Ukraine hits at least 3 Russian oil refineries in one of the largest drone strikes in recent months

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Fire at a Russia oil refinery
Smoke can be seen coming out of a Russian oil refinery in Ryazan on Wednesday following a barrage of drone strikes from Ukraine.

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Photos show Ukraine bracing for Russian assaults with some of the same tricks that derailed its big counteroffensive

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Kharkiv Region Bolsters Defenses With New Fortifications
KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - MARCH 12: Workmen take a break while preparing trenches on the new defensivee line on March 12, 2024 in Kharkiv region, Ukraine. Ukraine has accelerated the building of fortifications, making reinforced dugouts on the second line of defense, setting up anti-tank obstacles, ditches, and trenches for infantry.

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US troops are shooting at balloons to figure out how to beat one of the Ukraine war's most 'dangerous' and unpredictable weapons

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A Wisconsin National Guardsman and a small drone holding a balloon.
A Wisconsin National Guardsman and a small drone holding a balloon.

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The US Army has its eyes on the Arctic and is readying soldiers for the cold, unforgiving wastes that could be their next battlefield

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U.S. Army Sgt. Juan Ramirez, assigned to 5th Squadron, 1st Calvary Regiment, pulls security during Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center 24-02 at Donnelly Training Area, Alaska, Feb. 18, 2024.
U.S. Army Sgt. Juan Ramirez, assigned to 5th Squadron, 1st Calvary Regiment, pulls security during Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center 24-02 at Donnelly Training Area, Alaska, Feb. 18, 2024.

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Russian defectors fighting for Ukraine are attacking their motherland and rolling across the border in tanks: reports

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Representatives of the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps holding a briefing near the border in northern Ukraine last year.
Representatives of the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps holding a briefing near the border in northern Ukraine last year.

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Problems in China have US intelligence worried the rising military power may become 'even more aggressive and unpredictable'

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People watch a video about China's military advancements at the Military Museum in Beijing on March 3, 2024.
People watch a video about China's military advancements at the Military Museum in Beijing on March 3, 2024.

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The Russian war machine is fired up but won't be able to keep going like this indefinitely, war analysts say

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A Russian soldier stands guard at the Luhansk power plant in the town of Shchastya in April 2022.

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NATO's newest member says it's ready to fortify a strategic island in the middle of the Baltic Sea close to Russia

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Sweden Gotland Island C-130
Swedish military officials watch a C-130H take off from a runway on Gotland Island on October 23, 2021.

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China's propaganda actors may go rogue and try to influence the 2024 election, US intelligence says

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Chinese leader Xi Jinping (left) and President Joe Biden (right).
Chinese leader Xi Jinping (left) and President Joe Biden (right).

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US Air Force special ops forces are turning big cargo planes into bombers with a new weapon

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Loading JASSM cradles into the special operations aircraft
US Special Operations Task Group-Central and Air Forces Central Airmen loading JASSM cradles and other cargo into the special operations aircraft.

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