Mark Rutte, the head of NATO, told a conference in Bucharest last week that the collective West needs to be prepared for a long-term confrontation with Russia and other countries that are not compliant with the current rules-based order that is dictated by Washington and Brussels.
Ukraine’s state electricity transmission company announced Sunday that Russian attacks on energy infrastructure have left power-generating capacity inside the country at zero, and it was compelled to cut off power across most areas inside the country for up to 16 hours.
The Russian military has been employing retrofitted Soviet-era glide bombs that have managed to strike targets far from the frontlines—including some that have been refitted with jet engines that enable even farther travel, according to a report in the Financial Times.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his military to put plans into place to carry out nuclear tests in response to President Donald Trump’s earlier decision to tell the Pentagon to begin testing these weapons.
The Ukrainian military last week continued to attack Russian industrial facilities in an effort to destroy the country’s wartime economy, even as its soldiers were losing their foothold in Pokrovsk, the strategic city which The Wall Street Journal called the Kremlin’s “biggest Ukrainian conquest in more than two years.”