Ukrainian forces set up Starlink satellite receivers to provide connection for civilians at Independence Square after the withdrawal of the Russian army from Kherson to the eastern bank of Dnieper Riv...
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The Ukrainians Are Converting Worthless Russian Tanks Into Priceless Engineering Vehicles
A Ukrainian BREM-1 recovers a Russian T-72. Via social media The Ukrainian army finally has found a good use for at least some of the dozens of ancient Russian army T-62 tanks it has captured. The Ukr...
Washington Is Escalating Its Military Role In Ukraine. What Happens When Russia Reacts?
Carl Sandburg relates the story of a friend visiting Abraham Lincoln at the White House near the end of the Civil War, and remarking how improbable it was that the nation had turned to a “one-horse” l...
Ukraine plots post-war rebuilding effort with JPMorgan Chase as economic advisor
A closer shot of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Ministry of Economy (MoE) meeting with senior members of J.P. Morgan. Coutesy: JP Morgan Summit Ukraine’s government signed an agre...
Lay A Minefield, Then Scatter More Mines From the Air
The Ukrainian 55th Artillery Brigade in May 2022. Ukrainian army photo Russian tanks keep running into Ukrainian mines outside Vuhledar. Either the Russians are getting sloppy, or the Ukrainians have ...
Stocks risk a nasty tumble as investors turn a blind eye to Ukraine and Taiwan
Ukrainian servicemen fire a mortar shell towards Russian troops at the frontline position near the Vuhledar town, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine February 11, 2023. R...
Despite Howard Buffett’s Help, Land Mines Litter Ukraine And Threaten Spring Planting
Tens of millions around the world rely on the country for grain and cooking oil, but clearing live explosives from Russia’s unprovoked invasion is expensive, and even with Buffett’s philanthropy, it’s...
Ukraine Could Send Its New Challenger 2 Tanks To Fight Russia’s Best T-90 Tanks
A British Army Challenger 2 tank. Crown Copyright It’s beginning to make sense why the Ukrainian army is equipping two fast-moving air-mobile brigades—the 25th and 80th—with lumbering, British-made Ch...
Air Force’s aging AWACS stirs questions of airborne-battle readiness
As the recent Chinese spy balloon encounter showed, keeping the skies safe is a tough job. For decades the U.S. Air Force has relied on the E-3 Sentry, and the most recent version, the E-3G, has been ...
The Ukrainian Army Just Blew Up One Of The Russian Army’s 10 Terminator Fighting Vehicles
The BMP-T explodes. Ukrainian army capture The single company of unique BMP-T Terminator fighting vehicles that the Russian army deployed to eastern Ukraine last spring was, for many months, pretty lu...
Now Russia Is Adding Inferior Optics To Its T-80 Tanks, Too
A T-80 with the 1PN96MT-02 sight. Russian defense ministry photo We already knew that the Russian army—in a desperate effort to make good its losses in Ukraine—was pulling old T-72 tanks out of storag...
Ukraine’s Paratroopers Are Getting Heavy, Slow Challenger 2 Tanks. That Could Force A Change In Tactics.
Ukrainian prime minister Volodymyr Zelensky and British prime minister Rishi Sunak at the British Army’s training facility at Lulworth Ranges in Dorset on Wednesday. Crown Copyright The United Kingdom...
The UK Is “Considering” Sending British Fighter Jets to Ukraine -That’s About as Far as It Will Go
Two Royal Air Force Tornado GR4s prepare to arrive at Royal Air Force (RAF) Marham on November 15, … [+] 2014 near the village of Marham in the English county of Norfolk, England. (Photo by Carl...
Turkey earthquake comes at a critical time for the country’s future
Civilians look for survivors under the rubble of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras, close to the quake’s epicentre, the day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country’s southea...
Smashed By Ukrainian Mines And Artillery, Russia’s Winter Offensive Just Ground To A Halt Outside Vuhledar
Russian armor outside Vuhledar. Ukrainian army capture Russia’s widely-anticipated winter offensive has begun. Aiming to extend its control over eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, Russian troops are att...
Ukraine Has Exactly One T-80UK Command Tank. It Just Fought A Dangerous Solo Battle Near Bakhmut.
