7+ hour, 21+ min ago   (434+ words) A Russian drone struck the locomotive of a Kyiv-to-Warsaw passenger train roughly 1.2 miles from the Polish border on Sunday, hitting the engine minutes after Ukrainian rail dispatchers detected the threat and ordered an evacuation that kept all 206 passengers unharmed. Ukraine’s…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (459+ words) A joint force from Britain, Norway, and the United States tracked and confronted Russian submersibles rehearsing a covert attack on undersea cables near Norway’s Svalbard archipelago this spring, forcing the vessels to abandon the exercise and leave the area. This…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (319+ words) Fiber-optic control now accounts for 70% of the drones Ukraine’s National Guard flies, up from about 20%, Commander Oleksandr Pivnenko said in an interview on September 8. The drones swap a radio link for a hair-thin glass cable that unspools in flight, giving…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (362+ words) A Russian military Mi-8 helicopter carrying an election official and four television journalists made an emergency landing on a highway on Sakhalin Island on September 2, then slid off the road and rolled into a ditch after both engines shut down from…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (319+ words) Russia is secretly helping Iran develop a new class of supersonic cruise missiles capable of threatening U.S. aircraft carriers and warships in the Middle East, according to a Financial Times investigation. The missile program, codenamed C430L, began taking shape in 2023 and involved…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (293+ words) Germany formally accused Russia on September 1 of the attempted explosive-drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month and raised the national threat assessment from “general” to “high,” the first such elevation tied to the country’s escalating confrontation with Moscow. — Bundesministerium…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (377+ words) Russian strikes have destroyed roughly 90% of the modern warehouse capacity used by Ukraine’s retail chains, Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Taras Vysotskyi said on August 28 at a press briefing in Kyiv. The figure covers the large distribution centers that supply…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago   (315+ words) Russia’s Defense Ministry said on August 30 that its forces have begun preparing large-scale strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, framing the campaign as retaliation for Ukrainian attacks on Russian fuel and energy sites and reviving the prospect of a fourth winter…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (463+ words) A former member of Russian protest group Pussy Riot said Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, forced her to spy on artists and political activists for nearly three years before she fled Russia earlier this month. Margarita Konovalova, also known…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (406+ words) CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow on Tuesday for undisclosed meetings with Russian officials, marking the first known visit by a sitting Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director since William Burns met Kremlin figures in November 2021. Two U.S. officials confirmed the…...