The man in his early twenties from a Paris suburb had been charged with 'terrorist criminal conspiracy' and remanded in custody. French counter-terrorism prosecutors suspect he asked teenagers to place an explosive device outside the US financial institution near the famed Champs-Elysees avenue.
Since the war began on February 28, Russia has passed Iran the locations of US military assets, including warships and aircraft, three officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told The Washington Post. It does seem like it's a pretty comprehensive effort, one of the sources told the newspaper.
Shamsidin Fariduni, Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, Muhammadsobir Faizov, and Saidakram Rachabalizoda have been found guilty and are hereby sentenced to life imprisonment. The judge at the Second Western District Military Court in Moscow identified them as the direct perpetrators of the attack.
In late 2024 and early 2025, whilst undoubtedly mentally unwell, he sent a number of emails, addressed to or copying into his communications bodies representing one or more foreign countries. Those emails contained information which the prosecution say should not have been disclosed in that way, the disclosure of which was damaging to UK national interests.
A double agent, by contrast, is an intelligence asset who is knowingly and deliberately directed by one service to engage another in espionage. The controlling service uses that agent to feed information (called feed material) -true, false, or mixed-to the adversary. They do so to simultaneously study the adversary's tradecraft, collection priorities, and decision-making. In the Russian system, double agents also serve a bureaucratic function: they generate statistics, "success stories," and operational narratives that demonstrate effectiveness to political overseers and ultimately to Putin himself.
I need a favor, Epstein wrote to Belyakov in a July 2015 email, describing an extortion attempt by a Russian woman who had arrived at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York the previous week. Epstein said the situation was bad for business for everyone involved and asked for suggestions. Belyakov, a graduate of the FSB Academy, Moscow's institute for training intelligence personnel, wrote back that he needed some time to get information about her and that he would meet a man who knew the woman the next day.
Sir Richard Moore the former UK's MI6 spy chief has told Sky News that he finds the tens of thousands of Russian troops killed in Ukraine just in December 2025, "astonishing." Vladimir Putin has lost more troops in Ukraine during fighting in December 2025 than Moscow lost during the ten-year Soviet-Afghan war. The Soviet-Afghan war started in 1979 until 1989 and around 20,000 Soviet soldiers were killed. The Russia President Mikhail Gorbachev called the war a "bleeding wound" and was viewed as a "humiliating mistake." Putin has made the same mistake as Gorbachev made in 1979, as he believed the Afghan war would be a "quick operation," as Moscow wanted to takeover Afghanistan.
The assessment comes amid rising nuclear rhetoric between Moscow and Western governments over future security arrangements for Ukraine following the ongoing conflict. Analysts say Russian officials have amplified statements from the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service to reinforce warnings about potential nuclear escalation. Particular diplomatic pressure appears to be directed at the UK and France, which are leading negotiations within the so-called Coalition of the Willing on potential security guarantees for Ukraine after hostilities end.
A senior Russian military general has been shot multiple times in Moscow in an assassination attempt. Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, deputy head of the Defence Ministry's Main Directorate of the General Staff was shot several times on Friday and has been rushed to hospital. The general was accused of playing a major role in the Salisbury poisonings in the UK of the former double Russia n agent Sergei Skripal for British intelligence.
That changed last week when the US Department of Justice published a sentencing memorandum [PDF] that frames Williams' conduct as a betrayal of his employer and the US government, and the cause of significant harm to US national security. Williams "made it possible for the Russian Broker to arm its clients with powerful cyber exploits that could be used against any manner of victim, civilian or military around the world," the DoJ said.
Peter Williams stole a U.S. defense contractor's trade secrets about highly sensitive cyber capabilities and sold them to a broker whose clients include the Russian government, putting our national security and countless potential victims at risk.