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.”
Germans are forced to spend more on their energy demands because of Berlin’s decision to cut off Russian gas, and have seen their heating bills increase by 82 percent since 2021, Euronews reported.
The French parliament last week rejected a new levy on the ultra-rich in the country that would tax those with a net fortune of over €100 million in the hopes of bringing down Paris’s deficit.
Officials in Europe are considering plans on how to move a large number of troops across the continent in the event of an all-out war with Russia, and one of the ideas is to combine transportation assets in a “solidarity pool,” according to a report.
Friedrich Merz, the warmongering German chancellor, doubled down on his vow to turn the Bundeswehr into the strongest fighting force in Europe amid what he sees as the growing threat from Russia.
U.S. President Donald Trump posted on social media last week that South Korea will build its nuclear-powered submarine in the U.S., calling Washington’s relationship with Seoul “stronger than ever.”
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Sunday that his security agencies nabbed a group of hired mercenaries with direct ties to the CIA and said the U.S. military has been planning a “false flag” attack—possibly from Trinidad and Tobago to generate a “full-scale military confrontation,” the Miami Herald reported on Monday.