According to the WSJ, Putin is reported to have ordered an escalation of the hybrid war against NATO countries. Following the foiled attack at Leipzig Airport, Germany has raised its alert level regarding Russian sabotage. And investigations point to a chain of command that is increasingly closely linked to Moscow 

A good month does not make up for the bad ones. The balance sheet is deep in the red. The cause lies primarily in the decline in oil production, which has been brought to a standstill by Ukrainian attacks on the Kremlin’s refineries

No one seems to know who decided on the restriction. SpaceX say the order came from the White House; the White House say it came from Musk. Rubio dismissed the whole affair with a “it sort of happened” – it just happened, that’s all.  

The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Palazzo Chigi put in a difficult position by the memorandum on maritime borders signed between Turkey and Libya have joined the EU’s condemnation. The suspicion that perhaps they went too far in supporting Saddam

Moscow “is conducting covert operations on the high seas” on a scale never seen before, writes The Telegraph in an exclusive report detailing the movements of Russian fishing vessels mapping the seabed off the UK. London’s plans to defend itself against sabotage capable of paralysing the country

Six cargo ships have been attacked in ten days, resulting in 30 fatalities. Strasbourg wants to protect the waters of Romania and Bulgaria, but Radev’s Bulgarian government is accused of responding too weakly to Vladimir Putin’s Russia

Ukraine is forging a partnership with the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), bringing its defence industry closer to its allies and thereby gaining access to a channel in addition to bilateral agreements with individual countries