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As Ukraine celebrates its 35th year since being restored to independent status, leaders and representatives of the Coalition of the Willing met in person and via video conference in the capital, Kyiv.

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz chaired the meeting alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

T-72 Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

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The gathering also took place one day after Ukraine had commemorated the 23 August National Flag Day.

Everett Bartlett will never forget the huge cloud of smoke.
Bartlett was only 10 years old on April 21, 1958, when he saw the disturbing image off in the distance, a few miles from his school in Henderson, Nevada. The boy was outside at the time and didn’t know what to make of the smoke. He just knew it was bad.
“It looked like a mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb,” Bartlett recalled to KSNV, Las Vegas’ NBC television affiliate, in 2025.

Ukraine has carried out some devastating attacks on Russian infrastructure in recent weeks, using drones and other weapons to strike at Russia’s energy facilities, as well as at warehouses owned by Wildberries, the “Amazon of Russia,” and other locations. Many of those strikes have been deadly, including the deaths of civilians.

Does this represent a change in Ukraine’s posture when it comes to civilian casualties? Politico’s European arm looked at that question this week.

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Vague operational planning and a lack of transparency during U.S.

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The Navy said that the missile is designed for 4th, 5th, and 6th generation aircraft platforms.

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During the Ford’s deployment, the ship’s air wing conducted a sortie generation rate test to evaluate how EMALS

Spain’s defence market is forecast to grow across all combat domains, although fluctuations are expected in the naval sector.

Judged by the initial strategic goals set by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2022, Russia’s military lost its war against Ukraine some time ago. Yet Russia’s armed forces have not stopped fighting and continue to prosecute large-scale combat operations in a brutalizing, protracted war sucking up much of Russia’s assets of national power, from pure military capacity to foreign policy priorities to considerable societal and economic resources.