❗️Russia struck the Borshchahivskyi Chemical and Pharmaceutical Plant in Kyiv, according to Ekonomichna Pravda. The facility belongs to one of Ukraine’s seven largest pharmaceutical manufacturers by revenue.
The Samara oil pumping station in Russia’s Samara Oblast was struck again today. A large fire erupted at the facility, an important hub for receiving, storing and transporting oil with one of Europe’s largest tank farms.
The Samara oil pumping station in Russia’s Samara Oblast was struck again today. A large fire erupted at the facility, an important hub for receiving, storing and transporting oil with one of Europe’s largest tank farms.
The Rain Vortex at Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore is one of the world’s most spectacular indoor waterfalls. 💧At about 40 metres tall, it plunges through the heart of Jewel’s glass roofed complex.Surrounded by lush greenery, the waterfall creates a remarkable indoor rainforest atmosphere.It becomes especially mesmerizing when viewed from the different levels of the building.The Rain Vortex is no...
❗️Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that India submitted a proposal concerning a settlement in Ukraine. The proposal reportedly includes ending attacks on energy and other infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted grain and energy shipments through Black Sea ports, and halting strikes on commercial shipping.
Ukraine’s 40th Artillery Brigade struck four Russian Giatsint-B guns, a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, a tank and an FPV drone depot. The brigade also targeted Russian shelters during the combat operations.
Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed damage from earlier strikes on two Russian energy facilities. The October 2 strike on the Samara oil station damaged 14 storage tanks, pipelines and an automated loading station. At the Astrakhan gas processing plant, struck on October 4, two gas purification units, U-172 and U-272, and the U-1731 secondary distillation unit were damaged. Ukraine says both facilit...
Ukrainian forces struck Russia’s Seshcha airfield in Bryansk Oblast on October 6 and overnight into October 7, the General Staff says. An EW station near Hrinovo and a radar near Elionka were also hit. Across occupied Ukraine, Ukrainian forces struck a Russian strike-drone storage, preparation and launch site near Donetsk, UAV command posts in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, command positions in Donetsk Obla...
Ukraine’s Sapsan missile program effectively ended after Russian strikes targeted its production infrastructure, according to aviation expert Valeriy Romanenko. He said Russia struck the missile manufacturing plant, the facility producing solid-fuel engines, a backup plant intended to produce the missiles in parallel, and two or three suppliers responsible for components. “The program closed by it...
Ukraine has established a steady drone presence over Russian-occupied Crimea for the first time in 12 years of occupation, according to Unmanned Systems Commander Magyar. He says the 414th Magyar’s Birds Brigade conducted more than 7,000 missions this summer alone as part of the Unmanned Systems Forces’ “Crimean Operation.” Its drones regularly fly dozens of kilometers over the peninsula en route ...
A tree with just six known wild individuals left is being cloned to help prevent it from disappearing forever. The Mongarlowe mallee (Eucalyptus recurva), found in southeastern Australia, is one of the world’s rarest eucalypts.Its largest known individual has a woody underground structure called a lignotuber estimated to be 3,000–6,000 years old.The six surviving wild individuals are widely separa...
❗️The European Commission has disbursed €1.24 billion under the defense component of its €90 billion Ukraine Support Loan. The money covers drones, drone interceptors, drone ammunition and missiles manufactured by Ukrainian entities. The EU plans €28.3 billion in defense-related disbursements in 2026, with another €15.4 billion still available this year to support Ukraine’s defense industrial capa...
❗️EU ambassadors have approved new sanctions targeting 743 individuals and 826 organizations linked to Russia’s military-industrial complex, UNN reports. The measures also cover 77 State Duma members elected from occupied Ukrainian territories and renew restrictions over Russia’s use of chemical weapons.
24 hours right? It is getting hard to keep listening to the same claim over and over. Trump once again says the end of Russia’s war against Ukraine is “getting closer.” “Believe it or not, it doesn’t look that way from the outside, but actually we are getting closer and closer to ending it,” he said.
South Korea expects apologies from Ukraine regarding disclosure of the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war, but shouldn't the apology be made the other way around? More than 176,000 tonnes of fuel, mostly diesel, was shipped from South Korean ports to Russia in July and August, according to Guardian analysis of port and ship-tracking data. Seven tankers made 14 voyages to Russia’s Far Ea...