Month: August 2024

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@DefenceU: Fire! 📹: @United24media pic.twitter.com/7s3k23olNN



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@KyivIndependent: ⚡Danish F-16s ‘working in Ukraine,’ PM Mette Frederiksen confirms. In a response to the Kyiv Independent, Frederiksen said she was “extremely proud” the aircraft were in use, adding she had wanted to send them “from the beginning of the war.”



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Russia’s Youngest Conscripts Suddenly See Combat Against Ukraine’s Invasion


The long-sacrosanct practice of keeping young Russian army conscripts off the front lines is eroding as the lack of troops in Russia’s Kursk region indicates a manpower shortage.

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Russia and Ukraine

Russia’s Youngest Conscripts Suddenly See Combat Against Ukraine’s Invasion


The long-sacrosanct practice of keeping young Russian army conscripts off the front lines is eroding as the lack of troops in Russia’s Kursk region indicates a manpower shortage.

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Russia and Ukraine

Danish F-16s ‘working in Ukraine,’ PM Mette Frederiksen confirms


In response to a question from the Kyiv Independent, Frederiksen said she was “extremely proud” the aircraft were in use, adding she had wanted to send them “from the beginning of the war.”

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Ukraine-Russia war live: Killed Ukrainian pilot one of only 6 trained to fly F-16s


A Ukrainian F-16 fighter pilot killed when his aircraft crashed on August 26 was one of just six aviators in the country trained to fly the jet.

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@visegrad24: On August 31, 1920, 2000 Polish cavalrymen defeated the 17 000-men-strong Soviet “Horse Army” in the Battle of Komarow. It was the last large battle in history in which cavalry was used as such and not as mounted infantry.The political commissar at Komarow? Joseph Stalin pic.twitter.com/THZbUJoN1y



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Secrets and Lies on the Frontline of the Fight Against Putin


Ukraine is divided between those who have fought in Putin’s war, and those who haven’t.

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@MoscowTimes: What’s cooking this Saturday? A surprising dish of baked apples and chicken. Courtesy of our culinary historians, who tell the tale of apple cultivation in Rus in the #weekendkitchen.



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@KyivIndependent: ⚡Russian Mi-8 helicopter with 22 people on board goes missing in Kamchatka, Kremlin media reports. According to Tass, the aircraft belongs to the Vityaz-Aero airline which organizes tourist trips on the peninsula.