For six months, ships filled with grain have been sitting idle in ports along the Black Sea, victims of Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine. Now some of those ships are moving, navigating the perils...
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We Must Act To Protect Ukrainian Children
The last months have seen allegations of Russia abducting Ukrainian children and subjecting them to illegal adoptions in Russia. In March 2022, less than a month after Putin attacked Ukraine, the Ukra...
The Ukrainian Army Just Blew Up A Russian Ammo Train—The Fourth Of The War
A Russian train hauls T-62 tanks in June 2022. Photo via social media Ukraine continues to escalate its bombardment of Russian supply lines in southern Ukraine. But it might not matter that much in th...
First Shipment Of Ukrainian Grain Departs From Odesa Port
Topline A shipment of grains left the Ukrainian port of Odesa on Monday for the first time since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as part of a UN-brokered deal that is expected to ease global...
Time Is The Key Factor For The Russian And Ukrainian Military Strategies
The war between Russia and Ukraine recently surpassed the five month mark. What initially started out as a fast-paced, dynamic war has turned into a slow-moving, crushing war of attrition that neither...
After Five Months, The Russians Finally Managed To Destroy Some Ukrainian Drone Equipment
A Ukrainian TB-2. Ground control stations are visible in the background. Photo via Wikimedia Commons In five months of hard fighting, Russian forces shot down at least 12 of Ukraine’s Turkish-made Bay...
Crypto Flexibility Helping “Save Ukrainian Soldiers’ Lives,” Says Deputy Minister
Ukraine’s Deputy Minister for Digital Transformation, Alex Bornyakov, revealed in a Tuesday tweet that the flexibility of cryptocurrencies is helping to save the lives of Ukrainian soldiers in the cou...
New U.K. Drones Will Bring Supplies To The Front Line
When Ukrainian forces were surrounded in Mariupol in May, helicopter crews flew daring resupply missions into the besieged city. Flying in pairs, the Mi-8 helicopters brought desperately -needed weapo...
Ukrainian Minister reiterates crypto is an ‘essential tool’ in the country’s defense
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, cryptocurrency has become an essential instrument for reaching out to investors in order to solicit their support in raising funds for the ongoing war effort....
Ukrainian Missile Crews May Be Creeping Closer To A Key Russian-Held City
The July 19, 2022 shoot-down. Social media capture The Russian air force lost another one of its best fighter planes over Ukraine on Tuesday. The shoot-down of what appears to be a Sukhoi Su-35 could ...
U.S. Air Force General Says West May Send Jets To Ukraine After All
Topline Western countries could provide the Ukrainian air force with jets and pilot training, the U.S. Air Force’s chief of staff said Wednesday, an idea that would significantly ramp up Western assis...
Illegal Ukrainian crypto mine could have dented country’s war effort
An illegal crypto mining operation that stole thousands of euros worth of electricity in war-torn eastern Ukraine has been seized by authorities. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), working with th...
For Ukrainian Drone Crews Hunting Russian Tanks, Some Attacks Require More Luck Than Others
Social media capture Separate attempts by Ukrainian drone-operators to knock out Russian vehicles in Ukraine illustrate different approaches to do-it-yourself air raids. Both raids involved commercial...
Russia Shoots Down Another Of Its Own Jets —Are American Rockets Confusing Them?
A day after ignominiously shooting down one of their own top-end Su-34M jets, Russian surface-to-air crews seem to have repeated the mistake, this time apparently knocking a Russian Su-35 out of the s...
Afraid Of Ukrainian Missiles, The Russians Are Chaining Air-Defense Vehicles To Ships
A Project 22160 with a Tor aboard. Photo via social media The Russian navy’s Black Sea Fleet still is strapping Tor air-defense vehicles to at least one of its corvettes, clearly hoping to protect the...
Most Ukrainian Refugees Want To Return Home But Are Waiting The War Out, U.N. Study Finds
Topline Most refugees from Ukraine hope to return home eventually but are waiting until fighting subsides, according to a new report from the United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR) published Wednesday...
