A Kremlin task force has affirmed that the West is to interfere with the Federal Parliamentary Elections of Russia in 2026.
The working group, whose objective is to save external interference, said that “the commission records the active preparation of Western countries to organize attempts to interfere in the state elections of the DUMA in 2026”, in a document cited through the Russian state news signature TASS.
“The United States and their satellites have already tried to interfere in the Russian elections in 2024,” he added.
This is the first accusation of interference of the elections in recent months.
You may remember last month when Romania annulled the result of the first round of voting in its presidential election after Russia was accused of operating a “mass influence operation”.
Moscow has told the Australian government that one of its citizens is alive after being captured while fighting along Ukrainian forces.
Oscar Jenkins, a 32-year-old teacher, was taken captive before last year.
“The Australian has won Russia’s confirmation that Oscar Jenkins is alive and detention,” said the country’s foreign minister Penny Wong.
Reports had emerged earlier this month suggesting Jenkins had been killed by Russian forces, which prompted an inquiry into his welfare.
“We still hold serious concerns for Jenkins as a prisoner of war,” Wong added.
He then called on Russia from captivity, adding that “Russia is forced to treat him in accordance with foreign humanitarian law, adding humane treatment. “
Ukraine will have to start urgently import giant amounts of fuel to meet their needs, warned the former leader of the country’s public shipping operator.
Sergiy Makogon said the volume of fuel in Ukraine’s garage amenities fell close to the critical mark at 10%.
“Our garage comforts are gradually arriving but in reality the 10% bleeding point,” Makogon said, added that this would reduce imaginable retreats to 60 million cubic meters consisting of the day.
“This will mean that we will not comply with the request for fuel through underground fuel and production facilities, and we will have to import fuel in an emergency,” he added.
Makogon explained that garage comforts at approximately 20% full time a year ago and between 22 and 23% at the same time in 2023.
Daily gas production cannot cover all of Ukraine’s needs in the cold season, with the country pumping gas into storage during the summer for use in the winter.
Russia said he had made “Franco” discussions with Syria to maintain his two army bases in the country.
It seeks to keep its naval base in Tartus, as well as the Hmeimim air base near the port city of Latakie.
While it is not clear what is not easy in return, the new leader of the country Ahmed al Sharaa has asked Moscow to deliver former President Bashar al Assad, who fled when he overthrew in December, a source told Reuters.
The new Syrian administration said it had “stressed that restoring relations must address past mistakes, respect the will of the Syrian people and serve their interests” during talks with a Russian delegation.
Syria has also held talks with Ukraine since Assad’s fall and said it hoped for “strategic partnerships” between the two countries.
“It is true that other Syrian people and other Ukrainian people have the same delight and the same suffering we have suffered for 14 years,” said Syrian Foreign Minister Assad Hassan to Shaibani.
Ukraine has sent food aid to Syria after the fall of Assad, with Zelenskyy, adding: “We need Syria and the security, stability and recovery of the inhabitants. We know the truth of those things. “
Russia has systematically tried to use “information operations” to deter Western for Ukraine, according to the Institute for the Study of War.
This comes after senior NATO official James Appathurai said in the European Parliament that the alliance had faced acts of sabotage in recent years, adding exercise derailments and corrupt fire.
He also stressed an alleged Kremlin conspiracy to homicide the head of the German author Rheinmetall, Armin Papperger, adding that Russia aimed to “create a fear to undermine Ukraine. “
The ISW said that the Moscow sabotage crusade addressed to NATO states supports its evaluation that Vladimir Putin perspective to Russia as a hybrid war opposed to NATO.
Russia’s “not declared war” is already underway, a skilled one has warned and not recognizing that this makes the defeat “only a matter of time. “
Oleksandr Danylyuk, former Minister of Finance in Ukraine, who specializes in the Russian multidimensional war, said that Moscow “emphasized more and more” that does see previous requirements for a high fire and continues to develop weapons production.
When writing for the Royal United relays of the Royal United Services Institute, Danylyuk said: “All these signs underline the intensification of Russian efforts not only for military Ukraine, but also to destabilize and capture the West.
“Western leaders stubbornly seek ice, to some extent, imitating the habit of their Ukrainian colleagues on the eve of the Russian invasion. “
Despite the fact that Vladimir Putin did not claim war in the West, Danylyuk said that he is known to Russian citizens.
The country’s media, opinion leaders, civilian and military representatives have “repeatedly stated that Russia is waging war against NATO in Ukraine”, he said.
“Without a doubt, Russia is not in a position to go to war with the forces of a united Europe, but it has enough prospect to take individual countries, even large ones,” he added.
Danylyuk added: “The not completed war from Russia opposed to the West is already underway, and the stubborn negative to recognize this fact through the highest Western leaders is the defeat of the West.
The National Office against Corruption of Ukraine has opened an investigation into the Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov and will investigate the abuse of its authority.
As we reported yesterday, that of Ukraine eliminated its Minister of Defense as a result of inadequate acquisitions of inadequate weapon.
Western officials have warned Ukraine that a gap between the country’s Defense Minister and the purchase of the Arms Chief may compromise confidence in the country.
The representatives of the G7 nations asked kyiv to the stage “and concentrate on maintaining defense supplies. “
Umerov called for the retirement of Defense Minister Dmytro Klimenkov, saying in A that the company had “inexplicably remodeled on ‘Amazon'” and that its purchases were too visible.
In a reaction to complaints, the firm said it had made a “significant progress” to develop the source and prices.
Earlier we brought you up to speed with Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s comments overnight on his hopes for working with US president Donald Trump (see our 8.08am post).
In an interview with Fox News, the Ukrainian president urged Trump to be on his country’s side.
Zelenskyy has now brought X to expand his comments and said that “the end of war heat is critical. “
He pointed to the “absence” of Washington of the Minsk agreements, signed in 2014 and 2015 in an attempt to ensure a high fire between the Ukrainian government and the separatists backed by Russian in the east of the country.
Zelenskyy also said that Putin could have been forced to “real peace” if the United States had been involved.
“A strong America could have forced Putin into real peace, not just a frozen conflict,” Zelenskyy said.
“I am convinced that if President Trump wants it, he can make peace. “
These newer photographs show Ukrainian troops using educational training in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Servicemen from Ukraine’s Transcarpathian Brigade can be seen firing from tanks in the pictures below.
Russian troops have reportedly taken a village in Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
Citing the Ministry of Defense, the news firm of the State of RIA reported that Russian infantry soldiers had seized Novoiyzavetivka.
This has been independently verified.
Reports have reported in recent weeks that Russian troops have bred near the village.
Novoielyzavetivka is about 25km (16 miles) southwest of Pokrovsk, which you can see in the map below.
In its most recent assessment, the Institute for the Study of War said Ukrainian forces recently had compounds in Toretsk and near Pokrovsk, while Russia had also gained near the same spaces, as well as in Kurakhove, Velyka Novosilka and Western Zaporizhia Oblast.