I mean this is after all the same Volodymyr Zelensky who has been so busy making video appearances for the Grammy Awards, the Cannes Film Festival, the World Economic Forum and probably the Bilderberg group as well, and having meetings with celebrities like Ben Stiller, Sean Penn, and Bono and the Edge from U2. It’s as busy a PR tour as he could possibly have without having a discussion about the strategic importance of long-range artillery with Elmo on Sesame Street.
Heavy battle has broken out between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Both nations' defense ministries report clashes at various locations. Armenia claims that its territory is under attack and that Goris, Sotk, and Jermuk in the east are the targets of heavy shelling at the moment.
Raising funds through cash or in-kind gifts from citizens to pay for military equipment is nothing new. But the request of "buy me a fighter jet" made by Ukraine air force for purposes of crowdfunding a jet is unconventional.
Iraq is nearing the brink of a Shiite civil war. Iraq's destiny will be decided by the escalating violence of Moqtada al-Sadr and Iran's rivalry.
Just two days after GreatGameIndia reported that secret US Biolabs in Ukraine could be a targeted by Russians, now the US Embassy has removed all evidence of bioweapons labs in Ukraine from their website.
The eight-year conflict has wrought terrible tragedy on the humans involved. But there is another group which has been swept up in this whole sorry affair and is often overlooked - the region's animals. Pain, wounds, wandering, abandonment, and death - the fate of the animals in the conflict is a clear indication of what a global calamity this is.
According to a claim by the Ukrainian Center of National Resistance, Russia is mobilizing drug addicts to fight in order to reach its quota.
According to documentation acquired by the media, the Royal Tank Regiment of the United Kingdom, the world's oldest tank regiment, helped train Ukrainian soldiers fighting in Donbass.
Google has taken a variety of moves in reaction to the Kremlin's military campaign since late February, including stopping ad sales in Russia and disabling Google Pay. Recently, Google Maps started revealing coordinates of Russian military airfields and navy warships.
According to a satellite service, a Russian military convoy heading towards the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv has increased from 17 miles to 40 miles, as US authorities cautioned that the city might be the stage of a siege and nasty urban combat. Russia is now sending urban warfare troops to Ukraine to bolster its second wave of attack, as per satellite images.
