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Ukraine
Equipped with the best NATO-delivered infantry armored vehicles and Challenger tanks, the 82nd appears to already be making gains around the village of Robotyne.
Aug. 16, 2023
Russia
Why would Russian officials allow Alexei Navalny to continue writing critically of the Russian government from behind bars? Statistical analysis suggests a ghostwriter is the most likely author.
Aug. 16, 2023
War in Ukraine
Quickly assembled and dismantled, the prototype mobile pop-up Orthodox chapel is designed to serve the spiritual needs of Russian troops fighting in Ukraine.
Aug. 16, 2023
War in Ukraine
Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the commander of Russian forces in Ukraine, disappeared from view in the fall-out following June’s ill-fated Wagner rebellion led by his ally Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Aug. 16, 2023
War in Ukraine
On Aug. 16, 1954, the Ukrainian Service of the US-financed Radio Liberation (later Radio Liberty) made its first broadcast from Munich to Soviet-ruled Ukraine. Here is the text of that message.
Aug. 16, 2023
Russia
While the Kremlin hopes the new cryptocurrency will revive Russia’s flagging economy and help evade sanctions, experts are warning it will be “the ultimate social control tool.”
Aug. 16, 2023
Ukraine
Ukrainian leaders responded angrily to a high-ranking NATO bureaucrat’s “probable solution” of swapping territory that Russia is occupying for membership in the Alliance.
Aug. 16, 2023
Russia
Moscow in April branded Finland's membership of the western alliance an "assault on our security" and vowed to "take countermeasures... in tactical and strategic terms".
Aug. 16, 2023
War in Ukraine
Kyiv announces liberation of Urozhaine; heavy battles raging near Robotyne and Verbove with possibly significant gains for Ukraine; elite air assault units make deep strikes in the south.
Aug. 16, 2023
War in Ukraine
The air attack is at least the fifth this month over the Kaluga region that Russia says it has thwarted.
Aug. 16, 2023
Ukraine
Your news for the morning of Wednesday, August 16 – Day 539 of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine.
Aug. 16, 2023
War in Ukraine
The Swedish company SKF confirmed three of its employees died in the attack which Russia said damaged “Ukraine's military-industrial complex.”
Aug. 15, 2023
War in Ukraine
After the attack on a Russian military command post, the Mariupol city council reports that 50 Russian soldiers were hospitalized in the city, with more than a dozen fatalities.
Aug. 15, 2023
Russia
The IOC has yet to make a decision on whether Russians and Belarusians can take part in the Paris Games – which run from July 26 to August 11 2024 – as neutral competitors.
Aug. 15, 2023
Putin
The Russian President and Defense Minister used opening addresses at a military trade show near Moscow to claim Russian technical superiority against “much-hyped” Western weapons.
Aug. 15, 2023