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As the United States, Europe, and Ukraine continue to call for constructive peace talks, Russia is relentlessly attacking Ukrainian cities, launching almost 1,000 strikes in three days, killing and injuring dozens of civilians.
Russia bombards Ukrainian cities with Shahed drones almost daily, terrorizing civilians from frontline cities like Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipro, and Zaporizhzhia to distant hubs like Kyiv and Odesa. In response, Ukrainian engineers have built a homegrown defense system—Sky Sentinel—to fight back against the Russian aerial threat.
Ukraine has rolled out a system where frontline units earn points for every enemy target they destroy—points they can redeem for more weapons. It’s a results-first approach that gives even low-profile but lethal teams the firepower to hit Russian troops harder, faster, and more often.
More than three years have passed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the most intense war in Europe since World War II, marked by the largest deployment of troops and military hardware on the continent in decades. No one, including Moscow, was prepared for what followed. The Kremlin’s plan to seize Kyiv in “just three days” collapsed almost instantly. But what if Ukraine hadn’t held the line—what if it had capitulated right away?
The Baltic Sea, shared by several European nations and Russia, is governed by longstanding navigation agreements. But since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has repeatedly breached these rules, using military aircraft to intimidate and flouting international norms with impunity.
Ukraine was among the first to face Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union. The war claimed 20% of its population and devastated its infrastructure and industry. Both the German occupation and Moscow bled the country dry.
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