Topline The White House announced new sanctions against Russia Friday and other steps the U.S. and G-7 countries are taking to hold the country accountable and provide aid to Ukraine, continuing the U...
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In Eight Years, Russian Agents Blew Up 210,000 Tons Of Ukrainian Ammo—And Nearly Silenced Kyiv’s Artillery
Ukrainian defense ministry photo Russia hasn’t done a lot right in its 10-month-old wider war on Ukraine. But it did at least one thing right before the war. A systematic Russian sabotage campaign tar...
The Band Dispatch Sings In Russian To Aid Ukraine Against The Invasion
NEW YORK, NY – JULY 06: Chadwick Stokes and Brad Corrigan of Dispatch perform at Forest Hills … [+] Stadium on July 6, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images) Getty Image...
Ukraine National Soccer Team Return To Women’s World Cup Action In Poland
RZESZÓW, POLAND: Ukraine Women’s National Team train ahead of their FIFA Women’s World Cup … [+] qualifiers Oksana Vasylieva FOR UAF Four months after their last match in which they ...
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 ...
Ukrainian Troops Are Pushing Back The Russians In The South
Ukrainian artillery in action. Ukrainian defense ministry photo Ukrainian troops appear to be advancing toward Russian-occupied Kherson in southern Ukraine. Their progress overall is slow, but seeming...
Putin’s Invasion Of Ukraine Has Created 5 Million Refugees
Women and children from Ukraine, including a mother carrying an infant, arrive in Poland at the … [+] Medyka border crossing on March 04, 2022, near Medyka, Poland. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty I...
Russia’s Ancient T-62 Tanks Are On The Move In Ukraine
T-62s in southern Ukraine. Social media capture After losing more than 700 of its best T-72, T-80 and T-90 tanks in Ukraine in the first three months of fighting, the Russian army got pretty desperate...
Ukraine Could Get German Air-Defenses. They Might Prevent Devastating Bombing Raids By Russian Planes.
IRIS-T SL during testing. Diehl photo Germany has announced it will supply Ukraine with its latest air-defense system. This might help the Ukrainians ward off carpet-bombing raids by Russian bombers a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Bikes4ukraine Crowdfunds To Send Bicycles And Pop-Up Cycleways To Car-Choked Lviv
2014 photograph of art installation showing an unexploded bomb, set near the Taras Shevchenko … [+] monument in the center of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, close to Poland’s border. ...
The Russians Are Throwing Everything They’ve Got At One Ukrainian Garrison
Russian paratroopers in Popasna. Social media capture With a thunderous artillery barrage, the Russian army on Thursday launched its latest offensive in Ukraine. Much of what’s left of the Russian arm...
Ukraine’s Guns Are In Range Of Izium. That’s Bad News For Russia.
Ukrainian howitzers are no farther from Izium than this circle. David Axe/Google Maps art Ukrainian gunners shelled a Russian air-defense system in eastern Ukraine probably sometime in the past couple...
Finland And Sweden Submit Applications To Join NATO
Topline Finland and Sweden officially submitted their applications to join NATO on Wednesday, head of the alliance Jens Stoltenberg confirmed, an expected move that the two historically neutral Nordic...
Russia Lost A Third Of Its Forces In Ukraine. Now It’s Losing The War.
A destroyed Russian tank. Ukrainian defense ministry photo In the 82 days since Russia widened its war on Ukraine, the Russian military has lost a third of its forces, according to the U.K. Defense Mi...
Which Ukrainian Troops Are Getting American Howitzers? The Ones Preparing For A Major Counteroffensive.
Ukrainian troops with an M777. Ukrainian defense ministry photo Ukrainian army brigades have begun shooting their new American howitzers at Russian invaders. And not just any brigades. Ukrainian comma...
Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra Celebrates Eurovision Win
Topline Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra won the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest early on Sunday as the sentimental favorites handily topped the charts after securing a record number of public votes, in a...
One Of The Most Dangerous Jobs In The Russian Navy
A ‘Serna’ landing craft maneuvers to avoid an apparent MAM missile on May 12, 2022. Maxar photo The Russian Black Sea Fleet began the wider war with Ukraine in late February with maybe 11 ...
The Russian Navy Keeps Exposing Its Vulnerable Support Ships To Ukrainian Attack
The Russian rescue ship ‘Vsevolod Bobrov.’ Russian navy photo When a Ukrainian navy anti-ship battery put two Neptune anti-ship missiles into the side of the Russian navy cruiser Moskva on...
Finland’s President And Prime Minister Announce Official Support For Joining NATO
Topline Finland’s president and prime minister on Thursday officially announced that they are in favor of applying for NATO membership, setting the stage for an expansion of the U.S.-led alliance amid...
Ukrainian Troops Appear To Have Fought All The Way To The Russian Border
Ex-Russian T-80 tanks now belonging to the Ukrainian army’s 93rd Mechanized Brigade. Ukrainian defense ministry photo Ukrainian forces around Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, appear to have pus...
A Journalist Just Spotted Russia’s ‘Admiral Makarov’ Frigate, Intact And At Sea
‘Admiral Makarov’ before the war. Photo via Wikimedia Commons H.I. Sutton, an independent journalist focusing on naval warfare, has spotted more than a dozen of the Russian Black Sea Fleet...
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Started The War With Eight ‘Raptor’ Patrol Boats. It Might Have Three Left.
A ‘Raptor’ patrol boat. Photo via Wikipedia In 10 weeks of fighting, Ukraine’s TB-2 drones and anti-tank missile teams have wreaked havoc on the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s patrol boat floti...
Putin Compares Invasion Of Ukraine With Fight Against Nazi Germany In Victory Day Speech
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin in his Victory Day speech on Monday attempted to draw parallels between the Russian ongoing invasion of Ukraine and the Soviet Union’s fight against Nazi Germa...
Ukraine’s Air Force Is Back! But Who Knows For How Long.
A Ukrainian Su-25 over Donbas on May 7, 2022. TikTok capture Ten weeks into Russia’s wider war on Ukraine, Kyiv’s tiny, aging air force is in much better shape than anyone should have expected prior t...
The Russian Frigate ‘Admiral Makarov’ Might Be The Juiciest Target In The Black Sea
‘Admiral Makarov.’ Russian navy photo After the dramatic sinking of the missile-cruiser Moskva by a Ukrainian missile battery on April 14, the Russian Black Sea Fleet is down to just three...
The Ukrainian Army Is On The Attack. This Is How The War With Russia Could End.
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...
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...