


The timing could hardly have been more provocative. Just hours before Vladimir Putin is due to sit across the table from Donald Trump in Anchorage, the Russian president ordered a ballistic missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro —…

Ukraine said its forces struck the Syzran oil refinery in Russia’s Samara region in the early hours of Friday, 15 August, igniting fires at one of Rosneft’s larger processing plants. The General Staff reported “a target hit” at the facility…

Russia appears to be preparing to test the 9M730 Burevestnik, a nuclear-armed, nuclear-powered cruise missile, according to two independent US researchers and a Western security source, ahead of Vladimir Putin’s meeting with US President Donald Trump on Ukraine. Commercial satellite…

India’s decision to deploy a high-tech Robotic Mule (MULE) along the Line of Control (LoC) marks a significant step in the militarisation of its border surveillance. The LoC, separating Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir, is a rugged, volatile frontier, where terrain…

It is the sort of breach that would be the stuff of spy thrillers if the stakes were not so high. U.S. investigators now believe that Russia — or a proxy acting on its behalf — has been at least…

Ukraine’s Operational-Strategic Group of Forces “Dnipro” has rejected claims of a Russian breakthrough on the Pokrovsk and Dobropillia axes in Donetsk region, saying a small enemy party of roughly 5–10 soldiers infiltrated beyond the first Ukrainian defensive line but did…

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) says it used long-range unmanned aerial vehicles to strike a logistics hub storing Shahed one-way attack drones in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan on 9 August. The facility is located in the settlement of Kzyl-Yul and, according…

In a significant development amid the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia, Ukrainian open-source investigators have confirmed that a drone operated by Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence successfully damaged a Russian radar installation integral to the feared S-500 air defence system. The…

A fire at the Cugir Mechanical Plant in central Romania has caused estimated damages of more than €400,000, destroying hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition and prompting an ongoing criminal investigation. The cause of the blaze remains unknown, but…

There are few figures in modern British political history more maligned—or more vindicated—than Enoch Powell. For decades, his name has been shorthand for political infamy, a cautionary tale of a man who dared to speak the unspeakable. Yet, as Britain…