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Maxime Popov/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Newer generation fighter jets are giving Russia “increasing dominance” in the skies over the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine, according to a senior Ukrainian official. It is a potentially worrying shift for the United States and its allies because Russia’s inability to achieve total air superiority throughout […]

U.S. Air Force, FILE (NEW YORK) — Russian fighter jets collided with the rear propeller of an unmanned U.S. military drone on Tuesday, forcing the U.S. to bring down the drone into the waters off the Black Sea close to Ukraine, U.S. officials said. U.S. European Command labeled the incident as “dangerous” and said it could […]

pop_jop/Getty Images (OSLO, Norway) — Andrey Medvedev is tense. He arrives unsmiling. Sitting in a hotel lobby in central Oslo, he anxiously eyes a man walking past the bar, asking why he’s looking at him. Medvedev’s anxiety is understandable. Until recently, he was a unit commander in the Wagner Group, the Russian private military company […]

Konstantin Yefremov (NEW YORK) — A senior Russian army lieutenant who fled Russia told ABC News he witnessed his country’s troops torture prisoners in Ukraine, including beating and threats to rape them. Konstantin Yefremov, the most senior Russian soldier to defect and speak out openly against the war, is now in hiding and spoke to […]