Russia didn’t expect Ukraine to learn to strike 1,500 km deep. It moved most of its air defenses to occupied territories
Ukraine destroyed them there. Now Russia's cities are exposed.
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Foreign companies left Russia after 2022. Moscow is now building legal framework to use their names, software, and trademarks
Russia calls it "external temporary management."
US sanctions don’t work: Russian tankers shipped $11 billion in oil last year. That’s enough to bomb Ukrainian cities for eight months
The tankers were sanctioned. They shipped oil anyway.
Zelenskyy and human rights activist Matviychuk among 20 inaugural recipients of European Parliament’s order of merit
The European Parliament has its own order of merit now, and its inaugural class of up to 20 runs from a sitting head of state to a basketball MVP — with a Nobel Peace Prize winner, two former chancellors, and a rock band in between.
Abducted, renamed, adopted: How Russia systematically erased 20,000 Ukrainian children
A United Nations commission has formally ruled that Russia committed crimes against humanity by deporting Ukrainian children from occupied territories
Signed up to kill in Africa, refused to die in Ukraine: Russia’s Africa Corps recruit flees to Philippines after GRU unit rerouted him to the front
A Moscow factory worker who signed up for the Africa Corps expecting overseas deployment told RFE/RL that Ukraine-bound assignments were the norm, with Africa reserved for a handful.
Hungarian opposition leader accuses Orban of inviting Russian military intelligence to influence elections
Peter Magyar, leader of Hungary's opposition party Tisza, has accused Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of inviting Russian military…
800 US interceptors spent in three Middle East days — more than Ukraine got all winter
"Americans will not be able to provide enough of those missiles for the Gulf countries, for their own army, and also for Ukraine," European Commissioner for Defence Andrius Kubilius said
Bessent floats lifting Russia oil sanctions to plug Iran supply gap
In October 2025, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called US sanctions on Lukoil and Rosneft "some of the largest" ever imposed on Russia. Five months later, he says Washington is weighing whether to lift sanctions on Russian oil entirely.
Putin sends election fixers to Budapest to keep Orbán’s Kremlin veto alive
A 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
The drone pipeline reverses: Russia now gives intel for Iranian strikes against American troops – Washington Post
A partnership built in Ukraine's skies is now being used against American positions in the Middle East.
Putin is collecting gifts from Iran’s war he didn’t even ask for: huge oil check and permission to kill
The US went to war against Iran to neutralize a threat. For Putin, it's a gift basket.
Not enough Patriot missiles to stop 60 Russian Iskanders a month. The Iran war is draining what’s left.
Ukraine's only defense against ballistic attacks became a whole lot harder to obtain
70% of Ukrainians do not believe that peace talks will lead to lasting peace, according to Kyiv-based polling service
No US troops, no closed skies, no free weapons—support for Donbas deal drops from 36% to 25% when guarantee details revealed
North Koreans march with Russian flags through Pyongyang as Ukraine counts 6,000 of their dead in Kursk
Ukrainian intelligence says veterans are being redeployed as instructors in drone operations and artillery, accelerating Pyongyang's military modernization.
Russia shed its skin three times — tsarist, soviet, oligarch — but imperial beast inside never died, Budanov says
Russia's imperial core must be ripped out and carved it into nations, or the world never sleeps safe, he stresses.
Besieged Russians in Kupiansk high-rises “dwindling,” Ukrainian military says
Dozens of trapped Russian soldiers cling to apartment blocks they can't leave
Kazakhstan jails citizen for six years for fighting for Russia against Ukraine
25-year-old from Petropavlovsk signed contract with Russian military, was wounded, then fled back
Missiles and drones hit Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv overnight as Russia targets residential areas
Russian forces struck four Ukrainian cities with missiles and drones overnight on February 26, wounding at least 24 people — including a 7-year-old in Kharkiv and an 8-year-old in Zaporizhzhia — and leaving over 500 buildings without heating.
US shields its assets in Russia—but stays silent as Russian missiles hit American-linked sites in Ukraine, says expert
The military expert says US double standard on asset protection is deliberate.