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“Attacks of this kind should be unacceptable”: Experts comment on Russian drone strike on nuclear research facility in Kyiv

Russian tug Sarmat spent nearly a week operating around critical underwater cables off the coast of Denmark with seabed-capable equipment

Satellite imagery reveals suspected hideout for ultra-secret Losharik submersible at Russian deep-sea research base

Russian diesel exports via the Black Sea fall to zero for the first time on record

Russia and five CIS countries agree to share data on “extremists and terrorists”

Penal colony in St. Petersburg confiscates books by foreign authors to burn them in a furnace

U.S. levies sanctions on suppliers to Iran’s defense industry, including network tied to Shahed drone manufacturer HESA

German-owned Metro retailer in Samara supplied food to the Russian military — while the company’s Ukraine arm aided Kyiv’s forces

Putin hands out state honors to 51 Channel One employees, including sanctioned propagandists and authors of fake news reports

Kanye West concerts in St. Petersburg will not take place, partner agency says

Chair of Russian opposition party Yabloko charged with “hooliganism” for spoiling his election ballot

“There’s no catch”: Russia’s Ministry of Defense rolls out recruitment drive for drone units at schools and universities nationwide

Tu-95 long-range bomber crashes in Russia’s far eastern Amur Region, killing six crew members

EU weighs NATO Article 4-style mechanism to coordinate response to hybrid attacks

Estonia accuses Russia of ordering arson attack on drone manufacturer Milrem Robotics

Russia’s Kamchatka region is preparing for possible drone attacks — despite being 7,000 kilometers from Ukraine

At least 82 Russian regions have banned the publication of photos, videos and reports on Ukrainian drone strikes

Oxygen Forensics, which supplied software to U.S. government agencies and Russia’s FSB, also worked with EU law enforcement

Russian state company looks to buy stakes in Chinese semiconductor plants for production capacity as domestic technology lags

Times report says Russia reactivated its “Dead Hand” nuclear retaliation system — expert Pavel Podvig says the system was never deactivated

Russian-Israeli couple detained in Montenegro with 19 suitcases, police find €1 million in cash and surveillance gear at their apartment

Bulgarians detained over Munich arson were part of GRU-linked group operating from Slovakia

More than 100 “shadow fleet” oil tankers have switched to the Russian flag since the start of 2025, report finds

Latvia bars entry to the father of PM candidate Jūlija Stepaņenko after The Insider’s report on his business with the Russian military

U.S. arrests executives of Oxygen Forensics after company supplied smartphone-access tools to both ICE and the FSB

Kazakhstan begins coordinating extradition of Chechen activist Mansur Movlaev, opens similar process for Navalny volunteer Yulia Yemelyanova

Man from Tyumen jailed for 8 years for leaving $3.50 worth of Stars under banned Telegram posts

Interpol issues Red Notice for Uzbek banker who said he was kidnapped in Paris last year — on suspicion of organizing a separate kidnapping

Polish officials suspect sabotage after fire at Starlink station providing internet to the Ukrainian military

U.S. intelligence warns Spain, France and Italy of possible Russian Gerbera drone attack from commercial ships, El Mundo reports

Father of Latvian PM candidate Jūlija Stepaņenko owns a company in the Moscow Region that made “dragon’s teeth” for the Russian military

Company owned by Putin’s former mistress Svetlana Krivonogikh stages cabaret shows at his “wine Disneyland” in Gelendzhik

EU extends Russia sanctions for three years, lifts restrictions on billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman

Drone and suspected explosives found near Bundeswehr base are possibly linked to Leipzig airport incident

Germany plans to restrict Saxony-Anhalt’s access to secret defense plan against Russia after AfD’s election win

Auchan’s Russian business gets a CEO from the Kremlin two days after transfer to “temporary management”

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