Military-Technological Cooperation with China
Serving Objective 20: Alignment with China
26 Sep 2025. New evidence emerges showing that Russia is helping China in its preparations to invade Taiwan, “using its battlefield experience to give Chinese airborne units the training and technical knowhow to carry out lightning-fast operations.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/26/russia-china-weapons-sales-air-assault/
Political, Covert and Diplomatic Subversion vs. the government of Moldova
Serving Objective 11: Achieving decisive influence over Moldova
22 Sep 2025. Bloomberg, BBC and Reuters report on the massive Russian plans to subvert the Moldovan legislative elections on 28 September 2025.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/moldova-elections-russia-s-plan-to-hack-the-vote
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g5kl0n5d2o
https://www.reuters.com/world/moldovan-police-raid-over-100-targets-russian-meddling-investigation-2025-09-22/
28-29 Sep 2025. Despite massive Russian interference in the Moldovan general election, pro-Russian forces are overwhelming defeated. Pro-Russian politicians’ efforts to launch protests against the electoral outcome fail to produce large protest rallies.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2rdlj8ejgo
Political and Diplomatic Subversion targeting Svalbard, Norway
Serving Objective 19: Gaining strategic superiority in the Arctic region
13 Aug 2025. The Russian foreign ministry issues a new series of various accusations against Norway regarding the Svalbard archipelago, saying Moscow considers Norway’s “militarization” of the archipelago “categorically unacceptable,” and promising that the Russian scientific, infrastructural and other “presence on Svalbard… will be developing and widening further.”
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/2041388/#10
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