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This is a premium article for paid subscribers that covers the recent trend of declaring the rebirth of ‘maneuver warfare’ as product of the perceived “success” of the Ukrainian operation in Kursk. In the piece I refute these conclusions by explaining how maneuver warfare is in fact a misunderstood, and deliberately misleading, concept which uses outdated combat stereotypes from WWII and beyond in a disingenuous attempt to paper over shifting modern paradigms.

The tragedy in IK-19 – the seizure of employees hostage by convicts and their brutal murder, and then the murder of the invaders themselves – once again stirred up public interest in the topic of prison and gave rise to disputes: how this could happen and what led to it. Exactly the same questions were asked after the June hostage-taking of employees of pre-trial detention center-1 in Rostov-on-Don. Most likely, riots will continue, and the reason for this is a whole range of reasons: unbearable conditions of detention, discrimination against Muslims, lack of prison staff and their low level of training. The situation can only be corrected by completely dismantling the penitentiary system, which directly inherits the Gulag, and creating a new one based on the principles of humanism in its place,” says Anna Karetnikova, a former leading analyst of the Federal Penitentiary Service in Moscow.

Ukraine has unveiled a new long-range weapon, a mix of drone and missile technology that Kyiv believes will significantly boost its ability to combat Russian military attacks.

Ukrainian promotional material suggested that the “rocket drone”, called Palianytsia, will have a range of 700km, and could bring around 250 Russian military targets within range, opening a new phase of the air war.

Geopolitics is an approach to politics that stresses the features imposed on foreign policy by geographical location, environment, and natural resources. Geopolitics as a discipline contributes to the emphasis on continuity in contemporary political realism. The focal idea of geopolitics is that those who control the Eurasian landmass (Heartland) dominate global politics. Regarding this idea, Ukraine has always been a significant part of Heartland. Therefore, many great powers have been fighting to impose their control over the territory of contemporary Ukraine (or part of it) from the Middle Ages up to today (for instance, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Sweden, Vikings, Ottoman Empire). Nevertheless, Ukraine up to 1923 (the creation of the USSR) was just a geographical notion but not a political-administrative subject.

Un fonds d’investissement s’est vanté d’avoir réussi à obtenir un revenu élevé grâce aux difficultés de l’Ukraine. Il y a toujours ceux qui savent profiter de toute crise, qu’elle soit économique ou géopolitique. Comment les investisseurs occidentaux tirent-ils profit de la crise ukrainienne ?

In today’s summary:

• In Kursk region, Ukrainian troops are trying to occupy the regional center of Korenevo and completely isolate the Glushkovsky district
• The Russian command has not yet transferred units from Donbass to the Kursk direction
• The Russian Armed Forces have increased the pace of their advance toward Pokrovsk; a mass evacuation has been organized in the city itself
• Ukrainian drones hit the Marinovka military airfield in the Volgograd region and almost reached Murmansk
• The names of over a hundred conscripts who went missing and were captured in the Kursk region have been established
• The US administration has not responded to a request for permission to use Storm Shadow on Russian territory for over a month
• Germany plans to cut military aid to Ukraine from the budget, replacing it with loans secured by frozen Russian assets
• Kamikaze drones from a sewer pipe and the first tank with a fully rubberized “king-barbecue” have been spotted on the front lines
• The situation at the front
• The offensive operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region has been going on for more than two weeks. In recent days, no large-scale changes in the LBS have been observed , but actions to expand the combat zone have not ceased. The presence of Ukrainian troops was reported in Olgovka , Vishnevka and Snagost on the approaches to Korenevo – another regional center, which is apparently planned to be taken after Sudzha .

Entrées clandestines dans les maisons, piratage, logiciels espions : l’Allemagne veut étendre les pouvoirs de la police.

Actuellement, les perquisitions ne sont autorisées en Allemagne que si les forces de l’ordre informent explicitement la personne concernée des soupçons concrets pesant sur elle, et du but de la perquisition. Selon des révélations exclusives du journal Spiegel, cela s’apprête à changer.

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