On 22 May, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the National Police announced the arrest of six individuals acting as agents for Russian intelligence. The suspects were reportedly involved in Russia’s coordinated sabotage operations aimed at Ukraine’s military vehicles and railway…
Category: 6. Opinion
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1184: Russia’s war crimes escalate
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Russia builds its own drone-hunter plane—a year after Ukraine did it first. Ukraine’s drones are reaching deep into Russia, and the converted Yak52s are a cheaper way to stop them. 
Ukrainian troops are advancing in Kursk behind a wave of bomb-dropping fighter jets. The… Continue Reading
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Dancer with machine gun: Ukrainian ballroom pro storms Russian positions in elite special forces
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600 tanks, 400 fighter jets, two aircraft carriers: Europe’s shopping list for post-American defense
If America fully “exits the game,” Europe will have to spend an additional $1 trillion on its own defense, and even that might not guarantee protection from Russia, according to Defense Express.
Russia is rapidly expanding its military presence along NATO’s borders. Recent defense…Continue Reading
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Ukraine’s idea for swatting down drones was so good, Russia copied it—a year later
The Ukrainians turned at least two propeller-driven Yak-52s into drone-hunters in the simplest way possible: by arming the backseat crew member with a shotgun. The Russians got fancy—and added an underwing sensor turret in addition to a backseat shotgun to create the Yak-52B2 variant of the…
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Chancellor Merz attends ceremonial birth of Germany’s first overseas brigade in 80 years
Germany is forming its first permanently deployed combat brigade abroad since World War II, in Lithuania, amid growing threats from Russia, according to Bloomberg.
Lithuania closely monitors Russian military activity near its borders and in neighboring Belarus, where Russian forces have been…Continue Reading
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Panic crackles over Russian radio as phantom Ukrainian sniper strikes through darkness
A Ukrainian sniper fired a series of precise shots from a 12.7×99 mm (.50 BMG) anti-materiel rifle at a Russian armored personnel carrier (APC) advancing under cover during an assault. The sniper engaged from a distance of 1,700 meters, an uncomfortable position and in poor visibility,…
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Hoping for 1991 borders return is pointless fantasy, says Zaluzhnyi, former Ukraine’s commander-in-chief
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“Sanitary zone” dream shattered: Russia’s firestorm fails to push Ukraine’s troops from Kursk Oblast
War continues in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, and the Kremlin is losing control even on the information front, says military expert Valerii Riabykh, Espreso reports.
On 22 May, Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly announced plans to create a “sanitary zone” in Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts to…
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CNN: Intercepted Russian radio orders suggest systematic execution of surrendering Ukrainian POWs
CNN says it has obtained intercepted radio transmissions and drone footage, reportedly showing Russian soldiers executing surrendering Ukrainian troops in Ukraine’s eastern Zaporizhzhia Oblast last November. The audio, shared with CNN by a Ukrainian intelligence official, appears to correspond…
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