Intel and Recon

Interested in #intelligence | sometimes IMINT et al. | Looking at 🇨🇳🇷🇺 global strategic acting especially in LatAm and Africa | proliferation & sanctions

[Intel and Recon @IntelAndRecon]

A 23-year old of German, Polish and Moroccan citizenship has been arrested at Cologne/Bonn Airport accused of supporting ISKP.
‼️He applied also for security accreditation as a helper for the football #EURO2024 a few days ago.
🧵@terrorismus
https://t.co/SSAyuY2FYu

[Florian Flade @FlorianFlade]

„Le Monde has learned that the latest ongoing investigation, led by (…) France's counterintelligence agency, targets an individual accused of preparing to blow up a SNCF transformer used to regulate rail traffic...“

https://t.co/k77DYGk71l #Sabotage #DGSI #France

[Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham]

Breaking news: EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas says the EU has "now verified reports that the Chinese military has been training Russian military personnel to fight in Ukraine"

Speaking after a meeting of EU foreign ministers - "we are carefully assessing the implications"

[Intel and Recon @IntelAndRecon]

Satellite imagery show damage and Iranian media videos show small holes in an Iranian water facility, @MunitionsPortal identifies parts of GBU-39 precision-guided munitions

[Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum]

Drinking water installations are quintessentially “objects indispensable to survival,” a category with heightened protection in international law.

Attacks directed against such installations are presumptively unlawful.

This report strongly indicates precision strikes on two.

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

"Unfortunately, we cannot drone strike Andrew Tate," Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces tells the internet, to widespread disappointment.

[Jason Corcoran @jason_corcoran]

European Commission has opted not to include alumina exports to Russia, nor to list Ireland's Russian-owned #Aughinish refinery itself in its latest #sanctions.

https://t.co/flnhir6WuP

[Jorge Maestre Vidal @J_MaestreVidal]

🇺🇸🇨🇳Pentagon released its updated Section 1260H list, which designates Chinese companies as supporting Beijing’s military-civil fusion program. It now includes major publicly traded Chinese technology firms such as Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD

https://t.co/bgz9sapu5O

[Qalaat Al Mudiq @QalaatAlMudiq]

If this identity is confirmed, it would be Ukraine's biggest achievement for Syrians ever.

General Maksimtsev oversaw the aerial bombardment campaign that began Russia's intervention in #Syria (2015) - a wall of fire that caused countless victims, esp. from Hama to Aleppo.

He's believed to have been killed in today's car bomb in Moscow.

[Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM]

“After months of efforts to rescue the project, Chancellor Friedrich Merz told President Emmanuel Macron during a meeting in Montenegro on Friday that it would be better to end the partnership on the aircraft, according to German government insiders.

“Instead, Merz proposed that the two countries and Spain, which is also a partner, continue working together on the so-called combat cloud — the software architecture designed to connect aircraft, sensors, radars, drones and satellites in real time, the officials added.”

[Intel and Recon @IntelAndRecon]

While the fighter aircraft FCAS is dead "the integration of various weapon systems, platforms and sensors into a so-called ‘Combat Cloud’ should be continued"

[Paul Maurice @Pl_Maurice]

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➡️ La coopération continue uniquement sur le système numérique reliant avions, drones et satellites. ➡️ Dassault développera son propre appareil pour la France
➡️ Airbus travaillera sur une solution allemande, possiblement avec Saab.
2/ 🧶
#FCAS #SCAF

[Bojan Pancevski @bopanc]

Nord Stream is suing Lloyd's for €580 in damages from the destruction of the pipelines; the insurers say war is not covered. The insurers' lawyers are using my reporting & @ronzheimer pod to argue that they should not be paying anything to the Russians https://t.co/LxSZHlXOw3

[Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog]

Turkey re-exported German and Croatian optical sights to a long-term FSB supplier and American micrometers to the Alabuga special economic zone, where Shahed drones are produced, The Insider reported. In 2025 the country also served as a transit point for Western flow meters and level sensors used by Russian fuel exporters. Turkey remains one of the main hubs for supplying sanctioned dual-use equipment to Russia.

[Demetri @AsiaLens]

SCOOP #NSA is using #Mythos to conduct offensive cyber operations. Anthropic engineers are embedded in the US intelligence agency.

(@CristinaCriddle & me @AsiaLens)

https://t.co/AU3411VmY3

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

NEW: MI5 and Five Eyes partner agencies have just issued what they say is an unprecedented joint warning about attempts by Chinese spies to use LinkedIn to recruit Western assets

[Dr. Dan Lomas @Sandbagger_01]

Suspected spy at Polish state arms company arrested

https://t.co/wXUdgrDXJA

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Russia knows that Ukraine is short of Patriot interceptors and threatens to obliterate Kyiv.

[Kevin Rothrock @MrKevinRothrock]

Given the patterns in this war, we should interpret these alerts as a signal that Russia is preparing its latest Oreshnik missile strike and just satisfied the requirements of the 1988 ballistic missile notification agreement by alerting the U.S.

[Charlie Campbell @CharlieCamp6ell]

Exclusive: Xi Jinping will visit North Korea for a second state visit, perhaps as early as next week, two sources with knowledge of the trip told me https://t.co/JYPaLhkIAm

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

The Financial Times reports that during his talks with Xi Jinping Donald Trump floated the idea that the US, China and Russia should co-operate against the International Criminal Court.

[Maria Snegovaya @MSnegovaya]

Russia is starting to lose ground in Ukraine
Our tracker suggests it has suffered its first sustained net loss since October 2023
https://t.co/lqjrRp9cc0

[Intel and Recon @IntelAndRecon]

I see people & media confusing the request of arrest warrants by the prosecutor’s office and the actual issuing of arr warrants by ICC judges.
It’s the request that is probably processed & affects 3 politicians (probably ministers Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, Strook) & 2 military leaders

[Itay Epshtain @EpshtainItay]

BREAKING: For Gaza-related allegations, the most plausible political figures would be those directly involved in the conduct of hostilities, humanitarian access restrictions, or public incitement. In that category, the names most likely are indeed, Itamar Ben-Gvir (National Security), Bezalel Smotrich (Additional MoD and Finance), and Israel Katz (MoD).

If, however, the focus is broader annexation, destruction of property, forcible transfer of protected persons and unlawful transfer of population into occupied territory, then the likely trio shifts somewhat to possibly include Yariv Levin (Justice) or Orit Strook (Settlements) instead of Katz.

Plausible Gaza-related military commanders would include Herzi Halevi (Chief of General Staff), Yaron Finkelman (Southern Command), and Ghassan Alian (COGAT), particularly regarding humanitarian access, aid restrictions, and civilian survival conditions. Yehuda Fuchs (Central Command, Military Commander of oPt) together with Alian are likely for crimes committed in the West Bank.