The Russians may be preparing a new assault on Kherson. The occupiers may be attempting to isolate the Kherson neighborhood of Korabel by striking a key bridge and organizing a foothold for a possible landing operation, CNN reports. Kherson was captured by Russian forces in 2022. Later that year,…

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Firefighters in southern Franceare grappling to control a large wildfire that has swept through an area bigger than the size of its capital, Paris. Spain and Portugal are also battling wildfires. Forests are once again burning in many parts of the world. In most cases, forest fires are caused by…

The Brief August 8, 2025 Inside the Minsk backchannel, Trump's call for a new census, and more 00:00 President Donald Trump is calling for a new census that excludes undocumented immigrants from its population count amid his push to redraw electoral maps in Republicans' favor and weaken the…

OnPoint Subscriber Exclusive Longer Reads provide in-depth analysis of the ideas and forces shaping politics, economics, international affairs, and more. Subscribe Bettmann Contributor/Getty Images en English Longer Reads Aug 8, 2025 Eighty years after the atomic bombings that ended World War II,…

On 7 August, combat medic Maryna "Meri" Hrytsenko of the 3rd Assault Brigade was killed in action while on a combat mission at the front. In civilian life, she served as chief curator of the collections at the Chernihiv Art Museum and was an active member of the Ukrainian scouting organisation…

Four years ago, most of these women fighters had never fired fired a gun or held a weapon in combat. By the time they died, they were operating some of Ukraine’s most sophisticated military equipment. All of them were killed while serving in frontline combat roles when Russia’s full-scale invasion…

On August 6, 2025, President Trump published a new Executive Order imposing secondary tariffs on India in response to its continued importation of Russian-origin crude oil. This marks both an escalation in U.S. trade negotiations with India and the first major Russia-related enforcement action of…

A fire that broke out on the night of August 1 at the Cugir Mechanical Plant in central Romania destroyed approximately 130,000 cartridges of 14.5 mm caliber, with the potential compromise of hundreds of thousands more, local authorities confirmed. According to initial data from the Alba County…

Russian crude is being sold to Indian buyers at discounted rates as European Union sanctions and the prospect of US penalties weigh on demand, Bloomberg reported on August 7, citing data intelligence firm Kpler Ltd. According to Bloomberg, the price of Urals—the OPEC+ producer’s benchmark grade—is…

According to a recent announcement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Romania endorsed the Joint Declaration on the Security and Resilience of Submarine Cables in a Global Digitalized World, in coordination with the United States and European Union partners. The diplomatic effort takes place as…

Main News Culture Aug. 7, 2025, 5:35 p.m. Цей матеріал також доступний українською 78 Poster: CRC On the occasion of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center is launching an information storm "Indigenous Peoples Matter for Ukraine". The campaign will…

Georgia's Foreign Ministry called on Russia to withdraw its military units from Abkhazia and South Ossetia, regions that unilaterally declared independence from Georgia, marking the 17th anniversary of the 2008 war. The ministry issued a written statement on Friday on the occasion of the 17th…

Aug 7, 2025 China’s current demographic spiral bears a striking resemblance to that of ancient Rome, where changing social norms and drastic population-control measures led to falling birth rates and irreversible decline. Unless it rebuilds the social and economic foundations of child-rearing, China…

Hacker groups Silent Crow and Belarusian Cyber ​​Guerrillas attacked the servers of the Russian airline Aeroflot, as a result of which they copied and destroyed their databases, including the personal data of all passengers. "We announce the successful completion of a long and large-scale operation,…

28 July, 03:58 PM Share: The NATO E-3A Sentry aircraft is capable of carrying out a range of missions, including surveillance, tracking, and target detection, Business Insider reported. (Photo: www.defense.gov) Author: The E-3A Sentry surveillance aircraft, better known as AWACS, has been flying at…

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The recent NATO Summit was almost entirely defined by the ambitious spending pledge to spend 3.5% of GDP on core defence expenditure by 2035. This radical increase in spending commitments was partly driven by a widespread recognition of the long overdue need for Europe to pay more toward its own…

