Ukraine’s Aerorozvidka (“Aerial Reconnaissance”) teams are not the first to use small multicopters to drop bombs, but they have transformed the drones from nuisance weapons into tank killers. They hav...
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Ukraine Will Get HIMARS Rocket Systems, But Not Long-Range Missiles
EAST COAST, SOUTH KOREA – JULY 05: In this handout photo released by the South Korean Defense … [+] Ministry, U.S. M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System firing an MGM-140 Army Tactical Missil...
Eurovision Winners Kalush Orchestra Raise Nearly $1M in Ethereum for Ukraine
The Eurovision winners Kalush Orchestra raised $900,000 by auctioning off the competition’s glass microphone trophy, with the money being sent to a foundation that supports Ukraine during its co...
These charts show Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has changed global oil
European Union leaders reached an agreement this week to ban the majority of Russian crude oil and petroleum product imports, but nations were already shunning the country’s oil, altering global...
A Friend In Need Is A Friend In Debt? Sino-Russian Energy Woes
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, attend the Tsinghua … [+] Universitys ceremony, at Friendship Palace on April 26, 2019 in Beijing, China. (Photo ...
Leadership Needed To Help 100 Million Displaced Persons Who Seek A Home
Displaced persons seek a place to call home. Leadership is the challenge. getty A report by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) recently said that over 100 million people are currently displaced in the worl...
Maybe Things Aren’t That Bad For The Stock Market After All
the dark clouds part getty So was last week’s 6.6% market advance a head fake after six weeks of red ink for the S&P 500? Odds are that May’s last full week was an interlude in the steady downtren...
Ukraine Band Sells Trophy To Crypto Exchange To Buy Drones For Home Country
A band from Ukraine – after winning the Eurovision Song Contest earlier this month – decided they would feel more triumphant by selling their trophy in order to help their native country fight the Rus...
As Russians Advance In The East And Ukrainians In The South, Moscow And Kyiv Want Different Things
Russian troops entering Severodonetsk. Russian government capture The Russian army and its separatist and mercenary allies appear to have entered Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine, possibly signaling t...
EU Struggling To Agree On Full Russian Oil Ban—Here’s Why
Topline Talks to impose a sweeping ban on Russian oil imports to the European Union have appeared to falter, with the bloc still discussing carve-outs that could effectively exempt countries like Hung...
Ukraine to launch an NFT collection to raise funds
While the war-wracked Ukraine is still putting up a tough fight against Russia, the nation plans to use non-fungible tokens once again to gather funding for humanitarian needs. According to the most r...
Biden Rules Out Giving Ukraine Rockets ‘That Can Strike Into Russia’
Topline The United States will not send the Ukrainian military rocket systems that can reach targets inside Russia, President Joe Biden said Monday, as Ukraine asks U.S. officials for long-range rocke...
Estonia commits the highest aid to Ukraine by GDP share, dwarfing Germany by over 10x
Since the onset of war in Ukraine, the country continues to receive massive aid from allied nations to repel the unprovoked Russian invasion. The need to support Ukraine has resulted in countries comm...
Ukraine Made Just A Handful Of Speedy T-84 Tanks. Now They’re On The Front Line.
A T-84 ‘Oblot,’ possibly in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian army photo Ukraine produced just five or six copies of one of its best tanks—the T-84 Oplot. That’s enough for just one platoon. But ...
There Is A Risk Of Genocide In Ukraine
On May 27, 2022, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy published a legal analysis of the serious risk of genocide in Ukraine and Russia’s incitement ...
What KAZKA’s Sasha Zaritska Wants Americans To Know About The War In Ukraine
KAZKA Kate Kondratieva As Americans celebrate Memorial Day this weekend in the United States, Russia’s war on Ukraine is continuing after lasting over three months. The lead singer of a popular Ukrain...
Is This the Worst Bond Market Ever?
Getty Images getty Back in February, with the unfortunate punctuality of a Swiss watch, we published an article exactly one day before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, signaling our idea to overweight...
Ruble’s Rally Stumbles After Interest-Rate Cut
A rally in the Russian ruble that made it the world’s best performing major currency reversed itself for a second day Friday following an extraordinary rate cut by the country’s central bank. Russia’s...
Ukraine Has Launched Its Southern Counteroffensive
Ukrainian army M-777 gunners in action near Kherson. Social media capture A Ukrainian air force MiG-29 fighter shot down one of the Russian air force’s best jets—an Su-35—near Russian-occupied Kherson...
Russia Claims Full Control Of Lyman, Advances Into Strategic City Of Severodonetsk As It Tries To Seize Control Of Donbas
Topline Russia’s Ministry of Defense claimed Saturday it captured the strategic city of Lyman in eastern Ukraine as Russian forces seek to encircle thousands of Ukrainian troops in the nearby city of ...
In Russia Vs. Ukraine A Likely Winner Is North American Energy
372912 03: Natsha Fatale played by Rene Russo and Boris Badenov played by Jason Alexander, plot … [+] against Rocky and Bullwinkle in Universal Studios “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwin...
To Replenish Its Army In Ukraine, Russia Plans To Strip Its Training Units. It Can Only Do This Once.
Russian troops in January 2022. Russian defense ministry photo Before Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his forces to widen their war on Ukraine starting the night of Feb. 23, the Russian army ...
One Small Town. A Dilapidated Road. These Are The Russians’ Main Targets In Eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian gunners fire an FH-70 howitzer. Ukrainian army photo A tiny town called Siversk and a potholed road running through it. That’s the current focus of the combined might of the Russian army’s b...
Eurovision Song Contest 2022: NFT released for Ukraine charity auction
Crypto has proved to be one of the most significant channels for philanthropic support. The recent events have affirmed how they can transform the future of philanthropic action. Various charity organ...
China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Mess + Ukraine Crisis = Global Recession
Delivery workers wearing protective gear check their phones during a lockdown in the Jing’an district of Shanghai on May 25, 2022. HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images The global economy arguably...
How Desperate Is Russia For Good Troops? It’s Hiring Mercenaries. Even The Law-Breakers.
The smoking wreckage of a Russian Su-25 in Donbas on May 22, 2022. Photo via social media Ukrainian air-defense troops firing a Stinger man-portable missile shot down a Russian Su-25 attack jet over t...
Ukraine Has Shot Down A Top Russian Fighter Pilot
Russian Sukhoi Su-25 jet takes part in a joint military exercise with the Belarussian army on Oct. … [+] 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits) ASSOCIATED PRESS Ukrainian air defenses have claimed an...
Beat The Market By Investing In Freedom – And Shunning Places Like Russia And China
When Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent most emerging-markets funds plummeting, Perth Tolle’s Freedom Index Fund avoided most of the carnage—because economies run by despots will never be on her buy li...
Majority Of Americans Think Protecting Economy—Not Sanctioning Russia—Should Be Country’s Top Priority, Poll Finds
Topline More than half of Americans now believe the country’s top priority should be staving off damage to the economy rather than punishing Russia for invading Ukraine, according to an Associated Pre...
Up To 15,000 Russians Have Died In Ukraine: U.K. Defense Ministry
Ukrainian defense ministry photo The Russian army in three months of fighting has lost as many soldiers killed in action as the Soviet army lost in nine years of warfare in Afghanistan starting in 197...