Category: 2. Editor’s Choice

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has expressed skepticism about Defense Minister Boris Pistorius’ model for increasing personnel numbers in the German armed…

Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor

Welcome to Monday’s BBC Verify Live – we’ll bring you updates here on what we’re fact-checking and the footage we’re authenticating for stories running across…

A man walks near the covered bodies of the victims of a Russian drone and missile strike, lying near their destroyed house, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in the village of Lapaivka on the outskirts of Lviv.
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President Trump recently made a declaration that his predecessor, President Biden, never summoned the courage to say. He said that Ukraine can win the war Russia inflicted upon it. To support this encouraging statement, President Trump cited…

The Russian Central Bank says it will conduct a “large-scale audit” of the entire nation’s crypto holdings and transactions in early 2026.

The Russian newspaper Izvestia reported that the bank wants to launch a comprehensive review of…

Under a trilateral Russia-China-Pakistan agreement, Russia has been supplying fully assembled RD-93 engines since the early 2000s. Pakistan is now aiming for a modified version, which is not yet developed.
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On September 28, the governing pro-European Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) in Moldova emerged victorious in the general election. It not only defeated the Russia-friendly Patriotic Electoral Bloc (PEB) but also confirmed a new geopolitical…