It is difficult to avoid the obvious cinematic reference in the latest episode of the conflict in Ukraine. In recent days, a Russian satellite has been chasing an American one used by the Ukrainian army and, finally, they have abruptly changed direction, in what experts warn could be considered the first example of space warfare in history. However, the real version of Star Wars is not as epic as the famous saga nor is it fought with laser swords. In the midst of the battle for communications, with Donald Trump using Starlink to pressure Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin trying to build his network of satellites, the Russian artifact could have inaugurated a new form of combat in Earth's orbit.

Ten days after a new crisis erupted between the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Kyiv believes that the New York tycoon is seeking Ukraine's surrender to Russia. This was stated by Zelenskyy in an interview with Bloomberg in which he considers that Washington's delays in sending the anti-ballistic missiles necessary to protect the population and infrastructure from Russian attacks and the lack of cooperation in intelligence, among others, are measures that seek to “convince Ukraine to capitulate”.

Amid the rapprochement between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the Ukrainian army launched a drone attack this Saturday night against Saint Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city with more than five million inhabitants, and the Leningrad region. It is considered one of the largest drone attacks of the entire war, and it has left one person dead and five injured. About 20,000 people were left without electricity due to the damage caused to an electrical substation, and damage also occurred to several residential buildings.

The two worst moments in the relationship between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy have had a common denominator: they have arrived preceded by a telephone conversation between the United States president and Vladimir Putin, in which the Kremlin leader promised him major joint business deals. It happened in February 2025, before the public brawl between the American leader and the Ukrainian leader in the Oval Office of the White House, and it has happened again now, following the agreement for Moscow to sell diesel with Washington's permission, which caught Kyiv off guard. The Russian president has known at all times how to offer Trump what he desired, persuade him with his reasons, draw him to his positions, and pit him against Zelenskyy.

Just one week after the President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced the acquisition of 300,000 tons of Russian diesel, the New York tycoon signed an executive order late this Friday that temporarily suspends the application of a broad package of sanctions against Russia. He argued before Congress that it is a measure that responds to the "national interest," as reported by the White House.

"We were born in war and we will die in war," says Natasha, accompanied by her husband, Leonidas, both eighty-three years old, on the fourth floor of an empty building in the center of Kramatorsk. Liena, a worker at one of the few grocery stores left in the neighborhood, tries to convince them to leave the city, that even living in a basement is a death sentence: "If the Russians arrive, they will throw a grenade and ask afterwards if there is anyone alive." The octogenarian couple lives trapped in the uncertainty of a meager pension, between the approach of a war front that is about nine kilometers away and the anxiety over daily shootings and the high-pitched sound of fiber-optic drones searching for vehicles to destroy. Despite this situation on the streets, every Sunday morning they attend the mass offered in an abandoned restaurant near their home, where about thirty people gather to pray and sing.

The confrontation between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy is becoming more evident with each passing day. The US president continues to pressure his Ukrainian counterpart to stop attacking Russian refineries, while he negotiates the lifting of sanctions on Russian hydrocarbons and cuts military aid to Kyiv. Ukraine resumed its bombings this Thursday against these types of Russian facilities, after three days of suspension following Trump's announcement of an alleged immediate energy truce, which Moscow neither accepted nor complied with. "Enough is enough," said Zelenskyy in an interview with the Financial Times in which he announced that the blockade on attacks against Russian energy infrastructure was over. Hours later, Trump reacted by stating that "it is a disgrace".

Serhiy Kuznetsov faces a historic trial starting today. He is the Ukrainian accused of leading the military group that, under orders from Kyiv, in September 2022 sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines, located in the Baltic Sea and through which, until a few weeks before the attack, Europe was supplied with Russian gas. The trial began this Wednesday with a two-hour hearing in Hamburg (Germany), where the Public Prosecutor's Office accuses the Ukrainian soldier of committing a war crime for having attacked civil infrastructure with combat methods prohibited against civilian targets.

After a few months in which it seemed that the relationship between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy had gotten on track, the statements, announcements, and events of the last few days suggest quite the opposite. On Friday, the President of the United States announced an agreement with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, with which Moscow is expected to deliver about two million tons of diesel to the US over the next two months, which represents a significant lifeline for the Kremlin's war economy. That same day, Trump hinted that Ukraine should change its president and threatened to stop sharing information with Kyiv in retaliation for Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries.

