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A former KGB officer and former head of security services in Kazakhstan claims that both the Kremlin and the authorities in Astana have compromising material on American President Donald Trump. The statements belong to Alnur Mussaiev, who worked in the KGB structures in Moscow in the ’80s and who later led the Kazakh security services. In an interview given on February 6 to the Ukrainian channel Espreso TV, Mussaiev reiterated an accusation he has been making publicly for several years, according to which the Russian services would have a file with compromising video materials made during Donald Trump’s stay at…
The Russian Security Service (FSB) announced on Monday that the two men arrested on charges of attempting to assassinate Vladimir Alekseev, the second in command of the Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU), claimed that the attack was ordered by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), writes Kyiv Post. Liubomir Korba and Viktor Vasin were arrested in Dubai and extradited to Russia, accused of shooting and injuring Vladimir Alekseev last week. The FSB stated that Korba was recruited in August 2025, trained in Kiev, and sent to Russia via Moldova and Georgia, with the Ukrainian security service promising him $30,000 for the attack.…
Recent events in global politics – including the unilateral military interventions of major powers – are not important for the specific cases they produce, but for the rules they destroy. The overthrow of an authoritarian leader in a distant state, such as Venezuela, is just a pretext. The real stake is the normalization of the idea that major powers can decide the fate of small states, based on their own interests, not on international law, states an editorial signed by analyst Anatol Țăranu. For the Republic of Moldova, this paradigm shift is existential. A small state, militarily weak, identity fragmented…
Fueled by trillions in expenses for state military orders and payments made to those recruited for the front, Russia’s war economy is nearing a critical point. Officials from the government’s financial bloc have warned Vladimir Putin that, in the coming months, the country could face an economic crisis. The information is reported by The Washington Post, which cites a source in direct contact with these officials. According to the publication’s interlocutor, the warnings addressed to Putin are becoming increasingly insistent, and the crisis could break out even this summer. The officials would have informed him that, without additional tax increases,…
Russia’s actual military expenditures exceed the officially declared level by 66%, even when taking into account classified budget items. This conclusion was reached by the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), following the analysis of the Russian Federation’s budget. If the broader classification of NATO is used, which includes defense expenditures and construction projects, IT services or social insurance for the military, last year Russia’s budget would have spent approximately 250 billion euros on the military sector, compared to the officially declared 150 billion euros. According to BND estimates, in this way, the war machine would have consumed half of Russia’s…
Private aircraft were only given permission to intercept Russian drones in the summer of 2025, when Ukraine’s defense realized that every plane counts. Since then, a small An-28 transport aircraft, twin-engine, propeller-driven, and its volunteer crew have managed to assist in the interception of over 100 drones. In addition to fighter jets, various air defense systems, UAV interceptors, and mobile fire groups, the Ukrainian airspace is defended against Russian drones also with the help of a civilian An-28 transport aircraft converted into a “drone hunter”. According to the French channel TF1, whose correspondents joined one of the combat missions, five…
The United States and Iran have agreed to resume negotiations on a nuclear deal, with the first meeting set to take place on Friday in Oman, reports the BBC. The news comes just days after Donald Trump threatened Ali Khamenei. Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, confirmed that the meeting will start at 10:00 local time in Muscat. The information was also confirmed by the Americans. Until recently, the organization of the talks seemed to hit a new obstacle as the two countries could not agree on where the meeting should take place. Trump has increased the American military presence in…
After three years of total war, Ukraine has come to a bitter but lucid conclusion: peace is not synonymous with security. And security guarantees, no matter how solemn they may sound on paper, are worth exactly as much as the willingness of those who offer them to defend them by force. From here arises Kiev’s Plan B – one devoid of diplomatic romance, but rich in strategic realism. Ukraine is preparing to become a “steel hedgehog”: too well-armed, too costly, and too dangerous to ever be swallowed by Vladimir Putin’s Russia, writes Politico. The phrase is not accidental. Last year,…
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, announced on Thursday at a press conference that he plans to maintain the Ukrainian Army’s strength at 800,000 soldiers after the end of the war or in the event of a ceasefire, transitioning them to a contract basis and offering them higher salaries. The announcement was made during a joint press conference with the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, who is on an official visit to Kiev, according to Ukrainska Pravda. “We will maintain our army – 800,000 soldiers, as discussed, transforming it after the end of the war or after a ceasefire…
Ukrainian forces have struck the hangars of the Kapustin Yar test base in Russia, affecting the infrastructure prepared for missile launches, including the dreaded hypersonic Oreshnik weapons. The operation was carried out throughout the month of January and involved coordination with an insurgent movement in Russia. The Ukrainian defense forces carried out a series of long-range attacks on the hangars used by the Russians for missile launch preparations at the Kapustin Yar test base in January, announced on Thursday the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, quoted by Kyiv Post. “Several hangar-type buildings within the base have suffered…