Vladimir Putin has branded Keir Starmer and European leaders "little pigs" in a rabble-rousing address in Moscow. Mr Putin accused Sir Keir and his counterparts like Emmanuel Macron of conspiring to bring about Russia's collapse - and trying to profit from it. "Everyone believed that Russia would be…

Türkiye is trying to return its S-400 missile systems to Russia in an effort to reset relations with the United States, Bloomberg reports. The move could lead to the lifting of sanctions on Türkiye’s defense sector and reentry into the F-35 fighter jet program. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan…

Poland has made the decision to begin producing anti-personnel mines for the first time since the Cold War. These mines are intended to be deployed along the country's eastern border with Belarus and Russia, and may potentially be exported to Ukraine, according to the country's Deputy Defense…

20 December, 12:00 PM Share: On December 19, 2025, special operations forces struck the Russian military patrol ship Project 22460 Okhotnik (Photo: General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces) Ukraine’s defense forces successfully struck a Russian Project 22460 Okhotnik patrol ship with drones as it…

The Estonian Centre for Defence Investments (ECDI) has signed a €290 million contract with South Korea's Hanwha Aerospace for the delivery of K239 Chunmoo multiple-launch rocket systems. Under the agreement, Estonia will receive six K239 Chunmoo launchers along with three types of munitions. The…

Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov disclosed for the first time that direct spending on the war in Ukraine will consume 5.1% of GDP in 2025—over 11 trillion rubles ($110 billion) and more than 80% of Russia's entire defense budget. He made the announcement during an expanded Defense Ministry…

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Yesterday at 12:24 PM Views: 223 In a significant move to address the Indian Navy’s looming underwater capability gap, Russia has proposed the transfer of three refurbished Kilo-class diesel-electric submarines to India. The offer, reportedly valued at under $1 billion, aims to provide an interim…

The books, delivered to PEN Ukraine through a collaborative initiative involving the Book Aid International charity fund, English PEN, and PEN International, are now ready for distribution to libraries across Ukraine. 14 December: Over 25,000 (12 tons) of multi-genre children’s, adult, and young…

Home ... Multimedia ... Videos The winter paw-trol FROM THIS GALLERY The winter paw-trol The winter paw-trol 0:00 / 0:00 Back The winter paw-trol A group of Norwegian army conscripts follow their trusty military working dog on a mission. What are they searching for in the snow-covered forest? Join…

14:53 14 Dec 2025 Photo: Office of the President Ulyana Guz President Volodymyr Zelensky said that a peace plan to end the war will not be able to satisfy all parties, as it will inevitably involve compromises. At the same time, he stressed that any agreements must be fair to Ukraine and must…

19 December, 07:28 PM Share: Ukrainian Sea Baby drones attack Dashan tanker from Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ in the Black Sea. (Photo: Screenshot from video / NV / Telegram) Author: Drone strikes on Russian oil tankers have forced vessels from the Kremlin’s so-called “shadow fleet” to alter their routes…

2025 was certainly a bad year to be flying in or out of Lithuania. According to the Ministry of the Interior, 320 flights have been disrupted at Vilnius and Kaunas airports because of cigarette-smuggling air balloons crossing from Belarus, causing sixty hours of closures and affecting 47,000…

Russia’s Central Bank cut its key interest rate by a modest half percentage point on Friday, bringing it down to 16% in what marks the fifth consecutive reduction this year. Policymakers have been cautious in easing the key rate after hiking it to a two-decade high of 21% in September 2024 to curb…

The Kyiv Independent on Dec. 9 hosted its first live event in New York City, an evening dedicated to storytelling, investigative journalism, and front-line reporting. The evening supported the work of the Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigations Unit — a department formed in May 2023 to…

VLADIMIR Putin has vowed to seek revenge on those behind the killing of one of his top generals after a deadly Ukrainian drone strike in the Mediterranean. In a chilling Moscow end of year address, the Kremlin boss declared that “Russia is certainly going to respond”. Sign up for The US Sun…

4 min read Where the Danube Meets the Black Sea Image of the Day for February 15, 2013 The Danube Delta is a rich but threatened ecosystem, constantly remodeled by natural and human activities. NASA Earth Observatory Feb 15, 2013 Article View more Images of the Day: Feb 14, 2013 Feb 16, 2013…

