Press release For the first time, Ukraine's climate commitments formally recognize children and young people as vulnerable groups requiring targeted protection and explicitly commits to involving young people in climate policy-making. 28 November 2025 Home Press Centre UNICEF welcomes Ukraine’s new…

Naval News Navy 2025 The U.S. Navy has taken delivery of the future USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr., a Flight IIA Technology Insertion destroyer built by Bath Iron Works. The ship enhances the service's surface warfare capacity and enters final preparations before entering operational duty. The U.S. Navy…

Topic: Air Warfare Blog Brand: The Buzz Region: Oceania December 1, 2025 Share The RAAF has developed into Oceania’s strongest air force—driven in large part by alarm over Chinese expansion in the Indo-Pacific. The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is one of the most modern and technologically…

Vivat Publishing has decided not to publish the book Gone Before Goodbye by American actress Reese Witherspoon about a Russian oligarch from Rublyovka. The publishing director Yulia Orlova explained this decision in talks with the media: the rights to translate the novel were acquired back in…

The European Union reached a significant political agreement on 3 December, which will lead to an effective and permanent halt to the import of Russian gas and a gradual phaseout of Russian oil. This historic decision will eliminate the EU’s dependence on an unreliable supplier that has repeatedly…

Russia's Tu-22M bombers haven't been a serious threat to Ukraine for a year That may change soon as the bombers move closer to the Ukrainian border There are signs Russia is rebuilding the battered Tu-22M fleet with refurbished airframes The Russian air force's Tupolev Tu-22M Backfire bombers have…

News Politics Any move to “wipe the slate clean” for Russia in a peace deal would be “a historic mistake of huge proportions,” the EU justice commissioner tells POLITICO. Copy Link Copied Share via email Share on X Share on WhatsApp Share on LinkedIn EU Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath told…

Executive Summary This report evaluates the current relations between Ukraine and Kazakhstan after the naval drone strike on the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal near Novorossiysk on November 29, 2025, and Astana’s formal protest to Kyiv. The attack on Single-Point Mooring 2 resulted in…

News Defense Andrius Kubilius tells POLITICO the bloc needs to be more proactive on its own defense, “in case Article 5 suddenly is not implemented.” Copy Link Copied Share via email Share on X Share on WhatsApp Share on LinkedIn Free article usually reserved for subscribers The defense commissioner…

A painting of Ukrainian Cossacks raucously defying a hostile foreign power in the 17th century has taken on new relevance amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, sparking a trend of Ukrainian soldiers replicating the iconic scene. Soldiers began posing to mimic Reply of the Zaporizhian Cossacks in…

China’s artificial island bases have been out of the spotlight in recent years, with most coverage of the South China Sea instead focused on the activities of China’s coastguard, navy, and militia—or on Vietnam’s eye-catching efforts to expand its own outposts. But in the years since AMTI last…

The Telegraph published a full peace plan proposed by the European Union as an alternative to the American one. The plan consists of 24 points. Here they are: 1. Cessation of war and agreements that guarantee its non-recurrence, to establish a permanent basis for sustainable peace and security. 2.…

491A suspected test of a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from the Yasny launch area in Orenburg region on 28 November ended in a mid-air failure, with the rocket breaking up and exploding a short distance from the silo. Multiple videos posted by local residents show a launch plume…

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Eight of the Baltic Sea states are now in NATO, and just one littoral country, Russia, is not. That might seem a mismatch of force — the so-called NATO lake — but appearances can be deceptive, and no one should underestimate the ability of Moscow’s military to bring a serious fight to the “flooded…

Near the end of our crew’s first patrol in 2024, the chief boatswain’s mate coined a phrase, “video game mode,” to describe conning officers who depended heavily on the electronic charting system (ECS). The chief would accompany this phrase by widening his eyes and mimicking holding a controller,…

Naval News Navy 2025 Romania has signed a government-to-government agreement with Türkiye for the Hisar-class light corvette Akhisar, a near-new Turkish combat ship valued at €223 million.The acquisition is intended to strengthen Romania’s naval capabilities in the Black Sea and enhance regional…

WarDecember 4, 2025 11:50 am • 2 min read by A screenshot of Czech-Vietnamese foreign fighter Hoang Tran at court in Russian-occupied Luhansk, Ukraine, on Dec. 3, 2025. (Telegram) A Czech foreign fighter taken into Russian captivity has been sentenced to 13 years behind bars for "mercenary work,"…

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We visited BAE Systems’ facility on the Isle of Wight, the primary site in the UK for naval radar design and manufacture, for a briefing on progress. In the first of two articles, we focus on the work underway to develop new radar technology for the RN. BAES’ radar business is rooted in a mix of…

