A senior Russian military figure has been wounded in a targeted shooting on the outskirts of Moscow, triggering a high-level security investigation and intensifying fears of a growing internal threat to Russia’s military leadership. Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, a senior GRU official and an EU-sanctioned figure, was hospitalized after an armed attack inside a residential complex along Volokolamsk Highway in Moscow’s northwestern district. Russian investigators have opened a criminal case for attempted murder as authorities search for the perpetrators behind what officials are calling a deliberate and coordinated ambush. WATCH 

Newly released documents, sealed evidence, and a disturbing handwritten diary are reshaping what the world thought it knew about one of the most infamous criminal networks in modern history. Following the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, millions of pages of DOJ records, videos and sealed materials are now coming into public view, revealing allegations that investigators themselves describe as deeply disturbing. At the center of the revelations is a diary allegedly written by a teenage victim in 2002. The handwritten account describes being treated as a “human incubator,” detailing a pregnancy under Epstein’s control and a birth followed by the immediate removal of the child. The diary reportedly includes a 20-week ultrasound image, now part of the evidence record, a silent witness to what investigators are calling one of the most disturbing personal testimonies in the entire case. WATCH