NATO's chief officer delivered a pointed critique of Russia's naval capabilities on 13 October, using the circumstances of a Russian submarine's recent surfacing to illustrate what he characterized as Moscow's deteriorating military position in the Mediterranean. Mark Rutte, speaking in Slovenia,…

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15 October, 06:58 PM World Share: A delegation of Ukrainian officials met with representatives of Raytheon (Photo: Video screenshot / Andriy Yermak) A Ukrainian government delegation visiting the United States met with executives from Raytheon, the manufacturer of Tomahawk missiles, Andriy Yermak,…

News By RFE/RL An oil tanker sails in Arabian Sea off the coast in Mumbai. (file photo) Share US President Donald Trump said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assured him that India will stop buying Russian oil after the United States announced a doubling of tariffs on Indian goods over the…

Russian pop star Shaman has released a new song praising North Korean leader Kim Jong Un which he performed during a concert in Pyongyang last week, according to Russian media reports and video clips released late Wednesday. Shaman was among a group of Russian singers and dancers invited to perform…

Photos 11:18 13 Oct 2025 Photo: Facebook / Lviv Regional Military Administration Ulyana Guz Rehina Abramova, a six-year-old gymnast from Lviv, set a world record by completing 223 consecutive lift-turns. The Lviv Regional Military Administration reports this. The previous world record, also held by…

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Russia is preparing to introduce textbooks for school language and literature classes aimed at promoting “patriotism” and “spiritual and moral values” among students, the authors of the new materials said Thursday at a Federation Council session. Moscow has ramped up efforts to enforce its view of…

14 October, 03:38 PM Europe Share: Polish prosecutors have filed an indictment against two Russians (Photo: Policja) Polish prosecutors filed an indictment against a Russian couple accused of spying for Russia's FSB Federal Security Service and plotting to ship explosives, the National Prosecutor's…

The word "revolution" tends to conjure images of protests, rage, bloodshed, reshaped borders or toppled despots. But a look at the history of revolutions sometimes reveals a "mellower" aftermath: songs birthed in turmoil that have stood the test of time. Across centuries and continents, political…

Hundreds of Russians have called for Putin's overthrow in a rare public outburst of negative sentiment against the despot in St. Petersburg. A massive crowd was seen joining street musicians at Kazanskaya Square to sing banned anti-war lyrics on October 13. Russian citizens jumped up and down as…

Britain has begun developing a new Atlantic surveillance drone network designed to detect submarines and strengthen maritime intelligence operations amid rising concerns over Russian espionage and undersea activity, according to the UK Defence Journal on October 15. The move comes just weeks after a…

The U.S. Army and its NATO allies are rapidly aligning resources to develop a new "Eastern Flank Deterrence Line" aimed at developing combat capabilities that can measure up to possible Russian attacks, according to service commanders in Europe. U.S. Army Europe and Africa commander Gen. Christopher…

Putin's regime has revived the practice of forced psychiatric treatment, once widespread in the Soviet Union, to suppress dissidents, anti-war activists, and even children and teens expressing pro-Ukrainian views. This isn't about medical care. Russia is systematically destroying people's ability to…

IN A NUTSHELL 🌊 Undersea cables are being repurposed as sonar arrays through Distributed Acoustic Sensing technology. 🛰️ Several nations, including the U.S. and UK, are integrating DAS into their maritime strategies. ⚠️ Concerns arise over the potential for adversaries to jam or spoof DAS-enabled…

In 2023, Mikko-Pekka Hanski, one of the founders of the Finnish-Ukrainian company Double Tap Investments, established the music label Solovey Music. The platform serves as a tool for promoting Ukrainian culture abroad. Among its signatories are Ukrainian, Finnish, and Estonian artists such as Yona,…

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I had been working on Exeter University’s Ukrainian Wartime Poetry project for two years when the invitation came to travel to the country’s largest literary festival. I didn’t exactly relish the prospect of a journey to a war zone, but I was assured that visiting BookForum in Lviv, a city so far…

