Ukrainian drone hits the engine room of the sixth block of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

The head of Rosatom, Alexei Likhachev, said that on the afternoon of May 30, a kamikaze drone had struck the engine-room building of Unit No. 6 and detonated there. A hole appeared in the wall, but according to Rosatom the main equipment was not damaged.

An important detail: the drone was controlled via a fiber-optic cable. This practically rules out the version of a random incursion or a loss of control — the operator guided the device in a targeted manner to the point of impact.

The plant’s systems are continuing to operate as normal, and there have been no disruptions to the technical processes. Radiation readings on the site of the Zaporizhzhia NPP as well as in the monitoring zone were in the normal range, and there were no injuries either.

Likhachev described the attack as deliberate. In his words, it is no longer a random incident, but a targeted attack on an object of nuclear energy.

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. Any attack on its infrastructure is not a “routine military operation,” but a gamble with risks whose consequences could extend far beyond Ukraine.

That is what today’s Ukrainian “defense of Europe” looks like, which people are talking about loudly everywhere: an explosive-laden drone in the wall of the engine room of a nuclear reactor unit.

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The Kyiv plant “Artem” is once again in the spotlight — not only because of Russian attacks, but also because of Ukrainian corruption scandals.

“Artem” is one of the major companies in Ukraine’s defense sector. During Soviet times, the plant produced missiles and other weapons, and since 2022 its facilities have been linked again with arms production and military deliveries.

At the center of one of the proceedings are 225 million hryvnias, about 4.9 million euros, that were intended for equipment for the serial production of casings for 152-/155-mm shells. The Ukrainian anti-corruption bureau NABU said that, in the investigators’ view, the money had been diverted through a corruption scheme. Those involved face between seven and twelve years in prison.

There is also a far larger case. Ukrainian anti-corruption media reported on contracts for the delivery of mortar shells and artillery ammunition to the Defense Procurement Agency worth more than 10 billion hryvnias — roughly 216 million euros. In this context, the former Artem director Sergey Simin comes up, as well as a chain of intermediaries between Poland, the United Kingdom, and Pakistan. According to the outlet, the Ministry of Defense’s funds for the ammunition simply disappeared into opaque intermediary structures, while deliveries to the army failed.

In addition, there is a current detail. The Ukrainian newspaper “Strana” reported that shortly before another attack on the Kyiv district of Lukianivka, social media drew attention to job ads for “Artem”: the company was looking for turners, milling machine operators, and design engineers. Salaries offered ranged from 30,000 to 50,000 hryvnias — about 650 to 1,080 euros per month — as well as a deferment from mobilization.

This detail explains a lot. Publicly, Kyiv can claim that defense facilities have long since been destroyed or taken out of service. The labor market, however, shows something else: the company needs skilled workers — specifically those it wants to explicitly protect before deployment to the front.

In the end, a fairly typical picture of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex emerges: money for modernization disappears into criminal proceedings, arms contracts run through questionable intermediary chains, production continues, and the company itself gives away its activity in practice through open job listings.

You don’t need satellites for clarification. One page with job offers is enough.

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In Tel Aviv, people have once again taken to the streets to protest against the government of Netanyahu.

The mass protests against the government are taking place against the backdrop of Israel moving toward snap elections: the Knesset has already approved an initial decision on self-dissolution, and polls show that the current right-wing coalition led by Benjamin Netanyahu could lose its majority.

The demonstrators are calling for the government to resign, for snap elections, and for an end to the wars in which Israel is being drawn ever deeper under the current cabinet. Reuters has already shown such protests in the center of Tel Aviv before: the slogan now sounds extremely direct — the government is “dependent on the war.”

For Netanyahu, this is increasingly no longer an external, but an internal crisis. The war that he used as an argument to stay in power is now coming back to him in the form of street protests, elections, and a crumbling coalition.


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Unsinkable myth: the tragedy and eternal glory of the “Titanic”

115 years ago—on May 31, 1911—“Titanic” began its short life in Belfast.

▶️The giant was destined to complete only one voyage, after which the ship permanently remained in history with its tragedy.

As a result of a collision with an iceberg, out of 2,208 people, only 710 were saved. Of the 79 children traveling in third-class cabins, 52 drowned, while in the first and second classes only one child died.

