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Unconfirmed reports of Polish fighter jets shooting down multiple Russian Shahed attack drones over Polish airspace

Finally! Putin Showed Off A New Terrifying Hypersonic Missile That Shocked NATO The diamond in the crown of the Russian Empire and Putin’s Joker are both quite appropriate epithets. In military terms, we are discussing a hypersonic glide vehicle that flies to the target at hypersonic speed. It has a nuclear warhead of between 0.8 and 2 megatons. Three hypersonics, Zircon, Kinzhal and now the Avanguard.

One Professional Russian Troll Tells AllDmitry Volchek, Daisy SindelarMore and more, posts and commentaries on the Internet in Russia and even abroad are generated by professional trolls, many of whom receive a higher-than-average salary for perpetuating a pro-Kremlin dialogue online.There are thousands of fake accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and vKontakte, all increasingly focused on the war in Ukraine. Many emanate from Russia's most famous "troll factory," the Internet Research center, an unassuming building on St. Petersburg's Savushkina Street, which runs on a 24-hour cycle. In recent weeks, former employees have come forward to talk to RFE/RL about life inside...

It was late March, and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was going poorly. The Kremlin had done its best to black out Western coverage of the war domestically, as well as its reports of failed Russian advances and widespread brutality. On the Kremlin’s flagship media channel, Russia-1, came a very different, ghoulish story: from Russian-occupied Ukraine, an “exclusive” report alleging Ukrainian militants brutally raped and murdered a Ukrainian woman and disfigured her corpse. In the footage, a correspondent follows a pro-Russian separatist soldier into a school basement in Mariupol to view the corpse of a dead woman. The...