Ukraine says it will give defense firms a detailed report of how their weapons tech fares in combat against Russia's troops.

The Russian exclave of Kaliningrad is once again in the news, after a senior U.S. military commander on July 17 issued a stark warning to the Kremlin that NATO forces could take control of it "in a timeframe that is unheard of.

The paper notes that as Putin rejects U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace proposals, and Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities continue to kill civilians, hopes for a ceasefire deal or a reset in Moscow’s relations with the West are rapidly fading.

The Russian economy is said to be facing recession as the Kremlin tries to "disguise and dismiss" the impact of sanctions. Russia's Minister of Economic Development, Maxim Reshetnikov, stated at the St.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused "neocolonial" Western powers of modern "robbery and looting" in the pursuit of rare earth metals to gain an advantage in the artificial intelligence (AI) race.

Russia has built up a certain immunity to Western sanctions and adapted to them, the Kremlin said on Friday, after the European Union agreed an 18th package of sanctions against Moscow, including measures aimed at its oil industry.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, most of the ever-growing fears about the outbreak of World War 3 have been via a land assault. However, there may be a new frontier on the horizon that few have considered - space.

Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) said Russia began to hit enlistment centers in recent weeks in a concerted effort to disrupt Ukraine's mobilization. Olha Polishchuk, ACLED's Eastern Europe research manager,