Director, John Ratcliffe, has issued a grim warning to Russian leaders about the state of the economy, during a surprise visit to Moscow at the end of August. According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung publication, Ratcliffe, citing data from the American Secret Services, tried to convince the Kremlin that Russia cannot economically win the war in Ukraine, which has already reached a stalemate on the front, writes The Moscow Times. Ratcliffe’s message was that, due to massive military spending, Russia’s economy is facing the same collapse that the Soviet Union suffered after the Cold War, a high-ranking diplomat familiar…
NATO strongly condemned Russia’s threats regarding a possible military escalation around the Kaliningrad exclave and rejected Moscow’s accusations that the North Atlantic Alliance is conducting provocative actions near Russian territory. “NATO is a defensive alliance, and none of our activities or exercises pose a risk to any part of Russia”, declared on Tuesday Allison Hart, the NATO spokesperson, in response to a letter sent by the Russian government. The Moscow Document, consulted by the German agency DPA, accuses NATO of an “unprecedented escalation of the military-political situation” around the Kaliningrad region, accompanied by “very provocative” statements made by officials of…
The operation dubbed “Vivaldi” was kept secret outside Kiev for months, and the commander of the 3rd Army Corps stated that there will be more news to follow, describing the latest update as “the third season” of a four-part series. Ukraine has captured 250 Russian soldiers in a daring counterattack, during which it used the so-called “zombie machines” on the front line for the first time, announced the leaders from Kiev. Brigadier General Andrii Bilețki, commander of the 3rd Army Corps, stated that his troops have reclaimed over 50 square kilometers of territory north of the city of Lîman, as…
North Korea has begun practicing massive attacks that combine unmanned systems with conventional weaponry, using a tactic already employed in Russia’s war against Ukraine and in the Middle East. This could pose a challenge to the United States and its allies’ anti-aircraft defense systems, writes The Wall Street Journal. North Korean exercises with “concentrated fire” This month, North Korea conducted for the first time exercises in which it combined attack drones, missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, rocket projectiles, and long-range artillery to destroy a target. According to the North Korean state press, these exercises aimed to perfect the coordination…
Officials from London and Donald Trump say that the authorities had been aware for some time of the terrorist attack being prepared against a British military base. However, the English press notes that the police only intervened on the spot after a local woman called the police to report that she had seen three vans and suspicious people in the area. The UK security services had advance information about the men arrested in connection with an alleged bomb attack against a base of the Royal Air Force (RAF) used by the American military, Wes Streeting, the Defense Secretary, stated on…
Vladimir Putin has decided to place the local assets of the German retailer Metro under temporary administration, according to a presidential decree published on Monday, due to escalating tensions between Moscow and Berlin over the conflict in Ukraine. The placement of Metro’s assets under temporary administration comes after several Nestle factories and Auchat stores suffered the same fate. The decree did not provide a reason for the transfer of control, but it came after a rare meeting between the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, and his German counterpart, Johann Wadephul, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New…
Vladimir Putin bans the publication of information about “activities in the energy and fuel complex”, an attempt to block the public dissemination of information about Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s oil refining infrastructure, reports The Moscow Times. The decree was signed on Monday, September 28, and also restricts and classifies access to information about attacks on refineries in Russia. According to the document, published on the official legal information website in Russia, the dissemination of data regarding the activity of Russian refineries, which have become targets of Ukrainian drone attacks and which have lost a third of their processing capacity this…
The White House administration assured on Monday that the USA does not intend to sell arms to China, its most significant geopolitical and military rival, after Donald Trump allegedly mentioned such a possibility in discussions with the Chinese dictator, Xi Jinping, according to the American ambassador in Beijing, David Perdue, reports AFP, quoted by Agerpres. “The American government has no plans to sell arms to China,” an anonymous American official stated to the cited agency. The clarification comes following the statements of David Perdue, which have sparked numerous comments. “President Trump continued to say: ‘Well, we sell weapons to other…