As a foreigner in Ukraine, I often hesitate to speak on certain social issues. Despite living here for nearly a decade, I know that my American upbringing still limits how deeply I can feel what my Ukrainian friends and colleagues experience, no matter how much I sympathize. Still, now that I have…

First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska met with Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway and expressed gratitude for supporting the people of Ukraine. “Norway ranks among the top three countries providing the largest volumes of military assistance to Ukraine in 2025. Your humanitarian and civilian support…

Problems facing Ukraine's education sector The “Resilient Education and Psychological Support in Crisis ― Insights from Ukraine and Japan” symposium was held at Saitama University on November 14. About 130 people gathered at Saitama University on November 14 for an international symposium:…

When Volodymyr Kostyuchenko first settled in Edmonton with his family after leaving his home in Western Ukraine, he quickly realized none of the food he’d had here quite replicated the authentic Ukrainian cuisine they’d left behind. “There are some places that prepare similar foods, but it’s not…

What is the Shadow Fleet? The shadow fleet, also known as the dark fleet, refers to a group of tankers and support vessels that rely on deceptive shipping practices to move sanctioned or high-risk commodities while concealing their true origin, ownership, or destination. This ecosystem expanded…

A sanctioned Russian oil tanker attempting to deliver fuel to Venezuela has been repeatedly forced to turn back after a US Navy destroyer positioned itself directly in its path, according to vessel-tracking data reviewed by Bloomberg on November 21. The unusual standoff suggests Washington may be…

If you’ve only known cabbage in the form of crisp coleslaw, this Kapusta (Ukrainian Cabbage Soup) will change your mind. Gently simmered until tender and sweet, the cabbage melts into a savory base of chicken broth and black-eyed peas, while smoky bacon infuses every spoonful with rich, comforting…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. It’s a dark and stormy night and you’ve suddenly found yourself swept off of your wooden vessel into the wild Atlantic Ocean. It’s 1893, so your woolen clothes are pulling you down to Davy Jones’…

The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned that Russia is obstructing the work of Norwegian air-ambulance helicopters in the Arctic as part of a hybrid military campaign against the West. Moscow is accused of nearly constant GPS signal jamming in the north of the country, creating chaos for…

Russia’s stock market rallied at the start of Friday’s trading session amid reports of a new Trump administration plan to end the war in Ukraine, raising hopes that officials in Kyiv and Moscow may soon sign a peace agreement after nearly four years of fighting. The Moscow Exchange Index (MOEX)…

by AFP Staff Writers Berlin (AFP) Nov 19, 2025 Germany unveiled the country's first national space security strategy on Wednesday, with Defence Minister Boris Pistorius vowing to expand military and civilian capabilities in orbit. The strategy comes weeks after Pistorius announced plans for the…

Khrystyna Haiovyshyn, Deputy Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN, has stated during a meeting of the UN Security Council that Ukraine is ready to engage constructively on the peace plan, a draft of which it has received from the United States. However, she outlined clear and inviolable red…

The GNWT’s Marine Transportation Services (MTS) has signed a five-year contract to supply and deliver fuel to the North Warning System radar sites in Canada’s Western Arctic. The contract involves the annual procurement and delivery of fuel to 21 radar sites along the NWT, Yukon, and Nunavut coasts.…

The U.S. Navy announced that it accepted delivery of the Submarine Force’s newest attack submarine, the future USS Massachusetts (SSN 798), from HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding on November 21. The delivery represents the official transfer of the submarine from the shipbuilder to the Navy and sets…

Today, I have a new favorite phrase: "Adversarial poetry." It's not, as my colleague Josh Wolens surmised, a new way to refer to rap battling. Instead, it's a method used in a recent study from a team of Dexai, Sapienza University of Rome, and Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies researchers, who…

Kremlin.ru According to BBC. Hypersonic Kinzhals from Russia, which Putin called in 2018 ‘unbeatable’, are increasingly ending their flights not where planned, but in the empty fields of Ukraine. According to Forbes, Ukrainian electronic warfare systems unobtrusively steer missiles off course,…

Songs of Stolen Children, performed by the group Daughters of Donbas, will have its Atlantic Canadian premiere on Nov. 20 at St. Andrew’s United Church. The 80-minute concert addresses the estimated 20,000 Ukrainian children who have been taken from occupied regions in eastern Ukraine to Russia, and…

