Russia plans 11 new nuclear bases — journalists from Danwatch uncovered hundreds of blueprints in Russian procurement tenders, including for intercontinental missile facilities.
The Kremlin accuses Serbia of a "stab in the back" — allegedly for covert arms supplies to Ukraine via intermediaries and falsified end-user certificates. Meanwhile, Russia’s own arms industry critically depends on the same kind of grey supply chains it now denounces.
Moscow paid for Shahed drones with gold bars. Iranian company Sahara Thunder received at least 1.8 tonnes of gold, worth $104 million. According to analysts at C4ADS, using gold allowed the parties to bypass restrictions on US dollar transactions that could have been blocked by U.S. Treasury sanctions.
More news in ESCU’s Russian Media Monitoring Report #20 (29 May – 5 June) ⬇️
