#EU Sanctions

A Russian company tied to sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska secretly bought American-made jet engines to study and replicate them for Moscow’s next generation of Shahed-style attack drones—revealing a clear link between US technology and Russia’s evolving drone warfare program.

As global sanctions push Russia to the fringes of international trade, a new bridge over a remote river in the Far East signals more than just infrastructure—it marks the quiet creation of a land corridor between two increasingly isolated regimes.