This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies on Thursday, April 21, 2022 shows an overview of the cemetery in Manhush, some 20 kilometers west of Mariupol, Ukraine, on April 3, 2022. | Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies via AP Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko accused the Russians of “hiding their military crimes” by taking the bodies of

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia is ending its indoor mask mandate, city health officials said Thursday night, abruptly reversing course just days after city residents had to start wearing masks again amid a sharp increase in infections. The Board of Health voted Thursday to rescind the mandate, according to the Philadelphia health department, which rel

Soldiers of the 128th separate mountain assault Transcarpathian brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit an tank of Russian invaders with an anti-tank missile. This was reported by abcd24.net  with reference to the Мілітарний. The assault group of the 128th Brigade, from a distance of 4.5 km, destroyed a Russian T-72 tank from the Ukrainian anti-

Air defense units of the DShV of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down an attack aircraft Su-25 and UAV "Orlan-10" of the Russian occupiers. This was reported by the Public Relations Service of the Assault Troops Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the report, the Su-25 attack aircraft and the Orlan-10 multi-purpose unmanned aerial

Resolute resistance and resilience of the Ukrainian army hindered russia's plans to achieve its goal in the short term. This created the need for constant replenishment of the russian group's by personnel and military equipment due to heavy losses. In order to restore their combat capabilities, the russian Armed Forces are increasingly resorting to

Lithuania has handed over heavy mortars to Ukraine: the number is unspecified, but the residual value of all transferred military support is tens of millions of euros. "We have handed over heavy mortars to Ukraine in support, I will not name the number, but we have handed over many," said Minister of National Defense Arvydas Anušauskas to BNS. Acco

Press play to listen to this article European Union officials are fine-tuning a phaseout of Russian oil imports, which could be presented to EU countries as early as next week, but it's still unclear how hard they will dare to squeeze President Vladimir Putin's core revenue stream.   Oil income is critical to fueling the war in Ukraine, but the fea

Press play to listen to this article PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron made an unprecedentedly direct attack on far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Wednesday by using a key TV debate ahead of Sunday's election to accuse her of effectively being on the Kremlin's payroll. Macron’s accusations on support from Russia were a moment of peak tension in a tw

Russia said Wednesday it had successfully conducted the first test launch of its new intercontinental ballistic missile as Russian President Vladimir Putin said it would give countries that "threaten" Moscow something to think about. Appearing on Russian television, Putin boasted that the missile, which has been under development for years, is capa

The Defense Department has awarded the first contract of the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative’s $300 million budget for this year, a $19.7 million deal with AeroVironment for a small, hand-launched surveillance drone called the RQ-20 Puma AE. The award came April 12, just days after the Defense Department announced it would contract with the

With global tensions running high, Russia reported the first successful test launch of a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile, the Sarmat. President Vladimir Putin boasted it can overcome any missile defense system and make those who threaten Russia “think twice,” and the head of the Russian state aerospace agency called the launch out of

There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, and no one claimed the rocket strikes. Israel holds the Hamas militant group that rules Gaza responsible for all rocket fire and typically responds with airstrikes within hours. Early Thursday, Israeli warplanes conducted a series of airstrikes at a Hamas military site in the central Gaza Str

According to publicly available flight data, a U.S. Army parachute plane took off from Joint Base Andrews outside Washington and was circling the area around the Capitol. The plane was part of a parachute stunt at Wednesday night’s Nationals baseball game, just south of the Capitol. The Capitol Police had issued its evacuation alert around 6:32 p.m

Over the past 24 hours, two Russian UAVs, Horizon Air S-100 and Orlan-10, were shot down by air defense units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. They were hit by portable Stinger and Starstreak SAMs. It should be noted that the servicemen of the anti-aircraft missile units of the Airborne Assault Forces continue to masterfully shoot down quite expensiv

Turkey’s drone magnate Baykar on Saturday announced it has reached a new phase in its unmanned combat aircraft project, unveiling that the first prototype has entered the production line. "A larger and more agile fish has entered the production line three and a half years later," Selçuk Bayraktar, the chief technology officer (CTO) at the drone mak