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Five to be charged in UK with spying for Russia - BBC News

Did 'Russian spies' help monitor targets for abduction from this Norfolk seaside hotel? Court hears how five Bulgarians including west London beautician carried out surveillance under direction of fugitive ex boss of collapsed payment provider Wirecard
 
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Putin's 'invisible' nightmare: Ukraine unveils new 20ft underwater kamikaze stealth drone capable of carrying 1,000lbs of explosives that will be aimed at Russia's Black Sea fleet
  • The torpedo is set to be unleashed on Russian warships and submarines
  • Footage shows a Ukrainian crew testing the missile out in the water
 


 

Could this be the next step for Russian soldiers?:)
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Ukraine realises the number of Western states willing to support Kyiv decreases
See more at https://english.pravda.ru/world/157776-ukraine_west_assistance/
 
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Bulgarians who 'monitored potential abduction targets from room in Great Yarmouth guest house' appear at Old Bailey accused of spying for Putin's Russia
  • Orlin Roussev, Bizer Dhambazov, and Katrin Ivanova appeared at the Old Bailey
  • They appeared via video-links for a brief administrative hearing
  • They are charged, with two others, of an offence under the Official Secrets Act
 
I thought the Russians and their friends were only good at shooting down civilian planes.

I stand corrected.;)
 




 
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World's biggest lithium reservoir found in supervolcano McDermitt Caldera in Nevada - with $1.5trillion worth of the precious metal that powers world's technology
  • The world's largest lithium deposit was found on the Nevada-Oregon border
  • The McDermitt Caldera that formed 16m years ago has about 40m metric tons
 









 
I think and feel Europe has a great opportunity to learn from this whole Ukraine shenanigans incident.

With UK out of the EU it should be better footed to re-align interests with the East. US and UK interests are clearly not aligned with the EU member states well being.

Behind closed doors this is indeed been discussed and some countries voicing their opinions. It is clear the embargoes and sanctions have hurt the West more than Russia. US's wet dream to repeat the bleeding of the old USSR regime as per their Afghanistan war has mis-fired. Times have changed. Asian tigers have developed into real dragons. US view of world socio-political and economic perspective seriously out of alignment.

Just like the 1st and 2nd world war weakened UK's grip on their colonies, Iraq, Afghanistan and this latest Ukraine war has demonstrated the overstretching and daft ambitions of super-powers when they get too large.

Coming back to the EU, I think both France and Germany will be wiser not to align with US/UK interests next time without more serious thought. The West is becoming fractured imo.
 
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Ukraine's daring jet-ski raid into Russian-occupied Crimea with a perilous sea-crossing and a night-time assault in an operation even the SAS said was mission impossible
 
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How much longer will the world arm Ukraine? Cracks show in Zelensky's European support, Slovakia votes in a PRO-Moscow party and resentment grows in US - while UK faces calls to spend £2.3billion more
 
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The Ghost of Bakhmut: Ukrainian sniper 'who has killed 113 Russians' describes how his elite squad hunts targets with deadly shots from up to 1.5 miles away - among the furthest sniper kills in history
 
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Ukrainian officer's captured Putin tank breaks down so he 'rings Russian tech support... who actually offer to help'
 
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Elon Musk escalates feud with Ukraine with tweet mocking Zelensky for 'going five minutes without asking for a billion dollars' - prompting Kyiv to post a derisive reply
 
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