Russias

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has characterized a recent Russian missile assault on Ukraine as a significant and alarming escalation of hostilities, urging the global community to issue a strong condemnation against this act. In a post on X, he expressed, "This marks a stark intensification in the scope and savagery of the ongoing conflict," highlighting a strike on the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro. "Today's deployment of a ballistic missile against Ukraine serves as further evidence that Russia is disinterested…

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have taken a decisive step to impose targeted sanctions on what’s often referred to as Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers. This fleet has enabled Moscow to continue exporting significant volumes of crude oil and petroleum products, effectively sidestepping the sanctions imposed by the EU, G7, and various international bodies. A growing chorus of concern has emerged regarding these aging, uninsured tankers, with fears that they could trigger ecological disasters, particularly…

Russia is increasingly present in Africa through official diplomacy but also through private actors such as Evgueni Prigojine, who is considered the leader of the Wagner militia, and various companies that specialize in online disinformation. In a study that has just been published, Maxime Audinet, a researcher at the IRSEM (Institute for Strategic Research of the Military School) and author of a dissertation on Russian influence at the University of Nanterre, analyzes this Russian influence in Africa, in Central Africa.…