Russia accused of using illegal chemical grenades on Ukranian troops. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Ukraine has accused Russia of using illegal chemical gas attacks against Ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield, according to a Telegraph investigation. A number of Ukrainian soldiers have claimed that they have been subjected to regular attacks by small drones dropping tear gas…
New reports from US diplomats and spies describe symptoms similar to Havana Syndrome. Source: Fry1989, Wikimedia Commons. A new report has linked Russia to a mysterious neurological symptom, known as “Havana syndrome”, which has plagued US spies and diplomats for over a decade. The Insider, Der Spiegel, and CBS’s 60 Minutes released the joint investigation…
Putin has won Russia’s presidential election with claims that the results were manipulated and rigged. Source: Wikimedia Commons: File:Vladimir Putin (2022-10-21) 03.jpg – Wikimedia Commons President Vladimir Putin has won Russia’s presidential election, triggering a large number of protests at polling stations, claiming the results were rigged. According to the first official results showed on…
Ukraine’s President says 31,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed in war with Russia. Source: The Presidential Office of Ukraine, Flickr. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says 31,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed since Russia launched a full-scale war on Ukraine, when it invaded two years ago. Russian government describes the invasion as a “Special Military Operation”,…
Alexei Navalny, vocal opponent of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, survived a poisoning attempt and was jailed for his role in coordinating a large anti-government protest in 2021. Image: Evgeny Feldman, via Wikimedia Commons The anti-corruption activist confirmed his arrival to a remote arctic penal colony with humour, referring to himself as a “Santa Claus”. …
Luna-25 would have seen Russia be the first to successfully land a space craft on the Moon’s south pole. Image source: Ljubisa Pokrajac via Pexels Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon, after spinning out of control due to a problem while it prepared for pre-landing orbit. Luna-25’s crash means that Russia’s first…
Russia will equip their Yasmen-m nuclear submarines with Zircon hypersonic missiles. Image source: Олег Кулешов/Wikimedia The head of Russia’s largest shipbuilder has told state news that the country is in the process of equipping its new nuclear submarines with hypersonic missiles. “Multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the Yasen-M project will … be equipped with the…
The pilot and a backseater ejecting from the Russian MiG-23 during the air show in the United States. Source: Marsha Bogardus via X (Twitter) A Russian fighter jet has crashed during the Thunder Over Michigan air show in the United States at 4:15pm, Sunday (local time) during the air show’s finale. The MiG-23 fighter…
Radio New Zealand has put a staff member on leave and launched an investigation regarding the edited stories about the Ukraine War. Source: Public Domain Pictures Radio New Zealand (RNZ), the country’s national radio broadcaster has put a staff member on leave and launched an investigation after a series of news stories about the Ukraine…
Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula was blanketed by clouds of ash as the active Shiveluch volcano erupted just after midnight on Tuesday. Image source: NASA/JSC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula was blanketed by clouds of ash as the active Shiveluch volcano erupted just after midnight on Tuesday. The eruption reached its peak six hours…