Ex-Russian T-80 tanks, captured by the Ukrainian army and delivered to the 93rd Mechanized Brigade, … [+] fire on Russian forces near Kharkiv. 93rd Mechanized Brigade photo The Ukrainian army re...
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Roman Abramovich Denies Reports He Wants Nearly $2 Billion Chelsea Loan Repaid
Topline Sanctioned Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich on Thursday denied reports he asked for repayment of a nearly $2 billion loan he gave Chelsea FC as part of the sale of the soccer team, and als...
Ukraine Targeted And Killed Russian Generals With The Help Of U.S. Intelligence, Report Says
Topline Intelligence shared by the U.S. helped Ukrainian forces target and kill several of the Russian generals who have been killed in action in the ongoing war in Ukraine, the New York Times reporte...
As Ukraine Fights For Its Life, Philadelphia Remains Dormant
Port of Philadelphia Canva Just north of Philadelphia International Airport and south of the Philadelphia sports Stadium complex lies the Port of Philadelphia, one of the largest freshwater ports in t...
Kremlin Calls Reports Of May 9 War Declaration ‘Nonsense’—But The U.S. And U.K. Believe Putin Has Something Up His Sleeve
Topline Russia has no plans to declare war against Ukraine as part of its Victory Day celebration May 9, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday, but mounting Western intelligence suggests Russ...
Volkswagen to prolong coal-fired power as Russia concerns continue
Covering an area of 6.5 million square meters, VW’s huge manufacturing facility in Wolfsburg uses two cogeneration plants that provide it with heat and power. Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg | Getty...
Russian Oligarch Oleg Tinkov, Who Lost Billions After Russian Invasion, Calls War On Ukraine ‘Evil’
Topline Oleg Tinkov, the former billionaire who is one of the few prominent Russian business figures to speak out against his country’s war on Ukraine, made his sharpest attack on the Kremlin yet in a...
Russia Just Threatened To Destroy Ireland And Britain With A Nuclear Tsunami
This photo taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Saturday, Feb. … [+] 19, 2022, shows a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile being launched from an air fi...
Pope Seeks Putin Meeting And Compares Russian ‘Brutality’ To Rwandan Genocide
Topline Pope Francis said he’s offered to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in an interview published Tuesday that included his firmest condemnation yet of Putin, comparing the viol...
Natural gas surges 9% to highest level since 2008 as Russia’s war roils energy markets
A liquefied natural gas tanker berth in Japan, on Dec. 17, 2021. Should Japan ever exit the Sakhalin energy projects in Russia and their stakes were acquired by Russia or a third country, this would w...
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 ...
Moscow Accuses Israel Of Supporting ‘Neo-Nazis’ In Ukraine After It Seeks Apology For Lavrov’s Claim About Hitler
Topline The Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday accused the Israeli government of supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine marking a major escalation in a diplomatic row between the two countries after Israel ...
Russian Foreign Ministry Hits Back At Israel’s Criticism Of Lavrov, Accuses It Of Supporting ‘Neo-Nazis’ In Ukraine
Topline The Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday accused the Israeli government of supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine marking a major escalation in a diplomatic row between the two countries after Israel ...
The Soccer Players Caught Between Russia And UEFA
Midfielder Aleksei Sutormin of FC Zenit and midfielder Hwang In-beom of FC Rubin during Russian … [+] Premier Liga match FC Zenit v FC Rubin on October 24, 2020, at Gazprom Arena in Saint Peters...
At The Kyiv Independent, Reporting On Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Hits Close To Home
Investigative journalist Anna Myroniuk, political editor Oleksiy Sorokin and deputy editor Toma Istomina (pictured left to right) are three of the cofounders of The Kyiv Independent, an English-langua...
The Russians Are Losing The Naval War Off Ukraine—To An Enemy With No Warships
A TB-2’s view of a ‘Raptor’ patrol boat right before hitting it with a missile. Ukrainian defense ministry Ukraine’s navy, which after scuttling its flagship no longer has a single l...
China Messaging On Ukraine Shows Support For Russia’s Invasion: U.S. State Department
Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, right, and Xi Jinping, China’s president, listen to questions at … [+] the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in 2019. Photographer: Andrey Rud...
U.S. Is In Danger Of Mission Creep In Ukraine
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (center) and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin meet with … [+] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (not pictured) in Kyiv on April 24. ASSOCIATED PRESS...
Over 3,000 Civilians Killed In Ukraine Since Russia Invaded, U.N. Says
Topline The United Nations’ civilian death toll in Ukraine related to Russia’s invasion surpassed 3,000 Monday, a grim milestone as casualties from the war continue to pile up at an alarming rate. Pic...
150,000 using SpaceX’s Starlink in daily average
A shipment of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite antennas, also known as terminals, arriving in Ukraine. Fedorov Mykhailo on Twitter Elon Musk’s SpaceX is continuing to expand its Starlink satell...
Ukraine fallout will extend long rally in commercial insurance prices
The economic fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine will provide fresh impetus to a multiyear rally in the price of commercial insurance cover, industry experts have warned. The global price of commerci...
Russian Tycoon Tinkov Says He Was Forced To Sell His Stake In Russian Bank After Criticizing Invasion Of Ukraine
Topline Russian tycoon Oleg Tinkov said he was forced by the Kremlin to sell his stake in Russia’s second-largest bank without any opportunity to negotiate, the New York Times reported on Sunday, afte...
Ukraine’s Citizen-Soldiers Are Shooting 60-Year-Old Artillery At Russian Tanks
Ukrainian troops train with an MT-12 in 2019. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Ukraine’s territorial troops are true citizen-soldiers. Volunteers all, they enlist with local brigades and fight in their hom...
Is China In Decline?
TOPSHOT – A picture of Chinese President Xi Jinping is seen on a large screen during a Cultural … [+] Performance as part of the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the...
The ‘Ghost Of Kyiv,’ Who Was Never Real, Just Got Killed In The Press
Photo via Wikimedia Commons The Ghost of Kyiv was a Ukrainian fighter pilot. A lone warrior in the aerial defense of Ukraine’s embattled capital city in the early weeks of the Russian invasion. Deftly...
Finland to Donate Millions of Dollars to Ukraine
Finland mow intends to use a large portion of the money to expand its financial support for Ukraine They will collect this money From the Sale of Seized Bitcoins The sale will get them around $75M The...
Finland to support Ukraine; to donate seized cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency will be used by the public authority of Finland to support Ukraine It is examining supporting Ukraine with part of the cash from the liquidation of crypto seized Finnish specialists nee...
Gasoline Prices Have Peaked For Now
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 14: Prices for gas at an Exxon gas station on Capitol Hill are seen March 14, … [+] 2022 in Washington, DC. The cost of gasoline continues to rise across the globe a...
Storm Clouds Are Looming For The Stock Market
The Encounter of Tanks on the Map of Ukraine. 3d Rendering http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world.html getty It’s hard to find many reasons to be bullish on the stock market right now. On the other hand...
Heinemann Takes A Bow As The Only European Travel Retailer To Be Back In Profit
Heinemann arrivals duty-free store at Oslo Gardermoen Airport. Gebr. Heinemann One of the world’s biggest travel retailers, Gebr. Heinemann, has gone where none of its European competitors have in 202...