Commodore Ivo Värk, Commander of the Estonian Navy, has said that neither Russia nor Ukraine dominates the Black Sea in the conventional sense of naval warfare. Source: European Pravda; Estonian publi

Photo: https://t.me/V_Zelenskiy_official Vladimir Putin will turn Moldova away from Europe, and will now fight for control of the country's parliament, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said

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Russia The country’s agricultural companies explore trading chickpeas for rice and mandarin oranges with other Asian countries to get around international sanctions. The Kremlin has put together a gui

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Sunday that his government is working to facilitate shipments of agricultural goods to Syria, which is now governed by Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-S

Anastasiia and Oleksii, veterans who met during rehabilitation, have tied the knot in Kyiv. Source: Superhumans, a specialised prosthetics and reconstruction clinic Details: Both former soldiers susta

How to Get the Country’s New Rulers to Help Eliminate Assad’s Deadly Arsenal Gregory D. Koblentz and Natasha Hall December 19, 2024 Outside a prison formerly operated by Syrian Military Intelligence,

How an Unchecked Russia Will Challenge the West Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Michael Kofman January/February 2025 Published on December 18, 2024 Diego Mallo Andrea Kendall-Taylor is Senior Fellow and Dir

In Tall, the last town before the prison, located some 10 kilometers to the south, young men are standing at an intersection holding up signs: "Pull over to the left for Sednaya Prison.” The last two

Russia was rocked by a 9/11-style attack on a skyscraper in the city of Kazan yesterday after Ukraine launched long-range drones into enemy territory 600 miles from the frontline. Dramatic pictures sh

America Should Give Diplomacy a Final Shot—While Preparing to Use Military Force Richard Nephew January 2, 2025 At the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force Museum, Tehran, November 2024 M

Don’t Repeat in Syria the Mistakes of Afghanistan Isolating Damascus’s New Rulers Won’t Moderate Them Delaney Simon, Graeme Smith, and Jerome Drevon January 2, 2025 The flag adopted by Syria's new rul

Other Russian Clients May Conclude That They Can’t Rely on Moscow Alexander Baunov December 26, 2024 A Russian military convoy in Latakia, Syria, December 2024 Umit Bektas / Reuters Alexander Baunov i

NATO member Estonia has deployed a naval warship to defend its underwater power cables after a Russian vessel allegedly cut one of the wires in yet another act of sabotage against the allied nations.

This November, Latvia held a parade as part of independence day celebrations. Among the military equipment displayed at the event, particularly notable were Antonov An-2 biplane utility aircraft. They

New Year decorations in Moscow, 11 December 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE/SERGEI ILNITSKY Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the Russian economy has been either slated as heading for total collapse or praised for its stability and resilience. But while many economists spoke of a large safety margin at…

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

Russia’s Gazprom started cutting gas flow through Ukraine on 31 December, dropping daily supplies to 37.2 million cubic meters from 42.4 million, according to the company’s market notifications seen b

The head of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate (HUR), Lt-Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, has confirmed to The War Zone that Azerbaijan Airlines Flight JS-8432 was shot down by a Russian Pantsir S1 air de

The passenger Embraer 190 aircraft of Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL), which crashed near Aktau, Kazakhstan, was likely downed by a Russian Pantsir missile system operating in automatic mode, according to

Danielle Hall Amid a torrent of alarming headlines calling out rising sea temperatures, melting ice sheets and struggling coral reefs, new discoveries about our ocean sparked wonder. In 2024, scientis

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

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