Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 235 combat clashes with Russian invaders across the frontlines on February 25, successfully repelling 57 attacks in the Pokrovsk sector.

Russian-linked property acquisitions close to British military bases have come under scrutiny, after European intelligence officials warned that Moscow has been buying strategically located real estate across the continent as part of a potential sabotage and surveillance network. According to a report in the UK’s Daily Telegraph, Western security agencies fear that Russians may have […]

Ukraine's State Border Guard Service released footage showcasing the extensive destruction in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, following recent Russian attacks.

Russian troops wounded three residents of the Donetsk region over the past day, February 24.

As Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its fifth year, a new generation of young Russians shares their anti-war perspectives on their country and future, despite state propaganda.

On the fourth anniversary of Russia's invasion, the French president added that 'one day, Russians will realize the enormity of the crime committed in their name.'

Lithuanian conservatives are advocating for more restrictions on Russians and Belarusians buying property in the country.

Russian soldiers told how they witnessed their comrades being killed at point-blank range on the order of senior commanders for refusing to be thrown into ‘meat storms’ missions in Ukraine

Four years into Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it feels "almost worse than ever" for residents of the capital Kyiv. Because the Russians have succeeded in creating darkness and cold, says security expert

Nobel laureate Rachinsky, director of the NGO Memorial, stated that Russians will not understand their responsibility for the aggression against Kyiv. He emphasized that the failure to prevent the conflict four years ago is an unerasable mistake.

Overnight Russian drone attacks on Zaporizhzhia injured five people, including a child, and damaged residential buildings and infrastructure.

A report indicates that Russia's war economy is reaching its limits, with military spending polarizing investments, impoverishing most Russians, and hindering development in other sectors. This trend is projected to create significant difficulties for small businesses in 2026.

In the Chasiv Yar area of the Donetsk region, the Russian army is deploying tanks and armored vehicles this week, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine are detecting and eliminating the enemy as they approach.

Over the previous day, February 22, 130 combat engagements between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders were recorded.

A nighttime Russian drone attack on Zaporizhzhia struck an industrial facility, leaving a 33-year-old man killed and another person injured.

Four women were wounded during more than 50 Russian shellings in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region today.

Russian forces attacked energy infrastructure in Odesa Oblast on the night of 21-22 February, causing large-scale fires but no casualties.

Russian attack on the Nikopol district has injured a 77-year-old man and damaged houses and a residential building.

Russian troops have attacked the village of Artilne in Kharkiv Oblast with a drone, injuring five people.

Russia is transforming the Gulag History Museum in Moscow, once a key space for confronting Soviet-era repression, into a 'Museum of Memory' that primarily focuses on state-sanctioned patriotism and identifies Nazis as the sole villain.

The President of the Ukrainian Paralympic Committee told AFP he feels the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) have betrayed Ukraine by permitting Russian athletes to compete under their own flag at the Milan-Cortina Games.The IPC decision to allow six Russians and four Belarusians to compete in the Games, which begin on March 6, has sparked a boycott of the event by Ukrainian officials as well as the EU Commissioner for Sport.

Host nation Italy criticizes the decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete under their national flags at the Paralympics.

Russia's finance ministry reports that citizens are spending an estimated $648 million on cryptocurrency every day, highlighting significant adoption of digital assets within the country.

Russian troops have attacked the frontline town of Orikhiv in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, killing a 61-year-old man, while the fate of another person is unknown.

Russian forces attacked Mykolaiv Oblast with Shahed-131/136 drones, targeting critical and transport infrastructure in Mykolaiv city and the Voznesensk district.

A total of 164 combat engagements have taken place on 12 fronts over the past day. Ukrainian defenders have repelled 27 Russian assaults on the Pokrovsk front, while the Russians have launched 35 atta

Members of the right-wing organization 'Narodne patrole' (National Patrols) appeared at an anti-war rally in Belgrade's Republic Square, organized by Russians and Ukrainians living in Serbia to protest the war in Ukraine.

Russian troops operating on the Prydniprovske front are attempting to gain internet access by confiscating or purchasing SIM cards from Ukrainian mobile operators due to the absence of Starlink satell

The number of ethnic Russians is decreasing, and the regime plans to increase immigration to compensate for human losses in the war in Ukraine, potentially leading to ethnic Russians becoming a minority this century.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said in an address to the European Parliament that the EU must ban entry for everyone who took part in Russian aggression against Ukraine.

Russian troops launched more than 100 strikes on 36 settlements in 16 territorial communities of the Sumy region within 24 hours, damaging educational and medical facilities.

The Council of the European Union has imposed restrictive measures on eight individuals for serious human rights violations, repression of civil society, and undermining democracy.

In the Kupiansk district of the Kharkiv region, a 59-year-old woman and her son were killed in an airstrike on February 22. Another person and two children were trapped under the rubble and sustained injuries.

Mariupol's first Ukrainian-language school, which has been 70% destroyed since March 2022, has yet to be rebuilt by the Russians.

Russian drone attacks on Odesa Oblast overnight killed two people and injured at least three, damaging infrastructure and houses.

Hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens are hiring themselves out as killers for money, and the rest of society is paying for it, so far without complaint.

Kazakhstan, once a refuge for Russians fleeing war and military service in 2022, is now reportedly cooperating with Moscow against Russian exiles, marking a shift in its stance.

Russian artillery strikes on Nikopol have left three women injured and damaged an apartment building and a local market.

Energy infrastructure has been damaged in Mykolaiv after a Shahed drone attack on 22 February, leaving 16,000 consumers without electricity.

Ukrainian troops have pushed Russian troops back in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, while the Russians advanced in Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast.

Russian troops have attacked the village of Artilne in Kharkiv Oblast with a drone, injuring five people.

"Hubris Generally Precedes Clusterf**k": Does It Smell Like Victory? Authored by James Howard Kunstler, The message seems to be something like the USA isn’t messing around with all those strike forces in the waters around Iran. The Islamic Republic suddenly looks like Rock-and-Hard-Place-Land. Everybody and his uncle are trying to figure out the calculus in play, World War Three or a happy ending? You’re seeing the most significant US military build-up over there in memory. Smells a little bit like first Gulf War, 1991 — minus all those allies we roped in then. Mr. Trump (via Marco Rubio) has read Euroland out on this one. We are in a cold war with those birds, in case you haven’t noticed. The UK, France, Germany & Co.? They are as crazy as the ladies of The View and their millions of Cluster-B followers. Euroland is yet in thrall to the climate nutters, the farm-and-industry-destroyers, the one-worlders, the Jihad-migrationists, the floundering banksters, and the Klaus Schwab wannabes. Euroland seeks to throttle free speech throughout Western Civ and meddle in everyone’s elections. Euroland keeps mouthing off about a war with Russia despite having no military mojo and going broke-ass broke faster than you can say Götterdämmerung. Bottom line: the US is going solo on this one. What is the objective? Ostensibly “a deal” over Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Like, just cut it out, will you, please? By the way, did you know that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei issued a fatwa in 2005 saying production, stockpiling, and use of nuclear weapons was forbidden under Islam. But then deception is allowed in Islam under the doctrine of taqiyya, against the threat of attack from hostile forces, I’m sure you remember Operation Midnight Hammer in June last year when we attacked and supposedly “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear research and development bunkers at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan? They got pretty banged-up, you may be sure, and nobody in Iran denied there was something nukey going on in those installations. Is there a will there to rebuild the whole darn infrastructure of uranium enrichment and so forth? The mullahs are not saying, which means: of course, they intend to continue developing nuclear weapons — and even if that’s a stupid and futile gambit, given recent history, they still have factories churning out plain old long-range ballistic missiles and new drones by the thousands. Let’s face it: the mullahs are hardcore for Jihad and martyrdom. Since being elevated to Supreme Leader in 1989, Ayatollah Khamenei has sought relentlessly to transform the traditional Islamic concept of Jihad and establish it as the central pillar of the regime’s ideology. Are we doing Israel’s bidding there? (Cue: roar of affirmation.) But then, Israel has a point. Iran has been cuckoo for going on forty years. If Israel wasn’t a target of the mullahs’ eternal Shia wrath, there are their other enemies, the Sunni, on the west side of the Persian Gulf (and next door in Iraq). And consider, too, Iran’s obdurate sponsorship of Jihad, wherever possible, both within and outside the Ummah — including especially Western Civ, where low-grade Jihad has been going on for over a decade. . . mass murders, rape gangs, beheadings, trucks through the Christmas markets. . . . Okay, if Euroland is out, what about the other big dogs, Russia and China. Will they just stand by and let the US have its wicked way with Iran? Russia sent a corvette-class naval vessel down to the Straits of Hormuz for a joint operation with Iran’s navy, but what does that mean? Probably not much more than occupational therapy. Besides, Mr. Trump is just now promising to bring Russia “out from the cold” of all those onerous economic sanctions. . . to begin the process of normalizing relations. You might doubt that Russia wants to blow that for Iran’s sake. And, while it is somewhat out of the news due to the Epstein stink-bomb, and the deepness of mid-winter, there is still a war going on over in Ukraine. Which is to say, the Russians have their hands full in their own back-yard and might, perhaps, be hesitant about piling-on in Iran. And, let’s just suppose that the US objective is actually regime change in Iran. Would Russia be indisposed if the mullahs got kicked out of power? I doubt it. Russia has longstanding annoying issues with Islamic factions distributed throughout their adjoining former Soviet republics. Russia does not need Jihad. Russia might actually live more comfortably with Iran under a secular government, tilting a bit more western in temperament. Just sayin’. . . . China has more urgent concerns with Iran. China gets around 13-percent of its oil imports from Iran, and it enjoys a three to four percent discount on it. Regime change or war that could damage Iran’s oil terminals would be bad news for China. But then, China is at a long geographic remove from Iran, and China is not used to conducting military adventures so far from home, so don’t expect much assistance there. China’s other option would be to start a kerfuffle over Taiwan to distract and divert the US. We’ll just have to see about that. Uncle Xi Jinping has been busy lately sacking the upper echelons of his own military leadership. Are they even ready for action? Plus, China’s economy is wobbly. Consider also: has the US given China assurances of continued oil imports from Iran if it steers clear of the situation there? What are we operationally capable of over in Iran with all our warships, fighter jets, and other stuff? I don’t know. . . and neither do you. Looks impressive, but a couple of Sunburn-type missiles landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln could produce a profound instant attitude adjustment. Perhaps President Trump, WarSec Hegseth, and StateSec Rubio have more refined plans for disarming Iran and surgically removing the cuckoo-birds in charge. Our guys are certainly acting confident. But then in geopolitics confidence is best friends with hubris. And hubris generally precedes clusterfuck. The art of the deal is not for sissies. Tyler Durden Fri, 02/20/2026 - 16:20

