Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam
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@InaHPKvam
Researcher at the Norwegian Defence University College / Royal Norwegian Naval Academy, analysing Russian military and maritime strategy. All views my own
Over 9000 Shahed drones have been built at this plant in Russia's city of Izhevsk, and it's been violently detonating all day. Even a 1300km distance from Ukraine is no longer safe for Russia's rapidly shrinking defense capacity.
Cell towers can be used as a radar system. Cell towers facing Kaliningrad from southeast Sweden are being sabotaged.
Trump administration just lifted sanctions on several Russian banks close to Putin.
With the US still refusing to help Ukraine, Russia now seizing the exact mineral troves that the US-Ukraine Strategic Minerals Agreement recently signed to jointly exploit. kyivinsider.com/as-trump-refus…
'Sometimes daddy has to use strong language.' Nato's secretary general Mark Rutte referred to US President Donald Trump as 'daddy' when discussing the Israel-Iran conflict at the summit in The Hague.
Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland are planning to mine areas along the border with Russia, creating a new 'Iron Curtain,' - the Telegraph. All of them have already announced plans to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, which bans the use of anti-personnel landmines. These countries have 2,150 miles of border with Russia and Belarus. Lithuania, which plans to spend 5.5% of GDP on defense, has allocated €800 million ($930,3 million) to manufacture anti-tank and anti-personnel landmines. Former Lithuanian Defense Minister Laurynas Kasčiūnas said "hundreds of thousands" of landmines will be required, which then will be stored close to the borders with Russia and Belarus for deployment in a crisis. They will form a part of a "whole system" of defense, along with drones and long-range weapons, @LKasciunas added.
