France, Russia, Ukraine
How Paris prepared its intelligence services for the Russian offensive in Ukraine

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Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community, from Washington to Tampere, and Landstuhl to Canberra.

UkraineAnti-corruption audit of economic security bureau

France/NATOParis builds up communication channels with the alliance

United States/Germany/FinlandFinland and US Army forge connection

United States/AustraliaAUKUS forces State Department to adapt

France
France's joint operations command faces severe shake-up

In the face of logistical and informational challenges and the new geopolitical landscape, the French joint defence staff is looking for ways to adjust and streamline its services. New moves could include dismantling the CPOIA and handing out part of its resources to other entities.

France, Ukraine
French domestic intelligence service keeps Ukrainian community in France under surveillance

France's domestic intelligence service, the DGSI, is taking a close interest in the Ukrainian community in Paris. Tips provided by some members of the community are providing it with knowledge on Ukraine as well as counter-intelligence data.

France
French intelligence regroups to better cover war in Ukraine

After being caught out by the start of the conflict, France's intelligence services have since restructured and are taking more decisive action on Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But that has come with some serious soul-searching.

United States
US's arms shipments to Ukraine putting pressure on CIA-Pentagon cooperation

The upscaling of military assistance to Ukraine is testing cooperation between the CIA and the US Department of Defense amid heightened fears about the fate of Western weapons.

Europe, United States
NATO rethinks its rapid reaction plans

More than four months after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, NATO's European command is working on a complete overhaul of the alliance's crisis and conflict rapid response.

Russia, UAE
Russian spatial imagery experts escape to Abu Dhabi

Along with US- and EU-sanctioned oligarchs, the United Arab Emirates is also opening its doors to fleeing Russian industry brains in key areas such as spatial imagery.

France
French armed forces general staff prioritises information warfare capacities

With information warfare a huge component of the Ukrainian conflict and France fast losing ground in the Sahel, the French armed forces general staff is determined to regain its footing in the field.

Russia, United States
US intelligence got confirmation of Russia's plans to invade Ukraine on 18 January

After regular alerts over a two-month period, American intelligence services were able to corroborate their suspicions about Russia's intentions towards Ukraine on 18 January. It was on this date that Washington was finally able to assemble the trail of clues left by Moscow into a coherent whole.

France, Ukraine
Ukraine war dampens French defence industry hopes in Kyiv

Russia's war on Ukraine has considerably altered France's military export plans to the now besieged country. Ex-interior minister Arsen Avakov, a key contact in the security sphere for Paris and London, has meanwhile resumed a leading role in Kyiv.

Europe, Russia, Ukraine
How NATO prepared for a Russian offensive

In its response to Moscow's military assault on Ukraine, the North Atlantic alliance has regained its original purpose: the defence of its eastern front. France has been both at the forefront of its deterrance operations and acting as a mediator behind the scenes.

France
DGSE secures its public-private partnerships

The French foreign intelligence service wants to better address the intellectual property issues of the technologies it creates internally, in particular in its secret incubator.

Ukraine, United States
'Minor incursion' or not, US still leading light weapon deliveries to Kyiv

Even as the White House briefly took a more tempered pitch in the on-going trading of threats between the US and Russia over Ukraine, US aid, backed with new arms suppliers, continues to help Kyiv build up its defence.

Spotlight | Ukraine
New Ukrainian underground special forces training centre out of commission due to flood

At a time when Kiev has been looking to modernise its defence arsenal and strengthen its military capacities to deal with the threat from its Eastern neighbour, a recently-rehabilited training site has been put out of action.

France, Italy, Russia
French employers union MEDEF's Salvini-gate dilemma

According to our sources, the growing scandal over alleged Russian financing of Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini's far-right Lega [...]

Italy, Russia
Financier Antonio Fallico shuttles between Moscow and Rome

With Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini at the centre of allegations that Russia financed his far-right Northern League party, the [...]