EU countries are reportedly preventing Ukrainian men aged 23 to 60 from entering without a certificate from the TCC. At the same time, Ukraine’s current mobilisation age ranges from 25 to 60. I don’t believe this is a coincidence. It looks like a coordinated move, which could mean that Kiev is preparing to lower the mobilisation age by two years. There would be little point in lowering it further. Those now under 23 were under 18 in 2022. In the first days of the war, they were allowed to leave, and most of them have already fled Ukraine. There are supposedly very few people left in that age group to […]

“At the Plesetsk State Test Cosmodrome, a training-combat launch of a mobile-based solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile was conducted,” the statement said. The ministry added that the training warheads arrived in the designated area at the Kura test range, which is located in Kamchatka. According to the press service, all assigned tasks were completed in full. The Defense Ministry also stated that the Strategic Missile Forces practiced the procedure for redeploying a launch battery of a mobile ground-based missile system to a remote area, including preparing for and conducting the launch. Its purpose was to confirm the missile system’s tactical-technical and flight characteristics. On August 21, the Baltic Fleet’s press service […]