Watch your steppe The missile meant to strike fear in Russia’s enemies fails once again One of Vladimir Putin’s favorite sabres to rattle seems to have lost its edge. Stephen Clark – Dec 1, 2025 6:36 pm | 0 A fireball rises above the Russian steppe after the failure of a Russian missile shortly…

Whatever You Do, Don’t Call Them ‘Peace Talks’ December 3, 2025 |By By Maria Popova December 3, 2025 What Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are presenting to the world as peace talks are not peace talks. Peace talks are a form of diplomacy that require the two belligerents, in this case, Russia and…

Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, and Ohio State University, OH Summer Czarnowski, a geosciences intern at Sandia National Laboratories, holds a line tethered between a scientific payload and a weather balloon prior to launch at Moriarty Airport in New Mexico in July. (Image: Craig…

Naval News Navy 2025 Iran has recommissioned the Sahand frigate, along with the Kurdistan forward base ship, during a Navy Day ceremony in Bandar Abbas after completing repairs from the vessel’s 2024 capsizing incident. As reported by Mehr News on November 29, 2025, the Sahand frigate, which…

Europe & Eurasia Maritime Security NATO Northern Europe Security & Defense Issue Brief November 26, 2025 Bottom lines up front In 2023 and 2024, many undersea cables and a pipeline in the Baltic Sea were cut or damaged in a string of suspicious incidents. Caught by surprise, the Baltic states’…

On 28 November 2025, at least 30,000 Georgians (in a nation of 3.7 million) marked a full year of daily protests. Ukraine's Euromaidan lasted three months; Belarus's 2020 uprising—five. Georgia is now at twelve, and counting. Every single day since the ruling Georgian Dream party halted the…

Americans believe a strong military will provide better opportunity for global peace though the means to an end is viewed in a wide lens based on political partisanship, according to the Dec. 4 release of the 2025 Reagan National Defense Survey. The public opinion poll annually conducted since 2018…

European heads of state and government are apparently deeply distrustful of the U.S. when it comes to peace negotiations with Russia and Ukraine. According to notes from a conference call obtained by DER SPIEGEL, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron used drastic…

04 December, 2025 RussiaUkraineEurope Former Chief of CIA's Central Eurasia Division Rob Dannenberg served as chief of operations for CIA's Counterterrorism Center, chief of the Central Eurasia Division and chief of the Information Operations Center before retiring from the Agency. He served as…

The Russo-Ukraine War may be headed to a pause, if Western peace talks aimed at resolving the conflict move forward toward agreement. This means Western policymakers should be increasingly focused on how the post-ceasefire reality might look — and how to make it sustainable. The hard truth is that…

Photo: social media Ulyana Guz Éditions Bleu et Jaune has released the French translation of "Poems from the Arrow Loop," a collection by the late Ukrainian soldier-poet Maksym Kryvtsov, bringing his frontline writings to a francophone audience. Chytomo reported this. As noted, the French publishing…

Russian oil and gas revenues are poised to slump by 35% this month from a year earlier as the price of Russia’s crude has plunged and the local currency strengthened. Russia’s budget is expected to receive $6.63 billion (520 Russian billion rubles) from oil and gas in November, a decline of 35%…

There was a grim familiarity to the unveiling of Donald Trump’s latest peace proposals for Ukraine last week. As in August, when the US president invited Vladimir Putin to a summit in Alaska, Kyiv and its European allies were excluded from discussions that ended up echoing Kremlin talking points.…

The power radiating from a person’s gaze can’t be replicated. Just five photos, ten eyes, and the boundless energy they hold. Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SOF)—whose work remains largely unseen—shape outcomes far greater than most realize, in a nation fighting for its survival. Nov 25, 2025…

A coordinated wave of sanctions from the United States, United Kingdom and European Union in October 2025 has intensified global restrictions on Russia’s energy revenues, signalling a renewed effort to curb funding streams that support its military activities. According to KYC360, the latest…

Defense News Army 2025 Estonia’s Ministry of Defence has taken delivery of six additional K9 Thunder 155 mm self-propelled howitzers from South Korea’s Hanwha Defence, part of a 36-system program worth about 120 million euros. The new guns deepen Estonia’s indirect fire capacity on NATO’s eastern…

The “28-point peace plan” leaked to Axios was widely mocked as unrealistic, but the more serious concern is its origin. The New York Times has since reported that the proposal emerged from the Trump administration with direct input from Russian intermediaries, including conversations in Miami…

25 November, 2025 AmericasLatin AmericaWalter PincusFine Print 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…