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Denmark Blames Russia for Cyberattacks on Utility That Left Houses Without Water
Dec 22 2025 // Russia carried out cyberattacks against infrastructure and websites in Denmark in 2024 and 2025, Danish authorities say in a new assessment published this week describing new cases not previously reported. Moscow was...
Russia Is Trying to Overwhelm Europe With its Sabotage Campaign: Western Officials
Dec 19 2025 // In November, a train carrying almost 500 people came to a sudden halt in eastern Poland. A broken overhead line had smashed several windows, and the track ahead was damaged. Elsewhere on the line, explosives detonated...
Russian Oil Tankers Cleave to Turkish Coast to Cut Drone Risks
Dec 18 2025 // Oil tankers hauling Russian crude across the Black Sea are taking a roundabout route along the coastlines of Georgia and Turkey — a measure that might help them to reduce the risk of being targeted by Ukrainian sea...
Passenger Ferry Held for Hours After Suspected Russian Hack
Dec 17 2025 // European investigators are probing whether Russian military hackers breached computer systems on a vessel owned by MSC-Mediterranean Shipping Company SA, the world’s largest container shipping group, according to...
Russian Cargo Jet Grounded 16 years in Michigan May Soon Fly Again
Dec 16 2025 // One of Michigan’s most enduring sagas in the Upper Peninsula — the grounding of a Russian cargo jet marooned near Marquette for 16 years — may soon come to an end after years of lawsuits, police investigations...
Update: EU Announces New Sanctions on Companies and Individuals Over Russian Oil
Dec 15 2025 // The European Union adopted fresh sanctions against Russian oil interests on Monday, targeting traders Murtaza Lakhani and Etibar Eyyub for helping Moscow to circumvent Western sanctions on crude exports that help to fund...
Germany Summons Russian Envoy Over Surge in Cyberattacks
Dec 15 2025 // Germany’s foreign ministry summoned the Russian ambassador in Berlin and said it made it clear there’ll be consequences for hybrid attacks backed by the government in Moscow aimed at undermining...
US Slaps New Charges on Ukrainian Over Russian Cyberattacks
Dec 10 2025 // The US Department of Justice unveiled additional charges against a Ukrainian woman accused of supporting Russian state-backed cyberattacks against critical infrastructure. Victoria Eduardovna Dubranova, 33, was indicted on...
EU, G7 Weigh Ban on Maritime Services for Russian Oil Exports, End to Price Cap
Dec 8 2025 // The Group of Seven countries and the European Union are in talks to replace a price cap on Russian oil exports with a full maritime services ban in a bid to reduce the oil revenue that helps finance Russia’s war in...
Yet Another Russia-Linked Tanker Gets Attacked in the Black Sea
Dec 2 2025 // A fourth Russia-connected tanker in under a week was attacked on Tuesday, a sharp uptick in strikes on Moscow-associated shipping as the war in Ukraine nears a fifth year. The tiny oil and chemicals tanker Midvolga-2 was...
Third Russia-Linked Oil Tanker Suffers Explosions at Sea
Dec 1 2025 // An oil tanker carrying diesel suffered four external explosions near Dakar, Senegal, its manager said, the third vessel with links to Russia to have been struck over the last few days. Seawater entered the engine room of...
Poland Expects Russia to Escalate Sabotage After Rail Explosion
Nov 26 2025 // Poland’s deputy prime minister said he expects Russia to escalate its sabotage activities in the country following an explosion on a busy rail route to Ukraine for which authorities blame Moscow. Krzysztof Gawkowski...
Russia Attacks on EU Are State-Sponsored Terrorism, Top Diplomat Says
Nov 19 2025 // The European Union’s top diplomat said that Moscow’s aggression against the bloc, including an explosion that occurred in Poland over the weekend, should be considered terrorism. “These sabotage acts they...
Big Russian Port Operator Says its Systems Were Targeted by Foreign Hackers
Nov 14 2025 // Russia’s Port Alliance group, which operates a network of sea cargo terminals, said on Thursday that foreign hackers had targeted its systems over three days in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack and an...
UK to Ban Maritime Services for Russian LNG Exports
Nov 12 2025 // Britain plans to ban companies from providing services such as shipping and insurance for Russian liquefied natural gas exports, in its latest attempt to help Ukraine in its war against Russia by trying to choke off...
Reuters: Iran, Russia and the New Zealand Insurer That Kept Sanctioned Oil Flowing
Oct 28 2025 // Last Christmas, the tanker Yug cruised out of the Chinese port of Qingdao after offloading 2 million barrels of sanctioned Iranian oil. Near the Arctic, a vessel carrying Russian crude churned through icy seas, bound for...
EU’s New Sanctions Boost Allies’ Push to Hit Russian Energy
Oct 24 2025 // The European Union adopted a new package of sanctions targeting Russia’s energy infrastructure, building on new US and UK moves to chip away at Moscow’s ability to wage its war against Ukraine. The EU measures...
Poland, Romania Foil Russian Exploding Parcels Plot, Warsaw Says
Oct 21 2025 // Poland and Romania detained eight people suspected of planning sabotage on behalf of Russia, authorities in Warsaw said on Tuesday, with three arrests concerning an alleged new plan to send exploding parcels, this time to...
EU Seeks Maritime Declaration to Inspect Russia’s ‘Shadow Fleet’
Oct 20 2025 // The European Union’s diplomatic arm, the EEAS, is urging member states to back a maritime declaration that would allow EU nations working with flag states to arrange inspections on Russia’s “shadow...
UK Sanctions Russia’s Lukoil and Rosneft, Targets Shadow Fleet
Oct 15 2025 // Britain targeted Russia’s two largest oil companies, Lukoil and Rosneft, and 44 shadow fleet tankers on Wednesday in what it described as a new bid to tighten energy sanctions and choke off Kremlin revenues. Lukoil...
