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Moscow expands censorship as Ukrainian strikes reach deeper into Russia
In footage posted online of a recent Ukrainian attack on Russia on Sept. 8, a fleet of long-range drones and cruise missiles flies past the front lines at dusk before hitting its targets — according to Ukrainian sources,
A senior Russian officer toured positions held by his troops in Ukraine on Wednesday and said Moscow's forces were advancing on all fronts, the Russian Defence Ministry said, with the heaviest fighting taking place around the logistics centre of Pokrovsk.
Anti-drone netting has become an increasingly common tactic to protect key roads, a Ukrainian commander told Business Insider.
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Ukraine destroys giant radio telescope used by Russian military
The RT-70 radio telescope in Crimea was once used to support missions to Venus and transmit messages to potential alien life in the cosmos.
The European Union is discussing ways to use frozen Russian assets to underpin a so-called "reparation loan" to Ukraine to bolster its wartime finances and bypass the risk of a veto by Moscow-friendly Hungary,
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he and President Trump had discussed during a meeting at his Chequers country residence how to support Ukraine and increase pressure Russia to end its war.
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Ukraine strikes Russian oil facilities in Bashkortostan, Volgograd Oblast
Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat is one of Russia’s largest oil refining and petrochemical plants. It is based in the Bashkortostan Republic, some 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) from the front line in Ukraine.
Ukraine said on Thursday that its drones had struck a major oil processing and petrochemical complex and an oil refinery in Russia, part of an intensifying campaign to disrupt Moscow's oil and gas sector.
Ukraine's "Tur" reconnaissance unit claimed to have discovered Nazi detonators inside a Russian ammunition depot, posting photos of the cone-shaped devices inscribed with the Nazi Reichsadler eagle and swastika symbol stamped with the year 1934.
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The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab says Russia's network of sites for Ukrainian children is larger than previously thought, and programs includes military training for children as young as 8.