How a general’s walk across a bridge tested Putin’s claim to Svyatohirsk
Putin said Svyatohirsk had fallen. A general walked across its bridge on camera days later. Four ISW assessments, a Kyiv Post fact check, Reuters and CIT supply every step of…
Germany names Russia for the Leipzig drone, and keeps most of its evidence out of view
Berlin says police work, a pattern and intelligence prove Russia was responsible for the attempted attack with the explosive drone found at Leipzig/Halle on Aug. 4. The prosecutor's release names…
Estonia scrambled jets over a drone no official has identified
Estonia alerted eight counties, scrambled NATO jets and stood down inside three hours, and no official has said whose drone crossed the border. When one came down in 2025, investigators…
Russia leans on drones and dissent-proofing as fuel crisis bites
Russia is battling a fuel crisis serious enough that it reportedly deployed its internal security force to at least 13 gas stations, even as it leans on North Korean missiles…
Estonia marks 35 years since the vote that restored the republic
Four men who held the Tallinn TV Tower in 1991 raised Estonia's flag Thursday, marking 35 years of restored independence with the Riigikogu presidential vote due Sept. 2. The republic…
A program not yet publicly operational, and an untested Computer Fraud and Abuse Act defense
A memorandum signed Aug. 12 orders the government to build a program admitting vetted private companies to hack foreign criminal networks. It names the federal computer-fraud statute as a boundary…
Senate passes Graham sanctions act, shifting Russia pressure from policy to statute
The Senate passed the late Lindsey Graham's Russia and Iran sanctions act 86-11 on Aug. 7, pairing 30-day sanctions and tariff mandates with waivers, rate discretion and congressional termination review.…
Lithuania’s false-flag warning puts drone attribution on NATO’s eastern flank
Lithuania’s defense minister calls a possible Russian false-flag operation using reconstructed Ukrainian drone wreckage the most realistic current scenario for a move against Baltic infrastructure.
Three accounts from one wartime morning in Russia
Three claims about one morning near Omsk, none of them reconciled, all relayed in the same day's assessment from the Institute for the Study of War. What that says about…
When an air defense engagement becomes a criminal case file
Romanian F-16s downed three drones in three days. One left fragments that became a criminal file naming no operator; searches after the other two found nothing. Here is what that…
