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The Ukrainian Armed Forces have published a video claiming that they hit a Russian naval tugboat named the “Vasily Bekh” with two Harpoon missiles in the Black Sea on Friday.

The governments of Canada and Denmark struck a deal to resolve the not-so-serious, half-century border dispute known as the “Whiskey Wars” on Tuesday during a jovial ceremony that highlighted their commitment to non-violent territorial negotiations.

An assistant police chief in the city of Kent, Washington, will receive over $1.5 million for his resignation after disciplinary actions were taken against him for displaying a Nazi symbol in the workplace.

Vladimir Putin has frequently invoked World War II and the denazification of the world as an excuse for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It is with no small amount of hypocrisy that neo-Nazi groups are fighting in Ukraine in the name of Russia.

The Netherlands’ intelligence service has reported last Thursday that they caught a Russian spy named Sergey Cherkasov posing as a Brazilian national who was allegedly planning to infiltrate the International Criminal Court.

A rare Ukrainian S-300V1 was spotted in the eastern Ukrainian city of Lysychansk, risking its top air defense system to foil Russian aircraft and missiles in the vicinity.

The Russian forces issued an ultimatum to the Ukrainian forces in the Azot Chemical Plant and Severodonetsk to surrender. To the surprise of no one, Ukraine refused this ultimatum and kept fighting.

President Biden has announced that the US will be giving another $1 billion in military aid for Ukraine amidst heavy Russian shelling in the Donbas region.

The fate of two former US servicemen who volunteered to fight in Ukraine is unknown at this time. Ukraine can not find their remains after a fierce battle and Russia has not officially confirmed that they have been captured.

Russian authorities have put investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov on the country’s federal wanted list and frozen his bank accounts. Soldatov is one of Russia’s leading and remaining independent journalists, having intimate knowledge of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).

A coalition including US forces has reportedly captured a man that is reportedly a senior leader of the Islamic State (ISIS) during a military ground raid in northwestern Syria sometime between late Wednesday and early Thursday, as reported by the US-led anti-ISIS coalition.

An officer from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG) and a member of the Iranian Defense Ministry were pronounced dead after separate events in the line of duty. Sources outside Iran claim that the men were developing weapons for Hezbollah.