Overview

• On July 25, Nikolai Patrushev accused Britain and Ukraine of plotting staged Baltic Sea incidents, including fake torpedo attacks on U.S. warships and planted Soviet-era mines.
• He asserted that Russia’s SVR intelligence discovered Soviet-made torpedoes transferred from Ukraine to the U.K. for false-flag operations.
• Doomsday Radio transmitted new cryptic codewords—“Himalayan,” “Pekinsky” and “Kommunike”—which Russia ties to its nuclear readiness.
• Russia kicked off “July Storm,” its largest naval exercise of 2025, deploying over 150 ships, 120 aircraft and continuous submarine patrols.
• Ukraine continued drone and missile strikes on Russian military sites and infrastructure, signaling ongoing tit-for-tat escalation.