1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1161+ words) Ukraine’s drone strike on Yamalo-Nenets was initially notable for the distance involved. According to the country’s Special Operations Forces, the aircraft travelled more than 3,000 kilometres from Ukraine’s border before reaching one of the central regions of Russia’s gas industry. The…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (633+ words) German investigators have reportedly traced the attempted drone bombing at Leipzig/Halle Airport to a suspected member of Russia’s GRU military intelligence service who organised the operation’s logistics. The finding is the most detailed account yet of the network behind…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (573+ words) A plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Oslo was “almost hit” by a drone while taking off from Moldova on Tuesday, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said on 9 September. According to Støre’s account of the incident, the aircraft…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (671+ words) The European Union’s General Court has rejected Roman Abramovich’s latest challenge against the renewal of sanctions imposed on him over Russia’s war against Ukraine. The Luxembourg-based court delivered its judgment on Wednesday, 9 September, in case T-358/25, Abramovich v Council, dismissing…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (286+ words) Even the right wing news outlet Newsmax asked a provocative or sarcastic question in Kyiv about the purpose of their mission. Certainly this trip was not intended to end the war. Was it to rehabilitate Trump before the midterms? Perhaps,…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (635+ words) The detention of a 48-year-old man suspected of carrying out a series of attacks against Germany’s electricity network is therefore more significant than the arrest of one alleged saboteur. It offers an uncomfortable demonstration of how relatively inexpensive attacks can…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (707+ words) Hungary has ordered 10 members of Russia’s diplomatic mission to leave the country after authorities concluded that they had carried out activities considered unacceptable for diplomats under the Vienna Convention. Foreign Minister Anita Orbán announced the decision on Tuesday, 8 September, saying…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (627+ words) President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have completed talks in Kyiv after meeting Vladimir Putin in Moscow, reviving a negotiating process that had largely stalled but producing no publicly identified compromise on the central disputes between Russia…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (493+ words) More than €200 billion of Russian central-bank assets are immobilised in the EU, most of them held through the Brussels-based securities depository Euroclear. Belgium has resisted proposals that could expose the company and the Belgian state to litigation, retaliation or a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1226+ words) A reported Ukrainian order for troops to observe a ceasefire along the entire line of contact from midnight on 5 September until 11.59pm on 8 September appeared, at first, to represent something more substantial than the temporary pauses in long-range attacks discussed during…...