A Kremlin Running organization said the West prepared to interfere with federal parliamentary elections in Russia in 2026.
The working group, which aims to save it from external interference, said that “the Commission records the active readiness of Western countries to organize attempts to interfere in the Duma’s state elections in 2026,” in a document quoted through Russian state news firm Tass.
“The United States and its satellites have already made test attempts to interfere in the Russian elections in 2024,” it added.
This is the first accusation of electoral interference in recent months.
You may not forget last month when Romania canceled the result of the first voting circular, its presidential election after Russia was accused of having operated a “massive influence operation. “
Moscow told the Australian government that one of its living citizens after being captured while fighting throughout the Ukrainian forces.
Oscar Jenkins, a 32 -year -old teacher, taken to captivity at the end of last year.
“The Australian government has received confirmation from Russia that Oscar Jenkins is alive and in custody,” the country’s foreign minister Penny Wong said.
Earlier this month, reports arose that suggested that Jenkins had been killed at the hands of the Russian forces, which caused an investigation into their well -being.
“We still hold serious concerns for Jenkins as a prisoner of war,” Wong added.
She then called on Russia to release him from captivity, adding “Russia is obligated to treat him in accordance with international humanitarian law, including humane treatment.”
Ukraine will have to start urgently import giant amounts of fuel to meet their needs, warned the former leader of the country’s public shipping operator.
Sergiy Makogon said the volume of fuel in Ukraine’s garage amenities fell close to the critical mark at 10%.
“Our garage facilities are actually arriving the 10 %filling point,” Makogon said, added that this would decrease the imaginable samples to 60 million cubic meters consisting of the day.
“This will mean that we will not be meeting the fuel call through underground production and fuel facilities, and we will have to import fuel in an emergency,” he added.
Makogon explained that garage comforts around 20% in full time ago and between 22 and 23% at the same time in 2023.
The daily production of fuel cannot cover all of Ukraine’s wishes for the bloodless season, the country pumps fuel into the summer inventory for use in winter.
Russia said he had made “Franco” discussions with Syria to maintain his two army bases in the country.
It seeks to keep its naval base in Tartus, as well as the Hmeimim air base near the port city of Latakie.
While it is unclear what is not easy in return, the country’s new leader Ahmed Al Sharaa has called on Moscow to hand over former President Bashar Al Assad, who fled when he overthrew him in December, a source told Reuters.
The new Syrian management said that it had “emphasized that the recovery of relationships will have to face beyond errors, respect the will of other Syrian people and serve their interests” conversations with a Russian delegation.
Syria has also had conversations with Ukraine since the fall of Assad and said he expected “strategic associations” between the two countries.
“It is true that other Syrian people and other Ukrainian people have the same delight and the same suffering we have suffered for 14 years,” said Syrian Foreign Minister Assad Hassan to Shaibani.
Ukraine sent food aid to Syria after the fall of Assad, with Zelenskyy adding: “We wish Syria and the safety, stability and recovery of the people. We know the truth of those things. “
Russia has systematically tried “information operations” to deter Western for Ukraine, according to the War Study Institute.
It comes after senior NATO official James Appathurai told the European Parliament yesterday the alliance had faced acts of sabotage in recent years, including train derailments and arson.
He also stressed an alleged Kremlin conspiracy to homicide the head of the German author Rheinmetall, Armin Papperger, adding that Russia aimed to “create a fear to undermine Ukraine. “
The ISW said Moscow’s sabotage crusade targeting NATO states supports its assessment that Vladimir Putin views Russia as a hybrid war opposed to NATO.
Russia’s “undeclared war” with the West is already under way, an expert has warned, and failure to acknowledge this makes defeat “only a matter of time”.
Oleksandr Danylyuk, a former finance minister in Ukraine who specializes in Russia’s multidimensional warfare, said Moscow is “increasingly stressful” that it does see preconditions for a ceasefire and continues to ramp up weapons production.
When writing for the group of experts, Royal United Services Institute, Danylyuk said: “All these signs point to the intensification of Russian efforts not only to Ukraine militarily, but also to destabilize and capture the West.
“Western leaders stubbornly seek ice, to some extent, mimicking the habit of their Ukrainian colleagues on the eve of the Russian invasion. “
Despite the fact Vladimir Putin has not declared war on the West, Danylyuk said it is well known to Russian citizens.
The country’s media, opinion leaders, civil and army representatives “said about several events that Russia’s war opposed NATO in Ukraine,” he said.
“Without a doubt, Russia is not in a position to move on to war with the forces of a united Europe, but it has enough perspective to take individual countries, even large,” he added.
Danylyuk added: “Russia’s undeclared war against the West is already underway, and the stubborn refusal to acknowledge this fact by most Western leaders makes the West’s defeat only a matter of time.”
The National Anti -Corruption of Ukraine has opened a Crook investigation into the Minister of Defense, Rustem Uumerov and will investigate the abuse of his authority.
As we reported yesterday, that of Ukraine eliminated its Minister of Defense as a result of inadequate acquisitions of inadequate weapon.
Western officials have warned Ukraine that a gap between the country’s Defense Minister and the purchase of the Arms Chief may compromise confidence in the country.
Representatives of G7 nations called on Kyiv to resolve the situation “and focus on keeping defence procurement going”.
Umerov requested the withdrawal of the Minister of Defense, Dmytro Klimenkov, and said that the company had “inexplicably remodeled in” Amazon “” and that their purchases were too visible.
Reacting to the complaints, the firm said it had made “significant progress” in developing the source and pricing.
Earlier, we informed you with Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s comments overnight about his hopes of running with US President Donald Trump (see our post at 8:0).
In an interview with Fox News, the Ukrainian president urged Trump to be on his country’s side.
Zelenskyy has now brought X to expand his comments and said that “the end of war heat is critical. “
He pointed to Washington’s “absence” from the Minsk agreements, signed in 2014 and 2015 in an attempt to secure a ceasefire between the Ukrainian government and Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country.
Zelenskyy also stated that Putin could have been forced into “real peace” had the US been involved.
“A strong America may have forced Putin to a genuine peace, just a frozen conflict,” Zelenskyy said.
“I am confident that if President Trump wants to, he can force Putin into peace.”
These last photographs show that Ukrainian troops use educational training in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Servicemen from Ukraine’s Transcarpathian Brigade can be seen firing from tanks in the pictures below.
According to reports, Russian troops have taken a village in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
Citing the Defense Ministry, the RIA State News Agency reported that the Russian army seized Novoiyzavetivka.
This has been independently verified.
Reports have suggested in recent weeks that Russian troops have been amassing near the village.
Novoiyzavetivka is about 25 km (16 miles) southwest of Pokrovsk, which can be seen on the map below.
In its latest assessment, the Institute for the Study of War said Ukrainian forces had recently advanced in Toretsk and near Pokrovsk, while Russia had made also gains near the same areas as well as in Kurakhove, Velyka Novosilka and in western Zaporizhia Oblast.