The United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) has banned or restricted many weapons in war.
Israel and Russia created a so-called deconfliction hotline in recent years to prevent the two sides from becoming entangled and mistakenly battling over Syria. However, recently for the very first time, Russia has fired missiles at Israeli jets in Syria.
Proof of criminal behavior by Ukrainian forces against Russian troops, Donbass residents, and militiamen has largely gone unnoticed by Western politicians and the media. The latest evidence was uncovered when investigators found Neo-Nazi torture chambers in Ukraine.
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.
Eight years ago this week, something significant happened in Odessa, a historically important city in the southwest of Ukraine. Although the West didn’t see it as such, for Russia and the newly formed Donbass republics, what transpired there became a symbolic episode.
Satellite images taken over the Black Sea naval base of Sevastopol have shown that Russia has deployed trained military combat dolphins to protect it from diver operations against warships.
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.
The Pentagon has reported that the Russian warship Moskva, which is a vital component of Russia's naval strategy in the Black Sea, was sunken by Ukraine using the new Neptune missile.
Inside the 50 days since Moscow's operation started, Ukrainian authorities have conducted over 8,600 facial recognition lookups on dead or captured Russian soldiers. Using the scan results to distinguish bodies, Ukraine is sending photos of corpses to their mothers in what could be one of the most grotesque implementations of the innovation to date.
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.
