Ukraine’s military said on Feb. 8 that it had downed a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft near the town of Toretsk in Donetsk Oblast. “One more Russian attack aircraft has been lost in the Toretsk direction thanks to our air defense troops,” the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade said on Telegram. The Kyiv Independent could not independently […]
Ukraine’s newly formed telecommunications company DVL Group is planning to cut 15% of its IT department due to business consolidation and optimization, the company told Economichna Pravda on Feb. 4. French billionaire Xavier Niel bought and merged fixed operator Data Group Volia and Lifecell — Ukraine’s third-largest mobile operator — last year in a […]
Justin Baldoni’s legal team is not letting Blake Lively’s gag order request go quietly. Earlier this week, the actress demanded a gag order be enforced against Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, after Freedman released unedited footage from the “It Ends With Us” set. In a court filing Tuesday, Lively’s team slammed Freedman for making multiple statements […]
Justin Baldoni’s team released unedited footage from the set of “It Ends With Us” that they claim refutes Blake Lively’s accusations of sexual harassment. After filing a $400 million lawsuit against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, Baldoni’s video — shared by his attorney, Bryan Freedman, and obtained by Fox News Digital — allegedly addresses […]
U.S. President Joe Biden will be passing around $3.8 billion in the so-called Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) to his successor — Donald Trump. On the campaign trail, Trump has repeatedly criticized the Biden administration for providing Ukraine with military assistance, including through military shipments using the PDA. Countering Trump’s rhetoric, the outgoing administration stated its […]
Ukraine has targeted the infrastructure of Russia’s Engels airbase in a “multi-day, comprehensive operation,” Kyiv’s 14th Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Regiment reported on Jan. 14. In a post on Facebook, the regiment — part of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces — said the attacks were to “reduce the enemy’s strategic aviation capabilities” and had struck aviation fuel […]
Russia criticized the latest U.S. sanctions targeting its energy sector on Jan. 11, describing them as an effort to harm Russia’s economy while risking instability in global markets. Despite this, the country’s Foreign Ministry said Russia would continue pursuing major oil and gas projects. The ministry condemned Washington’s “hostile” actions, announced on Jan. 10, and […]
Hydrogen-powered trucks are making waves in the world of clean transportation, and the H2Rescue truck just set a new Guinness World Record to prove it. This impressive vehicle, developed by Cummins Accelera in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and Department of Defense, traveled an astounding 1,806 miles on a single tank of hydrogen. […]
Ukrainian troops captured two North Korean soldiers as prisoners of war (POWs) in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Jan. 11. “This task was not easy,” he said in a Telegram post. “Usually, Russia and other North Korean military personnel finish off their wounded and do everything possible to ensure that no evidence […]
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Jan. 11 that its air defense had intercepted or destroyed 85 Ukrainian drones flying into Russia overnight. In one of the regions that Moscow claimed it successfully countered a Ukrainian drone attack, the local authorities said that a drone crashed into two five-floor apartment buildings in the town of […]
Editor’s note: This story is being updated. President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the Ramstein airbase in Germany on Jan. 9, delivering an opening address to the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG) meeting. Zelensky is expected to hold a series of bilateral meetings during the summit, which will be the last gathering in this format before […]
President Biden still claims he “meant what I said” when he pledged not to pardon his son Hunter, admitting in a new interview that he hoped it didn’t set a precedent for future presidents to “abuse” pardon powers. The president repeatedly promised not to pardon his son before reversing course last month and granting clemency […]