Europe

July 19, 2025

The Russian news agency RIA Novosti released a video showing a Ukrainian anti-tank mine disguised as a tree—an innovative and unusual tactic in the ongoing conflict. The recorded mine has sparked interest among experts and on social media, raising questions about the creativity and escalation of engineering methods employed by Ukrainian forces. This is yet another ...

July 19, 2025

German authorities say at least 19 people were injured, four seriously, after a fireworks show went awry at a fair in the western city of Düsseldorf. Fire squad and emergency services deployed after the incident late Friday at the Rheinkirmes event along the Rhine river, where images from the scene showed fireworks going off nearly at ...

July 16, 2025

The European Union (EU) Terrorism Situation and Trend Report (EU TE-SAT) is a situational overview, presenting key figures and developments within the terrorism landscape in the EU. The EU TE-SAT report is published on a yearly basis, with the purpose of informing policymakers, law enforcement and the wider public. It includes statistical data on terrorist attacks, ...

July 15, 2025

Over 137,000 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory are potentially contaminated with explosive ordnance. In such a heavily mine-contaminated environment, Ukraine can no longer treat demining as a narrowly technical or purely security-related task. Today, it is a fundamental pillar of national recovery. And it is technology that has become the key to large-scale, rapid, and safe ...

July 9, 2025

Russia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that it has evidence that Ukraine has repeatedly used anti-personnel mines which have injured civilians and so Kyiv’s exit from the Ottawa Convention would have no impact on the battlefield. Ukraine last month announced its withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention which banning the production and use of anti-personnel mines. It ...

July 9, 2025

A man has been jailed for throwing acid and making explosives in a “home laboratory” inside his flat in Derbyshire over the course of 15 years. Police cordoned off streets and evacuated 35 homes after finding explosive materials in a search in Kingsley Avenue, Chesterfield, in July 2024 immediately following an acid attack. Robert Spinks, 52, ...

July 9, 2025

An explosive device and a number of other items have been seized by police in south Armagh. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said officers recovered and made safe an improvised explosive device, and removed a number of items following a house search in Keady. They were taken away for further forensic examinations. It came ...

July 8, 2025

For the third year in a row, the U.S. and partner nations, including Ukraine, have their eyes on the Black Sea’s future and how to deal with the thousands of mines in the region. The Black Sea is currently closed to the U.S. and other non-Black Sea nations after Turkey closed the Bosphorus Strait to warships ...

July 6, 2025

Gardaí are investigating if a “viable” bomb found near a Russian-owned alumina refinery in Limerick last Friday had been a direct reaction to Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine. On Friday afternoon a bomb was discovered attached to a fuel tank that services the sports and social club building of the Russian-owned Aughinish Alumina refinery. A spokesman ...

July 6, 2025

In the Sumy region, explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) specialists destroyed the warhead of a Russian drone equipped with fragmentation mines. The Sumy Regional Police reported this on Telegram, according to Ukrinform. “One of the attack drones used by the enemy in daily strikes on the Sumy region was discovered in a settlement of the region. A ...

July 5, 2025

It is a date seared into the collective memories of all over a certain age. That morning on July 7, 2005, just before 9am, suicide bombers detonated devices on three Tube trains in central London. An hour later, a fourth device ripped through a number 30 bus near Euston station. The so-called “7/7 bombings” killed 52 ...

July 5, 2025

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has classified the July 5 car explosion in Odesa’s Kyivskyi district as an attempted terrorist attack. According to the SBU’s regional office in Odesa, the blast occurred in the morning on Varnenska Street, when an Opel vehicle exploded. A man inside the car was injured and is currently receiving medical ...

July 3, 2025

Former head of Lugansk Manolis Pilavov has been killed by an explosion in the center of the city. Investigators classified the explosion as a terrorist attack. According to preliminary data, the explosion was caused by a female suicide bomber, the police said. The explosion occurred on the Taras Shevchenko Street in Lugansk at about 11:52 Moscow ...

July 3, 2025

Four people have appeared in court over the break-in at RAF Brize Norton after £7million of damage was inflicted. The group Palestine Action have claimed the damage on two Voyager aircraft was carried out by them. Amy Gardiner-Gibson, 29, Jony Cink, 24, Daniel Jeronymides-Norie, 35, and Lewie Chiaramello, 22, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today after ...

July 2, 2025

Ukraine has decided to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines. Ukrainian manufacturers are already preparing to launch domestic production, Media Center Ukraine reports, citing Fedir Venislavskyi, Representative of the President of Ukraine to the Verkhovna Rada, Member of the Committee on National Security, Defense, and Intelligence, and People’s Deputy. According to him, once the ...

July 2, 2025

As Ukraine faces complex security challenges amid ongoing conflict and external aggression, the risk of incidents involving chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) materials has intensified. Accidental releases, sabotage, or the intentional use of hazardous substances require not only a swift operational response but also a robust legal framework to ensure accountability. To address these challenges, ...

July 1, 2025

From January to June 2025, mine clearance units of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine cleared 41,243 hectares of land of explosive ordnance in areas previously liberated from russian occupation. This is nearly half the area of Kyiv or more than 57,000 standard football fields. Over the six-month period, 39,401.64 hectares of agricultural land were cleared, ...

July 1, 2025

The IAEA team based at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has been informed of a drone attack that damaged several vehicles near the site’s cooling pond last week, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today. Visiting near one of the areas of Friday’s purported attack, the IAEA team yesterday observed burnt grass and other charred ...