(MOSCOW) – At least 600,000 residents in Moscow and surrounding areas were left without electricity and mobile internet as 2025 ended, highlighting growing infrastructure challenges within the Russian Federation. Reports indicate that the outages affected popular residential districts and disrupted daily life for residents and businesses alike. Local authoritiesContinue Reading
(MARIUPOL, DONETSK) – The Russian occupation authorities have officially reopened the Mariupol Drama Theatre, the site of a devastating 2022 airstrike that killed hundreds of Ukrainian civilians. The reopening, marked by a celebratory gala concert on 28 December 2025, has been widely condemned by Ukrainian officials as a cynical attemptContinue Reading
(LONDON) – Russia is already experiencing the early stages of an economic collapse as a result of its full scale invasion of Ukraine, according to Bill Browder, founder of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign. Speaking on Times Radio’s Front Line programme, Browder said that official Russian economic statistics should notContinue Reading
(LONDON) – Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is increasingly isolated from reality and surrounded by officials who are afraid to deliver bad news, according to Christopher Steele, the former head of the United Kingdom’s MI6 Russia desk. Steele says Putin lives inside a self reinforcing bubble of disinformation that hasContinue Reading
(ILSKY, KRASNODAR REGION, RUSSIA) – Ukraine carried out its first reported oil infrastructure strikes of 2026, targeting the Ilsky oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region and a separate oil depot in the Kaluga region, according to open source video footage and local reports shared online. Videos and photographs circulating onContinue Reading
(KYIV, UKRAINE) – Ukraine’s Security Service said 2025 marked a year of extensive intelligence and security operations against Russian military and infrastructure targets, according to a New Year address by the head of the agency, Vasyl Malyuk, as reported by UNN. Malyuk described the past year as one defined byContinue Reading
https://unn.ua/video/2025/12/31/1767176373-1917.mp4 (TUAPSE, KRASNODAR KRAI, RUSSIA) – Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate said that its forces carried out a coordinated strike overnight on December 31 against major oil infrastructure in southern Russia, targeting the Tuapse marine oil terminal and the Tuapse oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai. According to information released byContinue Reading
(MOSCOW) – Russia has announced plans to expand what it calls a buffer zone inside northeastern Ukraine in 2026, following instructions from Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, according to senior military officials in Moscow. The statement was made by Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces,Continue Reading
(MOSCOW, RUSSIA) – Russian officials have publicly claimed that the country now ranks as the leading economy in Europe, despite extensive international sanctions imposed since the invasion of Ukraine. The statement, made by State Duma chairman Vyacheslav Volodin, comes as available data points to a deep and widening decline inContinue Reading
(KYIV, UKRAINE) – Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine is showing signs of serious strain as new assessments indicate that Moscow is struggling to maintain momentum due to heavy losses and limited reserves. Analysts say Russian forces are increasingly exposed as they shift resources from one front to another, creating vulnerabilitiesContinue Reading
