After Ukrainian strikes on three Yandex data centres, the company has still not restored them to full operation. Users felt the disruption to taxis, delivery services and cloud services not only in Russia, but also in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Belarus.…
The Russian government has submitted to the State Duma its draft federal budget for 2027 and the planning period 2028–2029. The document is currently being examined by the relevant committee, and the first reading in the State Duma is scheduled…
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…
Russia is waging a hybrid war in an attempt to make the West think about its own security, believes Ruslan Bortnik, head of the Ukrainian Institute of Politics. On 25 September the Russian news agency RIA Novosti published an article…
No one has the right to rush a pyrotechnician; it is his responsibility alone, and his decision alone, when an explosive object can be considered safe. Where lives may depend on a single movement, pyrotechnicians are at work. The head…
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…
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…
Ukrainian troops report the mass appearance of a “cobweb” over Ukraine’s forests along the line of contact. The fibre stays in the trees after the use of a new type of FPV drone that is invisible to electronic warfare systems.…
Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reported that around three thousand servicemen from Africa are taking part in the war against Ukraine on Russia’s side. Yurii Oliinyk, head of research programmes at the non-governmental analytical centre Ukrainian Strategic Studies and…
Ukraine is countering Russian influence around the world by sending troops to share their experience with countries that are confronting Russian military formations. Around fifteen soldiers have been sent to Africa to train local juntas in the use of drones…
