🇷🇺 🇪🇺 An intelligence assessment shared with Western governments claims that #Russia’s notorious GRU military intelligence agency, known for its attacks on foreign soil using highly-trained agents, is now turning to criminal gangs to carry out attacks in #Europe
🇺🇦 #NATO is planning to expand cooperation with #Ukraine on defense technology and share more intelligence about Russia’s electronic warfare capabilities, as some of its members lift constraints on Kyiv’s ability to wage war.
🇷🇺 🇬🇧 A Russian group of cyber criminals is behind the #ransomware attack affecting major #London hospitals, the former chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre has said.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 During #Russia’s occupation of Kherson, dozens of Ukrainian children were taken into Russian custody and transferred 180 miles from home. A year later, the NYT journalists found their photos on a Russian federal adoption site.
🇺🇦 🇨🇳 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused #China on Sunday of helping #Russia to disrupt an upcoming Swiss-organized peace conference on the war in #Ukraine
🇺🇦 Reuters traveled along the front line, where Ukrainian troops say Putin must be beaten back. Otherwise, said one, "he’s not going to stop over here."
🇪🇺 Disruptive digital attacks, many of which have been traced to Russia-backed groups, have doubled in the European Union in recent months and are also targeting election-related services, according to the EU’s top #cybersecurity official.
🇪🇺 EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Tuesday urged countries to balance fear of escalation against #Ukraine's need to defend itself, saying Kyiv had the right to use Western arms to strike in #Russia
🇺🇦 #NATO allies should lift restrictions that prohibit #Ukraine's use of Western-supplied weapons against military targets inside #Russia, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly said in a declaration adopted on May 27.
🇷🇺 #Russia: The purge of top officers is the result of infighting between the FSB and the military over the failure to capture Kyiv and competition for defense funds.
🇷🇺 The Kremlin is pursuing a concerted effort to remove senior #Russian defense officials and has likely expanded this effort to senior officers commanding Russian combat operations in #Ukraine