Ukrainian Olympians are entering the Paris Games with their hearts filled and their minds set on honoring those who couldn’t make it to France this summer because of the ongoing war with Russia. On Wednesday, a display with sports equipment was set up at Parliament Square in London to honor the 487 Ukrainian athletes killed...
A court has convicted Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, of spreading false information about the Russian army and sentenced her to 6 and a half years in prison after a secret trial, court records and officials said Monday. Kurmasheva’s family, her employer and the U.S. government have...
Hungary won’t be allowed to host a strategic EU meeting next month because of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s self-proclaimed “peace mission” trips to Moscow and Beijing this month aimed at brokering an end to the war in Ukraine, which EU partners overwhelmingly saw as undermining their support for Kyiv. “We have to send a signal,...
National security experts are looking toward the United States’ chief adversaries as Kamala Harris enters the race for the White House after President Biden announced on Sunday that he would not seek re-election. The sudden change of the Democrat front-runner for the top job has sparked concern that authoritarian leaders from nations like Russia, China...
Ukraine’s top commander said on Monday that Russian forces were staging relentless assaults to try to advance towards the town of Pokrovsk, a logistics hub in the east, and that there was active fighting taking place along the entire front line. Nearly 29 months since the full-scale invasion, Ukraine has stepped up its mobilization effort...
A Russian court has handed down its sentence for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich after over a year of proceedings. The court found Gershkovich, 32, guilty of “gathering secret information” while reporting on a trip to the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg. He has been sentenced to 16 years in prison. WALL STREET JOURNAL...
The espionage trial of Wall Street Journal reporterEvan Gershkovich resumed behind closed doors Thursday in the city of Yekaterinburg in Russia – a case where he is likely to be convicted though evidence of his alleged crimes has yet to be published. Gershkovich, 32, was arrested in March 2023 in Yekaterinburg on a reporting trip...
The assassination attempt on presidential hopeful Donald Trump over the weekend grabbed global attention as leaders, diplomats and dignitaries alike expressed their shock over what many said was an attack on democracy. Questions have mounted regarding the Secret Service’s security failures and conspiracy theories have already begun to circulate across social media platforms – chaos...
Struggling with manpower shortages, overwhelming odds and uneven international assistance, Ukraine hopes to find a strategic edge against Russia in an abandoned warehouse or a factory basement. An ecosystem of laboratories in hundreds of secret workshops is leveraging innovation to create a robot army that Ukraine hopes will kill Russian troops and save its own...
An unidentified individual threw a grenade at a military draft office in the western Ukrainian town of Busk overnight, causing an explosion but not hurting anyone, police said on Monday. The police said in a statement they were investigating the incident, which comes as Ukraine is stepping up its effort to draft civilians into the...