Russia, hybrid warfare, Iran, artificial intelligence. The head of MI5, the British domestic intelligence service, Ken McCallum, warned this Tuesday of the rise of increasingly growing threats against the United Kingdom, and against the West in general. And he did so by emphasizing Moscow and Tehran as the main agents responsible for destabilization operations.

NATO claims to be prepared for an attack from Russia. NATO leadership has reiterated several times that it will not back down in the face of Moscow's threats and that it will defend "every inch of allied territory" against any aggression, but until now it had avoided detailing what this defense might consist of.

United States President Donald Trump announced on Sunday an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine “of an immediate nature”. That is to say, both countries would stop attacking, without further delay, each other's energy infrastructure. For the moment, however, there is no ceasefire underway, despite it having been supposed to be immediate. A few hours after the announcement, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported six Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, which have left 33 people injured: "we have not attacked, and this is Putin's response to President Trump," he asserted. The city of Izium has been left without electricity after a Russian attack destroyed the power grid, according to the Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform. During the night, energy and railway infrastructure in western Ukraine were also attacked.

“Guys, tell me: have you all signed the contract voluntarily? Have they forced you?” The scene takes place in Penza, in the south of European Russia, in front of one of the municipality's military commissariats. Plainclothes men are trying to forcibly take away some residents in a van, in front of the desperation of a group of women blocking the vehicle's path. Raids like this one, in which civilians are recruited under coercion to go fight in Ukraine, have become common in dozens of Russian regions in recent months. Vladimir Putin does not want to formally decree a new mobilization like the one in 2022, and therefore resorts to surreptitious methods. In this context, citizens have no choice but to defend themselves or go into exile.

United States President Donald Trump is escalating his tone against his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky. "It is time for Ukraine to have a new president," Trump said, following Ukrainian attacks against a Russian oil export terminal. "We told him he could do whatever he wanted with Russia, but no attacks on the refineries because it is causing a global problem," the United States President asserted, in reference to the increase in diesel prices.

Whatever the truth may be regarding what is happening in Siberia with the possible case of pneumonic plague, the Kremlin has chosen to manage information with an eyedropper. The Russian health authority asserts that the epidemiological situation in Irkutsk is “calm,” following the death last Friday of Daria Shipilova, a researcher at the Research Institute for Plague Control, due to a fulminant respiratory illness. The World Health Organization considers the risk to Europe to be “very low,” but, like the United States, it is annoyed by Moscow's opacity, as it continues to not clarify what the laboratory worker died from.

The Black Sea had not been this dangerous since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Russian and Ukrainian drones have turned its waters into a deadly route for commercial vessels. This morning, several devices of unknown origin struck two vessels off the coast of Bulgaria in the first attack against the exclusive economic zone of a NATO member country. One of the ships caught fire and two of the crew members were seriously injured, while the other sank and its sailors remain missing.

The death of a laboratory worker researching the plague pathogen has raised alarms in Russia. Authorities have placed nearly 200 people under surveillance in Shelekhov, in the Siberian region of Irkutsk, and have quarantined the city's hospitals to prevent a potential bacterial outbreak. The Kremlin denies that any incident occurred while handling test tubes, but speaks of a “pneumonia of unknown etiology.” The lack of information and the erratic communication from local governors have put global health organizations on alert.

Anti-drone shields, surveillance flights with warplanes, new battalions on NATO's eastern flank, increased arms production... Europe is immersed in an undeniable remilitarization race, but protection does not end in the military sphere. Faced with the increasing threat of hybrid attacks by Russia, the most exposed countries have also redoubled their efforts in civil defense.

Vladimir Putin insists on resorting to nuclear rhetoric to threaten the West. After the alarm generated by the letters that Russia sent to NATO warning of the possible use of atomic weapons if European countries blocked the Russian region of Kaliningrad, the Kremlin leader has escalated the tone of the threats. “The point of no return, the moment when nothing can be changed anymore, can arrive unexpectedly for everyone,” he said from the Valdai Forum, the stage he uses every year to set Moscow’s position on foreign policy.

Russia is once again threatening NATO with nuclear weapons. The Kremlin has sent a letter to the Atlantic Alliance in which it warns that it is prepared to resort to atomic armament if the defense organization attempts to block the Kaliningrad region, a Russian enclave located between Poland and Lithuania, with access to the Baltic Sea.