China's Central Theater Command sent Type 99A tanks and drone units to Tsentr-2026, a Russian drill of more than 47,000 personnel built on Ukraine war lessons. For China-Russia risk pricing, what Beijing's units take home from those lessons matters more than the size of the drill.
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Vladimir Putin said a "direct attack" on Kaliningrad "or maybe some other territories" would put the use of all Russia's weapons on the agenda. This week his embassies tied nuclear use to one observable event, NATO cutting the exclave off from Russia; Putin's wording lets Moscow decide what counts.
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The strongest thing to come out of Witkoff and Kushner's three hours with Putin was 72 hours of quiet over two city limits, which is thin material for anyone pricing an end to a war that has run more than four and a half years.
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Speaking to reporters at a BRICS summit in India, Putin said European troops in Ukraine would mean war with Russia while denying that his country threatens Europe. Lavrov said Saturday that the fighting continues through any talks.
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The request would have Ukraine give up the one pressure point on Moscow it operates without American help. Zelenskyy's answer is a mutual energy ceasefire that would also cover Russian strikes on Ukraine's grid.
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Recorded Future's Insikt Group says Russia-linked sabotage in Europe rose four-fold from 2023 to 2024 and held at that level in 2025. It expects Russia to escalate in the near term, possibly into a full-scale New Generation Warfare campaign.
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Foreign Affairs argues last weekend's United Russia landslide was organised in advance to display total commitment to the war, while the Levada Center's own numbers show approval and public morale falling underneath it.
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Judge Timothy Kelly, whom Trump appointed, sounded unconvinced by the national-security case for keeping CNN, MS NOW and Politico off the grounds, and said he would rule as soon as possible. The exclusion is about a week old.
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Senator John Curtis wants the Judiciary Committee to compel testimony from Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden over their family business dealings. Durbin backed the request, though a subpoena still needs Grassley.
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Ivan Chebeskov's 3.7 trillion ruble estimate covers coins and products linked to them, and the same ministry says at least 10 million wallets belonging to Russian citizens sit on foreign exchanges it wants back.
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Russian authorities counted 450 drones downed near the capital and more than 1,600 across all perimeters since the previous day. Volume is the part of this escalation that anyone has actually measured.
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Poland's prime minister says Moscow is planning hybrid strikes with drones or rockets on Ukraine's European backers. A day later he sat down with seven neighbours in a new bloc whose agenda is energy, logistics and border trade.
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The bloc's leaders adopted a Middle East paragraph that assigns responsibility to no country, and both Iran and the UAE signed it four months after their foreign ministers could not agree on any text at all.
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The essay's case against the terminal-decline consensus rests on conditions it expects to reverse, which makes the planning question less about how strong Russia is than about how long fragmentation lasts.
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Operators of more than 180 Russian facilities, most of them inside Ukrainian strike range, have been told to fund counter-drone protection themselves, with temporary state administration as the penalty for those who do not.
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Sber has put a price on moving Russian trade payments out of the fiat system, and the price is the only quantity it published; the app that would make it self-service is not due until the end of 2026.
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A Foreign Affairs essay argues that the decision to pursue space-based interceptors has already pushed Moscow and Beijing toward bigger offensive arsenals and weapons aimed at orbit, which is a planning input for satellite-dependent firms.
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The number travelling with the story is an 18 per cent chance of a ceasefire agreement by 31 December, which is a level rather than a move, because nobody published what the same contract cost the day before Moscow.
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The Education Ministry's rewritten defence course spends half of its weekly hours on armaments and combat first aid, and the pupils sitting it cannot be conscripted for another five years, so its payoff lands in the 2030s.
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Russia turned down Ukraine's offer to spare civilian vessels and ruled out reviving the grain deal. Ukrainian Black Sea exports are running at about a quarter of last year's volume.
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