Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined to “test the West’s red lines” and will be prepared for a military engagement with NATO by the end of the decade, according to Germany’s top spy.

A Russian court on Monday convicted a French citizen of collecting military information and sentenced him to three years in prison.

Ukrainian military recruitment officers raided restaurants, bars and a concert hall in Kyiv, checking military registration documents and detaining men who were not in compliance, media and witnesses reported Saturday.

Starlink dishes form the backbone of Ukraine’s military network — one of the few advantages Kyiv has against Moscow’s bigger, if less modernized, force. Yet there is a burgeoning black market of Starlinks bringing the terminals to Russians on the front, Ukrainian soldiers said.

Navalny was President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest and most prominent foe and relentlessly campaigned against official corruption in Russia. He died in a remote Arctic prison in February while serving a 19-year sentence on several charges, including running an extremist group, which he said were politically motivated.

The leaders of nine southern European Union countries on Friday pledged support for Lebanon’s armed forces to reassert control over the country’s southern territory in hopes of bringing peace to an area plagued by fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.

Spc. Isac Alejandro Calderon showed up for police interviews after the 2023 incident, so he was not arrested. But he later fled to the U.S. just before a scheduled court date.

A Ukrainian military intelligence official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said “several thousand” North Korean infantry soldiers are undergoing training in Russia now and could be deployed to the front line in Ukraine by the end of this year.

Government prosecutors told the jury that the murder charge against Airman 1st Class Grant Harrison boiled down to “who had the knife” the night a local civilian was killed in a fight. Harrison’s defense lawyers said the crux of the case wasn’t who had the weapon, but rather who used it.

So far, Ukrainian 16,000 soldiers have gone through 13 rehabilitation centers established since 2022. It is unclear how many soldiers have been wounded since 2022 and how many have returned to duty.