Topline More than 5 million refugees have left Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion two months ago, the United Nations’ refugee agency said on Wednesday, as it warned of the risks of trafficking...
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Ukraine Plans To Evacuate 6,000 Women, Children And Elderly From Mariupol After Agreement With Russia
Topline Ukraine is planning to evacuate around 6,000 women, children and elderly people from the besieged port city of Mariupol on Wednesday after reaching a preliminary agreement with Russia to allow...
The Ukrainian Air Force Just Got Bigger. It Seems Someone Gave Kyiv More MiG-29s.
A Ukrainian air force MiG-29 in 2018. Wikimedia Commons photo Amazingly considering the odds against them, Ukraine’s airmen have more flyable fighters today than they did in early April, according to ...
Biden Reportedly Planning Another $800 Million In Military Aid To Ukraine
Topline President Joe Biden is planning to announce a new military aid package for Ukraine roughly the same size as the $800 million package approved last week, boosting total U.S. military assistance...
Here’s how bitcoin donations are helping Ukraine –
Government also announced that it would accept donations of the cryptocurrency Polkadot Experts fear that Russia could circumvent the sanctions by fleeing to cryptocurrencies All donations are intend...
Graham Nash On Photography, Storytelling And The State Of The World
Graham Nash performs just outside Chicago at Blizzard Theatre on the campus of Elgin Community … [+] College. Wednesday, March 30, 2022 in Elgin, IL Photo by Barry Brecheisen Graham Nash receive...
Here’s Why Mariupol Is Such A Prized Target For Russia
Topline Mariupol, the heavily besieged southeastern Ukrainian port city with a pre-war population of about 400,000 that largely has been reduced to rubble since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine...
As Russia Launches A New Attack U.S. Extends TPS To Ukrainians
While Russia launches a new attack on Ukraine, the U.S. announces TPS protection for Ukrainians in … [+] America. getty Russia’s new invasion of Ukraine, involving a massive 480-kilometer-long f...
IMF Sounds Alarm On ‘Significant Slowdown’ As Ukraine War And Inflation Slam Global Economies
Topline The International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday that global economic growth will be “severely set back” by the fallout from Russia’s war with Ukraine, the effects of which will be felt “far ...
Trade flows between Shenzhen and Russia thin by nearly a third as freight forwarders bemoan Ukraine uncertainties
Freight shipments from Shenzhen to Russia have shrunk by nearly a third since Moscow began its invasion of Ukraine, according to freight forwarders in the southern tech hub who provide logistics servi...
Russia Has Begun Its Assault On The Donbas Region, Ukraine Says
Topline Russian forces attempted to break Ukrainian frontlines across the Donbas region in Eastern Ukraine Monday, President Volodymyr Zelensky and a Ukrainian security official said, confirming weeks...
Ukraine’s Shift To A New NATO Arsenal Is Unprecedented-And Inevitable
Ukraine will need 155mm guns—like this M777 artillery piece. ASSOCIATED PRESS Defending your country is hard enough. Managing to defend yourself while shifting from Russian-derived heavy weaponry to a...
Market will break out of slump due to peaking inflation: Evercore ISI
The market slump may be in its final innings. According to Evercore ISI’s Julian Emanuel, stocks should start grinding higher due to peaking inflation. He cites a positive trend going back to th...
Putin Honors Army Unit Accused Of Bucha Killings
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday awarded the 64th Motor Rifle Brigade — the Russian army unit Ukraine has accused of war crimes for the killings of hundreds of citizens in Bucha — th...
Top Comics Creators Team Up On Ukraine Benefit Anthology
Sunflower Seeds: Comics for Ukraine, a new anthology to benefit Ukranian refugees, announced April … [+] 18, 2022 Art by Alex Ross Like many people over the last few months, Scott Dunbier watche...
Recession Calls Grow As Inflation Threatens Corporate Earnings And Rising Costs Hit Consumers
Topline Despite a decent start for earnings season, Wall Street experts are increasingly warning that corporate profits are likely to take a hit as inflation remains a “headwind” to economic growth an...
