The story was debunked, but not before it went viral last year: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a video masquerading as a legitimate media report claimed, had bought his mother a $3.2 million Armani-designed apartment in Dubai’s Burj Khalifa skyscraper, the world’s tallest…
Category: 2. RussianAggression
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U.N. Adds Israeli and Russian Forces to Sexual Violence List
The U.N. investigators documented nearly 10,000 cases of conflict-related sexual violence around the world in 2025, more than double the number they verified the year before.
That figure “represents the very tip of the iceberg,” a U.N. special representative, Pramila Patten, told reporters on…
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Poland threatens to strip Zelenskyy of state honour
Ukrainian president offends Warsaw with reference to second world war fighters accused of murdering Poles
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Russian drone hits apartment building in Romania
Nato and Bucharest condemn ‘reckless’ escalation after two people were injured in Galaţi
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Romania Says It Could Invoke NATO’s Article 4. What Would That Do?
Romania’s foreign minister on Friday called Article 4 of NATO’s founding treaty “an instrument that Romania can use” after a drone, which officials said was Russian, crashed into an apartment building in the country.
Article 4, which allows a NATO member to open formal discussions about…
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Ukrainian drones learned to shrug off Russian jamming. Now they’re hunting the jammers.
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- Ukraine is upgrading its Vampire bomber drones to better resist Russian jamming
- Now the hovering drones can even attack the jammers themselves
- Resistance to electronic…
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Were Romanian Casualties From a Russian Drone Strike Inevitable?
The Russian drone that officials say slammed into a Romanian apartment building on Friday morning, wounding two people on NATO territory, was not entirely unexpected.
For more than four years, residents of eastern Romania have lived with the near-constant threat of Russian attack drones, weapons…
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Romania Accuses Russia Of ‘Serious Escalation’ After Drone Hits Residential Building
Romania has accused Russia of a “serious and irresponsible escalation” after a drone hit a high-rise building inside Romanian territory near the border with Ukraine. The drone entered Romanian airspace during overnight attacks on Ukraine and crashed into a residential building in Galati.
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The ‘Dark Tourism’ Keeping Ukraine’s Travel Industry Alive
Vitalii Syniakov once ran tours to Kyiv’s golden-domed churches and the beaches of Odesa. But after the first Russian missiles hit Kyiv in February 2022, “tourism died for about a year,” he says.
Now the industry veteran is one of several operators offering what he calls “dark tours” to…
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Europe, NATO Warn Moscow After Drone Hits Building In Romania
Romania has accused Russia of a “serious and irresponsible escalation” after a drone hit a high-rise building inside Romanian territory near the border with Ukraine, an incident that sparked condemnation from Europe, NATO, and the United States.
The drone entered Romanian airspace during…
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