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Crimea’s Growing Isolation Exposes Russia’s Strategic Miscalculation
The latest overnight attacks on Russian-occupied Crimea have again exposed the peninsula’s central military weakness: its dependence on vulnerable supply routes linking it to occupied parts of southern Ukraine and to Russia itself. Strikes around Armyansk, following earlier damage to…
Is Bulgaria Becoming the EU’s New Sick Man of Europe?
Sofia’s decision to halt arms supplies to Kyiv is not simply a national policy adjustment. It raises questions about EU cohesion, NATO reliability, defence-industrial planning, and the durability of long-term security commitments in wartime. Bulgaria’s announcement that it will stop…
Russia’s Northern Build-Up Puts NATO’s New Frontier Under Pressure
Russia is expanding military infrastructure close to NATO’s northern and Baltic borders, raising concern that Moscow is preparing for a larger and more permanent force posture opposite Finland, Norway, Estonia and the Baltic Sea region. A joint Nordic-Baltic investigation, based…
Ukraine’s Flamingo Strike on Cheboksary Exposes Pressure on Russia’s Military Electronics Base
Ukraine’s reported long-range strike on the VNIIR-Progress defence electronics plant in Cheboksary has underlined Kyiv’s growing ability to reach Russian military-industrial targets deep inside the country and disrupt the production chain behind Moscow’s missile and drone attacks. The plant, located…
Russia Modifies Kalibr Missiles with Cluster Warheads and Imported Electronics, Ukraine Says
Russia has modified the Kalibr cruise missiles used in attacks on Ukraine, fitting some of them with cluster warheads and returning to imported electronic components after an apparent attempt to rely on Russian-made parts, according to a detailed technical assessment…
Russia From Stalin to Putin: Why Europe’s Centre-Right Sees a Disturbing Continuity
Eighty-five years after the Soviet Union carried out the mass deportations that scarred the Baltic states and reshaped Eastern Europe, European politicians are drawing uncomfortable parallels between the crimes of the Stalinist era and Vladimir Putin’s conduct in Ukraine. The…
Ukraine Strikes Chonhar Bridge Again as Crimea Supply Routes Come Under Renewed Pressure
Ukraine has again targeted the Chonhar bridge, one of the road links connecting occupied Crimea with Russian-held territory in southern Ukraine, in what appears to be part of a wider effort to disrupt Moscow’s military logistics on the peninsula. The…
Ukraine strikes major Russian oil storage hub in Novorossiysk
Ukraine’s Defence Forces say they have hit the Grushovaya oil transshipment base, one of Russia’s largest petroleum storage facilities in the Caucasus, in an overnight drone operation against Russian export infrastructure near the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. Ukraine’s Defence…
Ukraine Hits Crimea Fuel Network as Chonhar Bridge Strike Points to Wider Logistics Campaign
Ukrainian forces have struck fuel facilities and a key road bridge linking occupied Crimea with occupied southern Ukraine, in what appears to be an expanding effort to disrupt Russian military logistics across the peninsula. Ukraine has reported a new series…
NATO cyber exercise shows Europe is still learning how to fight AI-backed disruption
A NATO cyber simulation in Poland has shown how quickly attacks on energy, banking and public information systems can merge into a single crisis, with allied officials testing responses to a Russia-style campaign shaped by Ukraine’s wartime experience. The three-day…