An industrial facility in Russia’s Samara Region was attacked by Ukrainian missiles, local governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev stated. Emergency services have been deployed on site as damage and casualties are assessed. In the Rostov Region, approximately 1,000 residents of seven villages were left without electricity after a Ukrainian drone damaged powerlines, according to local governor Yury…
Russian forces have intensified attacks on logistics networks in Ukraine’s Odessa Region, Moscow’s Defense Ministry reported Friday. The strikes targeted a railway hub at Izmail, the Ukrainian Danube port city used for unloading, storing, and transporting military cargo and fuel supplied to the Ukrainian armed forces. The ministry stated that overnight drone strikes hit railway…
The northwestern region surrounding Russia’s second-largest city, St. Petersburg, was struck by more than 50 drones overnight, according to Leningrad Region Governor Aleksandr Drozdenko. A fire broke out at the key Russian Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga following a Ukrainian drone strike on Friday, Drozdenko reported in a Telegram message early Friday morning. The blaze…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has declared that Moscow will intensify its military operations in Ukraine and dismantle all elements used by Western allies to sustain Kyiv’s war effort, following a series of attacks that have caused mass civilian casualties. The minister described Ukrainian drone strikes on Starobelsk in May and Gelendzhik earlier this month…
The Russian border region has faced some of the most intense attacks over the past week. Children are among the mounting casualties of Ukraine’s escalating drone campaign against Russia’s Belgorod Region, where a hospital treats many of the youngest victims. Kyiv has intensified long- and mid-range strikes on Russian territory in recent months. This campaign…
Russia could seize ships carrying Western cargo in retaliation for similar actions against Russian maritime trade, President Vladimir Putin has warned. There have been several incidents in recent months in which Western militaries have seized vessels that their governments accused of being part of a so-called Russian ‘shadow fleet’. During a meeting with Pacific Fleet…
Bucharest is seeking to justify higher defense spending by parroting the purported “threat from the East,” Moscow’s embassy has stated. Romanian officials presented pieces of foam plastic as supposed evidence that drones recently shot down over Romania were Russian, according to the mission. The embassy responded to Romania’s accusations that Russian UAVs have on numerous…
Two people, including a child, have been killed and at least a dozen others wounded in another large-scale Ukrainian drone raid on Russia’s Krasnodar Region, local governor Veniamin Kondratyev has said. The region was targeted by hundreds of UAVs overnight, Kondratyev wrote in a post on Telegram Wednesday. Civilian facilities and private homes in Novorossiysk,…
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is considering withdrawing the United States from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the primary UN agency overseeing refugee-related matters. According to a July 20 Reuters report, the administration “has in recent weeks weighed cutting ties with the U.N. refugee agency, prompting a campaign by diplomats and U.N….
The University of Alberta has won a court decision to terminate an endowment fund named after Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian SS veteran who served in Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS Galicia Division during World War II. This controversy erupted during Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky’s 2023 visit to Ottawa when Canadian lawmakers—including then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and House…