#russian-sabotage

#russian-sabotage

Starting in December 2025, Sergey N., acting on behalf of a Russian intelligence service, surveilled a person in Germany who was shipping drones and related components from here to Ukraine.

In 2021, when Olga Rudenko and other journalists launched the Kyiv Independent, they were committed to making a publication that wouldn't face political pressure from an owner. A few months later, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and the Independent began reporting breaking news from the front lines.

A Russian assassination plot targeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was uncovered after intelligence sources revealed operatives rented apartments close to his office in Kyiv. The alleged Kremlin plan aimed to capture or kill the Ukrainian leader during the early stages of Russia's full-scale invasion, according to reporting by CNN. Sources claim Russian agents were instructed to eliminate Zelenskyy if he failed to escape the area.

Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin, 31, of Krasnodarskiy, Russia, led the two ransomware operations between early 2019 and mid-2021, involved in 130 extortion attempts.

Elections in Moldova and Romania are recent examples, and we expect more hybrid campaigns throughout this election year in Germany,

The SBU says the enemy has ramped up these operations, using phones, messaging apps, and even online dating platforms to trick people into carrying out dangerous acts. The SBU said, "During such operations, Russian agents telephone or message people, posing as employees of the SBU, the Main Intelligence Directorate, NABU, the National Police, and other law enforcement agencies." "The Security Service of Ukraine once again calls on citizens to maintain information hygiene and to exercise caution in contacts with unknown individuals," the SBU added.

A senior Russian military general has been shot multiple times in Moscow in an assassination attempt. Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, deputy head of the Defence Ministry's Main Directorate of the General Staff was shot several times on Friday and has been rushed to hospital. The general was accused of playing a major role in the Salisbury poisonings in the UK of the former double Russia n agent Sergei Skripal for British intelligence.

William Burns had travelled halfway around the world to speak with Vladimir Putin, but in the end he had to make do with a phone call. It was November 2021, and US intelligence agencies had been picking up signals in the preceding weeks that Putin could be planning to invade Ukraine. President Joe Biden dispatched Burns, his CIA director, to warn Putin that the economic and political consequences if he did so would be disastrous.

The assessment comes amid rising nuclear rhetoric between Moscow and Western governments over future security arrangements for Ukraine following the ongoing conflict. Analysts say Russian officials have amplified statements from the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service to reinforce warnings about potential nuclear escalation. Particular diplomatic pressure appears to be directed at the UK and France, which are leading negotiations within the so-called Coalition of the Willing on potential security guarantees for Ukraine after hostilities end.