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The Ukrainian man fighting Russian 'lies' with his front-line newspaper
Could Ukraine hold a presidential election right now? Will Europe use frozen Russian assets to fund war? How can Ukraine rebuild China ties? 'Ukraine is running out of men, money and time' Each week, Myroshnyk Vassyl Savych heads north to deliver his newspaper to border communities exposed to Russian fire and disinformation. Editor-in-Chief Myroshnyk Vassyl Savych gets ready to deliver his weekly newspaper, Zorya Visnyk (The Dawn Bulletin), from his office in Zolochiv, in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, to front-line villages in November 2025 [Louis Lemaire/Al Jazeera] Editor-in-Chief Myroshnyk Vassyl Savych gets ready to deliver his weekly newspaper, Zorya Visnyk (The Dawn Bulletin), from his office in Zolochiv, in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, to front-line villages in November 2025 [Louis Lemaire/Al Jazeera] It's a cold, foggy morning in early November, and Myroshnyk Vassyl Savych is driving north on a narrow road in eastern Ukraine towards the Russian border. He's headed to villages where, owing to increasing exposure to Russian fire, only a fraction of residents remain. The war has cut them off from regular services. They no longer receive mail, and Russian transmitters often overpower or interfere with their Ukrainian mobile-phone signals. Before large-scale signal jamming was introduced to counter drones, Russian television and radio channels were accessible on televisions and radios in border-area communities. In his trunk are bundles of Zorya Visnyk ( The Dawn Bulletin), a local newspaper that Vassyl edits and delivers to front-line communities in Ukraine's Kharkiv region.
Russian fighter aircraft hold combat drills over Baltic Sea
Russia has started tactical fighter jet exercises over the Baltic Sea with the goal of testing readiness to perform combat and other special operations, the country's defence ministry has said, a day after Moscow said its jets had scrambled to intercept United Kingdom military planes over the Black Sea. "The main goal of the exercise is to test the readiness of the flight crew to perform combat and special tasks as intended," Russia's defence ministry said on Tuesday. "The crews of the Su-27 [fighter jets] of the Baltic Fleet fired from airborne weapons at cruise missiles and mock enemy aircraft," the ministry announced on the Telegram messaging channel, adding that as well as improving skills, Russian fighter pilots are on "round-the-clock combat duty" guarding the air space of Russia's Kaliningrad exclave. Wedged between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic coast, Kaliningrad is Moscow's westernmost state and was part of Germany until the end of World War II. Given to the Soviet Union at the Potsdam Conference in 1945, the enclave has roughly 1 million residents โ mainly Russians but also a small number of Ukrainians, Poles and Lithuanians.
Robots on Patrol: Russian Borders to be Guarded by Artificial Intelligence
In addition, the built-in artificial intelligence will be able to predict situations, producing ready-made proposals for the border protection. "The system is fully based on domestic policy decisions that ensure protection of information resources against data loss, hackers and other unauthorized interventions," the press service quoted the deputy director of OPK Sergei Skokov as saying. The developers also noted that the new system is intended not only to collect different types of information, but also contains elements of artificial intelligence which will allow for analysis and forecasting of the situation and work out proposals for the protection of borders, by calculating steps and routes that offenders may take, as well as the necessary measures to prevent malicious acts, including the assessment of possible risks. The state borders need protection due to ever rising threats. Since the beginning of this year in the Rostov region, more than 60 "wanted" persons were found and arrested.