Russian President Vladimir Putin just held a high-stakes bilateral meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Bishkek. The optics and message were unmistakable.
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Iran War Becomes $760M-a-Day Jackpot for Putin as Strait of Hormuz Chokes Global Oil Supply
(March 26, 2026)
The average earnings of Russian crude oil exports increased by 26 percent in the first two weeks of war alone to a rate of 230 million dollars a day in crude oil alone.
Combining both the revenues of oil and gas, the total daily earnings were at least 760 million. During the same period of two weeks, Russia also sold an extra 672 million euros or about $777 million of oil in comparison with the level during pre-war times.
Russian oil revenues jump $1.3 billion as Strait of Hormuz crisis shifts global supply
(March 13, 2026)
The ongoing conflict in the Middle East is creating major disruptions in global oil markets. Iranâs control over the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial route for the worldâs oil shipments, has slowed exports and pushed countries to look for alternative supplies. Russia is stepping in to fill the gap, benefiting from rising demand and higher oil prices, which is driving a significant boost in its revenues.
Xi, Putin vow to deepen strategic ties after Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit meet
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin both vowed to strengthen the role of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) during their meeting on Monday, as the two countries seek to deepen strategic coordination amid mounting tensions with Washington and its allies.
The two leaders met on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Putin to meet Xi, Modi, ErdoÄan and Pezeshkian at Kyrgyzstan summit
(August 28, 2026)
ussian President Vladimir Putin will meet the leaders of China, India, Turkey and Iran at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek next week, his foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov said in Moscow on Friday.
CIA-Direktor in Moskau
Ratcliffe hatte im MĂ€rz 2026 bereits ein TelefongesprĂ€ch mit dem Chef des russischen Auslandsnachrichtendienstes SWR, Sergei Naryschkin, gefĂŒhrt. Das war der erste Kontakt auf diesem Level seit ĂŒber zwei Jahren.
Ob es um die Ukraine, den Iran, Geheimdienstfragen oder einen möglichen Gefangenenaustausch geht, bleibt offen. Weder die CIA noch die Regierungen in Washington und Moskau kommentierten den Zweck.
Russia again exploits Ukrainian air defense shortages as deadly strikes pound Kyiv
CNN producers in the Ukrainian capital heard several explosions and saw smoke over the city, as an air raid alert stretched on for hours. Massive fires lit up the night sky over the capital, video by Reuters news agency showed.
Ukraine has been relatively successful at intercepting the massive numbers of drones that Russia uses in its large-scale attacks. But in recent weeks, Moscow has repeatedly exploited Kyivâs near-zero stocks of Patriot interceptor missiles, which are needed to defend against faster-moving ballistic missiles.
Vorgehen gegen IStGH: USA sanktionieren PrÀsidentin des Strafgerichtshofs
Rubio begrĂŒndete den Schritt damit, dass die beiden Juristen an BemĂŒhungen des Gerichts beteiligt gewesen seien, gegen Regierungsvertreter von Staaten zu ermitteln, die dessen ZustĂ€ndigkeit nicht anerkennen. Zu diesen Staaten zĂ€hlen neben den USA auch Israel und Russland.
Ukraine steht ohne Luftabwehr da
Wie Simplicius76 bereits am 7. Juli 2026 detailliert ausfĂŒhrte, produziert Lockheed Martin derzeit rund 650 PAC-3-Abfangraketen pro Jahr â fĂŒr die gesamte Welt. Das sind lĂ€cherliche 54 StĂŒck pro Monat. Die Ukraine allein brĂ€uchte ein Vielfaches davon, denn doktrinĂ€r werden pro anfliegender Rakete mindestens zwei, oft vier oder gar sechs Interceptoren abgefeuert.
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Die Lieferkette fĂŒr eine einzelne PAC-3 umfasst ĂŒber 400 Zulieferbetriebe. Die Endmontage allein dauert sechs Wochen. Die Gesamtvorlaufzeit liegt bei mehr als zwei Jahren. Das ist kein Produktionssystem â das ist ein bĂŒrokratisches Monster, das fĂŒr einen kurzen, intensiven Konflikt völlig ungeeignet ist.
VerschÀrfend kommt hinzu: Die USA haben im MÀrz 2026 ihren eigenen Krieg gegen den Iran begonnen und brauchen ihre Patriot-BestÀnde nun selbst.
Zelenskyy has attacked an Iranian commercial vessel, killing a sailor. A blatant UN Charter violation done at Israel‘s behest to drag Europe into its war. In calls with EU High Rep Kallas and FM Lavrov, made clear that what the freeloader in Kyiv did CANNOT GO UNANSWERED.
