19 August, 2025 Walter PincusTech/Cyber Senior National Security Columnist, The Cipher Brief Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics that ranged from…

18 August, 01:36 PM Share: Ai Weiwei visited Khartia’s frontline combat positions in northern Kharkiv Oblast (Photo: petyaverzilov/Instagram) Author: Renowned Chinese artist, sculptor, photographer, and activist Ai Weiwei has arrived in Ukraine, visiting frontline positions of the National Guard’s…

A novel quantum sensor that measures gravity changes by detecting variations in the travel time of falling atoms has been tested in a first of its kind experiment aboard an Australian naval ship. The sensor—a dual gravimeter—has been developed by Australian company Q-CTRL and could reach the market…

Russian Nuclear Cruiser Admiral Nakhimov Sets Sail After a Quarter Century of Repairs #Fleet #Russia Admiral Nakhimov. Photo from social networks The heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov has set sail following extensive repairs and modernization that lasted nearly a quarter of a…

A new anthology of Ukrainian poetry—spanning both classical and contemporary works—has been published in Greece by Koukkida Editions (ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΚΟΥΚΚΙΔΑ), marking a milestone in the country’s literary engagement with Ukraine. This was reported by Ukrainian media outlet Chytomo on August 1, citing…

Russian Hackers Attack Hydroelectric Power Plant in Poland #Europe #Neighbor nations #World Interface of a hacked hydroelectric power plant. Photo by CyberDefence24 Polish industrial control systems (ICS/OT), which manage critical infrastructure, are regularly targeted by Russian hacktivists. This…

Europe | Why the west of Donetsk matters He wants Trump to secure for him what Russia’s army cannot Photograph: Getty Images |4 min read WHAT RUSSIA cannot get by fighting it is demanding to be given on a plate through the pressure that Donald Trump can put on Ukraine and on America’s European…

As European leaders and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky gather in Washington to persuade President Donald Trump not to abandon Ukraine and to secure Western security guarantees for Kyiv, one thing is certain: Vladimir Putin will not abandon his quest to dominate the Black Sea. In a…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy openly challenged a territorial map presented in the Oval Office during his 18 August meeting with US President Donald Trump and several European leaders, arguing that the displayed 20% figure of Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory was misleading. Zelenskyy…

BALTIMORE -- Investigators on Tuesday were trying to determine what caused an explosion aboard a cargo ship laden with coal as it departed Baltimore's harbor for East Africa. Officials said no one was injured in the blast Monday evening, which prompted a mayday call when it was reported near the…

Working with Greenpeace UK, sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor CBE has completed an unauthorized and potentially illegal modern art installation at a platform in the North Sea. It may be the first piece of "fine art" - designed and conceived by a figure from the modern art world - ever to debut aboard an…

There’s historical precedent for Moscow to worry. 14 August, 2025 RussiaEuropeIntelligence The Oil tanker Eagle S is seen anchored near the Kilpilahti port in Porvoo, on the Gulf of Finland on January 7, 2025. The Swedish navy said on January 7, it had recovered from the Baltic Sea the anchor of an…

The United Kingdom is taking action to preserve its rich maritime history by stopping a collection of nautical charts, including some that were drawn by famed British navigator and explorer Captain James Cook, from leaving the country. The UK government placed an export bar, temporarily stopping the…

Defence Intelligence of Ukraine has reported that Russia is failing to fulfil its state defence order for Kh-59 air-launched cruise missiles. Source: Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence in an interactive diagram released on the War & Sanctions portal Details: The data shows that of the 116 companies…

First Lady Melania Trump sent a personal letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin addressing the deportations of Ukrainian children during the ongoing war, according to Reuters citing White House officials. Trump hand-delivered the letter during their 15 August summit in Anchorage, Alaska. The…

US President Donald Trump and European allies have discussed security guarantees for Ukraine "in the style of Article 5" of the North Atlantic Treaty, but with no NATO involvement. Source: CNN with reference to its sources, also confirmed by an Ukrainska Pravda source Details: An unnamed European…

For years, the Baltic Sea could be treated as geopolitically peripheral. That assumption is now dead. Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine shifted threat perceptions and revealed just how exposed the Baltic region has become: physically, legally, and digitally. Russian aircraft regularly harass NATO…

