On November 19, 2025, European Union institutions circulated a high-priority cybersecurity alert. It warned that a spear-phishing campaign impersonating the Belgrade Security Conference 2025 was targeting officials across the EU and North America. A fake registration domain redirected recipients to…

By Dr. Sergey Sukhankin On January 15, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that Moscow is concerned about the escalation of the situation around Cuba and considers the “language of U.S. blackmail” unacceptable (Interfax, January 15). These comments were a response to U.S.…

Military vehicles Yuliia Bond I am in Ukraine as I write this, moving between my hometown, Marhanets, and Kyiv as winter deepens and electricity disappears without warning. People ask how the trip is going, and I struggle to answer. “Fine” feels dishonest. “Hard” feels inadequate. What I feel most…

BUDAPEST , HUNGARY, January 9, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — At a moment when Ukraine’s struggle is increasingly debated across global political, cultural, and academic arenas, the Invisible University for Ukraine (IUFU) brings together scholars, students, artists, and civil society leaders for its 4th…

Thomas Graham is a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The Kremlin certainly welcomes the unprecedented tensions between the United States and its European allies over Greenland. By demanding that Denmark cede the Arctic island to the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump…

Red Sea attacks and Arctic ice melt are now part of the same story: as one corridor has become a live-fire risk for seafarers, planners sketch a Nordic-Arctic bypass that could weaken the networks the United States relies on for leverage, and that underpin today’s US-centric maritime system. The…

Electronic music in Ukraine has a long and rich history that began in the 1990s and continues today on world stages or local parties. In the new issue of the Artillery project, Yulia Tkachuk tells about the path of the Ukrainian electronic scene and whether it managed to endure after 2022. Below is…

“The last Fleet was lost to me for want of Frigates; God forbid this should.” Lord Horatio Nelson, letter to Viscount Castlereagh, Oct. 5, 1805 The US Navy is hitting the reset button on its next round of small surface combatants. In a surprise announcement on social media, Secretary of the Navy…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. Four decommissioned U.S. Navy Avenger class mine countermeasures ships have left Bahrain on what may be their final voyage aboard a larger heavy lift vessel. Avengers had…

Snow piled against the carriage windows as Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP Stephen Gethins edged ever closer to Ukraine, his train from Krakow in Poland crawling east as the temperature dropped and his 21-hour journey stretched on. By the time he reached Kyiv in the small hours of the morning, the…

Ever since US President Donald Trump returned to the White House just over a year ago, it has become increasingly apparent that the world is now entering a new and unpredictable era of international relations. For Europe, this has meant coming to terms with the idea that continued US military…

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Black Sea Fleet Russia Atesh Russian military command is reportedly weighing the removal of Black Sea Fleet chief Sergei Pinchuk after repeated failures to stop Ukrainian naval drone attacks, partisans say. by Julia Struck | Jan. 26, 2026, 2:46 pm Email Sergei Pinchuk (Photo by Wikipedia) Email Flip…

As negotiations continue to drag on between Washington, Kyiv and Moscow, the Kremlin’s narrative about the war has centered on one potential solution: evicting Ukrainian forces from the Donbas. Not by force, of course. After nearly four years of continuous, devastating war, Russian troops are still…

Russia is scaling up its educational programs for journalists in Southeast Asia, Africa, China, and India, pushing a pro-Kremlin agenda and propaganda under the guise of an "alternative narrative" and a "fight against fakes." In December 2025, Russian state-run media outlet RT (formerly Russia…

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With the outbreak of war in 2022, the patriotic song once again became for Ukrainians a form of collective unity and conscious resistance. This is a stable function of art in times of war. However, when Ukraine’s domestic war has already lasted longer than World War I, it seems that everything has…

Thousands of homes in Kyiv are without electricity, water, and heating. Rubryka has put together a guide to places across the city where you can warm up for free, charge your devices, and get a hot drink or something to eat. What's the problem? Because of regular Russia strikes on energy…

