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By Archis Chowdhury Russia has reportedly deceived multiple Hollywood actors into unwittingly contributing to a disinformation campaign against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. A recent report by Microsoft's Threat Analysis Center highlighted how celebrities, like actor Elijah Wood, known for playing Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings movies, can been seen sending messages to Zelenskyy, urging him to seek assistance for substance use. According to the report, other celebrities like Priscilla Presley, the US Office actress Kate Flannery, Breaking Bad actor Dean Norris, John C McGinl...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video purporting to show the recent blast at the Kakhovka dam in Russia-occupied Ukraine is viral online. BOOM found that the viral video is from November 2022 and not recent. The Kakhovka dam is a Soviet-era dam located in Ukraine's southern Kherson region. As per reports, a blast on June 6 destructed the dam and caused flooding in the nearby areas, including agricultural land and villages. While it is unknown what caused the blast, both Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for it. The viral video of the explosion at Nova Kakhovka is being shared in this context and ped...
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By BOOM Team It has been one year since Russia launched an attack on its neighboring country Ukraine. On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a full-fledged attack on Ukraine. Russia at the time of launching the attacks said it was conducting a "special military operation" to "denazify" Ukraine. The military attack in the last year has left several Ukrainian cities upended, while millions of people fled their homes for safety. Videos and photos shared in the initial days of the Russian attack showed people taking refuge in underground metro stations as buildings were b...
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By BOOM Team Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday claimed that Russia had no intentions of carrying out nuclear strikes on Ukraine amid the raging conflict between the two neighboring countries. "We see no need for that. There is no point in that, neither political nor military," AP quoted Putin speaking at a conference of international foreign policy experts. He was speaking at a conference on Thursday, a day after he monitored Russia's drill of strategic nuclear forces. Ballistic and cruise missiles were launched during the drill, according to a statement issued by the Kremlin. Also ...
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By Prachi Sibal Indian students who had returned from Ukraine after Russian attacks in February this year, months later, are in doldrums again. As new semesters in their Ukrainian universities begin this month, some have chosen to return despite the risks. On October 19, amid an escalation of hostilities in Ukraine, the Embassy of India in Kyiv, issued an advisory for Indian citizens including students, urging them "leave Ukraine at the earliest by available means". For students who have only travelled back to the country in the last month, this has had made little difference. They are not ret...
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By The Conversation The war in Ukraine is helping one country achieve its foreign policy and national security objectives, but it's neither Russia nor Ukraine. It's Iran. That was starkly clear on the morning of Oct. 17, 2022, as Iranian-made drones attacked civilian targets in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. Russia used the Iranian drones to inflict damage on Ukraine's national energy company headquarters, and the drones also killed four civilians. Iran is among Russia's most vocal supporters in the war. As a military analyst who specializes in Iranian national security strategy, I see this having l...
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By The Conversation If you wanted an indication of how badly Russia's war is going and how much pressure Vladimir Putin is under, then the missile attacks on Kyiv and Ukraine's major cities over the last day or two are as good as any. These attacks have no military value; they won't stall Ukraine's successful counteroffensives in the south and east. They merely aim to terrify the Ukrainian people. History tells us this approach rarely works. The successful attack on Kerch bridge has clearly cut Putin to the quick. The bridge was one of Putin's signature projects and a major strategic asset for...
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By The Conversation The world is now witness to a new phase in the Ukraine war. Theattack on the Kerch bridge and the subsequent retaliatory Russian missiles strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities indicate that the war is escalating. But just how far will this escalation go and is a full-scale nuclear exchange – however unthinkable – on the cards at some future point? Also Read:Kyiv Hit By Russian Missiles, Several Cities Under Siege It is coming to be understood that the war in Ukraine needs to be prevented from assuming proportions that are dangerous for the entire world – and not just f...
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By Sourit Sanyal Russia on Monday launched a missile attack in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and several other cities a day after it blamed Ukraine's special forces for explosions that damaged the Kerch Bridge that connects Crimea to Russia. Missiles hit several areas of the capital in Ukraine as Russia bombed the city. Along with Kyiv, many other key cities across Ukraine including Lviv, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro also reported explosions caused by missile strikes, Reuters reported. Here are the details on the explosion of the Kerch Bridge (Crimea) and how Russia launched a massive wave of missile ...
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By The Conversation Tactical nuclear weapons have burst onto the international stage as Russian President Vladimir Putin, facing battlefield losses in eastern Ukraine, has threatened that Russia will "make use of all weapon systems available to us" if Russia's territorial integrity is threatened. Putin has characterized the war in Ukraine as an existential battle against the West, which he said wants to weaken, divide and destroy Russia. U.S. President Joe Biden criticized Putin's overt nuclear threats against Europe. Meanwhile, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg downplayed the threat, sa...
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