The alleged incident took place in October off the coast of Crimea but has only been made public now. It reportedly involved the Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer HMS Dragon, according to the FSB.
The Ukrainian navy threatened to shoot Russian coast guard vessels near the Kerch Strait just hours before Putin closed the waterway to foreign warships in the latest sign of mounting tensions in eastern Europe. The standoff took place between three Ukrainian Gyurza-M-class artillery boats and five unidentified vessels belonging to Russia’s FSB coast guard service … Read more
The Ukrainian navy threatened to shoot Russian coast guard vessels near the Kerch Strait just hours before Putin closed the waterway to foreign warships in the latest sign of mounting tensions in eastern Europe. The standoff took place between three Ukrainian Gyurza-M-class artillery boats and five unidentified vessels belonging to Russia’s FSB coast guard service … Read more
At least 250,000 small businesses could shut up shop for good this year, according to the Federation of Small Businesses. Confidence is at an all-time low and a record number of businesses revealed plans to close their firms in the coming 12 months, its latest Small Business Index shows. Meanwhile, one in five SMEs reduced … Read more
Russia’s FSB security service was behind the poisoning of Alexei Navalny in an operation which was likely approved ‘at the highest echelons of the Kremlin’, according to an investigative report by Bellingcat. Navalny was targeted after ‘years of surveillance’ in which the Putin critic was ‘shadowed’ by a special FSB unit – who may even … Read more
Russia’s FSB security service was behind the poisoning of Alexei Navalny in an operation which was likely approved ‘at the highest echelons of the Kremlin’, according to an investigative report by Bellingcat. Navalny was targeted after ‘years of surveillance’ in which the Putin critic was ‘shadowed’ by a special FSB unit – who may even … Read more
Suicide bomber ‘screaming Allahu Akbar’ injures six people in attack on a Russian FSB headquarters Russian officers were moving in to arrest the bomber when he blew himself up The explosion reportedly injured six people including officers and a passerby It occurred on Friday near a FSB counterintelligence service’s office, Uchkeken The village is in the volatile … Read more
A senior FSB officer has become the highest-ranked Russian official linked to the investigation into the MH17 jet tragedy. Col. Gen. Andrei Burlaka, the FSB Border Service’s chief of operational staff, has been named as the highest-ranking person of interest in the criminal investigation into the downing of the plane, by open-source intelligence site Bellingcat and … Read more