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Vladimir Putin suffered yet another devastating blow over the weekend after 700 Russian soldiers were killed in a Ukrainian missile strike, RadarOnline.com has learned. In a stunning development to come as Russia’s war against Ukraine quickly approaches the one-year mark, the deadliest strike yet reportedly took place on Saturday as Putin was giving his annual New Year’s address from Moscow. According to Ukrainian intelligence, 700 Russian soldiers were killed when Ukrainian forces launched a missile barrage on a barracks building in Makiivka, Donetsk. The building also reportedly held numerous armored cars, boxes of ammunition, and missiles that were ultimately destroyed...

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia lost 600 soldiers after the single Himars attack | Revenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW72aIbSe10 Follow on Instagram up to date uploads. https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/ SUMMARY Military Maps & Comment here: Invasion Day 310 – Summary- December 31, 2022 The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 30th December 2022 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). The last summary of this year is here. Thank you all for staying with us and the site for so long, and see you next year! https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-310-summary/

Venezuela has allowed its intelligence service to become a clone of Cuba's while it shelters groups with ties to Middle East terrorists and allows weapons from its official stockpiles to reach Colombian guerrillas, a senior U.S. official said yesterday. Those were the principal reasons why the Bush administration blacklisted Venezuela on Monday, saying it has failed to fully cooperate on counterterrorism, Thomas A. Shannon, assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, told editors and reporters at The Washington Times. "It's our hope now that we've gotten their attention," he said of the Venezuelans, who are banned from purchasing U.S....

It is often said that the Twentieth Century actually began in 1914, the year in which the Great War, the most awful war in many ways in human history, began. As an example of how ghastly this era has been, consider this: given the unspeakable agony and carnage of the Western Front, the Italian Front and the Russian Front in the Great War, and given the unspeakable agony and viciousness of the Holocaust, which should moral and reasonable men have chosen over the other? Reflexively, we assume that the Great War was the lesser evil, but that is primarily because...