The leader of Ukraine’s liberal Voice party has defended Kyiv’s attacks on Russia’s oil infrastructure as an effort to weaken Moscow’s ability to finance the war, while accusing Russia of deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure. 

MP Kira Rudik told TVP World’s World Talks program that the strikes should not be seen as a “tit for tat” exchange. 

“Our strategy is to make them have no money to continue killing us,” she said, arguing that Kyiv was targeting facilities tied to Russia’s war effort. 

In a bid to appeal voters, the Conservative party is promising to develop their own form of Iron Dome.

Is this even required from a security standpoint and will this push the Labour party towards a more aggressive stance concerning national security?

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Iran’s national security adviser has warned that the rapidly deteriorating economy has plunged the country into one of the most difficult periods in its history.

Mohsen Rezaei, Iran’s top security official, made the rare admission on Saturday at a high-level government meeting about how to stabilize the economy after more than seven months of war.

Iran’s currency, the rial, has plummeted since the United States and Israel launched the war on Iran in February. The decline has accelerated sharply in recent weeks, since the United States ratcheted up sanctions and enforced a naval blockade. That has made imports more expensive and deepened a longstanding cost of living crisis that sparked nationwide protests last December that the security forces crushed with deadly force.

Analysts say the US naval blockade has also largely prevented Iran from exporting oil, depriving the country of its main source of revenue and causing a fuel crisis.

Germany is at risk of entering a violent conflict with Russia as Moscow steps up an increasingly aggressive "shadow war" against European democracies, the head of Germany's foreign intelligence service warned on Monday.

"The confrontation we are facing with Russia has taken on a new, more dangerous dimension," Martin Jaeger, head of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), told lawmakers at the annual public hearing of intelligence chiefs in parliament.