Belgium points Ukraine to next year’s European loan instead of Russia’s frozen cash
Earnings from the immobilized money underwrite an earlier European loan, while the sum they come from stays behind one government's objections.
Indonesia is examining whether traffickers put its citizens into Russia’s war on Ukraine
The country's Foreign Ministry has put its overseas missions on establishing how one of its nationals came to serve Moscow's forces.
UN counted 183 Ukrainian children killed or wounded in July, the highest since 2022
The Ukrainian military released the breakdown on the day many schools across the country stayed shut because of Russian strikes.
Russian drone struck a Ukrainian fire truck on its way to a house fire—four rescuers injured
The crew was answering a call in a village outside Zaporizhzhia, and all four men went to hospital with injuries of differing severity.
Sofia gets seven minehunters from Belgium and the Netherlands for a sea Russia mined
Parliament signed off on two separate agreements this week, one a purchase and one a transfer, with the Dutch side restoring part of the fleet before it changes hands.
Moldova is investing in air defense against the Russian drones crossing from Ukraine—Romania shoots down the ones that reach it
Allied fighters over the neighboring NATO member have destroyed intruding drones repeatedly this year, while the neutral country in between can track them crossing but not shoot them down.
A suspected Russian scheme to obtain Finnish citizenship ran for more than 20 years before Finland noticed
Police and the Border Guard say the size of what they uncovered took them by surprise, and that several naturalizations were still moving through the system when the inquiry opened.
Russia’s number two online retailer reports drone attacks on logistics hubs in two regions
Ozon reported attacks on two logistics hubs while analysts placed smoke over a Rosneft refining complex in Ufa.
Norway’s Air Force put its first anti-drone system into service at the fighter base—and wants its own drones doing the same job
The system can detect a drone, identify it, and shoot it down—capability the base did not have when lights appeared over it last autumn.
Russian Aerospace Forces officer killed by a bomb in his own car in St. Petersburg
The explosion tore apart a Geely outside an apartment block in a district where the Defense Ministry has bought housing for servicemen.
A warehouse built to hold up to 54 million items burned down in Tambov Oblast, Russia
It opened only last year as the central logistics point of Russia's largest online retailer and has now been hit by drones twice.
A gasoline and polystyrene mix—police call it napalm—was meant for a Ukrainian drone plant in Slovakia
Investigators say the three men charged were hired to set the fire, and about 70 employees could have been inside the hall when it went up.
One tracked tank repairs, one marked artillery, one aimed bombs at civilians—all three got 15 years
Ukraine says two of the men came to Russian intelligence's notice through their own comments in chat groups, and the third through a relative working for Moscow's domestic security service.
Ukraine mapped Russia’s Su-35 down to individual control units—and found 22 firms nobody has sanctioned
The names cover engines, guidance, jamming gear, and the air-to-air missiles the aircraft fires.