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Crimea Fuel Halt Shows Ukraine’s Drone Campaign Is Moving From Strikes to Sustained Pressure
Russian-installed authorities in Crimea have suspended civilian fuel sales after Ukrainian attacks on supply routes and energy facilities, suggesting Kyiv's strike campaign is producing visible logistics effects in the peninsula.
Russian Drone Strike on Merchant Vessel Puts Ukraine’s Maritime Trade Routes Back Under Pressure
A Russian drone attack that Ukrainian officials say hit three merchant vessels, killing an Egyptian crew member and damaging a Turkish-operated dry cargo ship, puts commercial shipping risk back at the centre of Ukraine's wartime trade problem.
Defence Tech Emerges as Investors’ New Favourite Growth Sector
For decades, defence investing occupied an uncomfortable corner of the financial world. Many venture capital firms preferred to focus on consumer technology, software platforms and digital services, while institutional investors increasingly adopted environmental, social and governance principles that discouraged involvement…
Ukraine Strikes Oil Logistics and Air Defences on Both Sides of Crimean Bridge
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian long-range strikes hit Russian oil transport, fuel storage, military logistics and air-defence assets around the Kerch Strait. Ukraine has claimed a co-ordinated strike on Russian oil, logistics and air-defence targets on both sides of the…
Belarus is becoming Russia’s forward platform against Ukraine and NATO’s eastern flank
Zelenskyy's renewed demand that Belarus dismantle relay stations allegedly supporting Russian drone attacks turns attention to the technical infrastructure behind the air war, not only the launch sites and weapons.
Ukraine’s Tyumen Refinery Strike Extends Pressure on Russia’s Energy Depth
A reported Ukrainian drone attack on the Tyumen oil refinery in western Siberia would mark a further expansion of Kyiv's long-range strike campaign, pushing pressure on Russia's refining network far beyond the border regions and Moscow.
Rheinmetall UK Adopts Industrial 3D Printing as Baseline Production Method in Challenger 3 Programme
Finland-based miniFactory’s technology enables production of complex ducting components for one of the United Kingdom’s most important defence modernisation programmes. Rheinmetall UK has confirmed that industrial 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is now the baseline production method for…
To build strategic autonomy, Europe needs to wean itself off foreign technology, By Robert Brull
France’s trial of the AI-powered Arcadia battlefield command system points to a wider European defence challenge: strategic autonomy will depend not only on higher military spending, but on control over the technologies, intellectual property and decision-making systems that underpin modern…
Ukraine-Germany Missile Defence Deal Tests Europe’s Search for Patriot Alternatives
Kyiv’s agreement with Berlin on anti-ballistic capabilities comes as Ukrainian defence manufacturers seek European industrial partners for systems intended to reduce reliance on scarce US-made interceptors. Ukraine and Germany have signed an agreement to develop anti-ballistic capabilities, placing missile defence…
Moscow Refinery Strike Shows Ukraine’s Drone War Has Reached Russia’s Fuel System
Ukraine’s 18 June drone strike on Moscow’s Kapotnya oil refinery suggests Kyiv’s long-range campaign is moving beyond symbolic raids towards pressure on Russia’s domestic fuel supply and the credibility of air defences around the capital. Ukraine’s drone strike on a…