In 2022, Kazakhstan became one of the main escape routes for Russians fleeing wartime repressions and military service. In the weeks after the Kremlin announced a mobilization, more than 400,000 people entered the country from Russia. For many, it was just a stopover, but an estimated 50,000 to 80,000 stayed. Many Russians saw Kazakhstan as an obvious choice: they could travel there without international passports, and the Russian language is widely understood. And while Astana didn’t condemn...

An article explores Hoxha's secret naval base in Albania, detailing the historical clash with the Russians and the theft of submarines, highlighting the disruption of relations between Russia and Albania and China's involvement.

Food prices are rapidly increasing in Russia, leading to economic hardship for ordinary citizens as the country's economy faces stagnation and decline due to the ongoing war.

Kazakhstan's reputation as a safe haven for Russian exiles is being challenged by a series of planned expulsions of dissidents, indicating Moscow's growing reach.

The Netherlands have withdrawn from hosting the European Para Swimming Championships due to the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes.

According to Viktor Orbán's political director, Balázs Orbán, Russians view the conflict as a 'special military operation' and possess the ruthlessness to achieve their goals.

The Russian army attacked two districts of Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region with FPV drones and artillery shelling, resulting in one person being wounded.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected the idea that Russia could expect a pro-Russian leader to take office after elections, calling the notion mistaken.

Kazakhstan has increasingly extradited Russians facing political charges in Russia since the beginning of the year, raising concerns for opponents of Putin seeking refuge abroad.

Ukraine marked the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion on Tuesday (February 24). Tens of thousands of lives have been lost since the Kremlin ordered troops into Ukraine on February 24,

Russian attacks on Kherson and its oblast on February 24 resulted in the death of one utility worker and injuries to two others, including a municipal worker hit by an explosive device.

Russian forces have attacked parked lorries far from the front line, near the settlement of Valky in Kharkiv Oblast.

A total of 116 combat engagements took place over the past day on the battlefield in Ukraine. Russian troops attacked on the Pokrovsk front 22 times, with most active assaults on the Kostiantynivka, O

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Moscow is only pretending to seek peace and is using negotiations to weaken Kyiv’s position, calling on US President Donald Trump to recognise Russia’s tac

Used by over 90 million Russians, Telegram serves many functions — from a news platform to a tool for small businesses to reach clients.

One woman has been killed and one injured after Russian forces pounded two districts of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast over 40 times.

The European Union has imposed 'Navalny' sanctions on eight Russian magistrates and investigators. This action targets individuals involved in cases related to the Russian opposition figure.

Russian military actions have resulted in injuries to five residents of the Donetsk region over the past day.

In temporarily occupied Luhansk, Russian forces organized a drone racing championship for schoolchildren and students, reportedly aimed at preparing them for war.

The Russian military struck a residential area in a community in the Sumy region with two guided aerial bombs, leaving several people wounded.

Russian troops struck Mykolaiv while a rally in support of prisoners of war was taking place in the city.

Russia's FSB security service has declared the messaging app Telegram a potential threat to state security, despite millions of Russians using the platform regularly.

Ukrainian troops have pushed Russian troops back in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, while the Russians advanced in Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast.

Russia's Gulag History Museum in Moscow, once a space for confronting Soviet repression, is being transformed into a 'Museum of Memory' focused on state-sanctioned patriotism and anti-Nazi narratives.

The state regulator claimed the messaging app failed to crack down on third-party services that gather and sell the personal data of Russians.

In 2022, Kazakhstan became one of the main escape routes for Russians fleeing wartime repressions and military service. In the weeks after the Kremlin announced a mobilization, more than 400,000 people entered the country from Russia. For many, it was just a stopover, but an estimated 50,000 to 80,000 stayed. Many Russians saw Kazakhstan as an obvious choice: they could travel there without international passports, and the Russian language is widely understood. And while Astana didn’t condemn...

Ukraine calls a decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete in the 2026 Paralympics under their nations' flags, "disappointing and outrageous."

Norway's curling team has returned to the Winter Olympics sporting their distinctive, diamond-printed trousers.

Japan has opened new visa centers in Moscow and St. Petersburg, catering to a record number of Russians seeking alternative travel destinations.