Kyiv — Ukrainian and Russian emergency alert apps used to warn civilians of incoming missiles, drones and other military attacks were hacked hours apart on Sunday night, sending out false messages about radiation, chemical attacks and nuclear strikes. At 10:47 p.m. local time (3 p.m. Eastern), Air Alert, a Ukrainian app developed by Ajax Systems and…
Residents who were evacuated from the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky as part of a U.S.-brokered temporary ceasefire crossed into Ukrainian-held territory on Saturday. The civilians traveled by bus and plane through Russia and Belarus, following a deal brokered by U.S. first lady Melania Trump. Oleshky is a city in Ukraine’s southeastern Kherson region occupied by…
At least two people were killed in a drone attack in Russia’s southwestern Saratov region and parts of Ukraine went without power following targeted assaults on energy infrastructure, local authorities said Saturday, as U.S.-led peace talks on ending the war press on. The drone attack damaged a residential building and several windows were also blown…
Mexican authorities arrested an official allegedly linked to the killing of a mayor who was vocal about drug violence, prosecutors reported on Thursday. Assassins killed Carlos Manzo in the city of Uruapan last November during Day of the Dead celebrations, in a case that ignited fury across Mexico last year. Uruapan’s welfare secretary Rosa Alejandra…
Kherson, Ukraine — A jet-powered Russian drone hit two passenger trains stopped at a station in Dnipro in central Ukraine Thursday, killing at least 14 people and injuring 14 more, including a 40-year-old man whose legs were amputated, officials said. A Russian cruise missile killed two 15-year-old girls in the northern city of Chernihiv, meanwhile, and…
Kharkiv, Ukraine – Yulia Spichak, a 34 year-old makeup artist in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region, dropped her son off at an English-language lesson on Oct. 19 and sat down in a nearby park to send a selfie to her sister, Alina. Seconds later, a Russian drone slammed into the park, killing Spichak and four others,…
Okinawa proved to be the last and costliest battle of World War II in the Pacific – and it’s a name director Peter Berg wants us all to remember. His new movie, “The Mosquito Bowl,” captures that battle. “It is a film that I hope asks us all to look at what we ask of…
Tel Aviv — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that he had ordered a major military operation in the occupied West Bank and told troops to cordon off a large city in the territory after a shooting attack by two Palestinian men that left two soldiers dead. The Israeli military said forces killed the Palestinian…
Over the past week, Ukraine has received a stark reminder of its growing dependence on uninterrupted access to Elon Musk’s Starlink and Starshield networks in its drone-heavy war against Russia, now in its fifth year. Ukraine has a fraction of Russia’s resources, but its aggressive development of drone warfare on defensive and offensive fronts has…
Progress toward a negotiated resolution to Russia’s war on Ukraine is “theoretically possible,” Kremlin officials said Wednesday as U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg, but any headway will require Ukraine’s leaders to make “necessary decisions,” according to Russian state media. If Ukraine fails to make those decisions, the…