Poland says it cannot simply copy Ukraine's frontline experience fighting russian drones, and when you look closer at the constraints, that position makes sense. In an interview with Defence24, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army, General Stanisław Chosnek, explained that legal,…

Since the UK banned single-use vapes in June over health and environmental concerns, Viacheslav Semeniuk has had his work cut out extracting thousands of batteries from the devices to send to Ukraine, where they are made into power banks for frontline troops. The Ukrainian volunteer, who has lived…

SlavkoSereda/iStock via Getty Images Oil futures rebounded Friday, with WTI back at the $60/bbl level after a major Ukrainian drone and missile strike on a key Russian Black Sea port revived concerns about supply disruptions. The attack on the Novorossiysk port, which handles oil cargoes

North Korea has more than halved its supply of shells to Russia this year and has been sending outdated ones, as Pyongyang has exhausted its stockpiles. Source: Vadym Skibitskyi, Deputy Head of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, in an interview with Reuters Details: The delivery of millions of…

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Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko reported that a Kyiv firefighter, Serhii Vlasenko, lost his home after a Russian drone struck the residential building where he lived with his family during the night of November 14. According to Klymenko, Vlasenko, 35, has served for 15 years and was on…

Over the past few weeks, Russia has engaged in unsafe and coercive tactics against NATO member states at levels European officials have described as “unprecedented” since the Cold War. A number of European nations, including Poland, Estonia, Denmark, and Norway, have experienced Russian manned and…

Six units of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine received an aid package from an anonymous donor in the Netherlands. The GUR announced this in its official statement. The kit included more than 700 Hatsan MKA1919 and MAVKA MKA1919 pump-action shotguns, 130…

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Home News and Events CIUS Events 2025 Carving Lost Family History: Ukrainian and Indigenous Cultural Revival in the Face of Colonialism Indigenous Ukrainian Relationship Initiative 17 October 2025 6 November 2025 5–6 p.m. Food sharing at kihêw waciston 6–7:15 p.m. Carving Lost Family film screening…

Map of Luhansk Oblast on a poster. “Yellow Ribbon”/Telegram As reported by the resistance movement in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine “Yellow Ribbon” In the temporarily occupied cities in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, activists of the “Yellow Ribbon” movement carried out an action in…

In the city of Khmelnytskyi, since the start of the full-scale war, 13 new shelters for schools and kindergartens have been built, spending almost 300 million UAH. The information was confirmed by the city mayor of Khmelnytskyi, Oleksandr Symchyshyn, who published the data in a post on his Facebook…

The city of Novorossiysk in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, where Russia had relocated its Black Sea Fleet from occupied Crimea, came under a Ukrainian drone attack. As a result, Ukrainians destroyed four S-400 “Triumph” launchers and two radars, sources from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) say, per…

UGV With a Machine Gun Replaced Infantry and Held a Position for a Month and Half #Armed Forces of Ukraine #UGV #Ukraine #ZBROYA Ukrainian Droid TW 12.7 ground drone. Photo credits: DevDroid The Droid TW 12.7 unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) under the control of operators of the NC13 company of the 3rd…

Key Points and Summary – Poland’s lone submarine, the Kilo-class ORP Orzel, is an aging Soviet “black hole” boat that remains one of NATO’s quietest and most intriguing assets. -Delivered in 1986, Orzel was built to stalk NATO convoys in the Baltic but now serves a very different role: deterrent,…

"They killed my child," Tatjana Bykova laments in a video message. She uses the term "annulled" to describe how her son, Andrej, was killed by Russian military commanders. She names them and says she hates them. First, they blackmailed Andrej, demanding half of the compensation he received for an…

russian military bloggers published footage of a combat-ready 9K33M3 Osa-AKM loaded with aging 9M33 missiles from the original 9K33 Osa instead of the standard 9M33M3 used on the Osa-AKM. To understand the implications, it is worth recalling the system's modernization history. Serial production of…

Argentina has emerged as a surprisingly prominent destination for L.G.B.T.Q. Russians escaping President Vladimir V. Putin’s escalating anti-gay repression. Argentina has emerged as a surprisingly prominent destination for L.G.B.T.Q. Russians escaping President Vladimir V. Putin’s escalating…

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