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View from Washington: A Trump offer that Putin cannot refuse

11:25 21.11.2025

View from Washington: A Trump offer that Putin cannot refuse

Along Ukraine’s eastern frontline, the question is not if Russia will gain full control of Pokrovsk, a key location on Ukraine’s “fortress belt.” |The city’s collapse will be a strategic loss for Ukraine and a tactical win for Russia, but it won’t bring an end to the war closer, notes …

'Inadequate': Australia has begun counting money when spending on AUKUS

11:23 21.11.2025

'Inadequate': Australia has begun counting money when spending on AUKUS

Some of Australia’s top naval experts have cast doubt on the government’s $368bn AUKUS price tag, saying the program to acquire two classes of nuclear-powered submarines will cost “significantly more” than originally thought, with higher upfront outlays, ‘The Australian’ writes. UNSW Canberra’s naval studies group has called for an urgent …

Welcome to a new ‘wonderful’ world! First large-scale Cyberattack using AI tools with minimal human input

11:21 21.11.2025

Welcome to a new ‘wonderful’ world! First large-scale Cyberattack using AI tools with minimal human input

Hackers used Anthropic’s Claude Code tool to carry out advanced spying on about thirty targets worldwide, successfully breaking into several major organizations, ‘Cyber Security News’ reports. The first documented large-scale cyberattack executed primarily by leveraging artificial intelligence with minimal human intervention. The operation, detected in mid-September 2025 by Anthropic security …

MFA: Russia and China held consultations on missile defence and missile aspects of strategic stability

18:04 20.11.2025

MFA: Russia and China held consultations on missile defence and missile aspects of strategic stability

Russian-Chinese consultations on missile defence and missile aspects of strategic stability were held on November 19 in Moscow, Russian MFA informs. The Russian delegation was headed by Andrey Malyugin, Special Representative of the Russian Foreign Minister for Strategic Stability, and the Chinese delegation was headed by Li Chijiang, Deputy Director-General, …

Vladimir Putin: Crimes of Nazis have no statute of limitations

14:50 20.11.2025

Vladimir Putin: Crimes of Nazis have no statute of limitations

Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized that the crimes committed by the Nazis have no statute of limitations in an address to participants of the "No Statute of Limitations. Nuremberg. 80 Years" international scientific and practical forum, TASS reports. "Such crimes have no statute of limitations, and they were definitively judged …

Ukraine fired U.S.-made ATACMS missiles at Voronezh. What Trump would say?

11:39 20.11.2025

Ukraine fired U.S.-made ATACMS missiles at Voronezh. What Trump would say?

Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces had fired four U.S.-made ATACMS missiles at the southern Russian city of Voronezh in an attempted strike on civilian targets, Reuters comments. Ukraine's military said on Tuesday it had attacked military targets in Russia with U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles, calling it a …

View from London: For Russia, the war in Ukraine is an existential one

11:38 20.11.2025

View from London: For Russia, the war in Ukraine is an existential one

Predictions that the Russian economy is on the verge of collapse are nothing new. Those forecasts have circulated widely since 2022, when the United States and Europe first imposed unprecedented sanctions on Moscow as punishment for invading Ukraine. But this wishful thinking has received a boost in recent weeks, in …

FT: The elite Russian unit hunting Ukraine’s drone warriors

11:36 20.11.2025

FT: The elite Russian unit hunting Ukraine’s drone warriors

Ukraine’s drone pilots have become the hunted, ‘Financial Times’ notes. Their tormentor is a dynamic new Russian unit known as Rubikon. Using sophisticated tools and its own fleet of hunter drones, the team has been locating, tracking and killing Ukrainian operators before they can launch. Rubikon’s emergence has driven a …

POLITICO: The West’s new arms race – Selling peace to buy war

11:33 20.11.2025

POLITICO: The West’s new arms race – Selling peace to buy war

Military spending is rising faster than at any time since the Cold War, but the retreat from diplomacy and foreign aid will come with a price, POLITICO notes. One school of academic theory holds that era-defining wars recur roughly every 85 years, as generations lose sight of their forebears’ hard-won …

WP: Trump officials prepare to deport Ukrainians

11:32 20.11.2025

WP: Trump officials prepare to deport Ukrainians

The Trump administration is preparing to deport some Ukrainians with final orders of removal back to their war-ravaged homeland as the government seeks to ramp up deportations, ‘The Washington Post’ writes. The Justice Department said in a court filing Wednesday that the government has plans to deport Roman Surovtsev, 41, …

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