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On Sunday, June 1, Ukraine launched a coordinated aerial operation aimed at crippling Russian long-range aviation capabilities, striking multiple air bases across Russia in one of the war’s most extensive drone campaigns to date. The operation, known as Operation Spider’s Web, was carried out by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and comes just ahead of ceasefire discussions scheduled in Istanbul for …

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga made an unannounced visit to Damascus on Monday, urging Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa to expel Russian forces from the country. Russia had been a crucial ally of former president Bashar al-Assad, intervening in 2015 to help reverse the tide of Syria’s civil war in Assad’s favor. The overthrow of Assad was a significant blow …

A bomb explosion near an apartment building in Moscow killed Lt. General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s nuclear and chemical defense forces, and his assistant early on Tuesday. According to Russia’s Investigative Committee, the device was placed in a scooter and remotely detonated. The bomb’s blast had the force of approximately 300 grams of TNT. Russian state news agency …

A Western official denied Ukraine’s claim on November 21 that Russia had launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from its Astrakhan region. The official clarified that the missile was actually a ballistic missile aimed at Dnipro in southeastern Ukraine. The missile strike may be in response to Ukraine’s recent use of US and British missiles to target Russian positions. Moscow …