Firepoint co-founder Shtilierman: Ukraine does not need 300 km ballistic missiles. Moscow is not 300 km from our border.
Russia is a monocentric state, with power concentrated in Moscow and St. Petersburg. That is why Ukraine is developing longer-range ballistic capabilities. 1/
Shtilierman: We produce Flamingo missiles as much as we are ordered to produce.
The capacity is there. The bottleneck is bureaucracy around engine exports in Europe and the U.S.
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Shtilierman: There are five Flamingo launches in open sources.
We never publish anything before the official General Staff report. Many missions happen and are never publicly reported.
Russian intelligence started tracking Boris Johnson while he was an Oxford student in the 1980s.
The Kremlin called him "likeable but not trustworthy," said he had "no principles" and "could be easily manipulated," The Telegraph. 1/
Russian officers ruled out recruiting Johnson.
Their conclusion: "A manic self-promoter such as Johnson can't really be taken seriously as a candidate for any deep and lasting intelligence connection." 2/
Dominic Cummings, the architect of the Vote Leave campaign and Boris Johnson's future chief adviser, moved to Russia in 1994.
Russian intelligence suspected he was already working with MI6 but opened a file on him anyway and tried to recruit him. 3/
Russia destroyed a Ukrainian Red Cross humanitarian warehouse in a massive overnight attack on Kyiv on July 2.
The strike caused over $1.76mn in damage to equipment and emergency supplies, United24. 1/
Russia launched 74 missiles and nearly 500 drones during the assault. It damaged about 100 residential buildings and caused direct hits on at least 20 others.
Air defense intercepted 4 ballistic missiles, 32 of 34 Kh-101s, 8 Kalibrs, 4 Kh-59/69s and 476 drones. 2/
Ukrainian Red Cross: The rented warehouse served as one of its key logistics centers.
It held humanitarian cargo for emergency response, medical institutions, and vital aid to hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people. Russia also damaged an aid delivery vehicle. 3/
Russia is planning an attack on Poland to test NATO, US warns.
The scenarios include missile and drone strikes on critical infrastructure or Russian troops crossing the border from Kaliningrad or Belarus, The Telegraph. 1/
Russian troops could cross into Poland and claim they entered by mistake because of GPS failure.
Another cover story: a mission to recover a disabled military helicopter. 2/
Moscow expects Poland to negotiate instead of opening fire if Russian troops cross the border.
The Kremlin would demand that NATO suspend military aid to Ukraine before withdrawing. If Poland agrees, Russia enters NATO territory and leaves on its own terms. 3/