Though its warhead is smaller and it is subsonic, the Kh-69 can be stealthily launched from small tactical jets According to Defense Express, Russia used its new Kh-69 cruise missiles to completely destroy the Trypilska thermal power plant, the most powerful power plant in Ukraine’s Kyiv Oblast, during the strike …

Gagauzia, a small (140,000-strong) Christian Turkic and pro-Russian autonomous region in Moldova, is on its way to becoming a new hotspot in Eastern Europe that could trigger a direct confrontation between Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). A month ago, Yevgenia Gutsul, Gagauzia’s bashkan (head), met with Russian …

A full-scale conflict in Europe is “no longer a fantasy” and Europeans must find new ways to financially prepare for a potentially wider war on the continent, the EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell warned on Tuesday (9 April). “War is certainly looming around us (…), and a high-intensity, conventional war …