Space Oddity: Russian cosmonauts arrive at cosmos control station wearing Ukrainian flags
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Three Russian cosmonauts arrived smoothly at the International Space Station last night in flight suits made in the yellow and blue of the Ukrainian...
The enigma of Ukraine’s skies: Russia’s air force has stayed mostly out of the fray
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March 15, 2022
Andreas Rüesch of Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Putin’s forces have failed to gain air supremacy over Ukraine, leaving observers surprised and puzzled.
If Ukrainian authorities...
Putin’s War: Day 22
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♦ REUTERS EXCLUSIVE: Russian businessman Roman Abramovich transferred a company he controlled with tens of millions of euros of investments to a director of...
“Russia will prevail,” cried the autarch before a ‘TV glitch’ cut him off
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In front of a packed soccer stadium of loyalists, many brandishing newly minted national flags, Russian President Vladimir Putin justified the invasion of Ukraine...
Ukraine and Taiwan: in the eye of the despot
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Friday 18 March 2022 Bowdoin campus, Brunswick, Maine
by Tom Porter
What does the recent invasion of Ukraine mean for diplomatic relations between Russia and its...
Finland’s Winter War – the history lesson Putin ignored
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Putin appears to have learned nothing from the failures of Stalin
London, 18 March 2022
by Roger Wilsher
Russian leader Vladimir Putin is making the classic mistake...
Air and ground defence systems
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"These pocket monsters are only commendable if you're defending public spaces where unarmed civilians are forced to take refuge from a war criminal deliberately...
Klitschko’s voice resounds across the moral void of Russia
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZUPYZbtoo0
Fog of war: what the heck is going on?
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Here an American military vet applies his seasoned eye to the pattern of the war so far. Great stuff if you're interested in tanks,...
US to send armed drones to Ukraine
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US moves closer to direct conflict with Russia
by Mark Porter. Cannes, March 16, 2022
Armed drones with the capability of knocking out almost all Russian...