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Russian drone strikes chimney of Estonian power station after crossing from Russian airspace
A drone that entered Estonian airspace from Russia struck the chimney of the Auvere power station in Ida-Viru County in the early hours of Wednesday, in an incident now under investigation by Estonia’s security and prosecutorial authorities. Officials said no…
Latvian defence minister cuts short Kyiv visit after second drone incident on NATO’s eastern flank
Latvian Defence Minister Andris Spruds cut short an official visit to Ukraine after a drone entered Latvian airspace from Russia, in a second cross-border unmanned aircraft incident affecting the Baltic region in as many days. The development added fresh urgency…
Ukraine intelligence exposes internals of Russian Lancet and Scalpel loitering munitions
Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate, HUR, has published new technical material on two Russian loitering munitions, the Lancet and the Scalpel, offering a closer look at their internal architecture, electronic components and apparent development trajectory. The material, released through the War&Sanctions…
Allegations over Szijjártó’s contacts with Lavrov raise wider NATO security concerns
Fresh reporting alleging that Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó shared details of closed-door EU foreign ministers’ discussions with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov has sharpened a question that goes well beyond Brussels politics: whether Viktor Orbán’s Hungary has become a…
Cyber actors linked to Russia target messaging app users, FBI warns
The United States has warned that cyber actors associated with Russian intelligence services are targeting users of commercial messaging applications, with Signal identified as a particular focus in a campaign that has already compromised thousands of individual accounts worldwide. In…
WSJ report points to deeper Russia-Iran military cooperation despite formal limits of 2025 pact
A report in The Wall Street Journal has added fresh detail to longstanding concerns over the depth of military and intelligence cooperation between Russia and Iran, alleging that Moscow has been supplying Tehran with satellite imagery, tactical guidance and upgraded…
From Guernica to Kyiv: How Strategic Bombing Doctrine Evolved from Hitler to Putin
From the shattered Basque town of Guernica to the pulverised apartment blocks of modern Ukraine, aerial bombardment has evolved from experimental terror tactic to grimly familiar feature of industrialised war. Yet the philosophy behind it has changed markedly since the…
Kyiv region bears brunt of new Russian strike on Ukraine’s energy network
Russia’s latest large-scale air attack on Ukraine has again underlined a central reality of this war: Moscow continues to treat energy and civilian infrastructure as a primary target, even as the broader geopolitical environment grows more volatile. Overnight, Russian forces…
The Shkval question: how an old Soviet torpedo entered the Hormuz war debate
One of the more unusual weapons to re-emerge in discussion of the current Gulf crisis is the Soviet-designed VA-111 Shkval, a supercavitating torpedo whose speed once made it a subject of intense Western interest. Its Iranian counterpart, widely identified as…
‘From Bucha to Brussels’: Baltic and Nordic states seek entry ban on Russian combatants
Eight EU member states have called on the bloc’s leadership to prepare a Schengen entry ban for people who have served in the Russian armed forces, marking the clearest coordinated push yet for an EU-wide response to a growing long-term…