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Russia Is Raising Taxes and Seizing Assets to Keep the Ukraine War Funded: Russia can still finance its war in Ukraine, but the Kremlin is relying on increasingly costly ways to find the money. Moscow is raising taxes, cutting civilian investment, borrowing from domestic banks and taking control of private property as military spending exceeds earlier plans.

A Foreign Policy examination of Russia’s wartime finances describes a government with resources left to use, but fewer painless options. The question is no longer whether Vladimir Putin can pay for another year of war.

Ukraine Will Have Drones With Greater Than 6000 Mile Range by 2027: In an interview with the famous conservative media personality Laura Loomer, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that by 2027 Ukraine will be launching drones with a range in excess of 6000 miles. This will be the biggest leap in the attack envelope of Ukraine’s rapidly growing drone army since Kyiv began simultaneous mid-range and long-range strike campaigns.

A drone of this range would more than triple the distance of the longest endurance unmanned strike platform in the Ukrainian armed forces as of today.

Putin Wants 30,000 More North Korea People’s Army Soldiers Sent to Fight in Ukraine – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that his intelligence services are telling him Moscow wants to bring 30,000 additional Korean People’s Army (KPA) troops from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) into the Ukraine war. These units, which would amount to a roughly three-division-sized expeditionary force that would fight alongside Russian units in Russia’s war against its neighbor.

“We also see Russia’s cooperation with North Korea.

Ukraine Has A New Deep-Strike Priority Targets List, Says Zelensky: Ukraine has now “updated the list of priority targets” to be attacked by long-range strikes against Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made the announcement after a 26 July meeting with his military leaders.

This news comes after a week of consecutive – almost daily – attacks by Ukraine on warehouses and logistics hubs owned by Wildberries, an analog to the US-founded Amazon.com. The company is Russia’s largest online retailer with over 18 million regular customers and one million sellers.

Taiwan produces the world’s most advanced semiconductors, yet the island’s own military is only in the opening stages of adopting artificial intelligence systems. This mismatch bears directly on Taiwan’s ability to deter Chinese aggression.Beijing is pushing to develop and field sophisticated AI-enabled military capabilities. Given China’s focus on “reuniting” with Taiwan, the Taiwanese military could be the first to contend with the People’s Liberation Army’s emerging defense technologies during a potential conflict.

The Russian Navy is set to commission its first nuclear-powered submarine equipped with the 3M22 Zircon hypersonic cruise missile before the end of the year, marking a significant milestone in the modernisation of the country’s undersea strike capabilities. Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Alexander Moiseyev confirmed that the Yasen-M class attack submarinePerm will become the first to integrate the new missile type, greatly expanding the operational reach and survivability.

Svalbard is a stark archipelago of glaciers and coal mines lying 650 kilometers (403 miles) north of Norway’s North Cape, roughly halfway between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole. It belongs to Norway but is governed under a 1920 treaty that grants nationals of more than 40 signatory states sweeping economic rights while barring Oslo from constructing naval bases or using the archipelago for “warlike” purposes. Far to the south, in the Baltic Sea between the Finnish and Swedish coasts, lie the Åland Islands, which are composed of roughly 6,500 islands and skerries.

The Russian Navy is moving forward with plans to field its first new destroyer-sized surface combatant developed since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, with Commander-in-Chief Admiral Alexander Moiseyev having confirmed that the service requires a new 9,500 ton ocean-going warship to restore blue water capabilities lost over the past three decades. The announcement represents one of the clearest indications yet that the Russian Defence Ministry intends to rebuild its large surface combat fleet after years of focusing primarily on submarines, frigates and smaller missile ships.

The Russian Army has received a new batch of modernised BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles, continuing the rapid expansion of armoured vehicle production driven by wartime demand. Improvements over the baseline design include enhanced protection against drones and anti-tank weapons, reflecting lessons learned from more than four years of high-intensity combat.

The U.S. Army has placed its first domestic order for older-generation PAC-2 Patriot interceptor missiles in more than three decades, marking a significant shift in American air defence procurement as demand for missiles for the MIM-104 Patriot air defence system continues to far exceed production capacities. The order, announced during RTX’s second-quarter earnings briefing, centres on the PAC-2 GEM-T (Guidance Enhanced Missile-Tactical) interceptor.