Author: Michael

Top of mind in Kyiv for the leadership and populace is how to prepare for the coming winter, when Russia will surely work at incapacitating Ukraine’s electricity grid. Ukrainian air defense missiles are nearly depleted, and Russia is increasingly using jet-powered strike drones, which are harder to intercept than propeller-driven ones. In effect, things are looking grim for the winter following the most painful one yet last year.

Residents are planning to move to western Ukraine for the winter, where they face less risk of freezing or Russian strikes, closer to the Polish border.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the U.S. is not currently engaged in discussions with Iran over an end to the war.

Trump’s comments come amid an increased economic campaign, with fresh sanctions announced earlier this week affecting countries that continue to trade with the Iranian regime.

Donald Trump Pointing in Speech. Image Credit: White House.

“We don’t want to speak to them. We’re not looking to meet or anything,” Trump told reporters at the White House.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is costing a lot of money and now looks like a historic mistake.

Now well into its fifth year, the war – which many believed would be over in days – has seen tremendous Russian losses for incremental gains across Ukraine’s east.

Lancet Drone. Image Credit: Russian State Media.

Lancet Drone from Russia. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

There’s no end in sight, either, as Russian forces struggle to break through a 1000km frontline.

The effect on Russia’s economy has long been showing.

U.S. forces boarded and then later sank an alleged “floating refueling station” on Friday, U.S. Southern Command said. The raid is the latest incident of direct U.S. military action in and around Ecuador in the last two weeks in coordination with the country’s government.
The USS San Antonio tracked and interdicted the ship in international waters. Sailors and Marines from Littoral Combat Force-24 launched from the San Antonio and boarded the ship. They searched the vessel without incident, SOUTHCOM said. According to the U.S.

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The Polish Army has received the first K2 Black Panther main battle tanks from a second batch of 180 vehicles on order. Twenty-eight vehicles have delivered as part of the $6.5 billion contract signed with Hyundai Rotem in August 2025, and are being assigned to Poland’s 16th Mechanised Division, strengthening the armoured forces responsible for the country’s northeastern regions. The Polish Army is expected to eventually receive 1,000 K2 tanks, which the vehicles in having frequently being evaluated as the most capable in NATO. Of this 1,000, 360 have already been ordered.

The Kazakhstan Air Force is scheduled to receive its first fifth generation fighter aircraft within two years, according to reports from multiple Kazakh and Russian sources, which will mark a major milestone in the fleet’s modernisation. A number of sources have indicated that the orders for the Russian Su-57 fifth generation fighter have already been placed, following confirmation in 2025 that multiple countries have already ordered the new aircraft. The Air Force currently operates exclusively Soviet and Russian origin combat jets.

Pakistan Army parade, March 2018. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Pakistan, Kuwait agree to expand military cooperation. Pakistan will provide training, capacity building, border management and other military assistance to Kuwait under the newly signed Protocol Agreement.
Defense Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Abdullah Ali Abdullah Al-Saleem Al-Sabah visited Pakistan on Thursday, during which he signed a protocol with Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif and Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir in Rawalpindi.