On November 14, 2022, the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the U.S. Helsinki Commission, will host a briefing on the issue of Russia’s genocide in Ukraine. The briefing comes months a...
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The Russians Sent Their Slow Attack Jets On Virtual Suicide Runs
Russian air force Su-25s. Wikimedia Commons The six Russian air force brigades and regiments flying the twin-rotor Kamov Ka-52 attack helicopter probably have suffered the highest casualty rate of any...
Here are the three big issues facing Ukraine as a tough winter approaches
Winter is on the way, and in war-torn Ukraine the fight against Russia appears far from over. Moscow continues to target Ukrainian power plants and stations. Grain shipments out of Ukraine have been i...
Fly Low, Get Aggressive—How Ukrainian Pilots Fought The Russian Air Force To A Standstill
Russian Su-35 aircraft intercept a P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft assigned to U.S. 6th Fleet over the Mediterranean Sea on May 26, 2020. U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa For all its profound faults, the...
How The Ukrainians Wrecked the Russians’ Best Helicopter Regiments
A Kamov Ka-52 and pilot. Russian state media It’s not totally accurate to describe the Russian air force’s Kamov Ka-52 attack helicopters as death traps. But it’s not totally inaccurate, either. The a...
As Bombs Rained Down, Ukrainian Troops Set A Trap For Russia’s Pilots
Russian air force Sukhoi Su-25s. Via Flickr The air war over Ukraine could have gone either way in the first few weeks of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of the country starting in late February. The Rus...
Biggest Defeat For Russia In A Generation As Starving Troops Flee Across A Key Ukrainian River
Ukrainian forces in Kherson Oblast. Czech T.V. capture The Kremlin has ordered its forces to withdraw from the city of Kherson on the Black Sea coast in southern Ukraine. The order comes eight months ...
Bumble, Rivian, Dutch Bros, FICO and more
The display outside the Nasdaq MarketSite is pictured as the dating app operator Bumble Inc. (BMBL) made its debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange during the company’s IPO in New York City, New Yor...
Brittney Griner Moves To Russian Penal Colony As Her Lawyers Warn They Don’t Know Her Precise Location
Topline WNBA star Brittney Griner is being transferred to a Russian penal colony after being convicted in August of possessing and smuggling drugs, her legal team said on Wednesday, bleak news for the...
Russia’s MiG-31 Crews Are Shooting At Ukrainian Pilots From A Hundred Miles Away—And The Ukrainians Can’t Shoot Back
A MiG-31 pilot. Russian state media It’s no secret the Russian air force has failed to achieve air superiority in the sky over Ukraine. Hamstrung by inflexible procedures, desperately short of precisi...
The Russians Have Lost Nearly 300 Aircraft Over Ukraine—Mostly Drones
A Russian fighter burns after being shot down over Ukraine in March 2022. Via social media Ukrainian troops have brought down 278 Russian aircraft in the eight months since Russia widened its war on U...
South Korea Has Quietly Become One Of The World’s Biggest Weapons Suppliers
A South Korean K-2 battle tank, developed by Hyundai Rotem Co., during a live-fire exercise at the Defense Expo Korea 2022 at a military base in Pocheon, South Korea, on Sept. 20. © 2022 Bloomberg Fin...
The 30 Best Food And Sustainability Gifts Of 2022
When I sat down to interview Chef José Andrés on Thursday at the recently opened New York City location of his restaurant, Zaytinya, I realized I was sitting with arguably one of the most charitable p...
José Andrés Has Some Things To Get Off His Chest As World Central Kitchen Prepares For A Brutal Ukraine Winter
Chef José Andrés pulls out his iPhone to flip between two images from Ukraine. One, a video, shows a crowd of people getting hot soup in a tent staffed by his international food-aid group, World Centr...
Russian Marines Are Getting Killed And Wounded By The Hundreds In Ukraine
The 40th Naval Infantry Brigade in happier times. Russian defense ministry photo. In April 2021 the Russian navy’s 40th Naval Infantry Brigade, based on the Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Russia,...
