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Murder, Drones and Hacks: Russia's Not-So-Secret War on NATO Countries

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A look at what a new indictment reveals, why it matters and what a “hybrid war” is.  By Olivier Knox Sept. 17, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. US News original article contains links Vyacheslav PROKOFYEV | POOL | AFP | Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in Moscow on Sept. 15. A federal indictment released this week sheds new light on Russia’s “hybrid war” against America and its allies, alleging a brazen murder-for-hire plot targeting a Russian dissident in the Washington, D.C., area this summer. The FBI said it had disrupted the plot against the dissident but did not detail how, nor did it name the alleged target. The Justice Department unsealed charges against five people it accused of being part of a “global assassination network” eager to “cause destruction and mayhem around the world, including right here in the United States.” Officials described what they called the Russian Intelligence Services Network as “brazen, aggressive and far-reaching.” Since at leas...
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Putin warns of war. Again. The man who started one can't stop threatening one.

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 VIA  QUORA Geopolitics Russia Russo-Ukrainian War (2014... Military Conflict Ukraine Vladimir Putin Foreign Policy + 3 Guy Rothschild    ·  Follow Writing Trench Survivor (2017–present)  Sat Putin warns of war. Again. The man who started one can't stop threatening one. Via Morning Report/TVP World ++ Morning Report Ukraine continues its offensive on Russian industrial facilities. Ukrainian drones hit a rubber factory in Tolyatti, 900 kilometres from the border, home to AvtoVAZ, Russia's largest state owned car manufacturer. In Taganrog, just 40 kilometres from the front line, Ukraine struck a car plant, with blazes also seen at a nearby airfield. Thursday night, Saratov had an e-commerce warehouse and a refinery set ablaze. Three people were killed and three wounded in a separate attack on the Tula region. Russia, for its part, killed two people in Kyiv on Friday morning. The butcher of Bucha, as Putin is known, continues to do what he does best: murder ci...
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A Colorful Undercover Recording Spurs Fresh Outrage Over Graft in Ukrain

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A case about kickbacks has drawn attention in a country worried that corruption threatens the war effort, and its future. Corruption allegations against his office have toppled Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko. Thomas Peter/Reuters By Maria Varenikova , Cassandra Vinograd and Nataliia Novosolova Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine Sept. 16, 2026  Updated 9:14 a.m. ET Original article contains links. Ukrainians are used to revelations of corruption in their government. But one case that emerged this month has managed to grab their attention, in part because of a vivid turn of phrase.   An official working under Ukraine’s top prosecutor was caught on tape by anti-corruption investigators describing his own approach to enriching himself through corruption. “If you’re going to do something, then go all in — boom,” the official was recorded saying. He then explained, profanely, what he meant. If you’re going to sleep with a woman, he said, then sleep with “a queen.” And i...
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Democrats, don’t forget: These new sanctions could save lives

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A bipartisan sanctions bill would hit the regimes that terrorize us. The House should pass it. September 15, 2026 at 6:45 a.m.  The Washington Post By Oleksandra Matviichuk and Masih Alinejad Oleksandra Matviichuk is the head of the Center for Civil Liberties in Kyiv, which shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist, author and women’s rights campaigner. From left: Photos of killed Iranian protesters, at a D.C. rally on Jan. 16,  and photos of killed Ukrainians, in Kyiv in 2023.  (Saul Loeb/ AFP/ Getty Images; Ed Ram/ For The Washington Post) The Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act provides Congress the best opportunity in almost two years to pass major new sanctions against Russia and extend long-standing sanctions against Iran. As two activists who have devoted our lives to defending human rights in our countries — one of us, a Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the other, an Iranian journalist who has survived multipl...
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Ukraine and Russia Say There Is No Energy Truce, Despite Trump’s Claims

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The Kremlin said that an agreement would be “a very good idea” but that any deal would not have much effect on fuel markets, as President Trump had suggested. A film (shown in the article but which can't be reproduced here for technical reasons I know nothing about)) mentions the Strikes in Russia and Ukraine targeted oil refineries and petrol stations overnight on Monday, while the prospect of an energy cease-fire announced by President Trump remained elusive. By Ivan Nechepurenko The New York Times Sept. 15, 2026 Updated 10:30 a.m. ET image (not from article) from The Russian and Ukrainian governments made clear on Tuesday that neither had agreed to an energy cease-fire that President Trump presented as a done deal a day before. Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said at a news briefing that, while Russia believed a halt to strikes against energy infrastructure would be “a very good idea,” such a deal would not have much effect on fuel markets, as Mr. Trump had claimed. Pr...
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Trump Lectures Ukraine, not Russia

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He tells Kyiv to stop hitting Russian diesel, while Putin bombs civilian targets. By The Editorial Board Updated Sept. 13, 2026 5:48 pm ET The Wall Street Journal See also Firefighters extinguish a car of a passenger train hit by a Russian drone strike at a railway station, Lutsk, Ukraine, Sept. 12. State Emergency Service Of Ukrai/ Handout/ Reuters An armed Russian jet drone hit the engine of a passenger train in Ukraine near the Polish border on the weekend. Meanwhile, President Trump lectured Ukraine’s President to stop hitting energy targets in Russia. Go ahead, make Vladimir Putin’s day, Mr. President. The passenger train line between Warsaw and Kyiv is a a main travel route for civilians, as the Kremlin knows. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt and a key adviser to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz are reported to have been on a different train the same evening. Were the Russians hoping to hit those European allies of Ukraine?...
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