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Where Drones Cannot See, the Ukraine War Is a Deadly Game of Cat and Mouse

27 août 2026 à 05:54
Russian troops are trying to infiltrate the vast, overgrown reservoir basin of a dam they blew up three years ago as Ukrainian soldiers hunt them at close quarters.

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Ukrainian soldiers of the Bratstvo Battalion unloading their equipment after making their way out of the Kahkovka reservoir basin, completing their weeks-long mission, in July.

Zelensky Says His Ex-Defense Minister Was Wrong to Call for Elections

23 août 2026 à 10:09
The Ukrainian president repeated his long-held position that elections in the middle of war would tear his country apart.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine this month in Belgrade, Serbia.

Kyiv’s Dormition Cathedral is Revived After Russian Drone Strike

19 août 2026 à 05:29
Volunteers and priests rallied to clean up Kyiv’s Dormition Cathedral, still smelling of smoke from a massive blaze, for an anniversary celebration.

Nadiia Fesenko mopped the floor of the Dormition Cathedral, one of the main cathedrals of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra preserve, after it was struck by a Russian drone several weeks prior, in Kyiv, in July.

Syrian Convicted in Austria of Civil War Abuses Is Detained in Syria

15 août 2026 à 11:28
Musab Abu Rukbah, a former police chief, left Austria after appealing his eight-year sentence for crimes committed during Syria’s civil war.

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Musab Abu Rukbah, right, and Roman Valach, one of Mr. Abu Rukbah’s lawyers, leaving a Vienna courtroom after a hearing in June.
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