Hi, this is Tania Myronyshena reporting from Kyiv on day 1,332 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story so far: Russia shot down its own military aircraft over Crimea while its air defense was trying to intercept Ukrainian drones flying to the occupied peninsula and deep inside Russia overnight,

Watch live as Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky meet at the White House for crucial Ukraine talks on Monday, 18 August. It comes after the US president ruled out Ukrainian membership of Nato and sovereignty over Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine ...

The Mincing Rascals this week are John Williams of WGN Radio, Eric Zorn, Publisher of The Picayune Sentinel, Austin Berg of the Illinois Policy Institute and The Last Ward, and political pundit Marj Halperin! This week the Rascals begin the podcast with a ...

In a conflict increasingly characterized by quick technological evolution, a revealing detail was reported this week: one of Moscow’s lowest-cost airborne platforms, a Russian Gerbera decoy drone, was captured carrying two rear-facing cameras a setup intended to detect and avoid Ukrainian first-person-view (FPV) interceptor drones.

Russia is intensifying drone strikes on Ukraine’s rail network, a critical lifeline for commercial freight, passenger traffic and military logistics

Ukraine has offered to build a joint aerial defense shield with its allies to protect against threats from Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday, after a series of airspace incursions that caused alarm on NATO’s eastern flank.