Daily Archives: Dec 8, 2025

It started with radar screens illuminating above Arctic and Baltic skies NORAD trackers monitoring blips soon to become the newest flashpoints in NATO's strained confrontation with Russia. Within weeks, Russian fighter aircraft and drones have pushed across allied airspace from Alaska to Estonia, eliciting swift military reaction and emergency...

Ukraine's increasingly aggressive push against Russian oil refineries is a hallmarks of the war's tech front, combining defense innovation with economic destabilization. President Volodymyr Zelensky encapsulated the strategy unambiguously "The most effective sanctions – the ones that work the fastest – are the fires at Russia's oil refineries, its...

The seizing of the Benin-flagged oil tanker Boracay off France's Atlantic seaboard has brought Russia's "shadow fleet" illegal oil trading operations into sharp relief. French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed the ship's connection to blacklisted Russian oil activities and accused its sailors of "extremely serious crimes." The seizure, which was...