6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (371+ words) Monday, September 7, 2026 Russia’s gold exports have found a durable workaround since Western sanctions hit in 2022. Hong Kong took in close to 100 tonnes of Russian bullion in the first seven months of 2026 alone, a record for the period and roughly triple…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (505+ words) The Trump administration’s renewed Ukraine push is increasingly built around a business-style premise: identify what Moscow and Kyiv can each gain from ending the war, rather than begin with additional pressure on Russia. US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (288+ words) Thursday, September 3, 2026 Estonia’s Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur resigned on September 2, taking political responsibility for a €70 million arms deal, worth roughly $81 million, that fell apart after the government advanced funds to a company with no history of making artillery shells for…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (149+ words) Thursday, September 3, 2026 Ukraine’s Naftogaz persuaded Norwegian authorities to seize a Russian state-owned vessel at Barentsburg in Svalbard on September 2, the latest move in the company’s yearslong campaign to collect on a Hague arbitration award over Russia’s 2014 takeover of its Crimean…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (244+ words) Thursday, September 3, 2026 KINEF, Russia’s second-largest oil refinery, caught fire in a Ukrainian drone strike on August 30, just weeks after the plant resumed operations from its last round of repairs. Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed the strike on a facility with a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (245+ words) Wednesday, September 2, 2026 President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a direct warning Tuesday to airlines, insurers, and anyone still using Russian airports, saying Ukraine’s intensifying drone campaign is making Russian airspace unsafe for civilian flights. Zelensky’s nightly address named three groups — airlines still…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (180+ words) A Stolen Cessna Flew Toward Hungary’s Nuclear Plant Before Crashing Itself the deep dive Monday, August 31, 2026 A 24-year-old man took off from a small airfield in southern Hungary on Saturday in a stolen aircraft, entering restricted airspace above the nation’s…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (264+ words) CIA Director John Ratcliffe flew to Moscow on Tuesday for unannounced meetings with Russian officials, the first visit to Russia by a sitting CIA director since William Burns traveled there in November 2021, three months before Russia invaded Ukraine. The trip…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (212+ words) Vladimir Putin signed a decree Monday allowing the Russian state to take temporary control of critical infrastructure deemed too poorly protected from Ukrainian drone attacks, including the right to take over an owner’s real estate, securities, and other property. The…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (288+ words) Monday, August 24, 2026 Western intelligence sources believe Russia is running a sabotage campaign against weapons factories across Europe, recruiting local criminal gangs for attacks calculated to fall just short of triggering NATO’s Article 5 mutual defense clause, The Telegraph reported. Russia’s military…...