Category: Russia

Russia has defaulted on its foreign loans after it attempted to pay bondholders in rubles instead of dollars.

Pro-Russian politician and close Putin ally Viktor Medvedchuk was captured by Ukrainian secret services in a “lightning-fast and dangerous” mission.

Russian President Putin stated that the peace talks with Ukraine were at a “dead end” and claimed that the killings in Bucha were fake.

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, confronted him about the war crimes, and called to end the war.

Slovakia has given its S-300 air defense system to Ukraine in exchange for Patriot systems. Russia claims they’ve destroyed the delivery of the Soviet-era air defense system near the city of Dnipro.

NATO intends to deploy a full-scale permanent military force on the border of its member-states, Estonia and Latvia, to defend against any potential military offensives by Russia.

Some 60 Russian paratroopers from Pskov, Northern Russia, refused to fight the Ukrainians and left the battlefield to go home, defying orders from their superiors.

Finland and Sweden’s application to become NATO members becomes likely due to Russian aggression, with Finland expected to apply in June.

The Russians are recruiting veterans and troops from the unrecognized region of Transnistria in Moldova amid huge losses in its invasion.

White House’s latest round of sanctions targets Putin’s daughters and two of Russia’s largest banks, Sberbank and Alfa Bank.

The United States announced last Wednesday that it had secretly removed a powerful Russian malware from devices targeting thousands of small to medium businesses and individuals around the world.

Today’s Ukraine SITREP is about harpoons, hard-learned lessons about an infantry squad bunching up, and Russian military movements in the country.