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Crimea
Ukraine wants and needs as much modern air defense weapons it can get, in the meantime, it makes do with its Soviet-era S-125 surface-to-air missiles.
13h ago
War in Ukraine
According to partisan reports, Russians placed the $25 million Tor-M2 complex directly above the beach in occupied Sevastopol, endangering the local population.
20h ago
Crimea
Rumors began to circulate on social media on Friday afternoon that a Ukrainian ATACMS strike had destroyed elements of the S-500 battery in an unidentified location.
Jun. 28
Crimea
The cyberattack is the latest in a string of recent ones conducted by Ukraine's Defense intelligence.
Jun. 26
War in Ukraine
Ninety Ukrainian POWs return home; Kremlin cranks up its media crackdown on foreign outlets; Kremlin “absurdly” links Crimea missile strike and Dagestan terrorist attack to the West, ISW says.
Jun. 26
Crimea
The duel in the skies above Crimea pitted 1990s-era US weapons against the Russian air defense platform Kremlin calls “the best in the world.”
Jun. 24
Crimea
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the strike on Sevastopol "barbaric" and accused Washington of "killing Russian children".
Jun. 24
Crimea
Russian milbloggers criticize Crimean authorities for failing to build shelters and not warning civilians about the missile threat, while encouraging Crimean despite the war.
Jun. 24
Crimea
Sevastopol, a Black Sea port city and naval base on the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, regularly comes under fire from Ukraine, but Sunday's attack was unusually deadly.
Jun. 23
Russia
In Russia the government has not only banned the Witnesses’ legal entities but it has clearly shown its intent to wipe out their peaceful worship.
Jun. 23
War in Ukraine
Nigel Farage, leader of the UK’s Reform Party, said during a prime-time TV interview that the EU and NATO incited Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with its eastward expansion.
Jun. 21
Drones
A month of Ukrainian precision strikes against Russian air defenses, particularly in Crimea, has opened the door for waves of kamikaze drones to do their stuff.
Jun. 21
Crimea
A video circulating online was taken by a Ukrainian drone operator as she crossed the destroyed bridge in a bid to escape the occupation before showing him her Ukrainian passport.
Jun. 14
Crimea
A Financial Times investigation has found Ukrainian children who were abducted from the occupied territories listed for adoption by Russian authorities, one under a false Russian identity.
Jun. 13
US
Russian officials said that all Ukrainian missiles missed or were shot down, and nothing on the ground was damaged, and no one hurt. Fact checks didn’t exactly back that up.
Jun. 12
Drones
There used to be areas where warships of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet could sail, that the Ukrainians couldn’t hit – but they are getting fewer.
Jun. 11
Rumors began to circulate on social media on Friday afternoon that a Ukrainian ATACMS strike had destroyed elements of the S-500 battery in an unidentified location.
Jun. 28