The 30th Mechanized Brigade’s T-80UK in action. Via social media The Ukrainian army has captured exactly one Russian T-80UK command tank that independent analysts have been able to confirm. That...
It’s Possible 270,000 Russians Have Been Killed Or Wounded In Ukraine
Russian graves. Thom Quine photo At least 200,000. As many as 270,000. That’s how many Russian troops have died, been wounded or gone missing in the first 11 months of Russia’s war in Ukraine, accordi...
Ukraine Could Get 237 Leopard 1A5 Tanks—Assuming Someone Can Cut A Deal With A Belgian Arms-Dealer
A Belgian army Leopard 1A5. Wikimedia Commons The governments of Belgium, Denmark, Germany and The Netherlands are trying to scrape up all the old Leopard 1A5 tanks in Europe and send them to Ukraine....
BP Boasts Record Profits As Oil Giants Report Historic Windfalls
Topline British energy giant BP on Tuesday reported its highest-ever annual profits, the latest in a series of bumper earnings reports from oil and gas companies reaping the rewards of soaring energy ...
Bryan Wright Came To Ukraine To Help. It Almost Killed Him.
Bryan Wright photo Bryan Wright was the artistic director for a small company in South Carolina when, in late 2021, Russia began massing forces along the border with Ukraine. Wright felt compelled to ...
The Biggest Mortars In Ukraine Are Slow, Devastating Siege Weapons
An M240 in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Soviet army photo The Ukrainian army’s giant mortar is something of a mystery. We don’t know where the Ukrainians got their 240-millimeter M240 or M240s. Nor do we...
Europe bans Russian diesel, other oil products over Ukraine
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe imposed a ban Sunday on Russian diesel fuel and other refined oil products, slashing energy dependency on Moscow and seeking to further crimp the Kremlin’s fossi...
Russia Built A Dozen Air-Defense Vehicles For War In The Arctic. Then Sent Them To Ukraine To Get Blown Up.
Test of a Tor-M2DT. Russian defense ministry photo Russia built a dozen special air-defense vehicles specifically for shooting down enemy warplanes in the brutal cold of the snowy Arctic. But the Tor-...
China Helping Russia’s War With Ukraine With Military Aid—Violating Sanctions—Reports Show
Topline China is providing military aid to Russia in violation of U.S.-led sanctions placed by western countries, according to Russian trade data reported by the Wall Street Journal, as tensions build...
Make Makes Economies Strong?
‘We Can Do It!’, a poster by J. Howard Miller for Westinghouse Electric, aimed at boosting morale … [+] among the company’s workers in the war effort. The poster was displayed at Wes...
The Ukrainian Army Is Getting Leopard 1 Tanks
A Danish Leopard 1A5 in 1996. Wikimedia Commons Germany has pledged to Ukraine 88 Leopard 1A5 tanks. The ex-German Leopard 1s, combined with another 20 tanks of the same model that Denmark plans to do...
Ukraine’s New Rocket-Boosted Glide-Bombs Can Turn Around And Hit Targets On The Backs Of Hills, 90 Miles Away
How a GLSDB can perform a “reverse-slope” attack. Boeing-Saab The United States is giving Ukraine ground-launched, GPS-guided glide bombs that can strike targets as far as 93 miles away—an...
Former Russian Billionaire Mysteriously Died Last Year. Now His Family Is Feuding Over His Fortune
Dmitry Zelenov and his widow Natalia, pictured here in Miami in 2016. getty On December 4, real estate baron Dmitry Zelenov became one of the latest Russian oligarchs to mysteriously pass away after h...
Regardless of the Federal Reserve’s Caution, Change Is Coming to Money and Banking
When the tragic invasion of Ukraine began last February, Russian people eager to avoid entrapment in a war that vandalized reason turned to dollars. Get it? Not only do dollars liquefy a fair amount o...
Russians send significant amounts of money to help Ukraine – Cryptopolitan
According to reports from Ukraine’s Deputy Digital Minister, Russian citizens incensed by the invasion orchestrated by President Vladimir Putin are donating “significant amounts” of cryptocurrency to ...
Europe bans Russian diesel, other oil products over Ukraine war
FRANKFURT, Germany — Europe imposed a ban Sunday on Russian diesel fuel and other refined oil products, slashing energy dependency on Moscow and seeking to further crimp the Kremlin’s fossil fuel earn...