Mike Eckel

A Brazilian judge ordered a Russian man who spent years building a secret “deep-cover” identity to infiltrate organizations in the United States and Netherlands on behalf of Russian intelligence deported.

Zelenskyy gave no explanation for the unexpected shuffle of his Cabinet. But the popularity of Ukraine’s one-and-only wartime president is slipping, as war-weary voters tire of political scandals, as well as the unrelenting Russian invasion.

Opposition lawmakers, civil society activists, military advisers responded with angry disbelief after President Zelenskyy pushed out the young, tech-minded defense minister whose embrace of drone warfare innovation was seen as a jolt of new thinking.

What’s unusual about the arrest of Denis Obrezko is how relatively rare it is for Russian hackers to be detained abroad these days. What’s also unusual: Obrezko used to work for Russia’s FSB. And it also appears he was careless.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pushed out Ukraine’s top general nearly a week after he sacked Mykhailo Fedorov as defense minister, who had openly clashed with the general in a major fight over strategy in the war against Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ousted the chief of the General Staff, a day after replacing Ukraine’s top military commander, the latest in a series of major changes to the country’s defense leadership.

In Bavaria, the first joint German-Ukrainian facility to start manufacturing Ukrainian drones abroad. RFE/RL visited the workshop where Linza drones are assembled. It's the first of several new joint ventures that Ukraine is launching for military production in Europe.

Russia’s Iranian-designed drones have ravaged Ukrainian forces in Moscow’s all-out war. As far as Ukraine is concerned, that means Iranian cargo ships plying to Caspian Sea are fair game. Including this past weekend.

Why is Ukraine pounding the warehouses and logistics centers of the company known as Russia’s Amazon? For the same reason it’s trying to drive Russian car owners crazy by forcing them to wait in crazy long lines at fueling stations.