Ukraine’s 3rd SOF Regiment says it cleared and liberated Andriivka-Klevtsove in Donetsk region. Russian forces had spent a long time trying to seize the village by infiltrating in small infantry groups and taking positions. During the operation, Ukrainian special forces captured 30 Russian troops and killed those who refused to surrender.
Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation says the black box from the Su-24M that crashed in Khmelnytskyi region on June 16 showed failure of control-system elements on the left wing. The aircraft then lost control, began rotating around its axis, fell from more than 600 meters and reached 809 km/h. A preliminary Air Force investigation says the damage may have been caused by a bird strike. Final co...
🇬🇧 #Bedfordshire, UK (August 15, 2026) A nose-over landing crash involving the iconic 1934 De Havilland DH.88 Comet, named Grosvenor House, occurred. The pilot was extracted and taken to hospital.The aircraft is known among aviators for its notoriously difficult handling during touchdown. It bounced and porpoised before running off the strip, digging its nose into the ground and flipping completel...
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry has approved the domestically produced Dovbush T40 strategic UAV for military use. The nearly 5-meter-wingspan aircraft has a range exceeding 2,000 km and endurance of more than 24 hours, sufficient to reach targets beyond the Urals and into Siberia. Designed for deep reconnaissance, fire correction and precision strikes, it can operate as a kamikaze drone or drop muniti...
Ukrainian assault troops used a heavy explosive charge against a basement where Russian forces had barricaded themselves and refused to surrender. The combat footage was released by Ukraine’s 49th Assault Battalion.
🇨🇦 #Canada. What is going on here? Man refuses to get off skytrain track at YVR in Richmond, BC.The voiceover is in Punjabi. Approximate translation:In the 1st part he sez this video for parents to watch, and watch their kids if they do drugs or drinking - pleading to not let the kid out if he's out of his gourd.2ndly, he sez that Indians are selling their property to send their kids to Canada and...
Ukraine’s 77th Airmobile Brigade of the 7th Air Assault Corps says its drone units destroyed or hit 43 Russian assets on the Kupiansk axis: 3 ground robots, 9 motorcycles, 7 ATVs, 12 light vehicles, 3 UAZ-452s, 2 GAZ-3302s, 5 trucks and 2 artillery pieces.
❗️Binance provided Russian investigators with data later used to charge IT specialist Yuri Belenkiy with “financing terrorism” over money donated to Ukraine, Reuters reports. Despite announcing a full exit from Russia in 2023, Binance responded to investigators with transaction records, his address, phone number, passport details and copies of his Russian passport and Bulgarian residence permit. B...
The aftermath at Wildberries’ Kolyodino logistics hub after Ukrainian drones struck the site. The facility, the company’s largest hub and one of its key logistics nodes, was left heavily damaged and in ruins.
Ukraine’s General Staff says four Russian UAV-related targets were hit overnight. A storage, preparation and launch site for attack drones near Hvardiiske in occupied Crimea was struck, with a fire recorded. Ukrainian forces also hit an Orion UAV ground-control station in Novofedorivka, a Geran/Gerbera ground relay in Olenivka, and a communications and power point supporting a UAV relay on Tendra ...
Ukraine’s Hart border brigade says its reconnaissance and strike drone crews hit Russian troops and equipment attempting to break through the state border on the Kharkiv front, including by operating from Russian territory. Ukrainian drone operators also neutralized a Russian tank, artillery system, mortar and heavy machine gun that were being used to protect Russian positions against aerial attac...
There's a 400-year-old festival in Japan, where spiders battle on a tiny wooden stick.Known as Kumo Gassen, it dates back to 1592, when samurai lord Shimazu Yoshihiro reportedly used spider fights to boost his soldiers’ morale.This tradition still continues today in Aira, Kagoshima.Did you know? 🎓
When your dog licks you, it may be gathering information through your scent while also engaging in familiar social behavior. Research from Queen’s University Belfast found that dogs can distinguish the smell of a person experiencing psychological stress from that same person’s relaxed scent, using changes present in breath and sweat. This suggests that dogs can pick up chemical cues linked to our ...
❗️Ukrainian forces hit at least 5 workshop buildings at Russia’s Kombinat Kamensky defense plant in Rostov region, penetrating several layers of air defenses from Pantsir to S-300 systems. The plant produces solid rocket fuel for Uragan, Smerch and Tornado…
❗️Serhii Sternenko, volunteer and former Ukrainian Defense Ministry adviser, says Russia has encountered “some problems with ballistic missiles in the north,” adding: “There will be more.” The statement may hint at Ukrainian strikes targeting Russian ballistic missile sites or launchers in the north.