Europe

January 7, 2025

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has expressed gratitude to Iceland for its recent contribution to producing Ukrainian weapons under the Danish model. Icelandic Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday, 7 January. During their meeting, Sybiha thanked her for Iceland’s support in producing Ukrainian weapons based on the Danish model. Sybiha also expressed ...

January 6, 2025

A growing number of police officers have had enough of the way they become targets during the New Year festivities and are accusing the government of failing to act to end the chaos, the AD reported on Monday afternoon. They also want an immediate ban on consumer fireworks. The claim is made in an internal police ...

January 3, 2025

Authorities in Germany are trying to figure out what triggered a blast at a police station in Berlin late on Thursday evening, but do not believe the explosion was part of an intentional attack. A policeman suffered injuries to his face and eye and underwent an operation in hospital overnight, a police spokesman said. A policewoman ...

January 2, 2025

East Anglia offers a unique opportunity for offshore energy generation, as well as other large scale infrastructure projects, such as the Lower Thames crossing. There has been many a failed dream too, from Maplin Sands, to London Britannia aka ‘Boris Island’, among others. Often, the quest to build for the future onshore and offshore overlooks the ...

January 2, 2025

Over the year, the demining units of the Defense Ministry cleared almost 253,000 hectares of territories from mines and unexploded munitions and neutralized 137,821 explosive objects. This was reported by the MoD press service, Ukrinform saw. “In 2024, the demining units of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine cleared 252,823.23 hectares of territories of explosive objects, ...

January 1, 2025

Revelers set scores of cars alight and pelted emergency services with Molotov cocktails in Brussels late Tuesday as the city faced a wave of disorder on New Year’s Eve. Police arrested 159 people in the Belgian capital between 6 p.m. Tuesday and 7 a.m. Wednesday, and responded to more than 1,700 incidents across the city, ...

January 1, 2025

Five people have been killed across Germany in accidents involving fireworks as riots in Berlin led to over 400 arrests in a night of chaos celebrating the start of the new year. One of those killed was a 24-year-old who died after his homemade firework was set off prematurely near the town of Geseke in North ...

December 30, 2024

The Finnish Defence Forces’ (FDF) participation in the operation against Isis in Iraq has come to an end, the FDF said in a press release. The Finnish Crisis Management Force had about 70 soldiers at the end of the operation and the contingent returned to Finland on Sunday. “I would like to thank the soldiers who ...

December 29, 2024

A member of the UK Pyrotechnics Society was found with a huge, illegal amount of a chemical used for explosives. Some of it was sold to people in the UK and Europe and he had not checked whether or not they were licensed to handle the chemical. Investigators ruled out any terrorist link to the criminal ...

December 29, 2024

This month, the demining units of the Ministry of Defense cleared 3,927.54 hectares of territories contaminated with explosive objects as a result of Russia’s armed aggression, of which 3,871.38 hectares are farmlands. That’s according to the Ministry’s Main Department for Mine Action, Civil Protection and Environmental Safety. A total of 3.01 km of motorways were also ...

December 28, 2024

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) reported to TASS that it has foiled terrorist attacks targeting a senior Defense Ministry officer and a military blogger covering the special military operation. According to the FSB, a Russian national, acting on orders from Ukraine’s military intelligence, has been arrested for plotting the attacks. “Under instructions from a handler, the ...

December 28, 2024

The bomb squad was called out after an unexploded device was found by a boat dredging the water of the Firth of Forth. The boat was evacuated as a precaution after returning to Western Harbour in the Newhaven area of Edinburgh at about 10:30 on Friday. A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “HM Coastguard and EOD (Explosive ...

December 27, 2024

Eight capability coalitions, each comprising between six and 21 countries, are actively assisting in addressing specific needs of Ukraine’s Defense Forces. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, according to Ukrinform. The Ministry noted that in September 2023, the format for delivering international aid to Ukraine transitioned to the so-called Ramstein 2.0. The ...

December 27, 2024

Police are investigating an explosion and subsequent fire in an apartment building in Malmö last night. A man sustained minor injuries when he jumped from the balcony, police say. The incident is being investigated as attempted murder. Read more… Source: Radio Sweden News Sign up for Counter-IED Report Newsletter Related:  

December 27, 2024

The FSB has prevented a terrorist attack near a police station, which was being plotted by Central Asian natives – members of Wilayat Khorasan, a cell of the international terrorist organization Islamic State in Afghanistan, banned in Russia, the public relations center of the Federal Security Service (FSB) has said. The suspects “purchased a motor vehicle ...

December 26, 2024

The case of George Swain, of Mary Rose Avenue, Wootton Bridge, was heard before Portsmouth magistrates on Saturday, November 30. The 26-year-old is accused of two counts of making an explosive substance for an unlawful purpose, namely an improvised explosive device, in Wootton, on March 7. He is also accused of three counts of common assault ...

December 26, 2024

Explosive technicians from Ukraine’s State Emergency Service have neutralized a Russian Kh-59 cruise missile that fell on a private household in Kharkiv. The State Emergency Service announced this on Facebook. Bomb disposal experts promptly seized the missile and destroyed it in a safe location. Read more… Source: Ukrinform News Sign up for Counter-IED Report Newsletter Related:  

December 26, 2024

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has foiled a series of assassination attempts on the lives of senior Russian defense officials in Moscow and their family members plotted by Ukrainian intelligence services, the FSB press office told TASS on Thursday. The bombs intended for killing high-placed Russian Defense Ministry officials were disguised as a power bank and ...