The long-awaited arrival of U.S.-made F-16s have allegedly landed in Ukraine, officials said Wednesday, a move that will help Kyiv revive its air capabilities in its war against Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly emphasized his country’s need for superior air support and aircraft since Russia invaded more than two years ago. Despite international...
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Ukraine's 1st medal of Paris Olympics won by fencer who refused to shake Russian opponent's hand
Ukraine’s first medal of the 2024 Olympics belongs to women’s fencer Olga Kharlan, but she insists it is for more than just herself. Kharlan beat South Korea’s Choi Sebin 15-14, coming back from a six-point deficit, for the women’s saber fencing bronze medal on Monday. She then dedicated the medal to her country amid its...
Russia has overrun 2 more eastern Donetsk villages, Ukrainian troops report
Russian forces have overrun two front-line villages in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, a Ukrainian army sergeant said Monday, after relentless assaults that are part of a Kremlin summer push to overwhelm battlefield defenses there. Separately, attacks in Russia’s Kursk region by the Security Service of Ukraine, also known as the SBU, struck a number of...
Russian warships make second Cuba visit in 2 months
Havana residents watched from shore on Saturday as Russian warships arrived for the second time in as many months, in a visit that Cuba called routine. Cuban authorities sent shots into the air to signal their welcome, while curious fishermen watched from Havana’s waterside promenade as the ships advanced up the bay. Russian residents were...
Ukrainian athletes killed in Russia's invasion honored in London ahead of Paris Olympics
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...
EU turns up pressure on Hungary's Orban over his 'peace mission' to Russia, China
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,...
Russian forces push toward critical Ukrainian logistics hub of Pokrovsk
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...
Trump assassination attempt shows to Putin and Xi the West on Biden’s watch is vulnerable, unfocused
As we still digest how in the world a random 20-year-old, armed with a high-powered rifle, could have walked up within 150 yards of a presidential campaign rally, climbed onto a rooftop, in full view of Secret Service snipers, set up and fired multiple rounds, nearly assassinating a former U.S. president. And while the shooter,...
What Trump-Vance ticket means for Mitch McConnell's Ukraine aid crusade
Former President Trump’s choice of Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, as his running mate in the November election could make Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s mission to shore up support for Ukraine in the Republican Party more difficult. The Ohio senator has been a vocal critic of the various foreign aid packages, which included assistance for...
Ukraine's drone startups create affordable air, land and sea robots in secret to fight Russia
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...









