 Lone Russian hacker exposes covert arms delivery to Ukraine
Norway secretly agreed to provide additional NASAMS anti-aircraft systems to Kiev, leaked documents reportedly show
A Russian hacker claims to have obtained highly sensitive documents exposing covert Norwegian arms deliveries to Ukraine, after accessing the servers of defense company Kongsberg. The documents allegedly reveal not only the type of weapons involved but their location and plans for their movement, according to the hacker.
Known under the alias PalachPro, the hacker told Russian media that he obtained the leaked documents on Tuesday, and detailed how he hacked the defense firm.
According to the documents, the company reached a secret deal with the Ukrainian government, agreeing to deliver 10 additional Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS), worth around $3 billion. The delivery, expected to be made later this year, has not been publicly announced by either side.
The deal was reportedly reached earlier this year by Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, who is currently embroiled in a major corruption scandal involving arms procurements at grossly inflated prices. Apart from the NASAMS systems, Norway also agreed to invest some $66 million to design anti-drone systems, as well as to modernize the Ukrainian fleet, the leaked documents suggest.
The hacker said he managed to get ahold of the sensitive data thanks to social engineering, breaching the company’s file exchange systems with the help of one of its employees. Apart from the arms contracts documents, PalachPro claimed to have obtained other top-secret files related to the deployment of NASAMS systems in Ukraine.
“The information I got was indeed secret. In addition to the documents I have shown, there was something else. These files have already been sent to our intelligence services. The effect will be colossal. Not only the approximate location of their systems is now known, but also their plans. I am sure that our state will do everything to ensure that these plans are thwarted,” the hacker told the NSN news agency.
The NASAMS, which have seen extensive use during the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, is a short-to-medium-range anti-aircraft system that is capable of destroying various aerial targets, including cruise and ballistic missiles. Such systems have repeatedly been delivered to Kiev by its Western backers. Russia has already destroyed multiple units of the system, however. |
no one owns those cars careful- they are all on what i knew in the old days as hp
young people are certainly not richer. they put off having kids because they cant afford the house to have them in. that is a disaster for the whole uk. who the heck will be working in 20 years time to pay for my public service pension? half of oldham's income doesn't even cover half of my expected benefit. so they get delusional about getting rich on bitcoin, because it is their only bloody hope.
only answer is swingeing taxes on amateur BTL landlords to get them all to sell and crucify the housing market, so young people would finally be able to afford a home. but it will never happen because all the mp's get taxpayer funded second homes in london, and they get the benefit when the price keeps on doubling. so their snouts are already in the trough for that.
when will the country learn that the answer is not building more homes? just stop skewing the housing market in favour of those who are already on it. |
There's a difference between richer and better off though. Since the boomers every subsequent generation has been worse off. |
We are richer on average,
Look at the number of cars on the road, sometimes 2 to 3 per family.
By any measure we are richer.
But so many one parent families living on the state.
And those living on benefits.
They are bound to be poor.
I think we are going to be poorer going forward.
It seems crazy that HMG borrows so much to keep it all going,
Taxation not near enough.
All of Reeves grand plans today, another runway at Heathrow which will be open in 2040 if things go well. |
So stop blaming brexit. That has nothing to do with that. We haven't had brexit |
Letting migrants in is part of the problem.
Can't understand the Tories on this issue.
Labour will be worse.
Looking at the old election documentaries from to 60's on.
Nothing changes.
Same problems. |
Why do people think that they have a right to be better off.
Sometimes we shall be worse off as poorer nations catch up.
those who voted Brexit thought we would be better off.
Strike our own trade deals.
Could not get one with India because they drove a hard bargain on student rights after graduation.
Thought they could attract investment from Chine but America objected.
Maybe one day it will pay off, but we must expect to be poorer because of our wide export losses to the Eu. not yet replaced, to say nothing about the fast decline of London as a major financial centre.
We may get back on track and Starmer is trying to re negotiate with India where the Tories failed.
He may be happy to be more relaxed about student migrants.
We shall be poorer, get over it. |
they never put a bloody dry ski slope in my old pit village |
careful, "Never had it so good"!
Know someone with two kids in a public school?
Know someone with a small downtown dairy farm?
Know someone with a bakery with 10 staff?
Know someone awaiting a hip op?
Know someone who isn't worse off? |
Left the van in Redcar last year. No EV's whatsoever because the locals would struggle to buy a bag of chips let alone a vehicle under 20yrs old. Strangely chargers in every car park though. Probably part of some sort of leveling up initiative like the old dry down hill ski slopes they put in all the pit villages? |
such innocence.
each party lies at election time to get into power.
they promise what they cannot deliver.
A grown up electorate knows this.
We vote for the least worst party.
Elections are more about voting against the worst party than voting in the best.
After the election they look at the books and then act responsibly and put on hold some the plans.
Important to sort of the mess left by the previous lot.
cost of living crisis, collapsing NHS, pensioners dying from hypothermia.
Farmers committing suicide because their family will have to pay a bit of tax spread over 10 yeas after they die.
Some of you will believe anything.
Most are doing very well. Never had it so good. |
As Monteith writes in DT
What is needed is to create the conditions for the private sector to make decisions where they can see or anticipate demand, or create it through new products and services, and then invest and grow as they provide what customers want. Governments are, no matter the colour of politicians’ rosettes, hopeless at knowing what people want in real time, never mind six or 60 months into the future.
Will the Reeves reset prevent a recession? I doubt it because I think it is highly likely we are in it already and if we are not, then avoiding it will be down to luck, not government economic policy that remains in place. |
the speeds of horses goes walk, trot, canter then gallop
it might just have started to trot |
Rumours that several UK councils are looking to hike Council tax by 15% to 25% in the next cycle.
Using a loophole to get around requirement to declare a local election/referendum. Currently 5% is maximum raise allowed annually.
Loophole being to declare themselves bankrupt!!! |
Chancellor reveals huge new investment in EV charging and renewable electricity
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves told a press conference in Oxford that the government will help fund a rollout of more electric vehicle charging, and open up space for 16GW of offshore wind power in East Anglia and Yorkshire.
U aint got the money and u aint got the cars.
Guess no 10 money tree is ur guardian angel Rache - cept it is just like magic roundabout.
Sorry careless - u seem captivated by this false facade as being good /beneficial. How???? |
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