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16 hours ago · There have so far been no reports of casualties following the overnight attacks, which saw Russia use 76 drones in 12 Ukrainian regions. Kyiv's air defences managed to shoot 72 of them down.
16 hours ago · Russia launched a new overnight drone attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, according to the Ukraine's air force. Ukrainian air defences shot down 72 out of 76 Shahed drones over 12 regions ...
16 hours ago · The Polish–Soviet War[ N 1 ] (14 February 1919 [ 3 ] – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, following World War I and the Russian Revolution, over territories previously controlled by the Russian Empire and the Habsburg monarchy.
16 hours ago · "Some of the serial numbers on missiles used against Ukraine show they were transferred to Russia from Ukrainian arsenals. These are the same Kh-type cruise missiles," he noted. In 1999, Ukraine transferred nearly 600 Kh-55 and Kh-55SM cruise missiles to Russia as payment for natural gas supplies.
16 hours ago · Before 1991, this was done with Ukrainian following Russian, but after the republic proclaimed independence in August 1991, the order was changed to Ukrainian preceding Russian. After the fall of the Soviet Union in late 1991, both signs and voice announcements were changed from bilingual to just Ukrainian as the official language of the state.
16 hours ago · Eparchies of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in 2011. In October 2014 the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine was subdivided into 53 eparchies (dioceses) led by bishops. Also there were 25 vicars (suffragan bishops). In 2008 the Church had 42 eparchies, with 58 bishops (eparchial - 42; vicar - 12; retired - 4; with them being ...
16 hours ago · The groundwork of the Russian Empire was laid by Ivan III (r.1462–1505), who greatly expanded his domain, established a centralized Russian national state, and secured independence against the Tatars. His grandson, Ivan IV (r.1533–1584), became in 1547 the first Russian monarch to be crowned " tsar of all Russia ".
