SS: The Caspian Sea is emerging as a potentially important logistics corridor in the expanding military relationship between Russia and Iran as they look to move goods beyond the reach of Western naval power.
The corridor opens a route that could allow Moscow and Tehran to exchange large quantities of cargo through an inland sea that Western navies cannot directly enter.
Before-and-after satellite images released by Vantor reveal the extent of the damage to Wildberries warehouses across Russia. Dubbed the "Russian Amazon," at least 20 facilities belonging to the country's largest online retailer have been targeted by a Ukrainian drone campaign since mid-July.
Before-and-after satellite images released by Vantor reveal the extent of the damage to Wildberries warehouses across Russia. Dubbed the "Russian Amazon," at least 20 facilities belonging to the country's largest online retailer have been targeted by a Ukrainian drone campaign since mid-July.
The goal “is to send a message and impose a chilling effect on Russian society, on both those who left and those who remain in the country,” one lawyer said.
As Beijing threatens to widen its net beyond its borders to pursue anyone who ‘undermines ethnic unity’, China’s Turkic minorities in neighboring Kazakhstan are feeling the pressure.
Russian drone attacks are making it increasingly dangerous to deliver supplies to Ukraine's frontline troops. While Kyiv is deploying unmanned ground vehicles for some of the riskiest missions, volunteers like 60-year-old Mykhaylo continue making supply runs the old-fashioned way. He makes dangerous boat trips to support Ukrainian infantry while under almost constant attack in the Donetsk region.
Ukrainian drones struck Wildberries logistics hubs near St. Petersburg and in occupied Crimea, causing fires and disruptions. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine also hit a key military facility in Russia’s Kirov region that supplies components for aircraft and missile systems.
Kazakhstan has become the first Central Asian country to ride a global surge in the popularity of issuing yuan-denominated debt despite persistent concerns about the implications of Beijing’s growing economic dominance abroad.
Since 2021, there’ve been far fewer cases of alleged Russian hackers being arrested in foreign countries, extradited to the US to stand trial. That’s one of the reasons that makes Denis Oberzko’s case unusual.
Following Iranian attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, the US struck Iran for the second day in a row, hitting targets in southern port cities. Some 90 US strikes were reported on July 9
Ukraine continued its widening long-range drone campaign on July 6, saying it struck Russia's largest oil refinery in the western Siberian city of Omsk, about 2,500 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
It was one of Kyiv's deepest strikes inside Russia since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022.
Shipments of bananas to St. Petersburg sometimes conceal a contraband cargo: cocaine. A Systema investigation finds that two companies with roles in the delivery and further distribution of the fruit are controlled by Russians with ties to longtime associates of President Vladimir Putin.