A little more than two weeks before the US midterm elections scheduled for 3 November, MAGA activists are pressing Donald Trump to resort to emergency measures in the event of “fraud” – from declaring martial law to suspending the elections.…
On 9 September 2026 Ukrainian drones struck two gas condensate plants belonging to Gazprom and Novatek in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, roughly 2,800 km from the border, and for the first time the Yamal LNG complex, in which Chinese entities…
On the night of 6 to 7 October 2026, on Vladimir Putin’s 74th birthday, Russia sent 70 missiles and 130 drones against Ukraine and killed at least 19 people, including four children in Pryluky. Whether the date was chosen with…
For four years Russian agencies have been explaining to their audience that biological death would arrive from Ukraine – on the wings of mosquitoes, bats and migratory birds tuned to a “specific Russian genotype”. On the night of 2 October…
In brief: A non-paper with a nuclear threat: what is known for certain Reuters saw the text of the document. In it Moscow accuses the Alliance of a “dangerous and reckless course” and writes: “Russia will be ready to use…
At the Valdai Club meeting Vladimir Putin talked about Ukraine again. Except that in this speech Ukraine was the scenery, not the addressee. The addressee was you – the societies of the West, which elect governments, fund defence and have…
Washington has found a way to bring Russia back into the family of nations. The Kremlin releases a few political prisoners, America eases sanctions, and peace arrives by itself, ideally in a package with oil, diesel and rare earth metals.…
Of more than three hundred cases in which a Russian link has been investigated in the West since February 2022, the evidence points strongly to Moscow in only about forty specific incidents. As many as 29 of them fall in…
The September mission of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner did not produce a general moratorium on long-range strikes. Its most tangible result was a three-day pause covering Moscow and Kyiv, tied to the security of the American delegation. Talks resumed,…
On the night of 12–13 September a Russian air raid on Ukraine set fire to a petrol station and several lorries at the Yahodyn–Dorohusk border crossing, some 800 metres from the border with Poland. Poland scrambled aircraft, placed ground-based air…
