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Ukrainian drones are on a winning streak. The assessment is coming from all directions — from Russian milbloggers to international military analysts to Ukrainian warfighters…
Category: 2. RussianAggression
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Russia’s An-series military transports were designed in Kyiv — and Moscow’s leaked documents show 143 of its 368 military Antonovs need urgent repair
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Russia’s military Antonov aircraft fleet is approaching a maintenance collapse it cannot stop, with its own officials privately acknowledging the crisis in documents obtained by…
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Putin Announces Orthodox Easter Cease-Fire, but Ukraine Is Skeptical
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, have both called for a brief cease-fire in the war to coincide with the Orthodox Easter holiday. The measure could bring a rare pause in the fighting even as peace talks remain stalled.
The cease-fire should…
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Ukraine and Croatia are building underground drone factory to kill Chinese supply chain
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Ukrainian drone manufacturer General Cherry and Croatia’s ORQA signed a memorandum of cooperation on 7 April. They agreed to jointly develop and manufacture interceptor drones…
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Ukraine unleashes machine gun-toting drones into the Black Sea
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Ukraine’s sea drones are continuing to evolve, mounting machine guns on their hulls. This allows them to fire on enemy UAVs coming to get them and lay down suppressing fire…
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Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is down to 7 major warships. Ukraine is hunting them one by one.
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- There are just seven missile-armed warships left in Russia’s once-powerful Black Sea Fleet
- Ukrainian drone forces are escalating their attacks on these surviving vessels…
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Mongols, Soviets, now Putin: every empire told Ukraine “you are one of us.” None were right.
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From a corner table here in Virmenka café, three days after a Shahed drone hit downtown Lviv’s 17th-century Bernardine monastery, I consider how Ukraine’s complex history…
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Ukraine’s big boom FP-2 drones just blew up four Russian Orions inside their Crimean hangar
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- Ukrainian drones hit a Russian drone base in Crimea for the second time in six months
- The 2 April strike on Kirovske air base inflicted more damage than the October raid,…
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‘Sooner or later’ Russia must yield to peace
Britain’s leader encouraged his global counterparts to continue pushing for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine at the start of a virtual meeting Saturday intended to end the fighting between the two countries.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told a virtual meeting of mostly European…
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VOA Russian: Putin tries to punt decision on Ukraine back to Trump
After U.S. President Donald Trump urged Moscow to accept the ceasefire deal agreed to by the U.S. and Ukrainian delegations in Saudi Arabia and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that “the ball is in Russia’s court,” experts polled by VOA Russian said Vladimir Putin’s first reaction was…
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