Almost a year ago, Vladimir Putin started massing his forces for the invasion of Ukraine. It’s been some ten months since he invaded. Correction, add eight years to that, because he started in 2...
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After the Reagan National Defense Forum and Survey
U.S. Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, addresses the crowd at the Reagan National Defense Forum in … [+] Simi Valley, CA. Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute A few days after...
What Targeting Of Children Has To Do With Genocidal Atrocities?
December 9 marks the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime. It is a day established by the U.N. General Assembly to...
Ring With Emerald Recovered From 400-Year-Old Shipwreck Raises $1.2 Million For Ukraine At Auction
Topline A ring set with an emerald that was rediscovered on a Spanish shipwreck nearly 400 years after being lost sold for $1.2 million at auction, with all proceeds set to be donated to humanitarian ...
Fake Air-Defenses Are Bolstering Ukraine’s Real Air-Defenses
A Ukrainian S-300 launcher in Kyiv in 2018. Wikimedia Commons The sky over Ukraine is one of the most dangerous places in the world for aircrews. Ukrainian and Russian air-defenses blanket the entire ...
Ukraine Has The Weapons To Attack Moscow, But Ukrainian Leaders Probably Know Better
A Ukrainian Tu-143 launches in 2014. Ukrainian defense ministry capture When Ukrainian drones struck a pair of Russian air force bomber bases more than 300 miles inside the Russian border, they didn’t...
His MiG-29 In Flames, Blood Pouring Down His Face, This Ukrainian Pilot Still Managed To Snap A Selfie
Vadym Voroshylov parachutes to Earth following his October battle with Russian drones. Instagram photo via the Ukrainian defense ministry An accomplished photographer and videographer, Maj. Vadym Voro...
U.S. Trade Booms Except For 3 Countries: Russia, Ukraine, Hong Kong
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to China’s President Xi Jinping when they met in Uzbekistan … [+] in September. SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images U.S. merchandise trade with the world i...
Ukrainian Scouts Were In Their Foxholes Near Bakhmut When A Russian Bomber Came Crashing Down
The wreckage of a Russian Su-24 bomber near Bakhmut. Ukrainian army photo A Ukrainian army reconnaissance battalion was directly below when, on the night of Dec. 2, allied forces around Bakhmut in eas...
Renewables to be main source of electricity generation by 2025: IEA
Wind turbines in the Netherlands. A report from the International Energy Agency “expects renewables to become the primary energy source for electricity generation globally in the next three year...
Jamie Dimon says Ukraine war shows we still need cheap, secure energy from oil and gas
Dimon said in June that he was preparing the bank for an economic “hurricane” caused by the Federal Reserve and Russia’s war in Ukraine. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images One key l...
Ukraine’s Drones Spell Danger For A Vast Swathe Of Russia As New Airbase Strike Reported
The Ukrainian strikes which we reported yesterday on Russian airbases 400 miles inside Russian territory have huge implications for this conflict. Now social media reports describe a fresh drone attac...
Ukraine Pulled Ex-Soviet Recon Drones Out Of Storage, Added Bombs And Sent Them Hurtling Toward Russia
An ex-Soviet Tu-141 variant in storage in Moscow in 2012. Alan Wilson photo The drones that Ukrainian forces used to strike two Russian bomber bases 300 miles inside Russia on Monday weren’t the satel...
A Fierce And Furious Russian Punkster In New York
Max Pokrovskiy of Nogu Svelo! at The Cutting Room, New York. September, 2022 Max Pokrovskiy Facebook Page Veteran rocker Max Pokrovskiy, leader of the popular Russian pop-punk rock band Nogu Svelo!, u...
Ukrainian Drones Just Took Out A Russian Heavy Bomber 300 Miles From Ukraine
A damaged Russian air force Tu-22M bomber following the Dec. 5 drone raid. Via social media For ten months, the Russian air force’s heavy bombers have bombarded Ukrainian cities with impunity, lobbing...
Here Are Some Other Air Defenses Ukraine Would Like From The Middle East
The United States is reportedly working with Middle East allies to supply National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) to Ukraine. The NASAMS, however, are not the only air defense system...
In Eight Years, Russian Agents Blew Up 210,000 Tons Of Ukrainian Ammo—And Nearly Silenced Kyiv’s Artillery
Ukrainian defense ministry photo Russia hasn’t done a lot right in its 10-month-old wider war on Ukraine. But it did at least one thing right before the war. A systematic Russian sabotage campaign tar...
Anticipating A Russian Attack, The Ukrainian Army Doubled Its Artillery
A Ukrainian army BM-21 rocket-launcher. Ukrainian defense ministry photo In Soviet ground-warfare doctrine, which both the Ukrainian and Russian armies largely still follow, artillery is the decisive ...
Ukraine collabs with international consultants to update crypto framework
Working on their national crypto framework, the amendments to the law “On virtual assets,” the Ukrainian regulatory community actively collaborates with international experts. The list includes the in...
Theft Of Banksy Mural In Ukraine Foiled By Police
Topline A group of would-be thieves were arrested in Ukraine Friday as they were trying to steal a mural by graffiti artist Banksy off the side of a bombed-out building, police said, cutting off one o...
Ukraine to update crypto framework in consultation with global experts
The Advisory Council on the Regulation of Virtual Assets, which is dedicated to updating the crypto framework in Ukraine, held its first meeting on 1 December. Organized by the National Securities and...
Ukraine regulators seeks crypto experts for its framework
Yesterday, the Ukrainian regulatory community launched its first collaborative initiative to update its crypto framework. The Ukrainian government organized the meeting on their national crypto framew...
“Russia Must Pay For Its Crimes”
On November 3o, 2022, the European Commission presented a litany of legal options to Member States of the European Union to make sure that Russia is held accountable for their atrocities committed in ...
Anticipating A Russian Attack, The Ukrainian Army Trained Its Tank Crews To Fight Like Artillery
Ukrainian army 17th Tank Brigade. Ukrainian army photo Ukraine’s tank corps wasn’t ready for the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014. The Ukrainian army’s two tank brigades and 10 mechanized b...
Ukraine unveils its state-owned crypto
We are hearing more and more about CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies), and Ukraine is thinking about its future precisely with crypto assets as the protagonists. According to reports from the Eas...
This Is The “Hard Unavoidable Truth” About The Ukraine War
The growing challenge of supplying needed weaponry to Ukraine underscores how much our military readiness has deteriorated, given the burgeoning threats around the world. Our NATO allies’ stockpiles o...
National Bank of Ukraine Unveils E-hryvnia Concept – Finance Bitcoin News
The central bank of Ukraine has presented to interested parties a draft concept of the nation’s future digital currency, the e-hryvnia. The regulator is currently considering several potential applica...
Washington’s Oil Price Cap Won’t Work-And Putin Knows It
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits Lukoil stationary oil platform in the Caspian Sea AFP via Getty Images For the past several months the U.S. has been shopping around other advanced democra...
As Russian Troops Invaded, Ukraine Scrambled To Form New Mechanized Brigades. A Few Months Later, They Were On The Front.
A 66th Mechanized Brigade M-113. Ukrainian army photo Mechanized brigades with their heavily-armed infantry, scores of armored vehicles plus organic artillery and air-defenses are the backbone of a mo...