Desperate Russian Troops Apparently Lobbed Anti-Air Missiles At Ukrainian Targets On Land
Russian S-300s. Russian state media photo Russian forces in Ukraine reportedly have fired S-300 anti-aircraft missiles at Ukrainian targets … on the ground. If true, that’s yet more evidence of ...
At Least 15 Killed In Russian Strike On Ukrainian Apartments, Officials Say
Topline A Russian strike on two residential buildings in eastern Ukraine killed at least 15 people and may have left dozens more stranded under the rubble, Ukrainian officials said Sunday, as Russian ...
Ukrainian Troops Just Hoisted Their Flag On Snake Island—Then Speeded Away As Russian Missiles Rained Down
Ukrainian forces on Snake Island on July 7, 2022. Ukrainian defense ministry photo A team of Ukrainian troops riding in at least one machine-gun-armed small boat landed on Snake Island around dawn on ...
The Ukrainian Army Retreats In The East, Advances In The South
Ukrainian defense ministry photo Ukrainian forces have retreated from Lysychansk, the last free city in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. The retreat comes weeks after the Ukrainians ...
Ukrainian Mathematician Becomes Second Woman To Win Prestigious Fields Medal
Topline Ukrainian Maryna Viazovska was named on Tuesday as one of four recipients of the Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious accolades in mathematics, becoming just the second woman to be honore...
Ukrainian Crypto Exchange Explains Growth Amidst Invasion
War and crypto are the biggest stories coming out of Ukraine. Viktor Kochetov, CEO of crypto exchange Kyrrex tells us how he not only has kept his financial ecosystem afloat, but has grown it while i...
Russia Claims To Control Entire Luhansk Region After Ukraine Withdraws From Key City
Topline Ukraine’s military said Sunday it has withdrawn from the eastern Ukrainian city of Lysychansk after Russian forces claimed to take control of the city, which was the last major population cent...
Russia Claims To Control Entire Luhansk Region After Capturing Key Ukrainian City—But Ukraine Denies It
Topline Russia claimed Sunday it had captured the Ukrainian city of Lysychansk, which would give the Russian military full control of eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region—a major victory four months into ...
NBC Steps Up To Help Those Affected By The Ukrainian Crisis With Special Broadcast
BERLIN, GERMANY – FEBRUARY 24: A woman wears make up in the colors of the Ukrainian flag protesting … [+] against Russian invasion of Ukraine in front of Brandenburg gate on February 24, 2...
Zelensky Urges NATO For Security Guarantees As Sweden And Finland Invited To Join Alliance
Topline In what appears to be a shift in diplomatic strategy, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked NATO on Wednesday whether Ukraine has “not paid enough” to join the alliance—one day after Fi...
At Least 18 Dead After Russian Strike On Ukrainian Mall Decried By Zelensky As ‘Terrorist Attack’
Topline The death toll from Russia’s missile strike on a shopping mall in central Ukraine on Monday rose to 18 as rescuers continued to search for dozens of missing individuals on Tuesday after the de...
The Ukrainian Military Is Changing Its Tactics With The Bayraktar TB2 Drones
During the first four months of the Russia-Ukraine war, the “Most Valuable Player” award could readily go to the Bayraktar TB2 drone. This drone provided the Ukrainians with the necessary air power to...
Ukrainian Kamikaze Drone Strike Sets Russian Oil Facility Ablaze
Russian media are showing a video this morning of a kamikaze drone attack on a Russian oil refinery which leaves the site in flames. The strike looks like the sort of Drone Doolittle Raid which Forbes...
Ukrainian Troops Gain Ground In The South, Lose Ground In The East. Is The Trade Worth It?
Ukrainian artillery. Ukrainian defense ministry photo The Ukrainian army is closing in on Russian-occupied Kherson in southern Ukraine. Of course, closing in isn’t the same as liberating it. Infrared ...