4 hours ago Sarah RainsfordEastern Europe correspondent Reporting fromWarsaw Getty Images On New Year's Day, Russian gas stopped flowing through Ukraine. Kyiv is calling it a "historic" day as its ref

Russian forces captured 4,168 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory in 2024, primarily consisting of fields and small settlements, while suffering approximately 427,000 casualties, according to the

Today, there are a lot of interesting updates from the Kursk direction, Russia. Here, in a desperate attempt to break through Ukrainian defenses near Kruglenkoe, North Korean troops resorted to human

Ukraine's National Resistance Center (NRC) has reported that Russian authorities in the occupied territories of Ukraine have banned any mention of St Nicholas in educational institutions, as well as c

By Daphne Ewing-Chow My hand trembled, uncertain, as I gripped the barrel of the pen, slowly scratching the letters “AB-positive” into the visitor log— each movement a jarring acknowledgement of the u

Military & Defense Analysis by Michael Peck 2025-01-01T09:41:01Z Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy Link Impact Link Read in app The "Ghost" air reconnaissance unit of Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intell

The MPPS from Northrop Grumman establishes an electrical zone generating power will be able to supply the hotel load, EW systems, advanced sensors and DE weapons. (Northrop Grumman) Providing power on

Finland is consistently ranked as Europe's most media literate country and the skills needed to spot online hoaxes are on the school curriculum, amidst a boom of mis- and disinformation campaigns. "Wh

As noted by the GUR, the unique Hazard unmanned aerial system and the HMMWV vehicle were provided to the soldiers by the Help Heroes of Ukraine American charity organization. Photo: Ukrainian scouts r

Welcome to "Navigating Leadership," an eight-part series of articles and videos by Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret), Vice Chair of Global Affairs at Carlyle. Drawing from his 37-year naval career, i

Ukraine is lobbying the UK government to give teenage refugees who fled the war-torn country the chance to study a GCSE in Ukrainian, amid reports they are instead being pressed to study Russian. Ukra

Russian corvette RFS Soobrazitelny was shadowed by HMS Somerset (Picture: Royal Navy) The nearly-200 strong crew of HMS Somerset were recalled to their ship on Christmas Day to shadow a Russian naval

The crew of Royal Navy frigate HMS Somerset had their Christmas holiday abruptly cut short when they were recalled to carry out the duty of escorting a Russian naval group that was sailing past the Br

As the risk grows of further escalation of the conflict over Yemen and its surrounding sea channels, Israel has begun to broaden its attacks on the Houthis to include ports and supply chains stretchin

Kyiv, ukraine — Moldova faces a security crisis, Prime Minister Dorin Recean said Friday, after its separatist pro-Moscow Transdniestria region, cut off from supplies of Russian gas, closed factories,

by Ship & Bunker News Team Saturday January 4, 2025 Follow @shipandbunker Meanwhile, the Trump presidency bodes well for oil investment: File Image/Pixabay Oil traders on Friday solidified their bulli

An explosion is seen in the sky over Kyiv during a Russian drone strike on January 3. Russian troops attacked Ukraine with a barrage of strike drones late on January 3, including the north central reg

Thousands of Slovaks braved freezing temperatures on Friday to protest Prime Minister Robert Fico’s recent foreign policy decisions, particularly his increasingly pro-Russian stance and criticism of U

The cessation of Russian gas transit through Ukraine and Europe’s gradual weaning off Russian supplies mark a truly historic moment. We’re witnessing the end of an era—Europe’s long-standing energy de

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will attend his final meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base in Germany next week, the Defense Department said Friday. The group of mo

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Thousands took to the streets in the Slovak capital Bratislava on Friday, 3 December in protest at Prime Minister Robert Fico's foreign policy actions. Source: Aktuality, as reported by European Pravd

Ukraine’s air defence continues to repel Russian attacks on 3 January: 3 missiles and 13 Russian UAVs were shot down; 19 drones failed to reach their targets. Source: Air Force of Ukraine on social me

Facts 19:54 03.01.2025 1 min read Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys showed a photo of the aftermath of the Russian shelling of the Lithuanian Honorary Consulate in Kherson. "This is the afte

Legal activities around the “dark fleet” tanker Eagle S continued to intensify in Finland as a court heard arguments for the release of the tanker and additional complaints were filed. The authorities

In this exclusive interview, James Gilmore, the former U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE during the first Trump Administration, shares his bold and unvarnished views on the war in Ukraine and Russia’s aggre

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Naval News – On January 2, 2025, the Turkish Ministry of Defence announced the steel cutting ceremony of the MUGEM indigenous aircraft carrier, TF-2000 AAW destroyer, and MILDEN indigenous submarine.

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Lukashenka has announced the date of his ‘reelection’ — January 26. It’s a sham with no real electoral process, conducted in an atmosphere of terror. No alternative candidates or observers will be all

After negotiations with the new Syrian leadership, Russia withdrew at least 400 soldiers from the Damascus region. A representative of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham said that negotiations are underway to evacu

The Fitness World Championship in Budapest has disqualified Lithuanian athlete Kornelija Dudaitė for wearing a T-shirt with the “Make Russia Small Again” slogan, according to UNIAN. Russia’s war has t

Russian troops continue assaults on the Siversk front. Russian commanders are sending occupiers in one direction, with no expectation that they will return, says Stepan Barna, the commander of the Bar

Russia Europe Ukraine We live in a strange time marked by widespread and ongoing depopulation. The entire world is grappling with a crisis of childlessness. By 2015, the global fertility rate had drop

Ukraine is working to receive the entire "body" of immobilized Russian assets, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanishyna, who is also the Minister of

Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, urged Moscow on Monday to remove Syrian rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from its list of terrorist and extremist organi