A Ukrainian air force Su-24. Wikimedia Commons Mykhailo Matyushenko flew for the Soviet air force in Afghanistan in the 1980s. When Ukraine split from the Soviet Union in 1991, Matyushenko—a native of...
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Ukraine Minister Pleads For Security To Export Grain Amid Concerns Of Food Crisis
Topline Ukraine’s foreign minister said it is “two steps away” from an agreement with Russia for security measures to resume shipments of grain – the country’s biggest export – as Russian civilian air...
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...
Ukraine’s Weirdest Howitzer Drove Russian Troops Off Snake Island
The 2S22 in action on the coast. Ukrainian defense ministry photo The Ukrainian army’s rarest artillery played a pivotal role in finally driving Russian troops off strategic Snake Island in the wester...
How Ukraine Won The Battle
LVIV, UKRAINE – MAY 09: Limited edition “Snake Island” stamps, commemorating the moment when a … [+] Ukrainian soldier defiantly replied “Russian warship, go f*ck yoursel...
Russia’s Control of Snake Island Spells Hunger and Instability for Parts of Africa and The Middle East
A view of Snake Island, Ukraine which is currently occupied and controlled by a Russian garrison. Wikipedia commons Russia’s foothold on Snake Island, a smattering of land off the coast of Western Ukr...
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Needs Boats. Captured Ukrainian Vessels Might Be Just The Thing.
An ex-Ukrainian ‘Gyurza’ in Russian service. Photo via social media The Russian navy’s battered Black Sea flotilla is so desperate for hulls that it’s begun putting its sailors on boats it...
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...
New Turkish Bayraktar Drones Still Seem To Be Reaching Ukraine
Snake Island saw some dramatic action last weekend, including a high-speed, low-level bombing run by Ukrainian jets and a series of strikes by Bayraktar TB2 drones which sank two patrol boats and a la...
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Started The War With Eight ‘Raptor’ Patrol Boats. It Might Have Three Left.
A ‘Raptor’ patrol boat. Photo via Wikipedia In 10 weeks of fighting, Ukraine’s TB-2 drones and anti-tank missile teams have wreaked havoc on the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s patrol boat floti...
Ukraine’s Best Fighter Jets Just Bombed The Hell Out Of The Russian Troops On Snake Island
Su-27s strike Snake Island. Ukrainian defense ministry capture The Ukrainian air force’s best fighter jets just staged a daring raid on the Russian force occupying Ukraine’s strategic Snake Island. Th...
Ukraine’s Drones Are Peeling Back Russian Defenses On Infamous Snake Island
A Ukrainian TB-2 strikes a Russian Strela-10 air-defense system on Snake Island. Ukrainian defense ministry capture Ukraine’s Snake Island was one of Russia’s first conquests in the wider war between ...