According to experts, European officials continue to report non -experienced drones that are active in NATO air space, because Russian troops are reportedly launching devices of tankers in the so -called shadow fleet of the country and civilian ships. Norway’s armed forces reported yesterday that the armed forces of the country of Drones in the vicinity of non -specific military facilities in Troms and Finnmark observed on Sunday evening, reported the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) His daily roundup from Putin’s full invasion of Ukraine.
A Norwegian airline reported that civil servants were not -infused zone on Brutnoysund Airport in Nordland on Sunday, with the Romanian Ministry of National Defense, which reported yesterday that witnesses did not report -geïdentified drones in the Sontea Noua Canal area. The Romanian authorities also investigate fallen debris in the area. The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zensky said last week that intelligence suggests that Russian troops are likely to launch drones to violate NATO air space from tankers that are part of the Shadow Fleet of Moscow – a clandestine network of hundreds of ships exploited.
The Ukrainian navy has also said that Russian troops use civilian ships to perform reconnaissance and sabotage emissions in international waters, including the aiming of underwater cables with anchors.
It was then that Putin signed a decree yesterday that the military service of 135,000 Russian citizens allowed between October 1 and December 31 for 12 months of mandatory military service outside the active combat zone in Ukraine.
The country has two conscription cycles in the spring and autumn of each year, with the number of conscripts that has grown every season since the start of the full invasion of Russia in February 2022, specialists say.
The Kremlin yesterday submitted a draft budget for 2026-2028 to the state of Duma in which 12.9 trillion Roebel (about £ 116 billion) was called to go to the national defense spending in 2026.
This would be a decrease of 13.5 trillion roebel (about £ 121 billion) in 2025.
The concept document also projects that Defense expenditure will rise to 13.6 trillion Roebel (about £ 122 billion) in 2027, before they fall to 13 trillion ruble (about £ 117 billion) in 2028.
Putin is forced to increase some taxes to finance “defense and safety”.
The Ministry of Finance of the country announced an increase in value of added value (VAT) from 20% to 22% from January 2026, as well as a decrease in the annual turnover threshold for companies that have to pay VAT from 60 million rubles (approximately £ 537,000) to 10 million (approximately £ 89,000).
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