(LONDON) – Russia is already experiencing the early stages of an economic collapse as a result of its full scale invasion of Ukraine, according to Bill Browder, founder of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign. Speaking on Times Radio’s Front Line programme, Browder said that official Russian economic statistics should notContinue Reading
(LONDON) – Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is increasingly isolated from reality and surrounded by officials who are afraid to deliver bad news, according to Christopher Steele, the former head of the United Kingdom’s MI6 Russia desk. Steele says Putin lives inside a self reinforcing bubble of disinformation that hasContinue Reading
(ILSKY, KRASNODAR REGION, RUSSIA) – Ukraine carried out its first reported oil infrastructure strikes of 2026, targeting the Ilsky oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region and a separate oil depot in the Kaluga region, according to open source video footage and local reports shared online. Videos and photographs circulating onContinue Reading
(UNITED STATES) – Many South Sudanese working abroad in the transport sector face a unique balance of freedom, long hours, and loneliness, according to Akoon, a South Sudanese truck driver operating across the United States. In an interview reflecting his day-to-day experience, Akoon described truck driving as a rare professionContinue Reading
(JUBA) – The United States has urged South Sudan to prioritise the use of its oil revenue to pay civil servants and security forces and to strengthen basic public services in 2026, a message that carries implications for economic stability and investor confidence. In a New Year statement released onContinue Reading
(WASHINGTON DC) – A United States federal judge has temporarily blocked a move by President Donald Trump to end temporary protected status for South Sudanese immigrants, a decision with potential economic and social implications for South Sudan and its citizens living abroad. The ruling allows hundreds of South Sudanese nationalsContinue Reading
(JUBA) – The Government of Central Equatoria State has approved a new tax rate for the issuance of yellow fever vaccination cards, a move aimed at covering vaccine costs while tightening controls on illegal documentation, according to an official statement issued in Juba on Wednesday. The decision was reached duringContinue Reading
(KYIV, UKRAINE) – Ukraine’s Security Service said 2025 marked a year of extensive intelligence and security operations against Russian military and infrastructure targets, according to a New Year address by the head of the agency, Vasyl Malyuk, as reported by UNN. Malyuk described the past year as one defined byContinue Reading
https://unn.ua/video/2025/12/31/1767176373-1917.mp4 (TUAPSE, KRASNODAR KRAI, RUSSIA) – Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate said that its forces carried out a coordinated strike overnight on December 31 against major oil infrastructure in southern Russia, targeting the Tuapse marine oil terminal and the Tuapse oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai. According to information released byContinue Reading
(MOSCOW) – Russia has announced plans to expand what it calls a buffer zone inside northeastern Ukraine in 2026, following instructions from Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, according to senior military officials in Moscow. The statement was made by Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces,Continue Reading
