Russia-Ukraine War

Launchers of the Bundeswehr’s Patriot air defense system stand in Poland, on April 3, 2023.
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Ukraine needs billions in US arms as Greenland dispute pushes alliance to breaking point, documents reveal

by Luca Léry Moffat

Ukraine needs at least $27 billion in military equipment from non-European Union sources in 2026, highlighting the bloc's dependence on American technology to support Kyiv, negotiating documents show. The EU is set to spend 60 billion euros ($70 billion) on Ukraine's defense as part of a larger 90-billion-euro support package agreed in December, an unprecedented sum that European leaders hope will reboot its military industrial base and support the Ukrainian military’s continued operation durin

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Ukraine war latest live: Russian drones hit railway, Invincibility Train sheltering civilians in Sumy Oblast

This is Tania Myronyshena reporting from Kyiv on day 1,442 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story so far: Russian forces carried out a mass drone attack on railway infrastructure in Ukraine's Sumy Oblast overnight, damaging rail facilities and striking an Invincibility Train used to provide warmth and basic services to civilians, Ukrainian officials reported on Feb. 5. One of the strikes hit the Shostka district, where a female railway worker was injured while heading t

I tested Russia's AI. It knows the truth, but it's been trained to lie

When a Russian-speaking user asks Alice, Russia's most popular AI system, who started the war in Ukraine, the answer comes without hesitation: Ukraine did, backed by the West. The Bucha massacre? Staged. Nazi government in Kyiv? Confirmed. This is not a fringe chatbot. This is Russia's most popular AI assistant, developed by the country's largest tech company, delivering Kremlin propaganda to millions. I know this because I tested it. In EU-funded research presented at a NATO-supported panel i

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