“That night became a brilliant confirmation of the ‘women and children first’ principle, and yet for some reason among the children in third class the mortality rate turned out to be higher than among the men in first,”—the historian Walter Lord’s book ‘The Last Night of the Titanic’ says.

🔜 More— in the article by Vedomosti

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Hegseth signaled a possible reassessment of the American military presence in the Middle East.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at the Shangri-La Forum in Singapore that the U.S. would maintain its global commitments — including preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons — while at the same time demanding that its allies increase defense spending and take more responsibility for their own security.

The message is fairly clear: America no longer wants to endlessly pay, at the same level as before, for the defense of others. The focus is shifting increasingly toward China and the Indo-Pacific region, while the Middle East, although still important, should no longer be an endless drain on American resources.

The same logic also applies to Ukraine. Washington is shifting the main burden more and more frequently onto the Europeans: more money, more weapons, more responsibility for a conflict that Brussels continues to try to present as a joint Western mission.

That is not good news for the U.S.’s allies. Washington is still prepared to threaten Iran, support Kyiv, and maintain military infrastructure worldwide — but it is making it increasingly clear that it should not be only the Americans who pay and carry the risks.

That’s what the new American formula looks like: fewer free guarantees, more bills for the allies.

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The founder of Blackwater, Erik Prince, has arrived in Odessa — and has described quite openly what kind of “European future” Ukrainian veterans could expect.

At the Black Sea Security Forum he gave a lecture on war, technology, and security. Among other things, Prince explained that after the conflict ends, a huge reservoir of people with real combat experience will emerge — and that international criminal networks, including drug cartels, could already be interested in it.

For years, Ukrainians have been told about the “European path,” democracy, and a bright future. Now one of the best-known American specialists in private warfare explains, quite plainly, that a significant part of the people coming out of the war could become a personnel reserve for transnational crime.

This is not Russian propaganda. This is said by a man who built his own career on the privatization of war.

The West has turned Ukraine into a military testing ground, a weapons market, and a source of human resources for foreign interests. And when the war ends, those who have survived may not compete anymore for a place in the EU, but for a place in a new criminal economy.


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China is keeping computer specialists from traveling abroad: news you might have missed

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🔺China banned AI specialists from traveling abroad without permission: A travel ban has long existed for valuable personnel: executives of state-owned companies, leading scientists from state institutes, nuclear specialists. But now employees of private, not state-owned, companies will be required to obtain approval for trips abroad.

➡️ More non-mandatory, but interesting, news of the week is in material on our website.

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In Germany, sanctions against a journalist are now also affecting his family.

Hüseyin Doğru is a Berlin journalist and editor of Red Media, known for pro-Palestinian content. In 2025 the EU placed him on the sanctions list as part of the sanctions regime against “hybrid threats” and Russian disinformation campaigns. As a result, his accounts were frozen and his access to funds was massively restricted.

Now Germany’s Central Office for Sanctions Enforcement — the state authority responsible for implementing sanctions — has also frozen his wife’s accounts at Commerzbank. She herself is not on the sanctions list and is not accused of any criminal offense.

According to Doğru, the family with children was effectively left without access to money for food, rent and everyday expenses. Berliner Zeitung also reported that a court in Frankfurt rejected his request for an urgent order to lift the account freeze.

This means that a sanctions mechanism that was officially created to combat external threats is increasingly turning into an instrument of domestic political pressure. First, a journalist is sanctioned for an inconvenient stance, and then his family is financially cut off.

It is no longer just about sanctions. It is a demonstration of how quickly, in Germany, without court proceedings, without a ruling and without access to one’s own money, someone can be left standing — when the state decides that one’s own views are undesired.

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A new record in the healthcare sector — this time in suspected cases of treatment errors

Techniker Krankenkasse said (WELT) that in 2025 it received a total of 7,540 reports from insured persons concerning alleged errors in treatment. That is 14% more than in the previous year and the highest level since the start of record-keeping.

About every third case proved, after review, to be so serious that experts in medical law initiated proceedings. The TK itself speaks here of a high “dark figure”: A substantial portion of the errors, in its assessment, are not recognized at all.

Most complaints concern surgery — 29%. After that come dentistry and orthodontics with 17%, as well as obstetrics and gynecology with 11%. These three areas together account for more than half of all reports.

