Ukraine can't use the UK's Storm Shadow missiles on targets inside Russia because the US is standing in the way: reports

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Two Storm Shadow missiles just after they were dropped from a jet over brown fields.
A still from footage by Ukraine's air force that shows a Storm Shadow missile being launched.

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A Russian murder convict joined Wagner, went home, killed again, then got out a 2nd time by joining the army: rights group

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A billboard with a masked Russian soldier.
A billboard with a masked Russian soldier.

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Y Combinator is making its first weapons industry bet on a company that wants to be the SpaceX of missiles

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US-made MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile getting launched during a live fire exercise at the Chiupeng missile base in Pingtung county, southern Taiwan.
"In a war with Taiwan, we would fire thousands of anti-ship missiles a week, and our stockpiles would run out in days.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the US military is falling behind in AI warfare and needs a 'systemic overhaul'

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Former chairman and CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt.
Former chairman and CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt.

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Russia is putting up a stiffer fight in Kursk and is sending well-equipped soldiers, says Ukrainian commander

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A Ukrainian soldier behind a tree after hearing the sound of a drone in the town center of Sudzha, Russia, on August 16, 2024.
A Ukrainian soldier behind a tree after hearing the sound of a drone in the town center of Sudzha, Russia, on August 16, 2024.

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The Kremlin is trying to convince Russians to accept Ukraine's Kursk incursion as a 'new normal': report

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A security guard held their weapon in front of a center for the reception of war-displaced people and humanitarian aid distribution in Kursk on August 16, 2024.
Outside a center for the reception of war-displaced people and humanitarian aid distribution in Kursk on August 16, 2024.

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Russia, which is in a demographic crisis, wants people to stop using dating apps in Kursk and other regions

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A woman talks by a mobile phone past to a military propaganda billboard with picture of a Russian Armed Forces officer, advertising the contract service in the army in Moscow.
Russia is telling some citizens not to use dating apps because of perceived security risks.

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Ukraine is rationing shells on the front with ammo redirected for the assault on Kursk, commander says

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Ukrainian soldiers of a mortar unit fired a mortar in the direction of Toretsk, Ukraine, on August 18, 2024.
Ukrainian mortar unit firing in the direction of Toretsk, Ukraine, on August 18, 2024.

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Zelenskyy said Ukraine told no one about the Kursk invasion because its allies would have called it 'unrealistic'

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaking during an interview with French media in Rivne.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country did not inform their allies about the planned incursion on Kursk because it would have seemed "unrealistic" to them.

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Ukraine's 'rapid' incursion into Kursk shows it's learned from months of grinding warfare, military analysts say

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A destroyed Russian tank on a roadside near Sudzha, Kursk region, Russia
A destroyed Russian tank on a roadside near Sudzha, Kursk region, Russia, on August 16, 2024.

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