The head of a major European intelligence agency stated his officers were observing Russian agents surveying road bridges, presuming with intent to mine them, according to a Financial Times report cited in an X post by @Maks_NAFO_FELLA shared over the past 59 minutes from 4:16 p.m. to 5:16 p.m. UTC on December 9, 2025. The agency and others are tracking Russia's attempts to insert highly trained sleeper-saboteurs into European states, as detailed in the same Financial Times account relayed via the X post during the reporting window. Japan's government denied a media report that it rebuffed an EU request to join plans using frozen Russian state assets to fund Ukraine, with Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Atsushi Mimura stating "It's completely false," according to Reuters in a report shared over the past hour. A Russian An-22 transport plane carrying 7 crew members crashed, 20 oil tanks were destroyed in Temryuk port, and a UK-EU agreement to release up to £100 billion of frozen Russian assets could be announced soon, according to an X post by @Maks_NAFO_FELLA shared during the reporting window. Russian President Vladimir Putin stated, “AI problems need to be solved, but it’s not yet clear how,” according to comments shared on X by @nexta_tv over the past 59 minutes.