The Russian Marine Corps’ Dire Choice As Its Troops Die In Record Numbers
155th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade troopers in 2021. Russian defense ministry photo A Russian marine brigade reportedly lost 63 troops in a doomed, two-day assault on Ukrainian positions in eastern U...
Three Countries Team Up To Send A Whole Brigade Of T-72s To Ukraine
T-72s. Czech defense ministry photo The United States, The Netherlands and the Czech Republic are teaming up to deliver to Ukraine 90 upgraded T-72B tanks. It’s a complex arrangement involving America...
The Russian Army Appears To Be Pulling Out Of Kherson
Ukrainian troops with M-113 personnel carriers. Ukrainian defense ministry photo A city bus, rolling unimpeded past a military checkpoint in the Russian-occupied city of Kherson on or before Thursday,...
Ukraine Rebuild Token Announces Its Official Presale
– Advertisement – Ukraine Rebuild Token (UAR), a token created to help the cities in Ukraine damaged by bombardments, started its official presale. Users can actively participate in rebuil...
Four Days After A Ukrainian Drone Assault, Russia’s Black Sea Flagship Is Still Afloat
‘Admiral Makarov’ in 2018. Russian defense ministry photo The Ukrainian drone assault on Sevastopol, the home port of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, may have damaged one of the fleet’s two best...
Iran Upping Ante By Prepping More Middle East Attacks And Unprecedented Missile Shipment To Russia
Concurrent reports that Iran will launch new attacks against Saudi Arabia and Iraqi Kurdistan while simultaneously preparing missile shipments to Russia for use against Ukraine demonstrate Tehran̵...
Russian Military Leaders Reportedly Discussed When And How Moscow Would Use Nuclear Weapons In Ukraine
Topline Russian military leaders have discussed how and when Moscow might deploy nuclear weapons in Ukraine, according to U.S. intelligence reported by the New York Times on Wednesday, adding to mount...
Ukraine Is Restoring More Old Su-24s Than Russia Can Shoot Down
A Ukrainian air force Su-24. Wikimedia Commons For supporters of Ukraine’s war-weary air force, it was a beautiful sight: four of the air force’s swing-wing Su-24 bombers flying in formation over Ukra...
Ukraine First Lady Olena Zelenska Asks Tech Community For Help In Surprise Web Summit Appearance
Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska speaking at Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. Sportsfile In a surprise appearance at Web Summit, a major tech conference in Lisbon, Portugal, Ukraine’s first lady Ole...
The Most Promising Weapons Are All Non-Kinetic.
The current pattern of conflict in Ukraine suggests that the age of drone warfare has arrived. The U.S. Army, which leads joint efforts to counter the threat posed by unmanned air systems, anticipated...
Putin Critic And Tycoon Oleg Tinkov Renounces Russian Citizenship
Topline Former banking tycoon Oleg Tinkov renounced his Russian citizenship, he announced on Instagram Monday, months after the ex-billionaire accused the Kremlin of forcing him to sell his stake in R...
Ukrainian Saboteurs Reportedly Blew Up Russian Helicopters 500 Miles From Ukraine
A Kamov Ka-52. Wikimedia Commons Russian air force regiments flying the service’s Kamov Ka-52 attack helicopters have been having a difficult war. It just got a lot more difficult. Ukrainian air defen...
For The First Time, ESG Proponents Are Starting To See Defense Stocks As ESG
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have come to the forefront of investment practices over the years. However, a critical concern for investors is the lack of quantitative standards in ...
Oil is all that Putin has left, presidential advisor Amos Hochstein says
Amos Hochstein photographed in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 27, 2022. Hussam Shbaro | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Oil is all Russia’s economy has left following its invasion of Ukraine earlier ...
What Are Putin’s ‘Filtration Camps’ And Why Are They Concerning?
Ten months of Putin’s war in Ukraine have seen a litany of atrocities including summary executions, unlawful confinement, torture, ill-treatment, rape and other sexual violence, forced displacement of...
Ukraine, Indonesia, and Russia Led Crypto Adoption in Q3: DappRadar
Crypto adoption is shooting through the roof despite the bear market and uncertainty surrounding asset prices, according to recent findings from the leading decentralized application (dApp) analytics ...