Airport chaos continues in Russia as Ukrainian drones target Moscow for the second time this week

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A soldier monitors the runway as a Tu-95 bomber aircraft takes off for a night patrol out of Engels-2 airbase on August 7, 2008 in Engels, Russia
A soldier monitors the runway as a Tu-95 bomber aircraft takes off for a night patrol out of Engels-2 airbase on August 7, 2008 in Engels, Russia

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Surface-to-air missiles are getting a workout in the Ukraine war — and not just shooting down enemy missiles and aircraft

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Russian S-400 missile air defence systems parade through Red Square during the general rehearsal of the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow on May 7, 2022.
Surface-to-air missiles have terrorized the skies — and some unexpected land targets — of the Ukraine war.

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Russia has lost more than 2,200 tanks in Ukraine, and it may be reaching the limit of its ability to 'rebuild' older ones

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A Ukrainian soldier checks a wrecked Russian tank outside a village east of Kharkiv in April 2022.

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Top US Air Force general was surprised that Russia 'gave up' trying to destroy Ukraine's Russian-designed air defenses so quickly

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Russian Su-35 fighter jet wreck
The remains of a Russian Su-35 fighter jet downed in the Kharkiv region in April 2022.

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Elon Musk seemed to have 'bought what Putin was selling, hook, line, and sinker,' fellow PayPal mafia member says

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Reid Hoffman sits in the lobby of LinkedIn's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer media award in Berlin on Dec. 1, 2020.
Reid Hoffman (left) said Elon Musk, a fellow member of the"PayPal Mafia" said Musk bought into the Vladimir Putin's take on the war in Ukraine.

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Ukrainian pilots are finally learning to use F-16s, and NATO training plans have said they could be taught to fly other fighter jets too

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Swedish JAS 39 Gripens in Norway
Swedish JAS 39 Gripens taxiing at Bodö airport before takeoff during NATO exercise Trident Juncture 18 on November 2, 2018.

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Front-line tank crews in Ukraine are spending their down time waging war in the video game 'World of Tanks'

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A company of tanks from Ukraine's 95th Airborne Brigade, including captured Russian T-72 and T-80 tanks, in forest in the Donetsk Region on February 21, 2023.

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Russian oil still relies heavily on Western-backed ships despite breaching the price cap

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Oil terminal ship in Russia

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Russia's Luna-25 moon-lander spun out of control and crashed, fumbling an attempt to become the first country to land on the lunar south pole. India is up next.

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Photo of the moon lander Luna-25 in a lab on Earth.
Russia's Luna-25 lander was set to beat India to be the first to land on the lunar south pole. But something went wrong during its descent.

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Who are Ukraine's 82nd Air Assault Brigade? A new elite unit armed with the best Western gear seems to have Russia rattled.

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A Challenger 2 tank of the British army is seen
A Challenger 2 tank of the British army is seen during the NATO Spring Storm exercises in Sakussaare, Estonia on May 20, 2023.

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