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Russia not seeking to ease tension: threats to Baltics and Balkans

With no armed invasion of Ukraine, on a day when the CIA claimed, high risks remain. Russia has maximized anticipation of a military invasion, as likelihood of this scenario was…

February 17, 2022Russia, Ukraine

Conflict Warfare

Assessment of Russia’s capability to use Belarus territory as military springboard for invasion

The risks of further escalation around Ukraine are rising against the backdrop of the movement of Russian troops into Belarus. The Alexander Lukashenko regime has ultimately lost its independence and…

January 20, 2022Belarus, Russia, Ukraine

Geopolitics

Russia’s fear has a quick ear

Russia sent to Washington its security guarantees draft agreements with the United States and NATO. One of the draft clauses is having NATO’s guarantees of non-expansion on the territory of…

December 21, 2021Russia, Ukraine

Geopolitics

Putin’s demands could lead to NATO disintegration, disastrous consequences for European security

Russia has succeeded in exerting pressure on the Western powers by threatening to unleash a nuclear war. The threat of a nuclear crisis, which Moscow previously applied against the United…

December 3, 2021NATO, Russia, Ukraine

Conflict Intelligence ops

Russian military invasion of Ukraine: Assessment of likelihood and possible scenarios

The U.S. has shared intelligence, including maps, with European allies showing a buildup of Russian troops and artillery in what appears to be a preparation for a rapid, large-scale push…

November 24, 2021Russia, Ukraine, USA

Governance

Dictators’ hybrid technologies: citizenship and elections

Russia is now testing a rather new type of election fraud by engaging as voters wrongfully naturalized persons living beyond its borders. The Kremlin is bracing for parliamentary elections due…

July 23, 2021Russia, Ukraine

Conflict

Russia about to launch offensive in Southern Ukraine and stage false flag attacks

Russia is about to launch an offensive in Southern Ukraine. The strike is quite possible to be delivered from the annexed Crimea’s side and the breakaway territories of Donbas, in…

April 12, 2021Russia, Ukraine

Propaganda and Disinformation

Individual sanctions against Kremlin’s satellites to hamper intense malign activity from third countries

Individual sanctions imposed against the Russian satellites will slow down local politicians’ recruiting by the Kremlin, hurt their financial base, and localize their business in Russia, thus creating additional pressure…

September 15, 2020Russia, Ukraine

Intelligence ops Situation Reports

Russia has got access to MH-17 case investigation files and is trying to influence public opinion on the eve of the court hearing

As the trial date on MH17 case approaches, the activity of pro-Russian disinformation groups is going to increase. But no amount of disinformation can negate the fact that both the Netherlands…

February 20, 2020MH17, Netherlands, Russia, Ukraine

Propaganda and Disinformation Psyops Situation Reports

Russia began to discredit the United States, hiding the fact that Ukrainian passenger plane was destroyed by Iran

Russia has launched a campaign to discredit the United States over the Ukrainian plane crash flying from Tehran to Kiev. The plane disappeared from radar at 0248 UTC after taking…

January 8, 2020Iran, MANPADS, PS752, Ukraine

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