Russia flexes ‘growing power’ of its Navy with huge parade involving 200 warships in St Petersburg

President Vladimir Putin said the Russian navy will get 40 new ships this year, as he attended a naval parade in St Petersburg on Sunday marking the country’s Navy Day. The parade in the port city and the nearby town of Kronshtadt featured 200 ships and vessels and over 4,000 troops and aimed to ‘demonstrate … Read more

Russia flexes ‘growing power’ of its Navy with huge parade involving 200 warships in St Petersburg

President Vladimir Putin said the Russian navy will get 40 new ships this year, as he attended a naval parade in St Petersburg on Sunday marking the country’s Navy Day. The parade in the port city and the nearby town of Kronshtadt featured 200 ships and vessels and over 4,000 troops and aimed to ‘demonstrate … Read more

Coroner ‘wrong to narrow scope of Novichok victim’s inquest’

Judges have ruled that a coroner wrongly narrowed the scope of an inquest into the death of a woman poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok. Dawn Sturgess, 44, died in hospital in Salisbury, Wiltshire, in July 2018 after handling a perfume bottle containing a chemical poison.  Judges heard that the mother was exposed to the … Read more

Russia says US and UK ALSO developing secret space weapons

Russia has claimed that US and UK are developing secret space weapons as it dismissed accusations of test-firing an anti-satellite weapon in orbit.  Moscow issued its response earlier today after being furiously condemned by the United States Space Command for a ‘concerning’ act that they said had threatened peace in space.  The Kremlin called reports … Read more

Russian anti-satellite weapon test ‘threatens peace in space’

Russia has risked triggering a space war by test-firing an anti-satellite weapon in orbit. Britain and America today furiously condemned the Kremlin for a ‘concerning’ act they said threatened peace in space. The weapon’s debris alone threatens the satellites the world depends on, according to the head of the UK military’s space directorate. Moscow fired … Read more

Putin tests anti-satellite weapon in space: US and UK say Russia have ‘threatened peace in space’

Putin tests anti-satellite weapon in space: US and Britain say Russia have ‘threatened peace in space’ and created ‘serious risk’ The United States has described the event as a test of an anti-satellite weapon UK accused Russia of launching a projectile ‘with characteristics of a weapon’ It is first time the Ministry of Defence has … Read more

Ministers did not do enough to fully probe claims of Russian meddling

Russia ‘tried to influence 2014 Scottish independence referendum but didn’t interfere in the Brexit vote’, long-awaited report on Moscow’s meddling in UK elections will reveal MPs and peers on Intelligence and Security Committee carried out investigation  Expected to say not enough was done in Whitehall to establish if Russia meddled Also questions if enough was … Read more

Ministers did not do enough to fully probe claims of Russian meddling

Russia ‘tried to influence 2014 Scottish independence referendum but didn’t interfere in the Brexit vote’, long-awaited report on Moscow’s meddling in UK elections will reveal MPs and peers on Intelligence and Security Committee carried out investigation  Expected to say not enough was done in Whitehall to establish if Russia meddled Also questions if enough was … Read more

Putin ‘almost certainly’ knew about Covid hacking, says former intelligence chair

Vladimir Putin must have known his spies were trying to steal groundbreaking British research into a coronavirus vaccine, a former chair of UK joint intelligence committee said today. Lady Neville Jones told the BBC she is ‘almost certain’ that the Russian President will have been aware that his operatives launched cyber attacks on Oxford University and … Read more

Putin ‘almost certainly’ knew about Covid hacking, says former intelligence chair

Vladimir Putin must have known his spies were trying to steal groundbreaking British research into a coronavirus vaccine, a former chair of UK joint intelligence committee said today. Lady Neville Jones told the BBC she is ‘almost certain’ that the Russian President will have been aware that his operatives launched cyber attacks on Oxford University and … Read more