Today, the biggest news comes from the Black Sea. Here, Russia's strikes on commercial vessels have now collided directly with Türkiye's interests in the Black Sea. Only days after Moscow accused Europe and Nato states, including Türkiye, of guiding Ukrainian strikes, the same narrative has been…

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Ukraine’s biosphere is being degraded constantly by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s noosphere. The concepts of “biosphere” and “noosphere” were developed in the 1920s and 1930s by the Russian Ukrainian geochemist Volodymyr Vernadsky (1863-1945) as he interacted with the French Jesuit Teilhard de…

Russia’s war machine is in “freefall”, the UK’s sanctions minister has said, with oil revenues hitting their lowest level since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Britain imposed 24 new sanctions on Russian oil exports on Thursday, The i Paper can reveal, targeting four of the country’s largest oil…

WASHINGTON DC – The US Senate floor erupted early this week in one of its most morally charged and strategically fraught debates in years, as lawmakers clashed over whether Russia’s conduct in Ukraine – particularly the mass abduction of children – warrants branding Moscow a state sponsor of…

A Putin loyalist and one of Russia’s most famous singers is scammed into selling her apartment to an unwitting buyer. The two parties discover they’ve been deceived. After a complaint is lodged, a court rules that the apartment should be returned — but not the money. Russia’s housing market gets…

On December 17, the Senate voted to send the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to US President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature. The bill includes provisions to authorize new military assistance for Ukraine, provide stronger oversight of the Trump administration’s arms sales and…

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About the author: Jacqueline Mahon is the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) representative to Ukraine. After the start of the full-scale invasion, Olha (name changed due to safety concerns) and her husband took in his mother to live with them. When her husband left for the front line, Olha…

Since 2022, the energy relationship between India and Russia has evolved from a limited bilateral arrangement into one of the most revealing mechanisms through which the global energy market has adapted to sanctions imposed on Moscow. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Europe’s rapid…

Western policymakers often treat "soft" humanitarian concerns, such as returning Ukrainian children from Russia, as separate from "hard" security issues like future defense guarantees for Ukraine. In reality, these cannot be disentangled. What happens to the children taken to Russia or living under…

Hiiu Leht, an Estonian media outlet, talked to women from a small Estonian fishing village who have been weaving camouflage nets for Ukrainian fighters. Rubryka tells their story. "Because it's still needed…" said one of the net-weavers — a woman who is likely one of the most consistently present…

Features The Mikati passing through the Danish Straits on December 15. "It may or may not put a Danish pilot on board for safety reasons. We hope they do," said Windward analyst Michelle Bockmann. "Danish pilots are allowed to provide services to the shadow fleet." What Happens To A Shadow Fleet…

Russian war in Ukraine ‘My dream is that some of them will become generals,’ says the head of gender affairs for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in which around 7% of the one million personnel are women A Ukrainian soldier in Donbas, in August.Jana Cavojska (Zuma Press / ContactoPhoto) “Why did you…

Defense Policy Libya Middle East North Africa Russia Security & Defense Syria MENASource December 18, 2025 • 11:32 am ET When Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed in December 2024, many analysts predicted that Russia was on the verge of losing the military infrastructure it had built up over the past…

A study published in the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies sheds new light, literally, on an ancient naval practice: the use of bonfires and coastal structures as aids to night navigation centuries before the first lighthouse was built. The research combines, for the…

"There will be no operations if you treat us with respect, respect our interests, just as we have constantly tried to respect yours. If you don't deceive us like you deceived us with NATO's eastward expansion." That was Vladimir Putin on 19 December 2025, responding to BBC's Steve Rosenberg during…

In a country where missiles and drones have halted civilian flights, train chief Pavlo Vynarchyk and thousands of railway “iron workers” keep Ukraine moving under Russian bombings, evacuating families and sustaining the nation’s lifeline. Nov 28, 2025 15:08 Updated Nov 28, 2025 16:49 7 min read…

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The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. A combination of new interceptors and launchers is set to give the Patriot surface-to-air missile system an “over-the-shoulder” engagement capability, the U.S. Army has…

Contracts of this size rarely make headlines, yet they often reveal more about real wartime consumption than battlefield footage ever could. The scale and structure of this award point to how intensively U.S. rocket artillery systems are being used—and how costly it is to keep them operational over…

In 2025, one of the key projects of the Justice Department of MIHR was the creation of a database of notices of suspicion issued to Russian military personnel for war crimes published on the website of the Office of the Prosecutor General. The database includes more than one thousand documents. The…