Belarus, Russia
Russia accelerates use of Belarus as rear training base

Russia, Ukraine
Russian Senate drives efforts to annex occupied Ukrainian territories

The parliament's upper house low-profile Council for the Integration of the Reunified Territories is the node of legislative and executive efforts to get these annexations plans off the ground. Intelligence Online was able to consult the body's 2024 action plan.

Switzerland
Switzerland's ALR helps French military analyse Russian fighter jets

France has purchased software from a little-known Swiss company to analyse the performance of Russian planes used in Ukraine.

Belarus, Russia, Ukraine
Moscow signals operational purpose for its tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus

Western and Ukrainian military intelligence services are scrutinising the deployment of Russian nuclear warheads in Belarus, as military escalation in Ukraine continues to unwind. The fragments of information available so far indicates that Moscow is preparing those weapons for offensive, rather than deterrent, use.

Spotlight | France, India, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, UAE, Ukraine
UAE, Saudi Arabia, India and South Korea secretly supply missiles to Ukraine

While officially neutral, a number of Western defence industry client countries are indirectly helping Ukraine's war effort by providing access to their weaponry stocks. Intelligence Online investigates the supply of French Crotale, Mistral and Milan missiles for use against Russia.

Russia
FSB comes back in from the cold

Benefitting from the rising number of incidents on Russia's periphery and the careful staging of its response to these, the national security service has returned to the forefront of Russian politics after being given the cold shoulder over its strategic errors on Ukraine.

Belarus, Russia, Ukraine
Strategic disinformation over troops' movements in Belarus intensify on all sides

Belarusian troop movements and declarations from generals from Minsk to Kyiv are sowing confusion over Russia and Ukraine's actual intentions. When read from a certain angle, however, they also offer clues as to their respective strategic positions.

The Intelligence Gazette
Russian defectors, Netanyahu takes Shin Bet head to Amman, US spy integration procedures reviewed

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we bring news from Oslo, Amman, Washington and Moscow.

Norway/France/Russia Russian defector's story challenged

Israel/Jordan Shin Bet director joins Netanyahu on reassurance mission in Amman

United States Intelligence services revise their integration procedures

United States Congress scrutinises DIA's HR management

Belarus, Ukraine
Parallel private diplomacy efforts between Kyiv and Minsk secretly thriving

Kyiv has been backing Minsk in Brussels despite Belarus's involvement with Russia. Thanks largely to the actions of well-connected middlemen in the business community, the war has not frayed the diplomatic ties between the two Eastern European capitals.

Belarus, Ukraine
War in Ukraine: Kalinovsky Regiment aims to expand

The militia group opposed to Alexander Lukashenko, and which is backed by the Ukrainian military intelligence service, is attracting more and more members. Led by its two clandestine commanders, however, it is still locked in dispute with the other exiled Belarusian opposition factions.

Belarus, Russia
Russia ramps up strategic disinformation campaign north of Ukraine

To divert Kyiv's attentions away from the main theatres of war in Ukraine's east and south, Russian intelligence services and private military companies are conducting a growing number of manoeuvres in Belarus. Information about these operations is being carefully 'leaked'.

Belarus
Belarusian facial recognition company set to get a hearing before the EU Court of Justice

Belarusian facial recognition firm Synesis has been fighting for 18 months against an EU decision to sanction it for its alleged role in the repression of protests against the election of Alexander Lukashenko in August 2020.

Belarus, Russia, Ukraine
Moscow plans to hold Donbass with conscripts and prisoners

To make up for the extreme rawness of its recently mobilised recruits, Russia's military command has set up temporary training facilities near the front line and has taken steps to stem a growing tide of desertions.