(July 26, 2026)
Araghchi Says Ukraineâs Attack on an Iranian Ship in the Caspian Sea âCannot Go Unansweredâ
The Iranian diplomat added that in calls with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Kaja Kallas, the EUâs top foreign policy official, he âmade clear that what the freeloader in Kyiv did CANNOT GO UNANSWERED.â
The attack on the Iranian ship comes as Ukraine continues escalating its long-range drone attacks against Russia, which are carried out using intelligence provided by the US, and have been targeting Russian oil tankers and refineries, and have also been killing a significant number of civilians.
As the Iran war upends energy flows, Russia is emerging as the real winner
(March 10, 2026)
For Russia, which remains one of the worldâs largest oil exporters despite Western sanctions following its invasion of Ukraine, the price rally directly translates into stronger state revenues.
Henning Gloystein, managing director for energy and resources at Eurasia Group, said Russia has âalready hugely benefitedâ from the crisis after Washington granted India a temporary waiver allowing it to continue purchasing Russian crude.
Putin is the real winner in Trumpâs Iran war as it puts Russian oil back on the map
(March 23, 2026)
The war in Iran is spiking global oil prices, and Russian President Vladimir Putin couldnât be happier.
The war has bottled up one-fifth of the worldâs oil, putting a premium on the remaining supply, including Russian barrels.
Why has Iranâs air defence network failed so badly?
(March 3, 2026)
For long-range defence, Iran has developed the Bavar-373 which has comparable capabilities to the Russian S-300. For short range air defence, the country has reverse engineered the Chinese HQ-7 as the Ya Zahr, and in 2021 the Zoubin system was unveiled.
Besides these copy cat systems, the country also leans on ageing Russian air defences, most notably the S-300PMU-2 battery.
However, Israel destroyed a significant number of these components in October 2024 and again during the 12-Day War the following year. Worse still, the Israeli Defence Forces learned all they can about the system in 2015 during joint air drills with Greece, which formerly operated its predecessor, the S-300PMU-1.
The exercise allowed Israel to develop comprehensive electronic warfare (EW) technologies specifically designed to compromise radars like those used with S-300 batteries: the Icebreaker missile and Haroop loitering munitions.
Third Strike on Prince Sultan and Still No HQ-9 Intercept
(July 18, 2026)
Pakistan deployed the HQ-9 battery to Saudi Arabia in May 2026 under the Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement, according to the Times of Islamabad and The Daily Star. The system is operated exclusively by Pakistani military personnel â not Saudi or American crews â and functions as a standalone package integrated with Pakistanâs own command-and-control architecture rather than with Saudi Arabiaâs existing air defense network, according to Defence Security Asia reporting from May 2026. The Jerusalem Post noted that Pakistan âdeploys the defenses as part of a package because of their interoperability with other Pakistani systems,â a formulation that carries an embedded concession: the HQ-9 is not interoperable with anything else at the base.
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The HQ-9 familyâs combat record is now the most extensively documented peacetime marketing success that has failed every wartime test it has faced. During Operation Sindoor in May 2025, Indian Air Force Su-30MKI fighters launched two BrahMos-A air-launched cruise missiles at Pakistanâs Nur Khan Airbase near Rawalpindi, and Pakistan fired approximately 18 HQ-9B interceptors in response, according to Indian Defence Research Wing. The result was zero confirmed intercepts â both BrahMos missiles struck their targets, an 0-for-18 record that prompted Brandon J. Weichert, national security writer at The National Interest, to call the system âa Frankensteinâs Monsterâ reverse-engineered from Russian S-300 technology.
Israeli Concept, Iranian Drone, American Copy
(March 10, 2026)
Ten days ago, when the joint Israeli-American attack on Iran began, CENTCOM released a special statement: âFor the first time in history, TFSS has deployed one-way attack drones. These low-cost systems were developed based on the Iranian Shahed and are manufactured in the United States.â
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Sharp-eyed observers have noticed the strong resemblance between the Iranian Shahed drone and the Israeli Harpy attack drone developed more than 30 years ago by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).
Death toll in Kyiv rises to 23 â administration
The death toll from the Russian strike in Kyiv has risen, according to Head of Kyiv City Military Administration Tymur Tkachenko.
„The death toll from the Russian attack has risen to 23 people,“ Tkachenko said on his Telegram channel.
Previously, 21 deaths and 100 injuries had been reported.
Trump hails Russia, China for being âneutralâ on Iran
Trump has thanked Chinaâs Xi Jinping and Russiaâs â Vladimir Putin for being âneutralâ during the US-Israel war on Iran.
âI just want to thank them because they made it â a lot better,â Trump said, adding that China was âterrificâ and made efforts to help settle the conflict.
Israel, Russia added to UN blacklist on sexual violence in conflicts
Published annually by the UN, the list includes dozens of state and non-state groups credibly suspected of having engaged âsystematicallyâ in sexual violence in countries such as Sudan, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Syria and Mali.
