The earthquake in Afghanistan’s Khost and Paktika provinces. It is estimated that the earthquake killed more than 1,000 Afghans, injuring close to 3,000 and damaging 4,500 homes. Not only prompting…

15 July 2022 Russia destroyed the last bridge connecting the contested city of Severodonetsk to Ukraine. This means that the Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are cut off from the rest…

27 May 2022 The Russian invasion of Ukraine is entering its fourth month. Ukrainian President Zelenskky told the Davos 2022 World Economic Forum that Ukraine suffered a loss of more…

10 May 2022 President Putin marked the first Victory Day celebration since their invasion of Ukraine. Obviously, the usual pomp and circumstance of a military parade in Red Square occurred.…

17 April 2022 There is nothing quite as revolting as the tyranny of the strong over the weak although in the case of Ukraine they are proving not so weak.…

22 March 2022 Russia claims that it used a Kh-47M2 Kinzhal (Dagger) hypersonic missile against a large Ukrainian munitions depot in the western Ivano-Frankivsk region. This would be the first known…

9 March 2022 Eyes on Mariupol The intense shelling of the port city of Mariupol (population close to 400,000), as with many Ukrainian cities, has been going on for days.…

4 March 2022 Last week DefRep reported in the opening days of Russia’s appalling assault on Ukraine that as part of Putin’s attempt to upend the international order Moscow has…

3 March 2022 * Updated 4 March 2022, 0736 PST The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest of its kind in Europe and the fifth-largest in the world, is on…

26 February 2022 *28 February 2022* Correction: Snake Island defenders are alive but were captured. Article corrected. As I watch Russia invade Ukraine, led by a lunatic, and justified by…