Sidebar Stories Aid Zaporizhzhia-NPP Ukraine is full of stories. But some encounters, you know, will stay with you for the rest of your life. In many ways, a random taxi driver summed up this war. by Susan Mathison | Jan. 26, 2026, 1:43 pm Email (Photo by Susan Mathison) Email Flip We’ve just…

Europe Ukraine January 26, 2026, 8:29 AM After nearly a year of chaotic, stop-and-start efforts to broker a cease-fire in Ukraine, the Trump administration remains deeply involved in talks to stop the war. Unsurprisingly, the most vexing topic remains territorial concessions—in Trump-speak, “land…

Topic: Diplomacy, and Military Aid Region: Europe January 30, 2026 By: Ramon Marks Share The longstanding Western alliance is far more likely to evolve and accommodate US demands for a strengthened Europe. NATO Europeans are reluctantly facing the fact that they must assume, after more than 75…

Features 'Ukraine Is Not Losing, Russia Is Not Winning': Amid Push For Peace, Here's How Things Look On The Battlefield Share Share This winter's bitter cold has made fighting even more strenuous than normal -- for Ukrainian and Russian troops alike. A quick drive southeast of the embattled…

Moscow’s “Oreshnik” strike on January 9, 2026 is best understood as strategic signaling designed to shape what NATO will and will not do. Russia’s use of nuclear-capable delivery systems in the Russo-Ukrainian War underscores a returning logic: nuclear weapons as instruments of coercion and risk…

Share on LinkedIn Share Send email Mail Ukraine has emerged as the world’s most intense proving ground for modern warfare. Yet, these lethal advances in technology and tactics will not remain confined to Ukrainian battlefields. While wars typically end with questions about security guarantees and…

How to Turn Trump’s Tantrum Into a Win for Everyone January 28, 2026 Sunset over Nuuk, Greenland, January 2026 Mads Claus Rasmussen / Reuters Sumantra Maitra is an Elected Fellow at the Royal Historical Society and Founder of Clio Strategic Consulting. Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard is a Senior…

Abstract Cognitive warfare is frequently referred to as a derivative of influence, information, or emerging technologies. This essay, instead, posits that one of its most destabilizing aspects, often an untouched aspect, is economic: Cognitive warfare is relatively cheap to initiate but rather…

Introduction: The Problem Is Not Blind Obedience—It Is Premature Certainty Much of the literature on leadership failure begins with a familiar diagnosis: followers obey when they should resist. This framing is intuitively appealing, but analytically incomplete. It treats obedience as a terminal…

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Abstract : This article examines the continued relevance of Che Guevara’s theory of guerrilla warfare through the lens of Myanmar’s ongoing civil war. Focusing on popular support, rural power bases, and ideology, it argues that despite criticisms of Guevara’s originality and mixed historical record,…

The Trump administration has become a direct threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its NATO allies. Trump has stated repeatedly that he wants to take over Denmark’s semi-autonomous territory of Greenland, promising tariffs against European governments that stand in his way, and to…

Peter Slezkine: I’m Peter Slezkine, Director of the US-Russia-China Trialogue Project at the Stimson Center. Since the middle of the 20th century, relations among the United States, Russia, and China have had an enormous impact on each country separately and on the world as a whole. The purpose of…

Available Downloads Download the Brief 4202kb The Issue Despite claims of battlefield momentum in Ukraine, the data shows that Russia is paying an extraordinary price for minimal gains and is in decline as a major power. Since February 2022, Russian forces have suffered nearly 1.2 million…

Community Family sees exhausted UPS driver working hard and invites him to 'make a plate' at family cookout "Everybody family around here 😭." Emily ShifferUpworthy Staff 01.26.26 Relaxed008/YouTube UPS driver invited to family's cookout. UPS drivers are always on the grind delivering packages around…

Ukraine will receive new energy and humanitarian assistance from several partner countries in the coming days, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said, as the government works to stabilize the power system after repeated Russian attacks. Ukraine is in the midst of a severe winter energy crisis.…