South African prosecutors allege that Russia funded an attempt to help influencer Kemi Seba flee the country. Benin is seeking him in connection with an attempted coup in the country in December.
Novorossiysk remains the last outpost where Russia can station its Black Sea Fleet warships after losing the ability to use Crimea as a naval base fully.
Russia has effectively lost the ability to use occupied Crimea as a naval base, but continues to launch airstrikes against Ukraine and maintain military infrastructure on the peninsula.
Since around mid-July, Russia has changed its tactics for using drones, including periodically deploying Banderol loitering munitions and Shahed-238 jet-powered drones.
Ukraine will continue to launch long-range strikes against Russian targets to demonstrate to Russia and its citizens the need to end the war.Ukraine will continue to launch long-range strikes against Russian targets to demonstrate to Russia and its citizens the need to end the war.
In the Tyumen region, the central gas fractionation unit at a Tobolsk plant, which is part of Russia’s largest petrochemical holding company SIBUR, was damaged in a drone attack.
Huge queues for fuel have formed at gas stations in the Yelets district of Russia’s Lipetsk region, while many stations have run out of fuel altogether.
Between August 1 and 8, the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck 12 more vessels of Russia’s shadow fleet in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
The European Union has imposed sanctions on five individuals linked to Russia’s military-industrial complex in response to the recent shelling of Ukrainian cities.
President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting on the imposition of sanctions against Russia and instructed officials to prepare an operational plan designed to significantly curtail the Russian military-industrial complex.
The war waged by Russia against Ukraine has been at a strategic deadlock for a long time, but the Russian leadership still believes it can achieve its goals through military means.
South Korea says North Korea’s economy has grown by more than 3% for the third consecutive year, driven largely by expanded economic cooperation with Russia.
An analysis of fragments of the Russian Kh-101 cruise missile that fell on Polish territory during Russia’s massive attack on Ukraine on Thursday shows that it was manufactured only in the second quarter of this year, confirming that Russia’s missile reserves are being depleted.