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“I was prepared for the reprimand”: Ukrainian Paralympian warned for “Stop War” earrings after winning goldOleksandra Kononova collected two individual medals at the 2026 Winter Paralympics — and a formal reprimand from the International Paralympic Committee for competing in earrings bearing the words "Stop War," which officials claimed the regulations did not permit. -
Brent at $100, Urals at $91: the Iran war handed Moscow its best oil week in yearsWashington is fighting Iran and bankrolling Moscow at the same time. -
Russia’s allies keep dying. Russia keeps doing nothing. Defense analyst explains the Axis of Evil’s fatal flaw.The whole system runs on one thing. Take it away, and there's no axis at all. -
Iranian foreign minister won’t deny Russia is feeding Tehran intelligence on American warshipsAraghchi described Iran's partnership with Russia as "very good" and ongoing — hours after NBC cited sources saying Moscow has been providing Iran with location data on US forces. -
Orbán’s Hungary robbed Ukraine’s state bank of $82 million — Oschadbank launches international legal fight to recover itThe Ukrainian state-owned bank confirmed the shipment was conducted under a valid international agreement with Raiffeisen Bank Austria, fully documented under European customs procedures, and carried by employees with up to 21 years' service. -
Russia spent three years trying to break Western support for Ukraine—then Iran did it in a weekThe Iran war’s first casualty may be the world’s attention to Ukraine. -
Iran crammed its drones onto one 250-meter ship. Ukraine could have told them how that ends.Iran made a mistake when it built an World War II-sized drone carrier. Ukraine learned the hard way that drones work best when spread out on land. -
Blowing up a key dam, the Russians marched into Kostiantynivka. But not for long.Unable to capture Kostiantynivka with a direct assault, the Russians are trying to drown and strangle the city's garrison. -
Putin sends election fixers to Budapest to keep Orbán’s Kremlin veto aliveA GRU-linked cell embedded in the Russian Embassy is running Moscow's Moldova playbook on Hungarian soil—and the stakes for Ukraine could not be higher -
Lights on, economy limping: Ukraine’s real energy reckoning in March 2026Russia failed to freeze Ukraine this winter. All 15 thermal plants are still destroyed. And Russia has already moved on to trains. -
US gives India 30 days to offload 140 million barrels of Russian crude—oil its own sanctions stranded at seaWashington’s waiver covers crude that accumulated offshore after its own pressure campaign cut India’s Russian imports by more than a third. -
Ukrainian drones now hammer Russia’s last Black Sea Fleet refuge from the sky—and this time, there’s no escapeHundreds of Ukrainian drones keep Russia's Black Sea Fleet bottled up in its last safe port, Novorossiysk in southern Russia. -
EU may pay Ukraine to fix pipeline Russia keeps bombing—as Fico refuses to meet Zelenskyy firstFico says he “wouldn’t believe Zelenskyy if he told him the sky was blue”—so he’s asking Brussels to check first. -
Ukraine kept the F-16 missile shortage secret for months — sources say pilots were flying with rotary cannons as Russia ramped up winter strikesThe nearly month-long AIM-9 drought forced dangerous daytime-only sorties. -
She left politics alone so long as it left her alone. Then the occupation cameShevchenko Prize-winning novelist’s story of a woman caught between occupied Donbas and her home village in western Ukraine—published in English for the first time. -
UK government knew Anna Netrebko was sanctioned by Ukraine. FOI documents show what happened next.Four years into a full-scale war, no UK body has built a process to check whether taxpayers fund performers sanctioned by an allied nation -
Russian soldier proudly shows off his tank’s drone defense: tubes of decorative plant clayNot all Russian anti-drone improvisations actually work. For instance, tubes full of clay. They're 'useless,' one expert claimed. -
What does a Russian air raid alarm cost Ukraine’s economy? Researchers just found outThe missiles get the headlines. The sirens do the quiet damage. Now there’s data to prove it. -
Russia’s winter campaign was supposed to freeze Ukraine, split its grid, and stop its factories. None of it worked, ISW saysWith the campaign now over, Russia is preparing strikes on Ukraine's water supply — a shift ISW calls an implicit acknowledgement of failure, while warning that lessons from the energy campaign could be applied to water infrastructure, which shares similar Soviet-era vulnerabilities. -
Russia cut small business support by a third—then sent the tax collectorThe Kremlin chose to abandon its civilian economy. Now the VAT bill arrives.