


Ukrainian forces struck two sites linked to Russia’s oil and petrochemicals sector overnight on 4 November, with fires reported in Sterlitamak, Bashkortostan, and in Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod region. Regional authorities in Bashkortostan said an industrial facility in Sterlitamak had been…

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has said that one of Russia’s three “Oreshnik” intermediate-range ballistic missile systems was destroyed in a covert operation at the Kapustin Yar test range in Russia’s Astrakhan region. The claim was made on 31 October during…

Kyiv confirms deployment of 9M729 – Iskander missiles – vindicating Donald Trump’s warnings and rattling Europe’s defences. When Ukraine confirmed this week that Russia had deployed the 9M729 ground-launched cruise missile – Iskander -the very weapon that led Donald Trump…

Polish Air Force MiG-29 fighter jets have intercepted a Russian reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea for the second time this week, Poland’s defence minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Thursday, 30 October. Speaking at a press conference in Kartuzy, he…

Russia conducted a large-scale overnight strike against Ukraine using multiple waves of drones and missiles, prompting nationwide air-raid alerts from late on 29 October into the morning of 30 October. Ukrainian authorities reported the use of both cruise and aeroballistic…

Russia says it has successfully tested the nuclear-powered, nuclear-capable underwater drone Poseidon, days after heralding a fresh trial of the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile. President Vladimir Putin announced the Poseidon test on Wednesday, stating it was conducted the previous day…

Ukraine mounted a series of long-range strikes in the early hours of 29 October, hitting oil and petrochemical facilities across multiple regions of Russia and occupied Crimea, according to local officials and media reports. The reported targets included an oil…

Norway’s military intelligence service has confirmed that Russia’s most recent test of its nuclear-powered, nuclear-capable cruise missile, 9M730 Burevestnik—NATO reporting name SSC-X-9 “Skyfall”—was launched from the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic. “We can confirm that Russia has conducted a…

An international consortium of news organisations has published detailed findings on a covert Russian programme, codenamed “Harmony”, that has installed an undersea surveillance system across the Barents Sea and adjacent Arctic waters to protect Russia’s nuclear submarine fleet. The reporting…

Two Russian military aircraft briefly violated Lithuanian airspace on Thursday evening, prompting a rapid response from NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission, the Lithuanian Armed Forces said. The incursion occurred at about 18:00 local time on 23 October near the town…