Alya Shandra

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FT: Ukraine’s gas storage helps Europe avoid energy crisis

Ukraine's gigantic gas reserves that were built during the Soviet Union to ensure the Kremlin's gas monopoly on Europe are now serving the opposite goal: helping Europe get off the Kremlin's gas needle.

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West must get serious and act now: leaders on Russia’s missile strike

Politicians and ambassadors have underscored their solidarity with Ukraine in the wake of Russia's major missile attack

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Poland scrambles F-16 fighter jets during massive Russian missile strike on Ukraine

Poland mobilized the warplanes after Russia's previous attack, which saw a missile entering Polish airspace

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Ukraine’s foreign minister expects five steps from partners after Russia’s missile strike

The immediate deployment of air defense systems, combat drones, and long-range missiles are a few ways Ukraine's partners can help

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Ukraine intercepts a record 10 Kinzhal missiles in massive Russian strike

Ukraine intercepted 72 targets, including all aeroballistic Kinzhals. Kyiv and Kharkiv were in the crosshairs

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Serbian protesters use revamped logo of Euromaidan Press

They are trolling their government's accusaltions of a "west-inspired coup attempt" in response to protests against election fraud

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Five realistic scenarios of war in Ukraine in 2024: GLOBSEC report

New analysis gamed out several ways the Russia-Ukraine war could unfold, but saw little chance for clear victory or defeat for either side next year.

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Furious Putin “orders commanders to frontline” after 74 sailors killed in Novocherkassk sinking

Rather than acknowledge his forces' air defense failures, Putin chooses to sacrifice commanders, Atesh says

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Russia claims to repel a naval drone attack on occupied Crimea

Naval drones have been instrumental in Ukraine's assymetric warfare against the Russian Black Sea fleet

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Night drone strikes on Russia target explosives, microelectronics plants (updated)

Russia claims to have shot down 32 droens above the Bryansk, Orel, Kursk, and Moscow oblasts. One of Russia's largest microelectronics plants and an ammunition factory were one of the targets

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ISW: Russia will continue missile strikes against Ukraine

ISW beleives the strikes pursued hindering Ukraine's effort to expand its own defense-industrial base, which it has ramped up to sustain itself in the war.

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Ex-Russian GRU officer Salikov exposes Russia’s proxy Ukraine “republics” (full translation)

In a bombshell interview, Salikov, who arrived to testify at the ICC, tells how Russia manufactured a "local uprising" in eastern Ukraine, funneled weapons over the border, and shelled its own territory to keep the conflict going

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What Russian Black Sea Fleet ships were destroyed by Ukraine

A game of Battleship is unfolding in the Black Sea, where navy-less Ukraine, left to its own resorts against Russia's menacing fleet, takes out ships one by one with a combination of missiles, drones, and ingenuity

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Wagner defector exposes Russia’s Donbas ruse, false-flag ops in bombshell interview

Igor Salikov has just arrived to the Hague to testify against Putin. Here is a glimpse at what he may be saying,