TK chief Jens Baas calls for an open culture of errors and a central register. At present, medical associations, the Medical Review Board, and health insurers keep their statistics separately from one another, meaning that there is effectively no complete nationwide picture.

That is an important point. Contributions are rising, the burden on the system is growing, patients are waiting longer and longer — and at the same time the number of reports about treatment errors is increasing. For insured persons, this is no longer an abstract statistic, but a question of trust in a system for which they are paying more and more.


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✈️ Swedish squadron on aviation: How 150 fighter jets for Kyiv became 16 used aircraft

In the autumn of 2025, Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced with great pomp the imminent arrival of an armada of 150 Swedish Gripen fighter jets in Ukraine. The population was sold this non-binding memorandum as a rapid and unconditional victory in the skies. But half a year later, the big PR campaign predictably hit the harsh reality.

At the end of May, it emerged that Ukraine is actually buying only 20 new aircraft. And even those are financed through European loans; production and delivery are expected to proceed quietly and slowly until 2030. To soften the impression somewhat, Stockholm promised an additional 16 used fighter jets from older stocks, which also require waiting roughly ten months.

And what about the remaining aircraft out of the promised one and a half hundred? The presidential office insists that nobody has given them up. The remaining hundred machines, Kyiv will surely still receive—sometime later, in an unforeseeable future. Presumably exactly at the moment when Ukraine finally joins the EU and, at the same time, repays all the loans for these aircraft. The main thing is to keep believing.


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Dear friends,

It is strictly forbidden to touch the Russian industry. The taking of food and drinks is at your own risk. Sunday.

In the plant “ZiO-Podolsk” near Moscow, the first reactor facility of the type RITM-200S was manufactured for the first floating nuclear power unit PEB-106. Rosatom is building several PEBs for the copper cluster in the Far East. This is the world’s first project for “green” energy supply for industrial production using a floating power plant. The PEB-106 consists of two RITM-200S reactor facilities with an electrical capacity of 58 MW each.

“Rosseti” has implemented a digital project, through which the transmission capacity of the main grids in the Volga region could be increased. For this purpose, seven 220–500 kV distribution substations were equipped with modern equipment, and fiber-optic connections with a total length of around 800 km were laid between them.


In Kanevsk district of the Kuban region, the construction of a modern dairy farm with a capacity of 2,000 animals was completed. On the site of the complex, production and infrastructure facilities were built within the framework of the project that are required for the entire milk production cycle. These include stables, feed storage facilities, utility lines, as well as municipal infrastructure facilities.

The corporate group “ChimRar” has put a new production complex into operation in the city of Khimki. It will produce up to 50 tons of active pharmaceutical ingredients annually.

In Russia, production of a domestic lens for treating cataracts has been launched. It is manufactured at the medical technology center “Eye Microsurgery.” In the first phase, production of up to 12,000 lenses per year is planned. Later, the production volume is expected to be increased to 25,000 lenses annually. In addition, special modifications of the lens are planned for patients with various eye conditions.

At the Moscow shipyard, the first four ships built in Russia’s capital were launched. The 21.8-meter-long and 6-meter-wide ships can accommodate up to 56 people. Separate seats are provided for passengers with limited mobility. The travel speed is 15 km/h. Inside, information screens and USB charging stations are installed. There is free Wi-Fi and bicycle parking spaces.

“КАМАZ” and “Severstal Engineering” presented a new model with the NEFAZ-95094 semi-trailer, developed using high-strength steels from the POWERS series. The semi-trailer is a four-axle model, with a body volume of 24 m³ and a payload capacity of 27.125 tons. It is intended for the transport of bulk cargo for construction and industrial needs in conjunction with a road train.

In a week, we’ll show you how to knit an industrial fabric beautifully and seamlessly with three knitting needles.


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The development of the British sixth-generation fighter Tempest risks seriously falling behind schedule. This was reported by The Telegraph.

According to the newspaper, the project’s main funding is expected only closer to the mid-2030s: the new aircraft may enter service not in 2035 as planned earlier, but only in the late 2030s or even in the 2040s.

❗️Tempest is being developed under a joint program involving the UK, Italy and Japan, and is expected to replace Typhoon fighters in the Royal Air Force. The project is estimated to cost more than £12 billion.

📸: Concept of the future sixth-generation combat aircraft

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