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According to the FT, Ukraine and Russia are holding preliminary talks to end strikes on each other's energy infrastructure. Source: The Financial Times with reference to informed sources Details: Acco

The National Resistance Center has reported that children in the occupied territory of Luhansk Oblast are being forced to pledge allegiance to Russia. Source: Ukraine's National Resistance Center (NRC

Your support helps us to tell the story Support Now This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls. In a fight with such wafer-thin margins, we need reporters on the ground talking to the

In a memoir published eight months after he died in prison, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny never loses faith that his struggle is worth suffering, although he admits he wishes he could have

With advancements in nuclear engineering and the development of many types of advanced nuclear reactors, ABS concludes in a new report that there are many opportunities to implement the technology for

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It’s one thing to discover, as we have, that North Korea is deploying troops to support Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. It’s quite another to decide what to do about it. It’s clearly a “si

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Ukraine’s Unified Register of Missing Persons Under Special Circumstances contains data on more than 1,700 Ukrainian children, reports Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Leonid Tymchenko. As of 29 Oc

Maritime security analysts have plenty of work keeping up with ships that attempt to evade detection - enough work that specialty ship-tracking consultancies operate a brisk business selling hard-to-f

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A Moscow court sentenced an IT specialist to more than 13 years in prison for attempting to pass state secrets to the CIA, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said Tuesday. Firuz Dadoboyev was fou

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In August 2024, Ukraine launched a military offensive in the Kursk Oblast. Preliminary results indicate that Russia is now being forced to adjust its plans for future offensives. Overall, Ukraine’s op

With top officials from Donald Trump’s previous administration publicly warning that he fits the definition of a fascist, reflections on interwar Germany’s descent into barbarism have inevitably come

News Politics Hungarians and Poles traditionally see each other as brothers, but that relationship is collapsing as the capitals move in very different political directions. Share options Copy Link EM

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North Korean soldiers heading to fight in Europe? It’s one of those headlines that sounds almost unreal, yet here we are. While we know that somewhere between 10,000 and 12,000 North Korean troops are

Estonia’s Foreign Ministry summoned Russia’s charge d’affaires amid an ongoing border dispute over a shared river, media in the Baltic country reported Tuesday. In May, Estonian border guards accused

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In an interview with Radio Zet, Duda emphasized that the transfer would be contingent on Western aircraft temporarily protecting Polish skies and the assured delivery of replacement aircraft for Polis

At a October 24 news conference in Kazan, Russia, a NBC News correspondent asked President Vladimir Putin whether the participation of North Korean troops in the war with Ukraine was an escalation. Pu

According to a report by Militarnyi, the Russian reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have started performing evasive maneuvers when approached by the Ukrainian first-person-view (FPV) interc

Speaking to Prva Srpska Televizija on 27 October, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić announced €8.4 million worth of generators and transformers for Ukraine. Additionally, he announced a summit of Eur

The Zaporizhzhia Oblast is significantly expanding its defensive infrastructure with the construction of second and third lines of defense while also fortifying areas around cities, according to Ivan

A newly deployed Russian armored all-terrain vehicle, the LSTS-1944 “Sarmat-3,” has been destroyed in Kursk Oblast just days after its first appearance on the battlefield, Defence Blog and Defense Exp

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Soldiers from 5th Armored Brigade, First Army Division West, developed a course of instruction to counter the threat of commercial, off-the-shelf unmanned aerial surveillance vehicles at McGregor Rang

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On October 22, Russia's Foreign Ministry summoned the German ambassador in Moscow to express a “strong protest” over Berlin’s new military base in the former East Germany. A day before, on October 21,

by Ship & Bunker News Team Tuesday October 29, 2024 Follow @shipandbunker The 83,000 DWT dry bulk carrier Motaro came under attack three times in the Red Sea on Monday. Image Credit: UKMTO A ship came

Russian troops attacked the central part of Kharkiv with aerial bombs on the evening of 28 October. One hit the State Industry Building (Derzhprom), a monument of national importance. Source: Kharkiv

The Ministry of Defence of Romania has drafted a bill that would enable Romanian forces to shoot down drones that violate its airspace. Source: Reuters Details: The draft law, which was put up for pub

Since the beginning of 2024, Ukraine has provided about 10,000 people with prosthetic and orthopaedic devices, including 2,500 military personnel. Source: Olena Kulchytska, advisor to the Minister of

Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. October 29, 2024 © Urupong / Adobe Stock Ransomware remained one of the primary threats to maritime targets in the first half of 2024, as it significantly disrupts oper