News Politics “Maximum audacity,” raged top presidential adviser Andriy Yermak. Andriy Yermak said that the Russians are using the symbols of the United States "in their own terrorist, aggressive war.” | Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA August 18, 2025 3:42 pm CET By Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s…

This is a decisive moment for Ukraine. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been torn from their families and forcibly taken to Russia or Russian-occupied territories, where they are given away for adoption to pro-Putin families. While the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has…

∄ / K4119 Images view more + Kyiv’s hottest club does not exist: ∄, often referred to as Kyrylivska 41 (or K41) for its street address, is paradoxically both famous and nameless. Hosted in a massive former brewery in the industrial Podil district, ∄ – the only dedicated queer club in the capital –…

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How is Russia circumventing sanctions? By sea. Ukrainian intelligence has revealed details of operations involving 42 ships engaged in transporting sanctioned Russian and Iranian oil, stolen Ukrainian grain and coal, as well as bunkering activities of the so-called “shadow fleet.” For Ukraine, this…

The shadow tanker fleet transports growing volumes of sanctioned oil around the world, generates billions of dollars in revenue for russia and Iran, threatens environmental safety in the oceans, serves as a spy platform, and is used for sabotage activities in the interests of the aggressor. The…

The math is brutal: Russia has three times Ukraine’s population and pays soldiers twice as much. Moscow can afford to send wave after wave of troops to die on Ukrainian soil. Ukraine cannot match those numbers. So Ukraine is building something else entirely—an army where robots handle the dying.…

Deep trouble. Fiber-optic cables and pipelines on the seafloor are becoming more and more vulnerable to sabotage. Image Credit: Serg Myshkovsky/Getty Images As the U.S. Navy struggles to catch up with the People’s Republic of China’s rapid expansion as a growing maritime power, yet another frontier…

The Houthi administration in Yemen has updated its Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page, which purports to give detailed advice on how to avoid the group's attacks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The Houthi advice is contained on a website maintained by the Humanitarian Operations Coordination…

Photo: Chytomo Ulyana Guz A unique cultural and educational project, "Booksin," has been launched in Ukraine. It is a mobile library on a bus that is being sent to travel through various regions, providing access to modern literature and cultural events, particularly for internally displaced…

Explore More D.C. Federal Deployment Ramps Up as Protesters Converge on Police Checkpoint Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Darren Sands and Ashley Ahn The New York Times Company 18 hrs ago WASHINGTON — Protesters gathered around an array of law enforcement officers, including homeland security agents, who…

Fresh satellite images have confirmed extensive damage to Russia’s Unecha oil pumping station in Bryansk Oblast and the Skala-M radar complex in occupied Crimea. The confirmation follows earlier reports of Ukrainian strikes on both facilities. The attacks were part of Ukraine long-range drone…

Russian troops have likely lost a Su-30SM fighter jet that was carrying out a mission southeast of Zmiinyi (Snake) Island. Source: Ukrainian Navy Quote: "Ukrainian Navy intelligence intercepted radio communications about the loss of contact with a Russian Su-30SM fighter jet that was carrying out a…

Oleksandr Boichuk, a senior midshipman and former commander of Ukraine’s only minesweeper Henichesk – destroyed by Russian forces – has returned from Russian captivity as part of a new prisoner exchange. Details: Kutiepov reported that Boichuk is a defender of Mariupol who went missing at the start…

Estonia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the chargé d’affaires of the Russian Embassy on 13 August to hand over a diplomatic note declaring the embassy’s first secretary persona non grata. Source: a statement from the Estonian Foreign Ministry, as reported by European Pravda Details: While…

Fewer than 1,000 private-sector jobs were added, the slowest growth in the labor market outside a recession and the pandemic since 2003. Listen to this article · 8:09 min Learn more Slow Job Gains in New York City in First Half of 2025 Note: Data includes only private-sector jobs. Source: N.Y.C.…

Ukrainian forces have introduced new modifications to Mi-8 helicopters, significantly enhancing their ability to intercept Iranian-made Shahed drones. According to Defense Express on August 14, recent footage shows Mi-8 helicopters equipped with updated targeting systems and additional armaments.…

German Army Has Ordered 1500 Wolf 2 Off-Road Vehicles #Europe #Germany #Procurement #Vehicle #World A German army off-road vehicle Wolf 2. Photo credits: Bundeswehr/Kristoph Cassette The German Armed Forces have ordered 1500 new Wolf 2 off-road vehicles. This was reported on the official Bundeswehr…

