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The sensational defection of Stalin’s daughter to the US during the Cold War

By Stephen Ruiz

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The ‘Gray Ghosts’ of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By Daniel Tobias Flint

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Ukraine’s JEDI drone hunts Shaheds so your Patriot missiles don’t have to

By Adam Gramegna

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No Boots, No Problem: Ukraine captured a Russian position using only robots and drones

By Adam Gramegna

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Ukraine is using a World War I ‘creeping barrage’ tactic to turn the tide of the war

By Blake Stilwell

Horoshok anti-drone rounds come in two standard calibers: 5.56×45 mm and 5.45×39 mm, to destroy Russian FPV drones and Mavic-type UAVs using standard small arms. (Ukraine Ministry of Defense)

Your standard rifle can now be an anti-drone weapon. Seriously.

By Adam Gramegna

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A Russian game studio is making a ‘propaganda’ game about its worst modern failure

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The God-Switch: What Elon Musk’s Starlink can actually be used for

By Adam Gramegna

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Ukraine turned war into a point-based game with a real-world rewards market

By Adam Gramegna

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What the Soviet Union thought as it watched Operation Desert Storm

By Blake Stilwell

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A Russian fighting for Ukraine conned the Kremlin out of $500,000 by faking his own death

By Blake Stilwell

US soldiers stand near a Russian military vehicle in the northeastern Syrian town of al-Malikiyah (Derik) at the border with Turkey, on June 3, 2020. (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP) (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

How US troops quietly crushed Russian mercenaries in Syria

By Adam Gramegna

TOPSHOT - Fireworks light up the sky as spectators react during the "Long Live the Workers' Party of Korea" performance to celebrate the 80th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea at the May Day Stadium in Pyongyang on October 9, 2025. (Photo by KIM Won Jin / AFP) (Photo by KIM WON JIN/AFP via Getty Images)

North Korea celebrated its soldiers who fought with Russia in Ukraine

By Radio Free Asia

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The secret Russian radio transmission from ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ might be real

By Miguel Ortiz

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Rattling the world’s dumbest nuclear sabers

RUSSIA-BRICS-DIPLOMACY Russia's President Vladimir Putin meets with Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Kazan on October 23, 2024. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Venezuela might try to enlist Putin to resist American pressure

Steve Gutterman, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

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Putin says Russia tested a new, nuclear-capable remote torpedo dubbed ‘Doomsday Machine’

Mike Eckel, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Residential buildings stand destroyed by a Russian strike on September 28, 2025 in Kyiv, Ukraine. On the night of September 28, Russia launched a massive strike on Kyiv. The attack resulted in at least four deaths, at least fourteen injured and hospitalized. Residential and non-residential buildings were damaged in various districts of the capital. (Photo by Ihor Kuznietsov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

An experimental technology is grinding Ukraine’s war rubble into recycled concrete

Amos Chapple Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

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Russian nationalists want Alaska back, and they want Putin to take it by force

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Why Ukraine and Russia still need infantry (and so do we)