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An Hour AgoRussia pledges revenge if Ukraine attacks Crimea BridgeRussia on Friday pledged to launch a "devastating revenge strike" if Ukraine attacks Crimea or the highly prized Crimean Bridge which links southern Russia to the Black Sea peninsula, according to Reuters.Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova cited examples of…

51 Mins AgoTop U.S. spy says war 'unlikely to end anytime soon'Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill May 02, 2024 in Washington, DC.Win Mcnamee | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe war in Ukraine is "unlikely to end anytime soon" as Russia ramps up its efforts to…

Support independent journalism in Ukraine. Join us in this fight. Become a member Support us just once As Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine rages on, the stability of neighboring Belarus, which has been backing Russia's aggression, appears to be fracturing. Has Russian…

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Ukrainian troops fire with surface-to-surface rockets MLRS towards Russian positions at a front line in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on June 7, 2022. ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images Another US precision-guided weapon is being foiled by Russian electronic…

Example of a Russian-made Lancet-3 loitering munition. Russian Ministry of Defense Iranian media revealed the development of a new loitering munition—colloquially known as “suicide” or “kamikaze” drones—over the weekend, noting its mild resemblance to Russia’s Lancet drone, which has seen combat in Syria and Ukraine since entering service in…

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Ukrainian SU-27 fighters escort an SU-24 front-line bomber during an air force exercises on Starokostyantyniv military airbase on October 12, 2018. GENYA SAVILOV | Getty Images The US has purchased 81 Soviet-era combat aircraft from Kazakhstan for $1.5m, the Kyiv…

CNN  —  Ukraine launched drone attacks on Russia’s Kushchevsk military airfield in the southern Krasnodar region, as well as two oil refineries, a source with knowledge of the operation told CNN. The source dubbed the operation “explosive,” and said…

A senior Ukrainian security source told AFP on Friday that Russia had increased attacks on railway infrastructure with the aim of disrupting movement of military cargo that includes Western aid. Russian forces have firepower and manpower advantages over Ukrainian forces across the front line and Kyiv has warned that fighting will be…

Russian forces have razed dozens of towns and cities in Ukraine over the past 26 months — killing thousands of civilians, forcing millions from their homes and leaving a trail of destruction that is impossible to calculate.Sievierodonetsk. Bakhmut. Avdiivka. Cities and towns little known to the world have become the scorched-earth battlegrounds…

Violetta Soboleva is studying for a PhD in educational psychology at the City University of New York.Two years ago, when I received the email accepting me into the Fulbright exchange program, it felt like a dream come true. With fully paid tuition at Syracuse University, plus a monthly stipend, I could envision my plan to study instructional…