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The Russian-Ukrainian war has produced yet another hallmark event in the history of warfare. On April 14, after 49 days of Russia’s all-out war, Ukraine inflicted a devastating blow upon the Kremlin’s pride and the symbol of its naval power in the Black Sea. Missile cruiser Moskva, the Black Sea Fleet flagship, sank following what […]

Police said in a statement that nine officers were injured in all. Their injuries included “broken arms and police officers who have been hit by stones,” police spokesperson Diana Qudhaib told the daily Aftonbladet. A member of the public was also hit by a stone to the head. The demonstration, involving around 200 people, according […]

Russia stepped up air strikes on Kyiv on Saturday, hitting another military factory a day after Moscow warned it would renew attacks following two weeks of relative calm in the Ukrainian capital. Smoke rose from the Darnyrsky district in the southeast of the capital after what Moscow said were “high-precision long-range” strikes on the armaments […]

Delivering heavier weaponry to Ukraine such as tanks, would not, according to Germany’s justice minister, constitute an entry into the war against Russia. German politics has been consumed since the start of the conflict at the end of February by the question of what kind of weaponry to give Ukraine, and how fast to deliver […]

HOSTOMEL, Kyiv Oblast —  Like so many pilots across the world, Dmytro Antonov, the crew commander of the Antonov An-225 Mriya aircraft, has his own little pre-flight rituals. The world’s biggest and strongest cargo airplane, the master of many flight records, Mriya required special reverence. It had its own spirit and temper. Every time he came […]

Russia blocked The Moscow Times’ Russian-language service on Friday after it published what authorities call a false report on riot police officers refusing to fight in Ukraine. The Moscow Times’ English-language edition is not affected by the block. MT Russian remains accessible abroad and while using a VPN. Russia blocked The Moscow Times’ Russian-language service on Friday after it published what […]

Combat losses of the Russian occupation army since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, as of Friday morning, April 15, amounted to about 20,000 personnel, according to the Facebook page of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Combat losses of the Russian occupation army since the beginning […]

Police in Somalia’s breakaway Somaliland region arrested at least seven journalists Wednesday, including a VOA reporter, as they covered a prison scuffle in the region’s capital, Hargeisa. VOA Somali stringer Sagal Mustafe Hassan was freed after a short detention, but the other journalists remained in custody at Hargeisa’s central police Among the journalists arrested were […]

A US family of five has taken the world record title of the tallest family, according to an announcement by the Guinness World Records. The family’s average height is 203.29 centimeters or 6 feet and 8 inches, with the tallest being the son Adam Trapp measuring a whopping 221.71 centimeters and the shortest being the […]