Ukrainian interceptor drones have for the first time shot down several Russian Geran-3 jet-powered drones during the Russian attack on the night of 29-30 November. Source: Serhii Sternenko, Ukrainian activist and founder of the Sternenko Community Foundation Quote: "A bit of historic achievement!…

Turkey sharply reduced its imports of Russia's flagship Urals crude oil in November, shipping data from energy consultancy Kpler showed, as Western sanctions on Russian energy suppliers tightened and Turkish refineries shifted to alternative grades. Shipments of Urals to Turkey fell by 100,000…

Transported Through the Village on a Tractor: Drone Found in Moldova Between the Villages of Pepeni and Kopaceni #Europe #Moldova #Russia #Shahed-136 #UAV #World A resident of a village in the Republic of Moldova went to a field and found a Russian Gerbera drone. Photo credits: Facebook/Oleg Cernei,…

Russia’s federal media censor, Roskomnadzor, announced on Wednesday that it had blocked the popular children’s video game Roblox. Statements and reports from government agencies indicate that the Russian authorities have been preparing for this move since the start of the year. Roskomnadzor…

According to Ukrinform, this was reported in a press release, published on the UK government's website. The signing of the agreement coincides with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store's visit on Thursday, 4 December, to RAF Lossiemouth in the United Kingdom. The new Lunna House Agreement will…

Recently Received German IRIS-T SLM Air Defense System Has Already Shot Down Russian Kh-101, Iskander-K and Shahed #Europe #Germany #Occupants elimination #Ukraine #War with Russia #Військова допомога IRIS-T SLM with additionally integrated IRIS-T SLS launchers. Photo credits: 223rd Anti-Aircraft…

Australia May Transfer Tiger Helicopters to Ukraine: They Are Needed to Counter Drones #Air Defense #Australia #Aviation #Helicopters #Military assistance #Procurement #Ukraine #World The government is considering whether to send decommissioned Tiger helicopters to Kyiv. Photo credits: ADF Australia…

Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, has claimed that if the European Union proceeds with using Russia’s frozen assets to fund reparations for Ukraine, Moscow could consider this a legitimate reason to declare war, he wrote in a Telegram post on December 4. Every article…

Moldova says it is working with the EU and the United States on a new plan to reintegrate the breakaway region of Transnistria, but officials are withholding details for now due to what they describe as sensitive issues. The country’s Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Valeriu Chiveri made the…

President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed an executive order temporarily waiving visa requirements for Chinese nationals, a reciprocal step after Beijing lifted visa requirements for Russian passport holders earlier this year. The measure, which takes immediate effect and runs through Sept. 14,…

Ukrainian An-124 Delivers Spyder Air-Defense System to Georgia #Air Defense #Caucasus #Georgia #Israel #Middle East #SAM The An-124 that took off from Kyiv landed in Leipzig on July 11, 2025. Photo credits: Fedir Hryshchuk The Ukrainian An-124 Ruslan transported three launchers of the Spyder…

The Church of Sweden has issued an official warning to its congregations not to invite nuns from Belarus's St. Elisabeth Convent, citing the monastery's financial support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its connections to Russian military intelligence. The warning comes as evidence mounts that…

The European Central Bank (ECB) has refused to provide guarantees for a proposed €140 billion loan to Ukraine that would be backed by Russian assets frozen in the Belgian depository Euroclear, the Financial Times reported on Dec. 2. The plan would have obliged Ukraine to repay the sum only in the…

President of the Republic of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides has arrived in Ukraine on an official visit and has already met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Source: European Pravda, citing a post by Cypriot government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis on X (Twitter); KNews, the…

Russia’s state media regulator said Thursday that it was restricting voice and video calls on Apple’s FaceTime, making it the latest foreign-made app to be effectively blocked inside the country. Roskomnadzor said law enforcement agencies had informed it that FaceTime was being used “to organize and…

Nineteen Ukrainian sites have been added to the International List of Cultural Property under Enhanced Protection by UNESCO, bringing the total number of Ukrainian sites on the list to 46, Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy and Minister of Culture of Ukraine Tetiana Berezhna has said.…

Press release For the first time, Ukraine's climate commitments formally recognize children and young people as vulnerable groups requiring targeted protection and explicitly commits to involving young people in climate policy-making. 28 November 2025 Home Press Centre UNICEF welcomes Ukraine’s new…

Naval News Navy 2025 The U.S. Navy has taken delivery of the future USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr., a Flight IIA Technology Insertion destroyer built by Bath Iron Works. The ship enhances the service's surface warfare capacity and enters final preparations before entering operational duty. The U.S. Navy…

Topic: Air Warfare Blog Brand: The Buzz Region: Oceania December 1, 2025 Share The RAAF has developed into Oceania’s strongest air force—driven in large part by alarm over Chinese expansion in the Indo-Pacific. The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is one of the most modern and technologically…

