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Poland has placed Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) near the Ukrainian border, amid Russian threats toward the country.
On Thursday, the General Staff of Poland’s Armed Forces announced that NASAMS had been…
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Mykhailo Mudryk doping test ‘a dagger to the heart of Ukrainian football’
It was only six months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine when, on a balmy September evening in eastern Germany, I came across Mykhailo Mudryk shortly after midnight.
This was September 2022 and Mudryk was by then an emerging talent for the…
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Rubin Observatory testing camera captures first images of night sky — Harvard Gazette
The night sky is now a little clearer.
With the ultimate goal of creating a comprehensive map of the universe, the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time project passed a major milestone in October when its testing camera at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured its first images…
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A Legal Framework for a Russia-Ukraine Peace Agreement – EJIL: Talk!
Reports of a possible Russia-Ukraine peace agreement continue to bubble and churn. The latest is an apparent Russian rejection of a peace plan floated by the Trump transition team. Uncertainty over the specifics of an agreement is likely to continue at least until the new administration takes…
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Europe’s economic apocalypse is now – POLITICO
Dirty secret
That’s where Germany comes in. The dirty little secret of European R&D spending is that half of it comes from Germany. And most of that investment flows into one sector: automotive.
While that might seem obvious given the…
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Ukraine seeks further progress toward EU membership in 2025
Ukraine has long identified membership of NATO and the European Union as its twin geopolitical objectives as it looks to…
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“Russia makes nations slaves”: a Georgian activist explains her country’s revolt
Editor’s note: Georgia is in turmoil: the country has been up in protests for 21 consecutive days following the pro-Russian government announcing it is suspending talks on EU accession a month after being accused of stealing an election.
Protesters defy police violence and the cold weather…
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what chemical weapons is Russia accused of using and why?
An arrest has reportedly been made after the killing of Igor Kirillov, a Russian general, in Moscow on December 17. Kirillov was the commander of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces, and is thought to be the most…
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Ukraine’s Hardest Winter – The Atlantic
Updated at 11:44 a.m. ET on December 19, 2024
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The soldier, a lanky, dark-haired sergeant named Vitalii Ovcharenko, met me at a gas-station café on an…
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Ukraine’s Serhii Bohachuk stars on Usyk vs. Fury 2 card with war on his mind, hope in his heart
Serhii Bohachuk represents his native Ukraine for his co-feature bout against Ishmael Davis on the Usyk-Fury 2 card. (Cris Esqueda/Golden Boy/Getty Images)
(Cris Esqueda/Golden Boy via Getty Images)
Serhii Bohachuk’s mind was made up in February…
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