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A Soviet debt deal gave South Korea a fleet of Russian helicopters that became indispensable for fighting wildfires. More than 30 years later, Dallas Analytics has traced efforts to keep those aircraft flying back toward sanctioned Russian aviation companies—turning a firefighting necessity into an uncomfortable national-security problem.

With drones carrying explosives appearing at German airports, a Polish defense factory burning, and hackers knocking Norwegian government services offline, August has brought a surge of suspected Russian attacks across Europe. Now, Germany says it has evidence linking one of the most serious incidents directly to Moscow.

A $2.31 billion Patriot order sounds straightforward—until export pricing turns it into a question of whether Ukraine gets 190 missiles or nearly three times as many.