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Russia’s state-run doping program racks up 302 WADA sanctions — weightlifters and runners caught the mostWADA announced 291 individual Russian athletes punished, with 11 of them sanctioned twice for separate violations. -
Mindichgate widens: new tapes force an impossible choice on Ukraine’s missile makerSanction the corruption network, lose the missiles. Don’t sanction, lose the EU funding. -
Russia is losing ground for the first time in 27 months. Ukraine’s drones might be why.It's increasingly evident that Ukraine's mid- and long-range drone strikes are weakening Russian combat units. -
Venice Biennale jury walks out in full — Russia and Israel return to award contentionThe jury’s decision to exclude Russia and Israel was overruled. -
Ukraine is striking Tuapse — Russian refinery town founded by general who engineered Caucasus genocideThree strikes in two weeks have left the Black Sea port burning, evacuating, and coated in oil rain. The land it sits on was the staging ground for a genocide, one Russia still denies and most of the West has never heard of. -
Russia’s close ally now has enough nuclear warheads and delivery systems to breach US missile defenseNorth Korea, one of the closest allies of Russia, already possesses enough nuclear warheads and delivery systems to potentially breach US missile defense and carry out a limited strike, according... -
The Gulf realigns as the UAE walks out of OPECLess oil money for Moscow. The architecture is fracturing—but no Kremlin collapse. -
“A direct investment in ammunition flying across the border”: Belarusian defectors warn US sanctions relief is funding Russia’s warThree rounds of US sanctions relief in seven months. 430 prisoners freed, 838 still jailed—and Lukashenka's banks are back online. -
EU’s new carbon tariff could cost Ukraine $6 billion in GDP and tens of thousands of industrial jobs through 2030The EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is creating serious structural risks for Ukraine's already war-battered economy, and the numbers are alarming. -
Russia’s “Russo-Balt” just unveiled almost-identical Tesla Cybertruck cloneIt includes angular design, sharp body lines, stainless-steel body, distinctive front lighting. -
Kyiv Security Forum agreed Russia’s threat is existential. It did not discuss how to defeat Moscow.The reason was the elephant the Forum could not name: an America that no longer behaves like an ally. -
As Western unity cracks, Ukraine fights to keep Russia sanctions aliveMoscow plays divide and conquer, testing allies as fuel shortages bite -
“Russia has never seen this”: Russia’s central bank chief admits a 2.5 million worker deficitReserve down 2.5 million as the state squeezes small business and retrains war widows. -
More Ukrainian drones are hitting Russian supply lines. The hardened targets are fine.Ukraine is extending its drone strikes into Russia's vulnerable logistical zone. But many drones lack hitting power. -
The Hermitage archaeologist Ukraine wanted to try is back in Russia—Kyiv calls it a propaganda gift to MoscowFive for five at the Belarusian-Polish border. As part of a prisoner swap, a Russian defendant was released six weeks before he was due in Kyiv. -
“In any normal country” buying stolen goods is a crime, Zelenskyy says — Ukraine readies sanctions over Russian-stolen grain unloaded in IsraelUkraine's sanctions package will cover transporters and individuals and entities profiting from the scheme, according to the President. -
BREAKING: UAE walks out of OPEC after six decades. Russia’s oil revenue takes the hit.Iran war reorders the Gulf. Moscow’s price floor cracks. -
EBRD signs €54 million to keep trains in Ukraine moving through blackoutsWestern money pours into a defaulted state operator a day after new sleeper cars rolled into Kyiv. -
Ukraine’s railway can’t pay its bondholders—but it can deliver six new sleeper carsRussia destroys carriages forty times faster than Ukraine builds them. -
Tanks couldn’t take Chasiv Yar. So Russia’s reaching for the playbook that took Pokrovsk.Chasiv Yar is one of the last big obstacles to a Russian march on Kramatorsk. Russian plans for getting past Chasiv Yar are becoming clearer.