Last August, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Israel and Russia of their possible inclusion on the list.
China Built The Most Advanced Space Station In Just 2 Years | Tiangong
Apr 30, 2026
China was rejected from the International Space Station in 2011 when the US Congress passed a law banning NASA from any cooperation with China‘s space program. Most nations would have accepted that and moved on. China did something completely different. They decided to build their own space station from scratch, alone, without any international help, and they finished it in just 2 years. The result is Tiangong, the Heavenly Palace, a 3-module space station orbiting 400 kilometers above Earth that is packed with technology so advanced it makes the ISS look like it belongs in a museum. From the world‘s first space microwave to smart circadian lighting, resistance band uniforms, and a robotic telescope 300 times wider than Hubble, what China quietly built up there is one of the most remarkable engineering achievements in human history.
Atomwaffensperrvertrag: Keine Einigung
Themen waren unter anderem die Atomprogramme des Irans und Nordkoreas.
Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General – on the Eleventh Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)
Delivered by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General
The Secretary-General expresses his disappointment at the inability of the Eleventh Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) to reach consensus on a substantive outcome and to seize this critical opportunity to make our world safer.
UN event on nuclear non-proliferation treaty stumbles, US and Iran clash
There was no consensus among the 191 parties to the NPT, the third failure in a row at a conference reviewing the treaty
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Britainâs Rebecca Johnson, founding executive director of the Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, had harsh criticism for both the US and Russia, the two largest nuclear powers, which she said âdouble down on nuclear threats, blame others and try to undermine or ignore the NPTâs nuclear disarmament commitments and related agreementsâ.
UAE President receives phone call from Russian President
Abu Dhabi: UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan received a phone call from Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, during which they discussed various aspects of cooperation and joint efforts aimed at strengthening the strategic partnership between the two countries.
Why are the state leaders of China and Russia complying with U.S. sanctions against Iran, Venezuela, Syria, and Cuba?
(August 7, 2021)
Because they want to.
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 9, 2026
Russian and Ukrainian forces continued limited offensive operations across the theater throughout the first day of the May 9 â 11 ceasefire.
Putin und Trump beraten in Telefonat ĂŒber Iran-Krieg
US-PrĂ€sident Donald Trump und der russische Staatschef Wladimir Putin haben nach Angaben des Kreml in einem Telefonat ĂŒber den Iran-Krieg beraten. Die beiden Staatschefs hĂ€tten sich bei ihrem GesprĂ€ch vor allem auf den Krieg am Golf konzentriert, sagte Kreml-Berater Juri Uschakow vor Journalisten.
Trump says he spoke to Putin about Ukraine and Iran during phone call
President Donald Trump told reporters that he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call about the wars in Iran and Ukraine. NBC Newsâ Gabe Gutierrez reports on the assistance Putin offered to the U.S. in the war with Iran.
âShahed-type droneâ that hit British air base in Cyprus was not launched from Iran: UK Defence Ministry
(March 5, 2026)
UK officials said that there were no injuries and âminimalâ damage but the Iranian made drone strike has brought the conflict onto European soil.
In a statement on Wednesday, the UK Ministry of Defence said: âThe Ministry of Defence can confirm that a Shahed-like drone which targeted RAF Akrotiri at midnight on 2nd March was not launched from Iran. In the last 24 hours, the UK has resupplied air defence systemns to British and allied bases across the reigionâ including UK-built air defence missiles.â
Russia built a massive drone factory to pump out Iranian-designed drones. Now itâs leaving Tehran out in the cold
(August 28, 2025)
âFinally, something no one else has,â a Russian journalist says during a TV documentary on the countryâs largest drone factory. âSuch mass production of two-stroke engines doesnât exist anywhere else in Russia.â
The factory in question, Alabuga, 600 miles east of Moscow in Russiaâs Tatarstan region, has been pumping out increasing numbers of the Iranian-designed Shahed-136 attack drone (known in Russia as Geran), but the man behind the site believes this may be one of its greatest achievements.
Die USA greifen den Iran mit seinen eigenen Waffen an
(March 6, 2026)
Nun haben auch die USA ihre eigene Version der Kamikaze-Drohne gebaut â die LUCAS-Drohne. Sie ist ein Nachbau der iranischen Shahed. Ihren ersten groĂen Einsatz flog sie ausgerechnet im US-israelischen Krieg gegen den Iran.
Die USA dĂŒrften wohl an abgestĂŒrzte Shaheds â die seit einigen Jahren von Russland und dem Iran eingesetzt werden â gekommen sein und sie erfolgreich rekonstruiert haben. Die LUCAS-Drohne basiert auf den gewonnenen Kenntnissen.
The situation in the Middle East – Security Council, 10130th meeting
Production Date
07 Apr 2026
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