Ukrainian troops equipped with devastating HIMARS are waiting for US targeting data before firing on Russian forces, officials say

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US Army soldiers fire High Mobility Artillery Rocket System HIMARS in Kuwait
US Army soldiers fire High Mobility Artillery Rocket System during an exercise near Camp Buehring in Kuwait on January 8, 2019. These powerful weapons have been game-changers in Ukraine.

US Army/Sgt. Bill Boecker

Why China's and Russia's 5th-generation stealth jets don't quite live up to the hype, according to a former US Navy pilot

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Chinese J-20 fighter jet
A Chinese air force J-20 fighter jet at the Changchun Air Show in Jilin Province in August 2022.

Fu Tian/China News Service via Getty Images

Russian censors scour the internet for claims Putin is a 'bald dwarf' or seriously ill, leaked documents show

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Demonstrators carry a carry a model of a prison cell with the cut-out figure of Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in central Saint-Petersburg , on February 4, 2012.

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How Sergei Shoigu went from Putin's wilderness bestie to the scapegoat for Russia's failures in Ukraine

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shows mushrooms to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during his vacation in the remote Tuva region in southern Siberia, in August 2017.

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The explosive warheads in the suicide drones Russia is using against Ukraine are built to shred targets for maximum damage: report

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Destruction from a drone attack in Kyiv
Firefighters work after a drone attack on buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022.

Roman Hrytsyna/Associated Press

Ukraine says SpaceX needs to pick a side after the company decided Kyiv can't use its Starlink internet for military drones

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“Psycho”, 22 from the 80th Separate Air Assault Brigade disconnects their Starlink on the front line at Orthodox Christmas, during a ceasefire announced by Russia over the Orthodox Christmas period, from the frontline region of Kreminna, Ukraine, January 6, 2023.
A Ukrainian soldier disconnects their Starlink on the front lines near Kreminna, Ukraine, on January 6, 2023.

REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo

The claim by a discredited journalist that the US secretly blew up the Nord Stream pipeline is proving a gift to Putin

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Danish military video of bubbles in Baltic Sea where Nord Stream pipeline leaked.
Danish military video of bubbles in Baltic Sea where Nord Stream pipeline leaked.

Danish Defense Command

Wagner Group stops recruiting prisoners as growing numbers refuse to be enlisted on suicide missions, reports say

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Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin addresses former convicts as he releases them from serving in his mercenary army, according to state-controlled media
Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin addresses former convicts as he releases them from serving in his mercenary army, according to state-controlled media.

RIA Novosti

SpaceX never intended Starlink internet to be 'weaponized' in Ukraine, says COO

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Elon Musk is CEO of SpaceX.

Steve Nesius/Reuters

Russia has lost at least 1,500 tanks since the start of the Ukraine war, more than half of its invasion force: report

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A local resident rides a bicycle past abandoned Russian tanks in the village of Kurylivka, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine October 1, 2022.
A resident rides past abandoned Russian tanks in the village of Kurylivka in Kharkiv, Ukraine, October 1, 2022.

REUTERS/Vitalii Hnidyi

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