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A group of 30 World War II veterans is flying back to the beaches of Normandy, France, in celebration of the 78th anniversary of D-Day, the United States-led operation on June 6, 1944, that turned the tide against Nazi Germany.

Meet the Ukrainian ‘Unicorn’ volunteer fighters, Oleksandr Zhygan and Antonina Romanova, who are LGBTQ+ fighters that are currently fighting for their country.

26 countries headed by the United States will be conducting Exercise RIMPAC 2022 from June 29 to August 4 in what is the world’s biggest naval exercise amidst Chinese aggression in the Pacific and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Not much has been said about Ukrainian casualties and their equipment losses. Today, we try to look at both sides of the story going into the 100th day of the war.

“A f*cking rocket should fly into the Verkhovna Rada [Ukraine’s Parliament] in Kyiv. That’s it, f*ck it. Why didn’t [a rocket] fucking fly? I don’t f*cking get it, you’re f*cked, Putin—motherf*cker!” Russian colonels said.

A Russian soldier, Mikhail Romanov, is now being charged with murdering a man and subsequently raping the man’s wife in what is the first rape case of the Russo-Ukrainian war. 

President Biden announced a new batch of military aid bound for Ukraine worth around $700 million, including the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), helicopters, and Javelins among others.

Lieutenant Colonel Zaur Dimayev is the 49th Russian colonel to be taken out in Ukraine. He was hit by Ukrainian artillery while riding in a military vehicle in Luhansk.

Ukrainian forces have launched their counteroffensive in the Southern regions of their country with the goal of reclaiming the port city of Kherson.

An intercepted call posted by Ukraine’s Security Services revealed that a Russian unit had a stand-off with a Russian general ordering them to fight. The Russian soldiers almost blew up the general in the heated argument, according to the call.

Germany will now supply Ukraine with its IRIS-T air defense system to help Ukraine repel constant Russian shelling and Russian fighter jets in its fight to secure the Donbas region from advancing Russian forces.

The Pacific Island countries turned down a bold Chinese proposal to have a region-wide agreement after a meeting between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his counterparts in Fiji.