Michael Weiss

1 week ago | newlinesmag.com | Michael Weiss

Just after 2 p.m. on Valentine’s Day this year, a middle-aged woman in a bright red coat walked over to a group of Ukrainian soldiers standing outside a cafe in the city of Mykolaiv. The soldiers, who were just finishing their lunch break, stood in a group, chatting, and clearly didn’t think much of the woman as she placed the bag she was carrying on the ground. Within seconds, the bomb hidden inside the bag was remotely detonated, killing her and three of the Ukrainian soldiers instantly.

2 months ago | newlinesmag.com | Michael Weiss

If Donald Trump’s earlier characterization of Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a “dictator” and his repeated refusal to offer any disobliging description of Vladimir Putin had left any mystery as to where his affinity lies, he eliminated all doubt within 10 minutes on Friday at the tail end of a supposed diplomatic breakthrough in U.S.-Ukrainian relations.

Jan 17, 2025 | dennikn.sk | Roman Dobrochotov |Christo Grozev |Michael Weiss

Odoberajte e-mailové upozornenia na nové články o téme Afganistan e-mailom. Aktivujte jedným kliknutím sem. Autori sú investigatívni novinári, text vznikol v spolupráci s Der Spiegel a The Insider  Ruská vojenská rozviedka (GRU) už roky platí rôznym teroristickým skupinám v Afganistane za teroristické útoky proti Spojeným štátom a koaličným jednotkám.

Dec 19, 2024 | threadreaderapp.com | Michael Weiss

New: After an eighteen-month investigation, @InsiderEng has uncovered new evidence suggesting that Russia’s GRU paid tens of millions of dollars to the Taliban in Afghanistan to target American, coalition, and Afghan military forces. GRU Unit 29155 was behind this operation. We have unmasked the officers and their Afghan agents. theins.ru/en/politics/27… The program, per four former Afghan intel (NDS) sources we queried, averaged $200,000 per killed American or coalition soldier.

Nov 11, 2024 | nature.com | Michael Weiss

Reporting in Nature Communications, Kjeldsen and colleagues describe a redox mechanism of insulin clearance based on separation of A- and B chains. Exploiting an ultra-long-acting analog protected from classical clearance pathways, the study highlights principles of protein stability in pharmacology.