Topline A shipment of grains left the Ukrainian port of Odesa on Monday for the first time since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as part of a UN-brokered deal that is expected to ease global...
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Afraid Of Ukrainian Missiles, The Russians Are Chaining Air-Defense Vehicles To Ships
A Project 22160 with a Tor aboard. Photo via social media The Russian navy’s Black Sea Fleet still is strapping Tor air-defense vehicles to at least one of its corvettes, clearly hoping to protect the...
Ukrainian Troops Just Hoisted Their Flag On Snake Island—Then Speeded Away As Russian Missiles Rained Down
Ukrainian forces on Snake Island on July 7, 2022. Ukrainian defense ministry photo A team of Ukrainian troops riding in at least one machine-gun-armed small boat landed on Snake Island around dawn on ...
At Least 18 People Dead After Russian Missiles Strike Residential Building In Odesa
Topline At least 18 people were killed on Friday after a barrage of Russian missiles struck a residential building in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, just days after another similar attack on a crow...
Russia Lost A Third Of Its Forces In Ukraine. Now It’s Losing The War.
A destroyed Russian tank. Ukrainian defense ministry photo In the 82 days since Russia widened its war on Ukraine, the Russian military has lost a third of its forces, according to the U.K. Defense Mi...
One Of The Most Dangerous Jobs In The Russian Navy
A ‘Serna’ landing craft maneuvers to avoid an apparent MAM missile on May 12, 2022. Maxar photo The Russian Black Sea Fleet began the wider war with Ukraine in late February with maybe 11 ...
The Russian Navy Keeps Exposing Its Vulnerable Support Ships To Ukrainian Attack
The Russian rescue ship ‘Vsevolod Bobrov.’ Russian navy photo When a Ukrainian navy anti-ship battery put two Neptune anti-ship missiles into the side of the Russian navy cruiser Moskva on...