An explosion is seen in the sky over Kyiv during a Russian drone strike on January 3. Russian troops attacked Ukraine with a barrage of strike drones late on January 3, including the north central reg

Thousands of Slovaks braved freezing temperatures on Friday to protest Prime Minister Robert Fico’s recent foreign policy decisions, particularly his increasingly pro-Russian stance and criticism of U

The cessation of Russian gas transit through Ukraine and Europe’s gradual weaning off Russian supplies mark a truly historic moment. We’re witnessing the end of an era—Europe’s long-standing energy de

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will attend his final meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base in Germany next week, the Defense Department said Friday. The group of mo

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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

Facts 19:54 03.01.2025 1 min read Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys showed a photo of the aftermath of the Russian shelling of the Lithuanian Honorary Consulate in Kherson. "This is the afte

Legal activities around the “dark fleet” tanker Eagle S continued to intensify in Finland as a court heard arguments for the release of the tanker and additional complaints were filed. The authorities

In this exclusive interview, James Gilmore, the former U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE during the first Trump Administration, shares his bold and unvarnished views on the war in Ukraine and Russia’s aggre

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Naval News – On January 2, 2025, the Turkish Ministry of Defence announced the steel cutting ceremony of the MUGEM indigenous aircraft carrier, TF-2000 AAW destroyer, and MILDEN indigenous submarine.

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Lukashenka has announced the date of his ‘reelection’ — January 26. It’s a sham with no real electoral process, conducted in an atmosphere of terror. No alternative candidates or observers will be all

After negotiations with the new Syrian leadership, Russia withdrew at least 400 soldiers from the Damascus region. A representative of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham said that negotiations are underway to evacu

The Fitness World Championship in Budapest has disqualified Lithuanian athlete Kornelija Dudaitė for wearing a T-shirt with the “Make Russia Small Again” slogan, according to UNIAN. Russia’s war has t

Russian troops continue assaults on the Siversk front. Russian commanders are sending occupiers in one direction, with no expectation that they will return, says Stepan Barna, the commander of the Bar

Russia Europe Ukraine We live in a strange time marked by widespread and ongoing depopulation. The entire world is grappling with a crisis of childlessness. By 2015, the global fertility rate had drop

Ukraine is working to receive the entire "body" of immobilized Russian assets, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanishyna, who is also the Minister of

Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, urged Moscow on Monday to remove Syrian rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from its list of terrorist and extremist organi

Italy approved its tenth military aid package for Ukraine, Defense Minister Guido Crosetto announced. According to the Italian news agency ANSA, the details of the latest military assistance will be p

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The Russian army continues trying to capture the city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast, a strategic hub the loss of which would significantly complicate Ukraine’s fighting in the area. Despite multiple “

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The death toll in the French territory of Mayotte from Cyclone Chido is “several hundred” and may run into the thousands, the island’s top government official told a local br

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Ukrainian officials accused Moscow of recklessness on Sunday after one oil tanker sank and a second vessel ran aground in the Kerch Strait between mainland Russia and occupied Crimea during stormy wea

The Ukrainian side declined to arrange a phone call between Viktor Orbán and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss the Hungarian ceasefire proposal. Source: Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó live on

Two Russian oil tankers wrecked in Black Sea 16 December 2024 Tom BennettBBC News Reporting fromLondon Footage posted by Russian authorities appeared to show one tanker split in half Two Russian oil t

Russia mounted a rescue effort Sunday after two oil tankers were wrecked in rough seas off Moscow-annexed Crimea and one broke apart, killing at least one sailor and causing an oil spill. One of the t

Two Russian tankers are sinking near the Kerch strait off the coast of occupied Crimea following hull breaches caused by a severe storm, Russian media reported on 15 December. This is not Russia’s fir

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As a self-confessed hippy who enjoyed a career in music and the arts, Hanna Vasyk makes an unlikely soldier. With her striking features and fondness for jewellery – including a gold-hoop nose piercing

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There is a dream of Rome, and it goes like this: a once glorious republic, now fallen into tyranny, will be glorious again. This is the political vision that the aging philosopher emperor Marcus Aurel

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has delivered 10 autonomous welding units to Ukraine to assist in the swift repair of the country's energy infrastructure. Source: USAID