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Budanov warns Warsaw is planning immature escalatory steps over Volyn tragedy

Poland is preparing a series of immature escalatory steps ahead of the Volyn tragedy anniversary on July 11, Head of the Presidential Office Kyrylo Budanov said in an RBC-Ukraine interview on July 7.

7 July, 01:15 PM

Putin has options, all of them risky — Fishman

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has several options to escalate the war against Ukraine, but he is well aware that all of them come with substantial personal and political risks, Russian journalist Mikhail Fishman told NV Radio on June 30.

30 June, 11:44 PM

Putin faces two choices as Crimea pressure mounts – analyst

Ukraine hopes the threat of retaking Russian-occupied Crimea could pressure Vladimir Putin into peace talks, but the strategy also risks prompting further escalation, Eastern Europe expert Mark Galeotti wrote in The Sunday Times on June 28.

28 June, 04:57 PM

Russian drone crashes into a Romanian apartment building, forcing 70 to evacuate - photoreport

Seventy people were evacuated and two required medical assistance after a Russian drone crashed into a high-rise residential building in the Romanian city of Galati, local authorities reported on May 29.

29 May, 10:40 AM

Russia’s envoy in Moldova warns of scenarios to “protect” Transnistria, MFA responds

Russia’s ambassador to Moldova, Oleg Ozerov, said Moscow would “protect” Russians in Transnistria in case of a forceful resolution of the conflict, while Moldova’s Foreign Ministry urged him to focus on his duties, NewsMaker reported on May 4.

4 May, 03:46 PM

Russia plans to strike Ukraine with hundreds of drones seven times a month

Russia is preparing to launch massive attacks on Ukraine seven times a month, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkiye on April 17, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

17 April, 01:05 PM

Middle East escalation sends investors to safe havens, stocks slide

Escalating conflict in the Middle East is rattling markets as investors flee to safe havens and stocks fall, exposing smaller economies to risk, Bloomberg reported, noting economists are now gauging the impact of real war after modeling trade wars under U.S. President Donald Trump on March 2.

2 March, 01:36 PM

U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran could reshape war dynamics in Ukraine – political analyst

U.S. and Israeli operations against Iran could affect Russia’s resources and partnerships, shaping the dynamics of the war in Ukraine, political analyst Oleh Sahakyan said on Radio NV on Feb. 28.

28 February, 09:50 PM

Kremlin revives 'dirty bomb' lies to mask four years of military failure

The Kremlin has resurrected its baseless "dirty bomb" narrative in a coordinated attempt to distract from the Russian military's failure to achieve any strategic goals on the fourth anniversary of the invasion, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported on Feb. 24.

25 February, 10:53 AM

Russia is the main military threat to Sweden and NATO – Swedish intelligence

Russia remains the primary military threat to Sweden and NATO, and Moscow’s increasingly risky behavior could lead to dangerous escalation, according to Sweden’s annual intelligence report cited by Politico on Feb. 18.

18 February, 02:00 PM

Russian oil shipments rise despite escalating drone attacks on refineries

Russian oil shipments have risen amid an escalation of drone attacks on refineries, according to vessel-tracking data cited by Bloomberg on Feb. 18.

18 February, 11:49 AM

No Tomahawks in sight for Ukraine after Zelenskyy–Trump meeting

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declined to answer any questions related to potential shipments of Tomahawk cruise missiles after his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Oct. 17.

18 October 2025, 02:20 AM

Тrump administration fears it can’t control Ukraine’s use of Tomahawk missiles

Officials in President Donald Trump’s administration are concerned about whether they could control how Ukraine uses Tomahawk missiles if the U.S. provides them, Axios reported on Oct. 6, citing a source close to Ukraine’s government.

7 October 2025, 05:01 PM

Kremlin reacts to Trump’s statement on U.S. plans to deliver Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the delivery of U.S. Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine would mark a “serious escalation,” Russian state news agency TASS reported on Oct. 7.

7 October 2025, 03:12 PM

Drones spotted near Danish military sites overnight

Unidentified drones were sighted over Denmark overnight, flying near military facilities, TV2 reported on Sept. 25.

25 September 2025, 11:10 AM

Russian warplanes spent 12 minutes in NATO airspace

Three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets entered Estonian airspace over the Gulf of Finland without permission and remained there for about 12 minutes on Sept. 19, Estonian Foreign Ministry said.

19 September 2025, 08:31 PM

Poland drone attack shows Paris or London could be next

Ukraine’s UN envoy Andriy Melnyk urged a firm response to Russia’s drone attack on Poland, calling it a new phase of escalation in Europe, during an UN Security Council meeting on Sept. 12.

13 September 2025, 10:56 AM

IAEA reports loud blasts, gunfire near Europe's largest NPP

Loud explosions near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), coinciding with a drone attack on the plant's training center, were reported by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) staff on Jan. 5, according to Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi.

6 January 2025, 02:12 PM

ISW: Oreshnik IRBM strike lacks real escalation

The Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro with an experimental Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) is a “demonstrative” escalatory gesture by the regime of Vladimir Putin that does not indicate a significant change in capabilities, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) wrote on Nov. 21.

22 November 2024, 10:11 AM

Putin took another escalatory step with new ballistic missile attack — Zelenskyy

By using a new type of nuclear-capable ballistic missile against Ukraine, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has taken another step towards escalating the war, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his Nov. 21 evening address.

21 November 2024, 11:47 PM

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