A Reuters investigation traces $2 billion in wartime imports, from Chinese rocket-fuel chemicals to Russian detonators, to Iranian military buyers that no Western government appears to have designated. One of their customers supplies drones to Russia.
Russia's new Filin cruise missile pairs avionics from a Shahed-type drone supplier with a drone-class turbojet and US chips made as late as October 2025, and its claimed 800 km/h doubles the speed of Ukraine's multirotor interceptors.
The G7 will release up to 100 million barrels as Ukraine's drones keep hitting Russian refineries. Putin put the campaign's cost at 1% of GDP and said a strike pause would not return Russian diesel while sanctions stand.
Ukraine's new TrophyLab portal hands vetted allies the blueprints, teardowns, and physical samples of captured Russian weapons. The real export is the time an ally saves building what defeats it.
French commandos rappelled onto the sanctioned tanker Tagor in the Atlantic, the fourth such boarding since September, as Western navies move shadow-fleet enforcement from paperwork to physical interdiction.