He said this in response to a question from an Ukrinform correspondent during a briefing by French Minister of the Armed Forces Catherine Vautrin in Kyiv. General de Montgros emphasized that issues of intelligence sharing are not often discussed publicly; however, French President Emmanuel Macron…

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The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers 5 hours ago David WaddellBusiness reporter AFP via Getty Images The number of abandoned oil tankers and other commercial ships has shot up Over the past year there has been a big rise in the number of oil tankers and other commercial ships being abandoned…

#Air Defense #UAV #Ukraine #ZBROYA GREY WIDOW‑1i interceptor drones. Photo credits: Nebesna Kara A single crew of the 1020th Anti-Aircraft Missile and Artillery Regiment shot down three Shahed-type drones at low altitude in one night using GREY WIDOW‑1i interceptor drones, developed on the basis of…

Planning a massive expansion of its armed forces by 2039, Poland is deliberately building a national capacity for sustained high-intensity war. The country is treating large-scale conflict no longer as hypothetical but as a baseline assumption shaping force structure, training and investment. This…

Money, not ideology, recruits disposable agents. Europe’s response must reflect this Acts of sabotage have emerged as a central tool of Russia’s hybrid warfare in Europe. Spanning arson attacks on warehouses, parcel bombs on logistics, attacks on railways carrying aid to Ukraine, and vandalism…

Russia’s military is scrambling to find alternatives to Starlink satellite internet after access to the network was curtailed, disrupting a key communications system that its forces had been using illicitly on the battlefield. Ukraine said last week that Starlink terminals being used by Russian…

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The Federal Security Service (FSB) said the target of the attack was Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev, deputy head of Russia’s military intelligence agency, who was seriously wounded Friday in a shooting outside a residential building in northwest Moscow. According to FSB statements cited by Interfax and…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the United States of sabotaging efforts to improve bilateral relations and of undermining negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. “Despite all the statements by the Trump administration about the need to end the war … it does not challenge all the…

Russian strikes on Ukrainian seaports periodically slash monthly agricultural exports by 20-30%, Deputy Economy Minister Taras Vysotskyi told RBC-Ukraine, leaving up to 10 million tons of grain sitting in storage without buyers. After Ukrainian naval drones forced Russia’s Black Sea Fleet to…

With the resumption of Venezuela's oil trade under U.S. management, shipments from state oil company PDVSA have resumed, including some shipments aboard the same shadow fleet tankers that have carried Venezuelan cargoes for years. Under new orders, some of these vessels are now visiting ports with…

[By Alicia M. Battaglia] As the world races to electrify everything from cars to cities, the demand for high-performance, long-lasting batteries is soaring. But the uncomfortable truth is this: many of the batteries powering our “green” technologies aren’t as green as we might think. Most commercial…

Normunds Mežviets, Director General of the Latvian State Security Service, has revealed that Russia is attempting to recruit individuals with criminal backgrounds to conduct sabotage operations. Source: Delfi, a Baltic states news website, citing Mežviets, as reported by European Pravda Details:…

Winter in Ukrainian cities stopped being just about cold weather a long time ago. In wartime, freezing temperatures now mean something far more serious: the risk of losing heat, water, and electricity all at once because of targeted Russian attacks on energy facilities and other critical…

On a freezing day in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, Yuriy Lyshenko is amply equipped for the cold in a bright red jacket designed for the winters of Antarctica. "Now this frost has hit, I need to put it on," he laughs. The 52-year-old is one of Ukraine's "military penguins," a small but growing…

Inha Pavlyi Relatively recently, a new technology for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) appeared on the frontlines in Russia’s war in Ukraine: fiber-optic linked guidance. When a drone is launched forward into the air a thin fiber-optic thread unspools behind it, settling onto the ground. As a result,…

Introduction For seventy years, America and its allies hunted steel hulls and listened for the heartbeat of propellers in the North Atlantic. Today, the heartbeat belongs to something far older, far smarter, and, according to the more feverish corners of Western intelligence—far more Russian. This…

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The Ukrainian company SEE (System Electronic Export), in cooperation with NAUDI, has unveiled a new autonomous aerial interception system known as SEEDIS at the World Defense Show in Riyadh. According to a Militarnyi correspondent at the exhibition on February 9, the system introduces a revised…

"Ukraine currently has agreements to receive 150 Gripen fighter jets and 100 Rafale jets. These are, in our view, the best aircraft in the world. Of course, there are also F-16s. Ukraine's Air Force already operates F-16s, not new ones, while the aircraft I just mentioned are new," the president…

Ukraine will open 10 weapons export centers across Europe in 2026 and expects its first German-produced drone within days, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on 8 February during a visit to Kyiv’s Aviation Institute to mark the 120th anniversary of legendary aircraft designer Oleh Antonov’s…

News Defense Lithuanian PM Inga Ruginienė tells POLITICO she wants U.S. troops to stay, but argues that “you never know what can happen.” AI generated Text-to-speech Copy Link Copied Share via email Share on X Share on WhatsApp Share on LinkedIn Free article usually reserved for subscribers “We need…

The Discourse by SWJ Staff | 02.09.2026 at 03:30pm On November 4, 2025, Estonian authorities detained an oil tanker that formed part of Russia's "shadow fleet" and that had been sailing through Estonian waters in the Gulf of Finland (Photo and caption courtesy USNI) In Living with the Ukraine War…

Why Is Russia’s Oil Output Declining for the Third Month in a Row? 09 Feb, 22:08 Energy In January, Russia’s oil production, excluding condensate, fell by 46,000 barrels per day, bringing output down to 9.28 million barrels daily. This marks the third consecutive month of decline, according to…

The outlet, citing informed sources, reports that in January the aggressor country produced an average of 9.28 million barrels of oil per day. This figure is 46,000 barrels per day lower than the already reduced December level, and nearly 300,000 barrels per day below what Russia is allowed to…

The EU has proposed extending its sanctions against Russia to include ports in Georgia and Indonesia that handle Russian oil, the first time it would target ports in third countries, a proposal document showed. The proposal, reviewed by Reuters, wouldadd Kulevi in Georgia and Karimun in Indonesia to…

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The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. Lockheed Martin has rolled out a new uncrewed undersea vehicle called Lamprey, designed to ride to and from operating areas attached to the hulls of ships and submarines.…

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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine has launched Mission Control, a first-of-its-kind digital command-and-control system designed to unify planning, execution and reporting for all drone operations across the country, as Kyiv seeks more innovative ways to move the frozen front line on the battlefield after…

Panic spread across Russian military channels in early February after Starlink implemented new restrictions on its satellite communications systems. Following assistance from Elon Musk, Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced mandatory Starlink terminal verification in Ukraine, with…

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A pupil at the ceremonial assembly in the occupied Sudak, Crimea, September 1, 2021. According to the project Crimea.Realities, an activist of the international campaign #LiberateCrimea spoke about the strengthening of pro-Ukrainian sentiments among teenagers in the annexed Crimea. In Crimea,…