Amnesty: Russia's foreign recruitment amounts to human trafficking; US strikes shadow fleet

Amnesty International alleges Russia's recruitment of foreign nationals for military service constitutes human trafficking, a new legal framing of an established practice. Separately, the US destroyed five Iranian oil tankers, three linked to Russia's shadow fleet, and NATO allies disrupted a Russian exercise involving a secret weapon targeting subsea cables. These actions signal coordinated Western pressure on Russian logistics and undersea infrastructure threats.