Vivat Publishing has decided not to publish the book Gone Before Goodbye by American actress Reese Witherspoon about a Russian oligarch from Rublyovka. The publishing director Yulia Orlova explained this decision in talks with the media: the rights to translate the novel were acquired back in…

The European Union reached a significant political agreement on 3 December, which will lead to an effective and permanent halt to the import of Russian gas and a gradual phaseout of Russian oil. This historic decision will eliminate the EU’s dependence on an unreliable supplier that has repeatedly…

Russia's Tu-22M bombers haven't been a serious threat to Ukraine for a year That may change soon as the bombers move closer to the Ukrainian border There are signs Russia is rebuilding the battered Tu-22M fleet with refurbished airframes The Russian air force's Tupolev Tu-22M Backfire bombers have…

News Politics Any move to “wipe the slate clean” for Russia in a peace deal would be “a historic mistake of huge proportions,” the EU justice commissioner tells POLITICO. Copy Link Copied Share via email Share on X Share on WhatsApp Share on LinkedIn EU Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath told…

Executive Summary This report evaluates the current relations between Ukraine and Kazakhstan after the naval drone strike on the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal near Novorossiysk on November 29, 2025, and Astana’s formal protest to Kyiv. The attack on Single-Point Mooring 2 resulted in…

News Defense Andrius Kubilius tells POLITICO the bloc needs to be more proactive on its own defense, “in case Article 5 suddenly is not implemented.” Copy Link Copied Share via email Share on X Share on WhatsApp Share on LinkedIn Free article usually reserved for subscribers The defense commissioner…

A painting of Ukrainian Cossacks raucously defying a hostile foreign power in the 17th century has taken on new relevance amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, sparking a trend of Ukrainian soldiers replicating the iconic scene. Soldiers began posing to mimic Reply of the Zaporizhian Cossacks in…

China’s artificial island bases have been out of the spotlight in recent years, with most coverage of the South China Sea instead focused on the activities of China’s coastguard, navy, and militia—or on Vietnam’s eye-catching efforts to expand its own outposts. But in the years since AMTI last…

The Telegraph published a full peace plan proposed by the European Union as an alternative to the American one. The plan consists of 24 points. Here they are: 1. Cessation of war and agreements that guarantee its non-recurrence, to establish a permanent basis for sustainable peace and security. 2.…

491A suspected test of a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from the Yasny launch area in Orenburg region on 28 November ended in a mid-air failure, with the rocket breaking up and exploding a short distance from the silo. Multiple videos posted by local residents show a launch plume…

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Eight of the Baltic Sea states are now in NATO, and just one littoral country, Russia, is not. That might seem a mismatch of force — the so-called NATO lake — but appearances can be deceptive, and no one should underestimate the ability of Moscow’s military to bring a serious fight to the “flooded…

Near the end of our crew’s first patrol in 2024, the chief boatswain’s mate coined a phrase, “video game mode,” to describe conning officers who depended heavily on the electronic charting system (ECS). The chief would accompany this phrase by widening his eyes and mimicking holding a controller,…

Naval News Navy 2025 Romania has signed a government-to-government agreement with Türkiye for the Hisar-class light corvette Akhisar, a near-new Turkish combat ship valued at €223 million.The acquisition is intended to strengthen Romania’s naval capabilities in the Black Sea and enhance regional…

WarDecember 4, 2025 11:50 am • 2 min read by A screenshot of Czech-Vietnamese foreign fighter Hoang Tran at court in Russian-occupied Luhansk, Ukraine, on Dec. 3, 2025. (Telegram) A Czech foreign fighter taken into Russian captivity has been sentenced to 13 years behind bars for "mercenary work,"…

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We visited BAE Systems’ facility on the Isle of Wight, the primary site in the UK for naval radar design and manufacture, for a briefing on progress. In the first of two articles, we focus on the work underway to develop new radar technology for the RN. BAES’ radar business is rooted in a mix of…

Watch your steppe The missile meant to strike fear in Russia’s enemies fails once again One of Vladimir Putin’s favorite sabres to rattle seems to have lost its edge. Stephen Clark – Dec 1, 2025 6:36 pm | 0 A fireball rises above the Russian steppe after the failure of a Russian missile shortly…

Whatever You Do, Don’t Call Them ‘Peace Talks’ December 3, 2025 |By By Maria Popova December 3, 2025 What Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are presenting to the world as peace talks are not peace talks. Peace talks are a form of diplomacy that require the two belligerents, in this case, Russia and…

Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, and Ohio State University, OH Summer Czarnowski, a geosciences intern at Sandia National Laboratories, holds a line tethered between a scientific payload and a weather balloon prior to launch at Moriarty Airport in New Mexico in July. (Image: Craig…