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Photos: Russian President Vladimir Putin, chairs a video conference meeting of government members from the Kremlin, October 29, 2025 in Moscow, Russia. Credit: Alexander Kazakov/Kremlin Pool/Alamy Live News; Photo: A firefighter works to extinguish fire following recent shelling at an oil storage in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in the town of Shakhtarsk (Shakhtyorsk) near Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, October 27, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko; Photo: The Internal Security Agency (ABW) officers escort a man arrested on suspicion of spying in front of the district court in Warsaw October 17, 2014. Two men arrested by Polish authorities on suspicion of spying were working for Russian intelligence, a member of the Polish parliament's intelligence committee said on Friday. Credit: REUTERS/Kacper Pempel; Photo: A German Navy sailor aboard FGS Homburg Standing NATO Mine Counter Measure Group 1 (SNMG1) while leaving Bergen to participate in Trident Juncture exercise.Trident Juncture 18 is designed to ensure that NATO forces are trained, able to operate together and ready to respond to any threat from any direction. Trident Juncture 18 takes place in Norway and the surrounding areas of the North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea, including Iceland and the airspace of Finland and Sweden. With around 50,000 participants from 31 nations Trident Juncture 2018 is one of NATO’s largest exercises in recent years. More than 250 aircraft, 65 ships and 10,000 vehicles are involved in the exercise to perform and conduct air, land, maritime, special operation and amphibious drills. Credit: WO FRAN C.Valverde/NATO Flickr. Photo: Russian hacking underground newsletter is seen in this illustration taken, December 19, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration. Credit: Sara Boyer/Center for European Policy Analysis

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