Children in Lithuania are to be taught how to build and operate drones as part of the small Baltic country’s efforts to build capacity to deal with any future threat from Russia. In a joint initiative by the defence and education ministries, the government said on Tuesday it hoped to teach more than…

Students in a Russian classroom before a ceremony marking the end of their final year. Sochi, Russia, May 24, 2025. Dmitry Feoktistov / TASS / Profimedia New guidelines issued to Russian teachers tell them to keep a closer eye on foreign students — from the words they use in class to the websites…

Alaska’s capital city of Juneau is urging many residents to evacuate, bracing for the arrival of what could be record floodwaters flowing downstream from a basin dammed by the area’s Mendenhall Glacier, with the event being driven by climate change amid glacial retreat, according to a federal…

Budanov: DPRK to Deploy Its Tanks and Armored Vehicles With Crews to Russia #APC #Armored vehicles #Neighbors #North Korea (DPRK) #Russia #Tank #War with Russia M-2020 tanks at competitions. Source: btvtinfo.blogspot.com North Korea (DPRK) plans to send its main battle tanks and armored personnel…

Kyiv • UNN August 14 2025, 08:55 AM • 84 views Kyrylo Budanov stated that Ukraine, Russia, and North Korea have experience in conducting modern warfare on a wide front. North Korea is gaining unique combat experience, but its troops are suffering significant losses. Only three countries in the world…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. Speculation over a very large-scale German order for anti-aircraft guns, as part of a broader air defense initiative focusing, to a significant degree, on counter-drone…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. Ukraine surged some of its most combat-hardened forces to the eastern Donetsk region to blunt a Russian advance some fear could lead to a large-scale collapse on that part…

A new technique developed by Australian researchers could stop unauthorised artificial intelligence (AI) systems learning from photos, artwork and other image-based content. Developed by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, in partnership with the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre…

Derui Wang (CSIRO's Data61), Minhui Xue (CSIRO's Data61), Bo Li (The University of Chicago), Seyit Camtepe (CSIRO's Data61), Liming Zhu (CSIRO's Data61) The exploitation of publicly accessible data has led to escalating concerns regarding data privacy and intellectual property (IP) breaches in the…

Xeneta’s analysis finds that carbon emissions performance in ocean container shipping is showing signs of recovery following a record-breaking 12 months due to conflict in the Red Sea. According to the company, the Xeneta and Marine Benchmark Carbon Emissions Index (CEI), which measures carbon…

Aug. 11, 2025 | By Greg Hadley Share Article Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.org The Space Force hopes to soon celebrate a pair of major milestones with a single…

On Snake Island, which is part of the Odesa region, as well as on the gas extraction platforms in the Black Sea, Kyrylo Budanov, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, conducted an inspection of the defensive positions that had been brought back under Ukrainian control after successful…

Their loved ones are missing at war. So these Ukrainian children spend summer together 50 minutes ago Will VernonBBC News in Ukraine BBC Children comfort each other as they share their experiences of the war The day Russia's full-scale invasion began, Dima's dad told him he might never see him…

Brazil’s requirement for modern surface combatants is driven by the sheer size and strategic importance of its maritime domain, known as the “Blue Amazon,” which spans over 4.5 million square kilometers and includes vast offshore oil and gas reserves, critical sea lanes, and rich fishing grounds.…

In Russia’s Karelia region, a group of forest firefighters has gone public with a plea for help, describing exhausting work, meager pay, and a lack of basic equipment as they battle blazes that have burned for weeks. Their video message drew the attention of local officials, who pledged to…

Ukrainian Buria Turret Mounted on THeMIS Tracked Drone #Cooperation #Defense industry of Ukraine #Estonia #Europe #Ukraine #World THeMIS ground drone with the Buria turret. 2025. Photo credits: Frontline company The Ukrainian company Frontline, together with the Estonian robotics manufacturer Milrem…

In 1945, Sir William Stephenson was back in Ottawa, fresh from running Britain’s spy station in New York, where he had coordinated Allied espionage efforts. He arrived at a moment of national shock: Igor Gouzenko, a clerk at the local Soviet embassy, had defected, carrying with him more than 100…

Khortytsia Operational Strategic Group of Forces has reported that a small group of Russian troops, about 10 people, managed to pass the first line of defence of the Ukrainian military on the Pokrovsk and Dobropillia fronts, but this does not mean that they have taken control of the territory that…