Defense News Army 2025 At IDEF 2025 in Istanbul, Türkiye’s defense industry reached a significant milestone with the unveiling of KOZ, a robotic dog armed with laser-guided missiles. Developed by Roketsan, this cutting-edge platform illustrates the convergence of artificial intelligence, robotics,…

Oleksii Makeiev, Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, has said that Ukraine has ordered a total of 18 IRIS-T SLM air defence systems from Germany, seven of which have already been delivered with another 11 to follow later. "We’ve ordered 18 IRIS-T SLM systems in total – first 12, then another 4, and…

The Estonian Defence Forces’ General Staff has reported that a Russian border guard ship entered Estonia’s territorial waters without permission and remained there for 35 minutes. Source: European Pravda, citing ERR Details: The incident occurred on 26 July east of the island of Vaindloo. Estonia’s…

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday they had rescued 10 seafarers from the Greek-operated cargo ship Eternity C which they attacked and sank in the Red Sea earlier this month. The Liberia-flagged Eternity C was the second ship to sink off Yemen this month after repeated attacks by Houthi…

Understanding Russia’s Black Sea strategy How to strengthen Europe and NATO’s approach to the region Research paper Published 28 July 2025 ISBN: 978 1 78413 654 3 Image — An aerial view of a Turkish naval minesweeper as it takes part in an operation to counter the threat of mines in the Black Sea,…

Belarus’s economy is stalling amid Russian stagnation. In the first half of 2025, Belarus’s economic growth sharply slowed, and its GDP increased by only 2.1%. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service reports that inflation rose to 7.3%. Belarus is effectively fully absorbed by Russia under…

The Trump administration’s dismantling of the federal government has not come in a single rupture, but through a long, calculated disassembly. While the first term laid rhetorical and procedural groundwork, the second has delivered its full expression. The U.S. Supreme Court has delayed some…

As Ukraine continues its long-range drone campaign, major airports across Russia have been repeatedly forced to suspend operations, reroute flights, and ground aircraft. In July alone, nearly every day of the month, at least one formally operating Russian airport shut down temporarily. Hundreds of…

Russian military commanders are classifying missing soldiers as deserters to obscure the true scale of battlefield losses, the Russian independent outlet IStories reported on July 28. By labeling missing soldiers as deserters, Russia not only conceals its true war losses but also avoids paying…

Amid the heavy strain of Russian attacks and anti-corruption protests, a festival organized by Georgians and Ukrainians brought much-needed respite and solidarity to Kyiv. Over the weekend of July 25-27, thousands of people danced their way through the ICKPA (meaning “Spark” in Ukrainian) electronic…

July 28, 2025 | By Shaun Waterman 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 LAS VEGAS—The jamming of GPS signals around Ukraine has become so severe it is…

On 8 April 2025, in an interview with the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform, Ukraine’s minister of culture and strategic communications, Mykola Tochytskyi, stated that Russia has stolen over 1.7 million pieces of Ukrainian cultural heritage since the full-scale invasion began in February 2022. He…

Technology GPS jamming spiked during Israel-Iran conflict Windward blamed two circular patterns of ship location signals over the Baltic Sea on GPS jamming during the Iran-Israel conflict.Photo: Windward

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has adopted a resolution targeting the illicit shipping practices of the so-called unregulated “dark fleet” in a move to clamp down on unsafe activities at sea. The world’s “dark” or “shadow fleet” comprises hundreds of ageing vessels, including oil…

Russia has significantly depleted its extensive stockpiles of Soviet-era weaponry since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with the flow of military goods from storage facilities to the front lines now returning to pre-2022 levels, according to a new analysis of logistics data by the Kyiv School of…

Ukrainian drones struck deep into Russian territory overnight on 29 July, igniting a massive blaze at a railway hub in Rostov Oblast and cutting power to large parts of occupied Donetsk Oblast. The coordinated strikes disrupted rail traffic, left thousands stranded, and caused a widespread blackout.…

In response to numerous successful Ukrainian one-way attack unmanned aerial system strikes, russia has commenced a programme to protect vulnerable aircraft at a number of airfields close to the russia-Ukraine border. These airfields include Millerovo, Kursk Vostochny and Hvardiiske, where…