It began like any ordinary trip to the airport. A man with a boarding pass, a destination——Entebbe, Uganda——and, he believed, the proper paperwork to get him there. But when Assani Elolo Ronaldo, a Congolese national, presented his travel documents at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on October 13, 2026, immigration officers did something he likely did not expect. They pulled him aside. The passport he carried bore the name Ronald Omondi Owuor, but the man standing before them was not, according to investigators, Ronald Owuor at all. Within hours, the quiet routine of a departure hall gave way to handcuffs,…

1. On a clear autumn morning in Warsaw, Volodymyr Zelenskyy stood before an audience of security officials and policymakers with a claim that felt almost too perfect to question. The Ukrainian president had spent months pleading for more military support, but on this day he offered something different: a story of victory in the invisible war. He described Ukraine’s strikes on Yandex, the Russian technology giant, and how those strikes had reached its data centers. The physical damage was real, but Zelenskyy suggested something even more profound had happened. “When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers,” he said, “it suddenly…