Spotlight | Ukraine, United Kingdom
SBS mentors Kyiv's special operations in the Black Sea

The Agencies' Gazette
DGSE construction staff screened, New UK Special Boat Service Association boss, Death penalty for China propaganda official, Le Cercle meets in Bucharest

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

FranceMass screening of construction staff working on DGSE new building

United KingdomFormer national security adviser Mark Sedwill buoys up Special Boat Service Association

ChinaDeath penalty for propaganda traitor

Europe/United StatesHighly secretive club Le Cercle convenes in Bucharest

Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom
Ukraine's August raids in Crimea used British equipment and expertise

The audacious raids carried out by Ukraine's GUR military intelligence service in Crimea used technologies provided by Britain's Royal Navy.

Ukraine
Tekever drones become Kyiv's ISR tool of choice

Kyiv is rolling out large-scale secret intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations in the Black Sea to drain Russia's resources along the front.

Spotlight | Russia, United States
US and Russia's ghost fleets face off in deep waters

Two secret units, one run by the US and the other by Russia, are engaged in atypical hybrid warfare deep beneath the surface of the ocean.

Russia
Acoustic warfare in the Barents Sea

Russia is deploying an underwater acoustic listening network in the Barents Sea to thwart NATO's intelligence-gathering operations in the strategically important waters.

Belarus, Russia, United States
Washington and Moscow play smoke and mirrors on nuclear dissuasion

The US Atlantic Fleet's Submarine Squadron 20 went quietly into action in response to the deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus. Kremlin strategists meanwhile plan to deploy strategic nuclear missiles to serve as a deterrent against any attack on their tactical arsenal.