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First drop in Russian GDP since 2023: Putin's rating slid from 80 to 71 percent, 67 percent of Russians want negotiations

Ukrainian drone strikes have forced Moscow into massive internet blackouts - 2,000 events a month by end of 2025. The...

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A quarter of Russian refineries are down: 30 percent of petrol output gone, 25 percent of diesel lost - Moscow imposes an export ban until July

Ukrainian drones are hammering refineries from Kirishi to Yaroslavl night after night. A quarter of refining capacity is no longer...

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Ukrainian drones - 121 in one night over Russia: two dead in Syzran, three wounded in Shebekino, airports closed in four regions

Russia's air defence claims it shot down 121 Ukrainian drones across nine regions. From an unurbanised strike in Samara Oblast...

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The "Nivelir" programme - Russia's inspector satellites, the "matryoshkas" and why the Pentagon stays silent when something off rises into orbit

Western assessments say Moscow is building capabilities not to destroy American satellites, but to block them, jam them, or take...

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Russian Losses 40,000 a Month, No Territory. Xi Has to See It. Trump Doesn't Yet - but CNN Shows Ukraine Is No Longer the Smaller Power

Drones reach Moscow. Putin asks for a ceasefire for the parade, not for peace. NATO is bigger than before the...

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British Volunteer Held in Ukraine for 18 Months: "I Dragged Myself 150 Metres, It Took Me All Day"

Hayden Davis joined the Ukrainian foreign legion as a volunteer. He's now lying in a Russian penal colony, wounded, without...

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Israel

A Fireball over Beit Shemesh Terrified Israelis - It Turned Out to Be a Test of Rocket Fuel With a Range of Thousands of Kilometres

Not an attack. Not an accident. It was a planned weapons test with an intercontinental range, five kilometres from a...

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A Shahed Hit a Chinese Ship the Day Before Putin Landed in Beijing: An Overnight Diplomatic Risk of Russia's War

A Russian drone struck a Chinese trade ship in Ukrainian waters, precisely the night before Putin set off for Beijing....

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Ukrainian drone crashes in Lithuania: NATO is asking about Article 5, and the president has ordered every incursion shot down

For the first time, the war in Ukraine has physically touched a NATO member on the eastern flank. No casualties,...

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Zelensky Releases Satellite Images: Moscow Is Preparing a Strike on 20 Political Centres in Kyiv

When a state loses its political centres, the nation doesn't fall - it just reorganises into something harder to control....

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Explosions in Moscow and Its Suburbs: 3 Dead, 16 Wounded, 124 Drones Shot Down Over the Capital

The casualties are a textbook example of how a successful defence doesn't mean zero damage - a wave of Ukrainian...

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Pentagon Ready for a New Strike on Iran - Two Options on the Table, Special Forces Already on the Ground Since March

Bombing run or a ground raid on the Isfahan nuclear site. Iran has restored 30 of 33 missile positions at...

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