Cognitive war

On Friday in Verona, during a break at the Fieracavalli international horse fair, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told journalists that Europe needs to increase its defense and security spending. In her view, civilian infrastructure today is threatened not by distant dangers but by attacks that can be felt in everyday life.

From January 1, 2027, France will take over air defense of the Rzeszów area in southeastern Poland, home to the most important logistics hub for Western military aid destined for Ukraine. French ambassador to Warsaw Étienne de Poncins told journalists on Friday, November 6, that "from January 1, France will take over air defense in the Rzeszów area within the framework of NATO."

Romania has officially asked the United States to significantly and permanently increase its military presence at the Mihail Kogălniceanu air base near Constanța and other key locations. G4Media, citing unnamed sources at the defense ministry, reported on November 6 in detail on what Ștefan Radu Oprea, the Social Democrat defense minister of the Niculescu government, found when he took over the mi

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte believes the Russian-Ukrainian war will most likely end not with a decisive victory for either side, but with a negotiated settlement. „Wars like this always end with a peace agreement, which is often a kind of compromise,” Rutte said in an interview with a Dutch television channel. The secretary general said he speaks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky e

Wounded soldiers have waited for weeks for someone to bring them out, supplies are faltering, and no one has gone back for some of the dead since last spring – this is how Russian soldiers describe what is happening around Tyotkino in Kursk region. The accounts were published by Severny Kanal, a pro-war Russian Telegram channel, and the English translation was posted on November 5 by British open-

In North Korea, children as young as eleven or twelve are already being scouted as future hackers for Kim Jong-un. The most successful ones may receive a spacious apartment in Pyongyang, and their military unit can receive up to thirty percent of the loot in dollars. Reuters investigated how Pyongyang built this system, after the FBI named a North Korean group as the perpetrator of the October 29

Vadim Krasnoselsky traveled to Moscow during negotiations over winter gas supplies, where Putin pinned the Russian Order of Honor on his chest. The Moldovan government announced the next day that the leader of the breakaway Transnistria region could come home, but he would be barred for five years from leaving Moldova. With that, Chișinău took away his most convenient excuse for staying in Moscow.

According to the German defense ministry, Berlin could jeopardize both its relations with the United States and its own defense industry orders if it weans itself off American weapons too quickly. Meanwhile, Washington is already notifying its European allies of delays in deliveries that have long been contracted, and Ukraine is waiting for Patriot missiles for which its partners have already paid

Russia is building such a grand democracy that soon there will be little point in keeping secrets at all. According to the Russian central bank's draft proposal, the FSB would have round-the-clock access to the customer data of domestic crypto exchanges and currency exchangers, so that the comrade major could see in one place who you are, who you've sent money to, and even what you wrote to custom

Romania received 16.68 billion euros in preferential EU loans for military equipment and strategic infrastructure, with the first 2.5 billion euros arriving back in August. Mihai Ghigiu, the PSD's minister for European investments, now wants to reopen the 5.7-billion-euro package of contracts signed with Rheinmetall, even at the cost of financial penalties. As it happens, the package also includes

The Russian far-right Male State movement denies having any connection to the bomb threats across Europe that led to diverted flights, scrambled fighter jets, and, by Friday, even evacuated newsrooms. The same week, food had to be thrown out in eight European countries because someone remotely turned up the temperature in store refrigerators. Meanwhile, the Pentagon warned several allies to tone d

In the November 3 midterm elections, Democrats won majorities in both chambers, but Ukraine's standing in Washington presents a mixed picture. While the mood of the Congress convening in January will be overall more pro-Kyiv, the Republican wing that stood by Ukraine against both Donald Trump and its own party leadership over the past two years has suffered heavy losses. Yet it is precisely these

Ports and terminal operators in New Jersey that accept tankers carrying Russian diesel fuel can expect severe sanctions, Governor Mikie Sherrill warned, saying that despite Donald Trump's deal with Vladimir Putin, such imports continue to violate U.S. federal law. Sherrill called on operators to turn away the tankers and said that the state would use every legal and regulatory tool at its disposal

Ukraine, Russia and the United States may sit down at the same table again for the first time since February, after US special envoy Steve Witkoff announced that the trilateral talks will continue in Abu Dhabi on November 10–11. The agenda includes ending the war, easing the fighting, humanitarian measures and post-war security arrangements, while American negotiators will travel to Brussels this

In the early hours of the day of the American midterm elections, Russia attacked Ukraine with 289 drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles. This year's heaviest strike on Ukrainian energy facilities caused power outages in ten regions, while a hospital was hit in Kharkiv and Dnipro was struck twice with missiles. At least 73 people were injured. According to Volodymyr Zelensky, Moscow

On the eve of the midterm elections, the US military launched strikes on the area around the Strait of Hormuz, just a few hours after Donald Trump stated that the United States is not at war with Iran. At the time of the strikes, reported by The Wall Street Journal, the Qatari-mediated negotiations were still underway, in which Tehran had attached conditions to reopening the strait.

Volodymyr Zelensky has asked Donald Trump three or four times to lift the geographic restrictions on the use of the Starshield military satellite system and allow it to detect and destroy Russia's ballistic missile launchers. In a PBS NewsHour interview on Monday, the Ukrainian president said that Ukrainian cities cannot be defended with air defense missiles alone, since even the United States doe

If the Democrats deliver the result expected of them in Tuesday's American midterm election, champagne corks could pop in many places across Europe — except the relief won't necessarily be followed by a calmer relationship with Washington. Those quoted in the POLITICO analysis reported by Mediafax warn that Donald Trump, cornered domestically, may devote even more attention to foreign policy and t

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Donald Trump Jr., the son of the demented boss, went hunting in Mongolia with Umar Kremlev, a Russian businessman close to Putin's circle who had previously helped cover the costs of his wedding celebrations. According to the spokesperson for the US president's son, the two men are connected merely by their shared love of hunting, fishing and nature, but counterintelligence experts see a far less