It is ten years since Russia illegally annexed Crimea on March 18 2014. Subsequent efforts to firmly integrate the peninsula into the Russian Federation, however, have been far from the success story

FILE - In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Feb. 10, 2022, the Russian navy’s amphibious assault ship Kaliningrad sails into the Sevastopol harbor in Crimea. Successful

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Despite having no large naval vessels on active duty, Ukraine has taken out around a third of the Kremlin's Black Sea fleet, mostly with missile and marine drone strikes amid Russia's ongoing invasion

The European Commission has announced the allocation of €500 million to European companies for extending their ammunition production capacities under a scheme that will allow increasing ammunition sup

Comment Help for Ukraine is help for ourselves A Russian smartbomb mounted below an Su-34 jet in the vicinity of Avdiivka, March 2024. Such weapons have allowed the VKS to rejoin the fight – at a cost

OpinionGuest Essay We Cannot Condemn Crimes We Do Not Name By Mr. Feder is a journalist and a senior fellow at the City University of New York School of Law. He reported from Ukraine and spoke to surv

Newly appointed Admiral Aleksandr Moiseyev’s first task as Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy will be to stabilize the security situation in the Black Sea and implement changes designed to improve

The Ukrainian President's Office has expressed a clear stance that Russia, which has violated all international rules and humanitarian norms, will not attend the first Global Peace Summit. Source: Iho

Greece will continue supplying Ukraine with guns and ammunition this year without depleting its stocks. The equipment will be bought from the Czech Republic and transferred directly to Ukraine. Czech

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Through its war against Ukraine and geopolitical revisionism in the Black Sea, Russia seeks to establish uncontested hegemony and project influence beyond its neighbourhood and into the Western Balkan

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The Government of Sweden has decided to hand Coast Guard jet skis, which are used for maritime surveillance, to Ukraine, the Swedish Ministry of Defense has said. "The government has decided to instru

The three leading military powers in mainland Europe – France, Germany and Poland – are holding an emergency session in Berlin to try to dampen tensions over their different responses to the twin spec

Erdoğan urges caution to prevent 'NATO conflict' amid Ukraine war ANKARA President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has urged all parties to avoid actions that could lead to the escalation of the war in Ukraine a

Defence Intelligence of Ukraine reported that the Russian Defence Ministry leadership has allowed servicemen participating in the war against Ukraine to vote for Vladimir Putin without even appearing

LOADINGERROR LOADING WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — The House will vote on a bill to provide much-needed weapons to Ukraine in its war with Russia, but the contours of such a bill still need to be wor

News Commentary Given Putin’s aggression, “we’ve got to make some tough choices,” said Richard Dearlove, the one-time MI6 boss. Share options Copy Link EMail Twitter WhatsApp Linkedin Former spy chief

On a visit to Budapest in late February, China’s minister of public security, Wang Xiaohong, secured a face-to-face meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to establish a new bilateral secu

For a few weeks in 2022, Vladimir Putin’s world was unravelling fast. Russian troops had failed to take Kyiv and the west was coalescing around Volodymyr Zelenskiy, freezing Russian assets abroad and

The Latvian authorities may deport 800 Russians who do not have the right to stay in the country. Source: Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne, citing Madara Puķe, Head of Public Relations for the Of

Russian drones and missiles hit communications infrastructure in northeastern Ukraine on Thursday, in what appeared to be an effort to block access to information, officials in Kyiv said. The assault

Britain's HMS Prince of Wales has been pictured leading a NATO fleet as the military alliance carries out its largest joint drill in decades. The Royal Navy aircraft carrier, which cost £3.5bn to buil

Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have stated that the Russians are deploying tactical and operational reserves to maintain and increase the intensity of their offensive operations

Yemen's Houthis have vowed to expand their attacks on international shipping and have claimed to have new hypersonic missiles that could dodge the West's defence systems. The Houthis having hypersonic

French President Emmanuel Macron has said that if the situation worsens in Ukraine, "we must be ready, and we will be ready to make the necessary decisions so that Russia never wins." "... if the Russ

This House GOP majority is seemingly bent on making history — in all the wrong ways. Its internal discord has made it the first to remove an incumbent speaker. It struggled mightily to elect both that

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Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (Parliamentary) Commissioner for Human Rights, has sent a letter to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies urging for a tran

He announced this at a briefing on Thursday, Ukrinform reports, citing Novinite. The operation to transport the armored vehicles commenced on January 29, with the first convoy of 30 wagons departing o

Some of my Webex rooms recently have been blowing up with memes about blaming Canada or wild speculation that a state-sponsored actor is carrying out some sort of major campaign. After a widespread ou

A Lukoil oil refinery in Volgograd, Russia, which was not one of the facilities attacked this week. Photo: Reuters photographer (Reuters) It’s been a bit of whiplash this week the world of Russian oil

Summary: The Russian military recently bolstered its armored forces with a new delivery of T-90M "Proryv" main battle tanks (MBTs) from Rostec, the state aerospace and defense conglomerate. This lates

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated Thursday his position that sending Western troops into Ukraine should not be ruled out, but said that today’s situation doesn’t require that. In an

U.S. World Business Arts Lifestyle Opinion Audio Games Cooking Wirecutter The Athletic Ukrainian drone strikes have been able to hit refineries deep in Russian territory, indicating a new vulnerabilit

19:46:20 In pictures: US soldiers take part in exercises in Germany US soldiers have been taking part in exercises in Germany. The exercises were held at training facilities in Hohenfels, southern Ger

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