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Defense News Army 2025 Iraq is reviewing a proposal to acquire about 250 K2 Black Panther main battle tanks from South Korea’s Hyundai Rotem, valued at roughly $6.5 billion. The plan aims to gradually replace Iraq’s fleet of American M1A1 Abrams tanks and older Soviet models with a single…

News Trade A factory on the edge of the EU needs to prove that the bloc can reduce its reliance on China while ensuring a future for fossil fuel workers. 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…

Homepage News World 15:30 13 Oct 2025 Photo: Facebook / Anna Malihon Ulyana Guz American publisher World Poetry Books has released Ukrainian writer Anna Malihon's poetry collection "Girl with a Bullet." Chytomo reported this with a link to the author's Facebook page. The publishing house notes that…

Amid the shadow of war, the world-renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has brought his first-ever exhibition to Kyiv. Commissioned by the non-profit platform RIBBON International, Ai’s installation is a site-specific response to the escalating wars threatening the world of today, and a…

For decades, Russia’s power in Central Asia rested on pipelines. Moscow built these oil and gas networks to tie Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan northward, making Russia both a market and a gatekeeper to global exports. For years, that system delivered revenue to Russian companies and…

Below, you’ll find a digest of news reports from October 15, 2025, in Russian and English on energy trade, Russian political repressions and legal cases, European security, the war in Ukraine, and Russia’s strange politics under Vladimir Putin. Energy wars 🛢️ “President Trump said on Wednesday that…

The views expressed in this Paper are the authors’, and do not represent those of MOD, the Royal Navy, RNSSC, or any other institution. The transformation of the UK’s Commando Forces (CF), anchored in the Littoral Response Groups (LRGs) and the CF concept, represents an ambitious shift in British…

Ukrainian women have a better chance to fly airplanes and pursue careers in the traditionally male-dominated aviation field since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, but females are still heavily in the minority, four aviation university students told Kyiv Post in recent…

Summary: Russia has earned 954 billion euros from exports of fossil fuels since the intensification of its war against Ukraine in 2022, 214 billion euros of which came from the EUOil and gas account for 30–50% of Russian budget revenue and 20% of gross domestic product (GDP)China remained the…

The liquid air alternative to fossil fuels 3 hours ago Michael Marshall Highview Power Highview Power's prototype facility successfully used liquid air to store power (Credit: Highview Power) An overlooked technology for nearly 50 years, the first liquid air energy storage facility is finally set to…

At 2 am, the crew of a Swedish-donated CB90 rapid assault craft tears away from shore so fast they rip their mooring rope from the dock. Seventeen Russian Shahed drones are buzzing toward a port south of Odesa, and the Ukrainian sailors have minutes to get their Browning machine gun into position.…

At present, the Kremlin appears to be repeating its Cold War–era strategy in the Baltic region, manifested through hybrid operations and deliberate provocations aimed at drawing NATO into a conflict. The objective remains the same — to achieve political goals through psychological intimidation and…

The United States and Finland signed a deal on October 9 that sets out the framework for the construction of a total of up to 11 icebreakers using Finnish designs and expertise. It comes after months of negotiations between the two countries and builds on a 2024 agreement between the U.S., Canada,…

The Danish government plans to set up a DKK 6bn ($935m) war insurance scheme for its merchant shipping fleet, positioning the Nordic maritime nation to safeguard its vessels in the event of a war crisis. The proposed bill, which the government was planning to introduce to the nation’s parliament on…

The new front in great power competition is not cyber or space, but cognition. Beijing and Moscow are systematically weaponizing perception – deploying artificial intelligence, disinformation, and psychological operations to erode trust in institutions, fracture alliances, and weaken democratic…

Power engineers managed to restore power to all consumers in the Cherkasy region who lost power as a result of the night attack and reduce the volume of outages in the Kharkiv region, but emergency outages are still ongoing in Kyiv and seven regions, the Ministry of Energy has said. "Thanks to the…

Russia will shoot down Tomahawk cruise missiles and bomb any launch sites if the US supplies them to Ukraine, Andrei Kartapolov, head of the Russian parliament’s defense committee, told the state Reuters news agency on Wednesday 8. Kartapolov said Moscow would also seek ways to “hurt those who cause…