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Ukraine transforms drone production into an industrial base for war. The country already produces 10 million drones per year and aims to reach 20 million. Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski announced on Wednesday a significant increase in drone production in Ukraine. According to him, the country is already producing about 10 million drones annually, and the goal is to double this capacity, up to 20 million drones per year, reports dialog.ua. Zelenski made the statement in Kiev, during the events dedicated to Ukraine’s Statehood Day. He recalled that when he first publicly announced the goal of producing a million drones per…

New warnings from intelligence services in Latvia, Poland, and other NATO member states suggest that Russia might be preparing provocative actions against the Baltic countries or Poland. According to analysts, a potential test of the Alliance would not necessarily begin with a military invasion, but with a combination of sabotage, cyber attacks, drone incidents, disinformation campaigns, and other actions difficult to directly attribute to Moscow. Timo Hellenberg, CEO of Hellenberg International, argues in Kyiv Post that Russia could try to exploit the internal vulnerabilities of NATO states to create confusion and delays in the decision-making process, before the Alliance determines…

Prosecutors from the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), led by Laura Codruța Kovesi, have opened an investigation into the use of European funds by companies previously owned by the current Czech populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis, reports the news website Seznam Zpravy on Tuesday, according to TVPWorld. Andrej Babis, aged 71, has built a business empire with companies in various fields, including agriculture, food, chemical industry, and other industries, among which is also the Agrofert group, comprising hundreds of companies and accessing European funds of tens of millions of euros annually. After returning to the helm of the government at…

The European Union deemed the threats against the International Criminal Court (ICC) “unacceptable” on Tuesday, following the total offensive announced by the United States against the court in The Hague, reports AFP, according to Agerpres. “We are firmly committed to international criminal justice,” declared a spokesperson for the Commission, Anouar El-Anouni, in response to the major campaign against the ICC launched on Monday by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, through a video message on X and an article in the Wall Street Journal. “At the hour we speak, the CPI and its allies are waging a war against our country,…

The head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told his counterpart from Chad about the “games” of the Europeans, intended to undermine Russian-American agreements on resolving the conflict in Ukraine. Europeans are trying to undermine the Russian-American agreements on resolving the conflict in Ukraine, declared the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, at the end of discussions with the Foreign Minister of Chad, Abdoulaye Sabre Fadoul, reports TASS. “We shared our assessments with our colleagues [from Chad] regarding the latest events related to the crisis in Ukraine, related to those new maneuvers that the Europeans are planning, trying to undermine…

The American army will completely withdraw from Iraq by September 30, declared on Tuesday the Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, during a meeting with the American President Donald Trump at the White House, reports DPA. “We don’t believe we need a military presence there anymore,” said Donald Trump at the White House, adding that the United States is there to help Iraq if needed, but he doesn’t think this will be necessary, reports Agerpres. Trump and Al-Zaidi have thus confirmed a previously announced schedule for the much-discussed withdrawal. The number of American troops has already been reduced in recent months.

On Tuesday, Russia launched a mission consisting of two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) from the cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, thus resuming human crew launches from a recently repaired ramp, a launch carried out in the presence of the heads of NASA and Roscosmos, reports Reuters, as relayed by Agerpres. American astronaut Anil Menon and cosmonauts Piotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard the Russian Soyuz MS-29 capsule at 10:47 EDT (14:47 GMT) towards the ISS, where they will spend about eight months as part of the…

President Donald Trump officially notified lawmakers over the weekend that the United States is once again at war with Iran, which grants his administration an additional 60-day period to resort to military force in the region without the approval of Congress. In a letter addressed to Congress, dated July 10 and obtained by POLITICO, Trump stated that the attacks that began on July 7 constitute a military action in accordance with his responsibility “to protect American citizens and the interests of the United States, both domestically and abroad”. This intermittent war has proven very difficult for Trump to resolve, in…

The warlike appetite of the Kremlin’s leader, Vladimir Putin, seems to have reached dizzying new heights, this time threatening stability beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. Space security experts warn that a conflict in orbit is no longer a science fiction scenario, but a very real threat, fueled by the fact that Moscow, in clear technological decline, has very little to lose. Victoria Sampson, director of security and space stability at the Secure World Foundation, explained that there are alarming intelligence reports suggesting that Russia is developing a nuclear device intended for placement on a satellite. Such technology would function as a…

Polish fighter jets intercepted a Russian reconnaissance plane over international waters in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday, announced Polish Defense Minister, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, at a press conference. “This is the first Russian attempt in a long time to approach our maritime border to observe our air defense systems,” stated the Polish Minister of Defense, according to the France Presse agency. According to him, this is further evidence that Russia has been waging, since the large-scale invasion launched in Ukraine in 2022, a “hybrid war” against Poland, a NATO and EU member country, and that it “carries out reconnaissance missions and…