Part of the interior repairs have been completed in the medical and diagnostic building of the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital, which was damaged by a Russian attack on 8 July 2024. The facade is also being repaired. Details: Interior repair works are ongoing on five floors of the building.…

Russian businesses are receiving fewer orders, facing rising costs, and growing more pessimistic about the future. Source: The Moscow Times, an independent Amsterdam-based news outlet Details: In July, Russia's service sector activity index (PMI Services) dropped to 48.6 points from 49.2 in June,…

A hungry ration for Orbán: How a Ukrainian drone strike disrupted Russian oil transit to Hungary August 17, 2025, 04:35 AM 46 Exclusive Share: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is once again unhappy with Ukraine’s actions. (Photo: REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo) Author: A Ukrainian drone and…

Rising Lion and Iran With the conclusion of Operation Rising Lion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu iterated that Israel has accomplished its strategic operational goals, in particular, rolling back the Iranian threat in terms of both its nuclear weapons program and ballistic missiles. The…

If I wanted, in two days I could have Russian troops not only in Kiev, but also in Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Warsaw, and Bucharest. -Russian President Vladimir Putin, September 2014 Introduction Lawrence Freedman quotes this statement from Putin, taken from an article in the Daily Telegraph, in his…

In July 2025, in the waters of the Caribbean Sea, the Colombian Navy intercepted a vessel that, although empty, carried immense symbolic weight for global security: the first unmanned and remotely guided narco-submarine.[1] This event was not just another seizure in the long and arduous conflict…

The Hudson Institute has identified eight critical targets across Russia and occupied territories that Ukraine could strike to destabilize Moscow’s war effort. The report, authored by Luke Coffey and Can Kasapoğlu and titled “Breaking the Stalemate: Russian Targets Ukraine Should Strike,” argues…

Today, the biggest news comes from Azerbaijan, where a sudden escalation shattered regional stability as Russian airstrikes targeted and destroyed key Azerbaijani state oil infrastructure in Ukraine. In response, Türkiye signaled its readiness to deploy forces to Azerbaijan, setting the stage for a…

A group publishing pro-Russia propaganda online is impersonating legitimate news outlets in an attempt to disseminate disinformation, Politico reported, citing misinformation tracking organization NewsGuard. The effort, known as Storm-1679, creates websites that mimic real news outlets and uses…

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News Politics “Maximum audacity,” raged top presidential adviser Andriy Yermak. Andriy Yermak said that the Russians are using the symbols of the United States "in their own terrorist, aggressive war.” | Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA August 18, 2025 3:42 pm CET By Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s…

This is a decisive moment for Ukraine. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been torn from their families and forcibly taken to Russia or Russian-occupied territories, where they are given away for adoption to pro-Putin families. While the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has…

∄ / K4119 Images view more + Kyiv’s hottest club does not exist: ∄, often referred to as Kyrylivska 41 (or K41) for its street address, is paradoxically both famous and nameless. Hosted in a massive former brewery in the industrial Podil district, ∄ – the only dedicated queer club in the capital –…

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One of Russia’s leading HIV support organizations says it has been stripped of government funding this year, leaving vital services in jeopardy at a time when the country continues to struggle with one of the world’s fastest-growing HIV epidemics. The AIDS.Center foundation said it failed twice this…

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How is Russia circumventing sanctions? By sea. Ukrainian intelligence has revealed details of operations involving 42 ships engaged in transporting sanctioned Russian and Iranian oil, stolen Ukrainian grain and coal, as well as bunkering activities of the so-called “shadow fleet.” For Ukraine, this…

The shadow tanker fleet transports growing volumes of sanctioned oil around the world, generates billions of dollars in revenue for russia and Iran, threatens environmental safety in the oceans, serves as a spy platform, and is used for sabotage activities in the interests of the aggressor. The…

The math is brutal: Russia has three times Ukraine’s population and pays soldiers twice as much. Moscow can afford to send wave after wave of troops to die on Ukrainian soil. Ukraine cannot match those numbers. So Ukraine is building something else entirely—an army where robots handle the dying.…

Photo: Chytomo Ulyana Guz A unique cultural and educational project, "Booksin," has been launched in Ukraine. It is a mobile library on a bus that is being sent to travel through various regions, providing access to modern literature and cultural events, particularly for internally displaced…