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Microsoft announced that they have “identified evidence of a destructive malware operation targeting multiple organizations in Ukraine (UKR). This malware first appeared on victim systems in UKR on January 13, 2022.” They added that the malware is “designed to look like ransomware but lacking a ransom recovery mechanism, is intended to be destructive and designed to render targeted devices inoperable rather...

The UnitedStates Pentagon has accused Russia of “working actively to create a pretext for a potential invasion” by pre-positioning “a group of operatives to conduct what we call a false flag operation — an operation designed to look like an attack on them or their people or Russian speaking people in Ukraine, again, as an excuse to go in,...

Russia and the United States/NATO held high-stakes talks earlier this week that ultimately ended without any resolutions about #Ukraine. Talks fell flat, with the US rejecting Russia’s demands that they do not accept Ukraine into NATO, while Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that talks were at a “dead end” in a stalemate of demands. In the end,...

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced today that Russian-led CTSO peacekeeping forces will begin withdrawing from #Kazakhstan on Thursday in a process that should take about 10 days. Tokayev told state television that “The main mission of the CSTO peacekeeping forces has been successfully completed” after the country faced widespread civil unrest last week that left at least 182 dead...

Russia announced that it will be leading a CSTO peacekeeping deployment to Kazakhstan along with forces from Armenia, Belarus, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan to provide security to critical infrastructure until the situation stabilizes as the country faces widespread civil unrest over rising gas prices that ultimately resulted in the current government resigning. THE CSTO is an intergovernmental military alliance in Eurasia that consists...