North Korea’s Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui will visit Russia and Belarus, per North Korean state media. KCNA says the trip is at the invitation of Moscow and Minsk.
Russia says it has successfully tested the 9M730 Burevestnik, a nuclear powered cruise missile that can carry a nuclear warhead. Moscow claims the missile flew about 14,000 km in roughly 15 hours and that military infrastructure is now being prepared to field it. This is messaged as an answer to NATO air and missile defenses.
India's top private refiner, Reliance, has started buying millions of barrels from Iraq and Qatar, plus other Middle East grades, after new U.S. sanctions hit Russia's Lukoil and Rosneft. Reliance is moving to comply with the sanctions. Quickly.
The Kremlin said Russia will respond harshly if Ukraine hits deep inside Russian territory with long range missiles. Again.
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today that Ukraine can't make those missiles itself, saying "they may be British, German, Italian... the main components are purely European imports."
What happen is a large street fight broke out overnight involving dozens of men, described in Russian coverage as mainly Central Asian migrant workers. Videos show people with shovels, metal bars, construction tools, road signs, smashing cars and hitting each other in the courtyard streets.
Putin ordered the military to prepare for deployment of a new long range cruise missile system that he says can evade Western missile defenses. Moscow is framing this as a direct answer to U.S. and NATO pressure.
Balloons from Belarus disrupt Lithuanian airport for 2 successive nights and add to tensions. Lithuania is reframing smuggler balloons as state backed hybrid pressure, not petty contraband.
URGENT | U.S. sanctions on Russia's top oil firms are already hitting hard. Lukoil shares fell about 7.2 percent, erasing roughly 297 billion rubles in value, around 3.6 billion dollars. Lukoil's main shareholder lost more than 1 billion dollars in under two days. Russia's oil sector is bleeding market cap massively.
Russia's FSB says it opened a criminal case accusing exiled opposition figures of plotting to seize power by force. Moscow says it is investigating more than 20 Kremlin critics abroad and is framing them as Western backed attempting a coup.
Poland is running round the clock sea and air patrols in the Baltic to guard pipelines, power cables and platforms. Poland says critical seabed infrastructure is now treated like defended territory, and the Navy and naval aviation will respond fast to anything suspicious.
France says its 2026 defense budget will jump by about €6.7B, to roughly €57.1B total!
PM Sébastien Lecornu told MPs this is the price of sovereignty, and that France must keep its own defense industry instead of depending on foreign suppliers, even as other ministries face cuts.
Poland’s Defence Ministry says it will sign a letter of intent with Palantir on Monday. Warsaw is moving to lock in U.S. defense software and data fusion support as it builds out high tempo command and targeting capability on NATO’s eastern flank.
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