Cognitive war

President Donald Trump suspended, through an executive order issued on Friday, the sweeping sanctions package that both chambers of Congress had passed with rare bipartisan support. According to a report by The Guardian, the US president informed lawmakers that the delay served the country's interest.

US President Donald Trump called it a "shame" on Thursday that Ukraine had resumed strikes on Russian oil refineries, and said that Volodymyr Zelensky is harder to negotiate with than Vladimir Putin. In an exclusive interview recorded at the White House for Newsmax, the pseudo-conservative television channel's program Finnerty, Trump said that Zelensky is "not a good partner" for the United States

The U.S. military has drawn up new attack plans against Iran that include the possible use of the GBU-43/B MOAB, the most powerful non-nuclear American bomb, known as the "mother of all bombs."

On Thursday, a search was conducted at the Moscow home of Sergei Sokolov, editor-in-chief of the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, after which he was taken to the Investigative Committee for questioning. The paper itself reported this on Telegram. According to the editorial staff, contact with the editor-in-chief was lost shortly after noon on Thursday, when his phone was switched off j

Russia's oil and gas tax revenues may rise by 10 percent year-on-year in October, to 1,000 billion rubles, or $11.97 billion – according to calculations by the Reuters news agency. These revenues account for roughly a fifth of Russia's federal budget revenues and play a key role in financing the war against Ukraine, since Russia is the world's third-largest oil producer and exporter after the Unit

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that his country is resuming strikes on Russian oil refineries after suspending them for three days under pressure from the American administration. In an interview given to the Financial Times in London, he said the ban on attacking refineries had been lifted and "that was that." According to Zelensky, American military officials threatened their U

The United States has proposed unfreezing part of the Russian state assets frozen after the invasion of Ukraine and transferring them to a financial mechanism under American oversight, in order to restart peace negotiations - according to a report by the Financial Times, citing four sources, European representatives rejected the proposal. The plan was presented last week at talks held in Miami, wh

Russia is working to rebuild its economic ties with certain European Union member states after Viktor Orbán's defeat in April's election deprived Vladimir Putin of one of his closest EU allies. According to a document obtained by Politico, Slovakia is reviving the Russian-Slovak intergovernmental commission on economic, scientific and technical cooperation, which was suspended after Russia's full-

The agreement on Russian diesel shipments is only the first step: according to the Kremlin, more joint projects with the United States are in the works. Kirill Dmitriev, Vladimir Putin's special envoy for economic cooperation and foreign investment and head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), said the diesel deal had opened the door to further cooperation, and revealed that on Putin's in

For the second time in a row, Kyiv took a ballistic missile hit with no warning beforehand. According to Volodymyr Zelensky's Wednesday post, the Ukrainian system only detected the missiles when they were practically already over the city, and once again no warning came from the partners. Zelensky diplomatically does not spell out who the "partner" is, but everyone knows: Ukrainian air defense has

Ukraine's series of strikes on Russian refineries now gives Kyiv a greater bargaining advantage than anything it had a year ago, when Donald Trump was still mocking Volodymyr Zelensky by saying he “doesn't have the cards” against Russia. According to an analysis by Politico, this has become an increasingly serious problem for the American president. “In less than two years, we've gone from having

Bulgaria is turning to the UN Security Council and is also considering invoking allied consultations under Article 4 of the NATO treaty, after what were likely Russian drones attacked two merchant ships near the Bulgarian coast on Monday night into Tuesday, one of which sank. Bulgarian President Rumen Radev — actually President Iliana Yotova — said on Wednesday in an interview with Nova TV that So

SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, has restricted the operation of the military version of the Starlink satellite internet service in Ukraine, and the move caused several combat missions to fail, Serhii Beskrestnov, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, said on Wednesday. According to him, terminals of the military package called StarShield lost connection overnight into Wednesday whenever they moved fa

According to US President Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin would rather have a peace deal than Volodymyr Zelensky. The statement was quoted by Sky News, and it came on the same day that the Russian army, despite the “energy ceasefire” announced by the American president, continued to bomb Ukraine's energy system.

Yes, that's how it is: Russia and Putin have won. Not on the front, where after four and a half years it still has not managed to break Ukraine, and where it has cost the Kremlin roughly one and a half million soldiers killed and wounded just to plant its flag over a few ruined towns. Moscow has not won the war of tanks. But the war it is waging not against Ukraine but against Europe and the West

On October 12, in Luxembourg, the foreign ministers of the European Union's member states added nearly 1,600 Russian individuals and companies to the sanctions list. This is the largest single expansion since the war began, and it targets participants in Russia's military industry, particularly the production chains for drones and ballistic missiles. Kaja Kallas, the EU's High Representative for F

Nearly two-thirds of Germans would maintain or increase European countries' military support for Ukraine, according to Germany's public broadcaster ZDF's latest Politbarometer survey. According to the poll by Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, 30 percent of respondents want stronger military support, 33 percent favor keeping the current level, and another 33 percent would reduce arms deliveries. ZDF conclud

A genuine, unadulterated Russian fake news story has arrived — fresh, hot off the press, and just stupid enough to be worth sharing with our readers. Citing information from an unnamed woman serving in the Russian armed forces — how fortunate that in Romanian the word for soldier also carries gender, otherwise we wouldn't even know that much about the source — Russian channels report that Kyiv is

The Trump administration has threatened Ukraine's top military and government leaders that it will cut off the sharing of intelligence and close off one of Kyiv's last remaining channels for acquiring American weapons if Ukrainian drones continue to strike Russian oil refineries - the Kyiv Independent reported, citing two Ukrainian officials.

American defense company Anduril unveiled its modular interceptor missile family, called Steelfin, on October 12, just days after Lockheed Martin presented the next-generation missile for the Patriot system, the PAC-3 Edge. According to an analysis by Cătălin Costea, a retired Romanian radar officer, published on the Defense Romania website, the two announcements seek to answer the same problem th