How Russia Is Intercepting Communications from European Satellites Russia has been secretly stalking European spacecraft since its invasion of Ukraine in 2014. What can Europe do about it?

Since the initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014, two Russian satellites have been secretly stalking European spacecraft: www.rand.org/pubs/comment...

Old Soviet joke: 1970s. Entrance exams at a university. Q to an applicant:
— Do you know who Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev is?
— Never heard the name.
— Where have you come from?
— From Uryupinsk.
The professor sighs:
— I should drop everything and go to Uryupinsk!

Putin Is Not Trapped: Why Regime Survival Does Not Depend on Victory For four years, analysts and policymakers have warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot afford to lose” in Ukraine. Increasingly, some argue

Much of the conversation about Ukraine begins with a simple premise about what Putin can and cannot afford politically.

Sadly I don't know anyone from there, and I checked at KCL - nothing. If you do manage to find it, could you please share? Thanks!

📄 Call for papers

🙌🏼 King's Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI) is delighted to partner with the Society for Intelligence History (SIH) to host the SIH Annual Conference at King's College London on October 11-13, 2026.

@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @socintelhist.bsky.social

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Modern battlefield comms

The Russians’ latest development: Starlink on a horse. There are no analogues to such a "UGV," and there never will be.

Hi, I am a researcher in War Studies dept. at King's College London working on sabotage and hybrid ops. Would it be possible to get access to the dashboard? TIA

NKVD Plan to Undermine the Catholic Church in Lithuania in 1941 Top secret plan devised by Beria and Merkulov discovered in the archives

My new article!

"NKVD Plan to Undermine the Catholic Church in Lithuania in 1941"

Based on my ongoing research of #NKVD/#MGB/#KGB files at Hoover Library & Archives! @socintelhist.bsky.social
@hooverinstitution.bsky.social

The link: tinyurl.com/2ah69ze6

UK and Norway team up to hunt Russian submarines and undersea sabotage New frigates, joint P-8 maritime aircraft patrols and more frequent anti-sabotage elite training were on the table when Norway and the UK on Thursday signed a first-of-its-kind defence agreement that ...

A first-of-its-kind defence agreement that will let the two 🇬🇧 🇳🇴 navies operating side-by-side in the North Atlantic.

📜 It was a great opportunity to highlight research we published at @rusi.bsky.social in '24 on #gigeconomysabotage, w/ @kloosha.bsky.social @magslong.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social.

👥 It was excellent to appear alongside the expert voices of #SO15 Dom Murphy, @matthewrr.bsky.social & others.

Currently - Playing Spies - BBC Sounds Gordon Corera investigates Russia's new front line of amateur espionage.

🎧 Grateful to contribute to the 📻 prgm "CURRENTLY: Playing Spies", drawing on what I’ve learned while observing recent UK trials linked to RU sabotage & espionage.

Thanks 🙏 @gordoncorera.bsky.social & #BBC Radio 4 production team for putting this excellent programme together!

👉 shorturl.at/icEjs

Today is the 5th time we've captured Pokrovsk. A major defeat for the american empire.....

Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.

Intelligence and National Security Rethinking Strategic Warning and Intelligence Failure in an Era of Global Transformation. Volume 40, Issue 5 of Intelligence and National Security

Special issue of Intelligence and National Security Published! Topic is "Rethinking Strategic Warning and Intelligence Failure in an Era of Global Transformation" See details here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fint20/4...

If You Can't Beat Them, Steal: Russia's AI Strategy

Russian intelligence uses GenAI for the same reason companies do - productivity.
The difference? Their output is disinformation and cyber attacks. And they use YOUR AI tools because they can't build their own.
My latest for KCSI Insights: kcsi.uk/kcsi-insight...
@kcsi.uk @warstudieskcl.bsky.social

because it's there? and operational?

New publication with Dr. Huw Dylan: how Russian disinformation exploits large language models to advance “the politics of eternity.” Tainted datasets embed lasting distortions in digital memory — a new frontier in info warfare journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@warstudieskcl.bsky.social @kcsi.uk

1/3 📕 #CovertAction: National Approaches to Unacknowledged Intervention is now out!

I am delighted to have co-authored the chapter “Czechoslovakia: Covert Measures in Peace and War.”

New addition

Journal article: Revisionist future: Russia's assault on large language models, the distortion of collective memory, and the politics of eternity by Huw Dylan, Elena Grossfeld (published 29-09-2025)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/297686402513...

New addition

Journal article: The War on Open-Source Intelligence by Thomas Colley, Huw Dylan (published 29-09-2025)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0163660X...

Oh and btw, the current nominee for the post - chosen by Bibi - raises questions on whether he will be able or willing to refuse something similar. Many have grave doubts (including 4 former heads of Shabak) who wrote letters to the appointment committee.

For analysis specifically, when a country is democratically backsliding, intelligence analysts have the option of getting fired (or worse) or keeping their heads low, directing their energy to the direction inline with management wishes, and towing the line

Based on reporting from Israel, when Bibi demanded from previous heads of Shabak to speak out about this political adversaries (Bennet, Gantz) and do some other, decidedly undemocratic activities, they refused. Not an analysis as such.

even better news - it doesn't have to be real statistics! you can put there whatever the hell you want!

Unveiling Russian intelligence failures in the Ukraine conflict: a strategic culture perspective Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was accompanied by a major intelligence failure. Russia’s intelligence machinery failed strategically and tactically, leaving leaders surprised and for...

🚨Publication alert:

Our KCSI members, Huw Dylan and Elena Grossfeld (@kloosha.bsky.social) have published an #openaccess article.

'Unveiling Russian intelligence failures in the Ukraine conflict: a strategic culture perspective' @warstudieskcl.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0268...

New addition

Journal article: Unveiling Russian intelligence failures in the Ukraine conflict: a strategic culture perspective by Huw Dylan, Elena Grossfeld (published 22-08-2025)

https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2025.2544460

Our article w/Huw Dylan Unveiling Russian Intelligence Failures in the Ukraine Conflict: A Strategic Culture Perspective is out, demonstrating how Russian intelligence’s strategic culture shaped its key failures in 2022.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@kcsi.uk @warstudieskcl.bsky.social

Unveiling Russian intelligence failures in the Ukraine conflict: a strategic culture perspective Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was accompanied by a major intelligence failure. Russia’s intelligence machinery failed strategically and tactically, leaving leaders surprised and for...

Another super article from Huw Dylan and @kloosha.bsky.social:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

IISS: 'The Scale of Russian Sabotage Operations Against Europe’s Critical Infrastructure' www.iiss.org/research-pap...