Pentagon plans to reduce deployment from four brigades to three
Category: 2. RussianAggression
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US to cut troops in Europe to lowest level since before Ukraine invasion
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Wounded warriors can wait months for evacuation. Ukrainians are trying to solve this—here’s how
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Evacuating the wounded from the front lines presents a serious and persistent problem when Russian FPV drones are in the sky. Uncrewed Ground Vehicles, conventional vehicles,…
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As a Weakened Putin Follows Trump to Beijing, Iran War Offers an Opening
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for a state visit in a position of relative weakness.
His army is struggling to move in Ukraine. His seat of power, Moscow, has been increasingly vulnerable to Ukrainian drones. Russia’s economy is under severe strain. More…
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'We Were Supposed To Be Celebrating A Birthday': Kyiv Mourns Sisters Killed In Russian Strike
Friends, classmates, and teachers gathered in Kyiv to say goodbye to sisters Vira and Lyubava Yakovleva, killed in a Russian strike on May 14. Vira was 17. Lyubava was 12. Their father had already been killed in the war in 2023.
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Deutsche Bank fined by UK for breaching Russia sanctions
OFSI fines lender £165,000 over payments linked to streamer Okko
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Wider Europe Briefing: Russian Threats To The European Union And The Upgraded EU Mission To Ukraine
Welcome to Wider Europe, RFE/RL’s newsletter focusing on the key issues concerning the European Union, NATO, and other institutions and their relationships with the Western Balkans and Europe’s Eastern neighborhoods.
I’m RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I am drilling down on…
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As Ukraine Strikes Russian Oil Sites, an Environmental Disaster Unfolds
Yevgeny Vitishko, who lives in the Russian town of Tuapse, always wears white shirts. But the day a local oil refinery caught fire after a Ukrainian drone strike, he thought that would not be a good idea.
“I could see droplets of oil and soot on my clothes,” said Mr. Vitishko, 52, a prominent…
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Ukraine just built its own glide bomb—with five times its drones’ warhead
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- After 17 months of testing, Ukraine’s new glide bomb is finally ready
- A new domestic source of glide bombs could help Ukrainian warplanes match Russian warplanes bomb for…
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Putin and Xi to discuss huge gas project at China summit
Talks on Power of Siberia 2 pipeline come just days after Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing
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Xi told Trump that Putin might ‘regret’ invasion of Ukraine
US president also suggested they should co-operate with Russian leader against the International Criminal Court
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