Natural gas surges to highest level since 2008 as Russia’s war upends energy markets
A liquid natural gas (LNG) storage silo at the LNG terminal, operated by LNG Croatia LLC, in Krk, Croatia, on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. Petar Santini | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. natural gas prices su...
Ukraine Has Mobilized Its Tank Reserves. They’re Already On The Attack.
3rd Tank Brigade troopers with an abandoned Russian T-80. 3rd Tank Brigade photo The Ukrainian army’s 3rd Tank Brigade reportedly has reached the battlefield around Izium, near Kharkiv in eastern Ukra...
The Oil Market After The War
TOPSHOT – Ukrainian servicemen get ready to repel an attack in Ukraine’s Lugansk region. (Photo by … [+] Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP) (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images) AF...
Beanstalk Farms Lost $180M in Flash Loan Attack, Hacker Donates 250K USDC to Ukraine
Beanstalk Farms, an Ethereum-based stablecoin protocol, was exploited during the weekend, with the total losses skyrocketing to over $180 million. As a result, the native cryptocurrency (BEAN) plummet...
Russia Will Likely Capture Mariupol ‘In The Coming Week,’ Think Tank Says
Topline Russian forces have driven Ukrainian defenders out of most parts of Mariupol and could fully capture the besieged port city “in the coming week,” the Institute for the Study of War said Sunday...
Zelensky Says Ukraine Won’t Cede Territory To Russia—But Offers Limited Hope For Negotiations
Topline Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine has no plans to cede territory to Russia in an interview that aired Sunday morning on CNN, but he still expressed the need for negotiations ...
Ukrainian Troops Reportedly Fired A Captured Russian Rocket Launcher … Back At The Russians
A Russian TOS-1 in Ukraine. Russian defense ministry photo The Russian army that rolled into Ukraine on the morning of Feb. 24 brought with it some of the world’s most powerful, and indiscriminate, ar...
Ukraine minister Fedorov tweets thanks for crypto donations on Easter
Mykhailo Fedorov, vice prime minister and minister of digital transformation of Ukraine, tweeted his thanks today to those donating to crypto charity Aid for Ukraine, saying: “Crypto for good. Aid for...
Xi’s Shanghai lockdown and Putin’s Ukraine invasion are screwing up inflation’s return to normal
Inflation just keeps going up. The U.S. inflation rate rose 8.5% in March, with the prices of food, gas, and housing going up the most. Before last summer, those kinds of numbers hadn’t been seen in t...
Ukrainian Troops Have Been Cleared Out Of Urban Areas Of Mariupol, Russia Claims
Topline The Russian Defense Ministry claimed Saturday it had cleared Ukrainian forces from all urban areas of the besieged city of Mariupol, Russian news agency RIA reports. A building damaged during ...
Another Russian General Has Been Killed In Ukraine
Topline Russian Major General Vladimir Frolov, deputy commander of the 8th Army, was buried Saturday after being killed in combat in Ukraine, Russian state media reported, making him the eighth Russia...
Roman Abramovich Reportedly Travels To Ukraine In Bid To Revive Peace Talks With Russia
Topline Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich traveled to Kyiv in an attempt to restart peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, Bloomberg reported Saturday, as negotiations between the two countries ha...
Ukrainian Billionaire Rinat Akhmetov Pledges To Rebuild Mariupol
Topline Ukraine’s wealthiest billionaire, Rinat Akhmetov, vowed in an interview with Reuters on Saturday to help rebuild the encircled city of Mariupol, where his mining and steel company is based, an...
How Russia’s war is cutting global auto production
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led auto industry watchers to cut production and sales forecasts for the next two years. The crisis has shuttered factories in Eastern Europe, and caused spikes ...
Russian ransomware group Conti hurt by leaks amid Ukraine fighting
A Russian organization known as Conti, which the FBI calls one of the most prolific ransomware groups of 2021, has been damaged by leaks detailing its size, leadership and business operations, as well...