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Putin
VIDEO: One of Putin’s Limos Goes up in Flames
It’s paranoia as usual in the Kremlin as guards search other guards, sewer lines checked, and shots fired in Murmansk on Sunday. The perceived threat of the autocrat’s assassination remains palpable.
March 31, 2025
Security
‘We Don’t Give a Crap About Your Opinion’ – Trump Loyalists Get Testy About Their Security Breach
Far-right Congressional Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene snaps at UK reporter asking about Defense Secretary leaking highly classified info, as Trump team gets testy and deflects some blame toward Hegseth.
March 27, 2025
Security
‘I Share Your Loathing of European Freeloading’ – Details Emerge of US Security Text Breach; Emojis From Moscow
The classified Signal chat the Trump team sloppily sent to the press included slamming Europe as “freeloaders”; Witkoff was receiving the top-secret messages during a meeting at the Kremlin.
March 26, 2025
Security
‘This Is Going to Require Some Explaining’ – Trump Team Mistakenly Sends War Plans to Journalist
National Security Adviser includes editor of ‘The Atlantic’ in a group Signal chat, planning a bombing of Yemen. Russia has tried to hack the same type of encrypted texts between Ukrainian officials.
March 25, 2025
Interview
Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine: What’s Next?
The search for a new director of Ukraine’s Bureau of Economic Security is underway, with a competitive selection process now in progress. Kyiv Post speaks with the Bureau’s prospective new chief.
March 19, 2025
Ukraine
Professor Gerdes: Here’s What Trump’s Latest Really Means
Russia will not be happy with what is happening next, Professor Gerdes says
March 10, 2025
Ukraine
Which Countries Are ‘Indispensable’ to Ukraine’s Security? US Asks EU Allies 6 Questions
Read the six questions that US officials sent European partners last week asking what Europe might need from the US to oversee a security deal between Ukraine and Russia that would end the war.
Feb. 17, 2025
Germany
‘He Won’t Be Chancellor for Long’ – US to Snub Germany’s Scholz in Munich, Politico Reports
JD Vance reportedly won’t be meeting with German Chancellor Scholz in Munich, opting to sit down with his rival instead: “I can’t stand Scholz but he is still our chancellor,” noted one opponent.
Feb. 14, 2025
Putin
‘Security’s Going to Be Squarely With Europeans’ – They Must ‘Own This Conflict’: Trump Adviser
As Trump flies to New Orleans for the Super Bowl, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz tells NBC News that US will “recoup” any future military aid through rare earths deal.
Feb. 10, 2025
Russia
Russian Lawmakers Recast Definition of Treason in New Bill
The definition of high treason in Russia now includes “activities against [the] security of the Russian Federation,” which is open to the Kremlin’s interpretation
Dec. 18, 2024
Zelensky
ANALYSIS: Slimmed-Down Agenda of Swiss Peace Summit Aims to Secure Consensus
With 90 countries and organizations expected to attend the event, the agenda is likely to include only three of 10 points in President Zelensky’s peace plan.
June 12, 2024
Security
Russian Airport Invests in Anti-Drone Defenses – 7,000 Kilometers from Ukraine
Russia’s far east, North Pacific Ocean Sakhalin Island airport plans to buy anti-drone technology, fearing attacks from where - the US, Japan, North Korea, China, or Ukraine?
June 8, 2024
Security
Kaspersky Says Apple Won’t Pay for Its Discovery of 2023 Vulnerability
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed at the time that Washington was behind the hack, but the Russian cybersecurity firm said there was no concrete evidence to confirm the source.
June 7, 2024
Interview
How the EU Helps Ukraine Reform Police and Justice
After the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, the Ukrainian government asked
the EU to help reform the law enforcement procedures in order to re-establish national and international trust.
May 30, 2024
Russia
Poland to Deploy US Balloons to Help Monitor its Border With Russia
Poland has signed a contract to purchase Barbara balloons, which can detect missiles, aircraft, and drones out to more than 300 km to monitor its borders with Russia and Belarus.
May 23, 2024
Italy
Italy and Ukraine Poised to Forge Security Agreement in the Coming Days
Rome expects that the security agreement will have “political and symbolic” value as Ukraine expects to be fighting against Russian aggression well into the future.
Feb. 22, 2024