Why Russia and India both crashed near the moon's south pole before India nailed the first soft landing there

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The lunar south pole region on the far side of the moon, captured by Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft before its failed attempt to land.

Centre for Operation of Space Ground-Based Infrastructure-Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP

Ukraine has a key bridge in its sights, and Russia is throwing whatever it can, from sunken ships to smoke screens, into trying to defend it

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A view taken on October 14, 2022 shows the Kerch Bridge that links Crimea to Russia, near Kerch, which was hit by a blast on October 8, 2022.

NASA discovered a new crater on the moon as wide as a 3-story building, and it's probably Russia's Luna-25 gravesite

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surface of moon grey rocky cratered with luna 25 spacecraft piece visible in upper left corner
The lunar south pole region on the far side of the moon, captured by Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft before its failed attempt to land.

Centre for Operation of Space Ground-Based Infrastructure-Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP

Ukraine's spy chief reveals how Russia's Il-76 airlift planes were targeted and destroyed in an attack launched from inside its own territory

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A satellite image shows the air base in Pskov, after what Kyiv confirmed to have been a Ukrainian drone attack, in Russia, August 31, 2023.
A satellite image shows the air base in Pskov, after what Kyiv confirmed to have been a Ukrainian drone attack, in Russia, August 31, 2023.

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Video shows 2 Russian helicopters and a jet failing to take out a small Ukrainian drone, Ukraine says

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A Russian helicopter trying to take out a Ukrainian drone in Crimea.
A helicopter fires on a drone in a video posted on September 1, 2023, by Ukraine Defence Intelligence.

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Russian hackers broke into Ukrainian battlefield tech, pillaging data from Android devices: intel agencies

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A Ukrainian serviceman works with a tablet as he takes a cover from bombing
A Ukrainian serviceman works with a tablet as he takes a cover from bombing by Russian forces inside the building during patrol in Bakhmut, Ukraine, in February 2023.

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Ukrainian weapons can now hit targets 430 miles away, Zelenskyy says, threatening to bring the war deeper inside Russia's borders

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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine August 24, 2023

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4 Russian Il-76 transport planes were damaged in a fiery blaze after a Ukrainian drone strike hit a Russian airfield more than 400 miles from the border

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A Russian II-76 transport plane
A Russian Il-76 MD airlifter is seen during the 2021 International Army Games at the Alabino training ground on August 23, 2021 in Moscow Region, Russia.

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Russia and Ukraine are fighting the kind of drone war the US military has been worrying about, and it's scrambling to prepare for a future that's already here

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Ukrainian soldiers launch a drone at Russian positions near Bakhmut in December 2022.

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Russia sank ships to protect a key bridge from Ukraine's naval drones. It might not be enough to keep the small exploding vessels from hitting their targets.

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A ship in Russia's Black Sea fleet.
The Kerch Bridge is a key supply line for Russia to occupied Crimea — and a prime target for Ukraine's exploding naval drones.

Vladimir Zapletin

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