Ukraine is now able to strike military targets in Russia using Western-supplied weapons. One commander said Ukraine had destroyed columns of troops.
North Korean troops will become 'cannon fodder' if they aid Russia in Ukraine, Pentagon says
A Pentagon spokesperson said that any military personnel North Korea sent to Ukraine to aid Russian forces would just be "cannon fodder."
Ukraine got the go-ahead to hit Russia with F-16s, but doing so could be a waste of a good jet
Denmark said Ukraine can use its F-16s to hit military targets in Russia — something experts said would likely make the few jets too vulnerable.
Russian ally ditching Putin's rival to NATO damages the image Putin wants to project of himself, experts say
Armenia's prime minister said this week that his country is leaving the CSTO after months of criticizing Russia. Putin won't like it, experts told BI.
A new plane Ukraine is getting will amplify its F-16s and eat into Russia's advantage in the air, experts say
Sweden is giving Ukraine two ASC 890 airborne control and surveillance aircraft. Experts told Business Insider they'll make its F-16s more effective.
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Ukraine's big strike on Crimea shows how its older missiles can take out Russia's most advanced air defenses
Ukraine's latest claimed attack on Crimea shows how its older missiles from the West can reach and strike even Russia's advanced S-400 air-defense systems.
One of Russia's allies says it is quitting Putin's rival to NATO, in the latest snub to the Kremlin
Amid fraying Armenia-Russia relations, Armenia's prime minister announced a withdrawal from the CSTO, the Moscow-led "NATO" of post-Soviet countries.
The US is said to be sending a second Patriot to Ukraine, where it's played havoc with Russian jets and missiles
Patriots have been hailed as a huge success in Ukraine, but Ukraine says it needs far more of the air-defense systems to stop Russian aerial attacks.
Ukraine is developing its own glide bombs — the ones it got from the US often don't work
A Ukrainian air force official said his country is working on converting and producing its own glide bombs, with testing due to start in a few weeks.
Western weapons are getting to Ukraine's front lines. Soldiers say it's not enough yet to tip the balance.
Ukrainian troops in Kharkiv said military supplies had started to reach them after US aid resumed, but that Russia still has a big advantage for now.
US veteran in Ukraine said that he'd pile Russian bodies up like sandbags after taking trenches in scenes that reminded him of World War I
The US veteran said that in Ukraine, they would take Russian bodies out of trenches they took and stack them facing Russian positions like sandbags.
A Russian military planner says he doesn't tell the men he's sending out to fight that they are very likely to die
A Russian soldier who plans offensives said it's hard to send troops into fights where they will likely die, but he can't be honest with them.
Ukraine's special forces have developed new tech that allows drones to fly without GPS, so Russia can't jam them: report
Ukraine has developed drone tech that Russia can't jam, enabling drones to fly and hit targets without GPS or operator input, The Economist reported.
The US accused China of offering Russia 'every support behind the scenes' for its war on Ukraine
China's actions are designed to help Russia and are "dangerous to the long-term stability in Europe," a US official said.
Image shows a 7-layer defensive line planned for the border between NATO and Russia
Poland's defense ministry called the "east shield" the largest operation to strengthen the eastern flank of NATO since the end of World War II.
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Russia started new offensive early and with too few soldiers, as it tried to get ahead of US aid to Ukraine, experts say
Russia began its Kharkiv offensive prematurely and with an understrength force to try to make progress before US aid arrived in Ukraine, per the ISW.
Ohio man plans to take a 2-person submersible to Titanic depths to show the industry is safe after the OceanGate tragedy
The implosion of OceanGate's Titan submersible sparked worries about the industry. A trip to the depths of the Titanic aims to change that.
The FBI is looking at whether stolen items from the British Museum ended up in the hands of US eBay buyers: report
The British Museum, one of the world's biggest, says around 1,500 items were stolen or went missing. The FBI is now helping investigate, per the BBC.
Putin's favorite NATO member wants to 'redefine' membership so it doesn't have to help Ukraine
Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary, said officials were working to change the country's NATO membership to avoid aiding Ukraine.
Western fighters in Ukraine are getting killed because they assumed the war would be easy, says a US veteran who fought there
Many Western fighters who came to Ukraine expected an easy fight and weren't willing to learn new tactics to win at a disadvantage, a US veteran said.