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Russia’s drone attacks are becoming increasingly complex, with enemy threats becoming harder to kill, the team leader for a Ukrainian mobile air defense unit told Business Insider. He said higher-reaching weapons are needed to beat them.Oleksiy, the deputy commander of an air defense unit with Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces, said…
Ukraine said that one of its F-16 fighter jets crashed while repelling a Russian air attack, but its pilot survived.In an announcement on Friday, Ukraine’s air force said that preliminary data showed the pilot destroyed three aerial targets and was targeting a fourth when an issue occurred with the US-made…
Even before armies used tanks, they were using motorcycles. In 1916, US troops on motorcycles chased Mexican bandit Pancho Villa (who also used motorized bikes in his raids). In World War II, couriers zoomed all over the front carrying messages, while German reconnaissance units even used sidecar motorcycles armed with…
At least 60,000 passengers had their flights delayed or canceled at airports across Russia as Ukraine unleashed large-scale drone attacks this week, according to a national tourism body.Russia’s association of tour operators said in a statement on Wednesday that at least 350 flights were affected by the threat of drone…
Satellite imagery captured Thursday shows extensive damage at one of Russia’s largest ammunition depots after it caught fire and exploded earlier in the week.An image taken by Planet Labs and obtained by Business Insider reveals significant destruction at the 51st Main Missile and Artillery Directorate (GRAU) Arsenal, an ammunition complex…
A Chinese prisoner in Ukraine said videos on Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, enticed him to join Russia’s military.The man, identified by Ukraine as 34-year-old Wang Guangjun, spoke to international and Ukrainian press in a two-hour press conference on Monday. He and another Chinese man described what they said was…
Western analysts say the monthly pace of Russia’s war gains has fallen below a third of its rate of advance from November.The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, wrote on Sunday that it found Russia had seized 203 square kilometers, or 78 square miles, of Ukrainian…
