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UN satellite analysis tracks Ukraine cultural damage
27Oct By adminNo Comments
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UN satellite analysis tracks Ukraine cultural damage

[ad_1] The United Nations is using before-and-after satellite imagery to monitor the cultural destruction inflicted by Russia's war in Ukraine, announcing Wednesday it will launch its tracking platform publicly within weeks. The United Nations is using before-and-after satellite imagery to monitor the cultural destruction inflicted by Russia's war in Ukraine, announcing Wednesday it will launch its tracking platform publicly within weeks. The UN's culture agency UNESCO said it had verified damage to 207 cultural sites in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on February 24. They include 88 religious sites, 15 museums, 76 buildings of historical and or artistic interest, 18 monuments and 10 libraries. The worst-affected regions are in eastern Ukraine and around the capital, w...
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Isn’t Only Option for Ukraine, Pentagon Says
15Oct By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Isn’t Only Option for Ukraine, Pentagon Says

[ad_1] The Pentagon is talking to Elon Musk, who has threatened to stop funding Ukraine’s access to his Starlink system. (Bloomberg) -- The Pentagon confirmed it's talking with Elon Musk, who has threatened to stop funding Ukraine's access to his Starlink satellite communications system, but pointedly added that the US is also looking into other options.“We are engaged in talking with SpaceX,” the space exploration company owned by Musk, Defense Department spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters Friday. At the same time, she said, the US, Ukraine and allies are also “assessing our options” with other communications companies. Musk, the world's richest person, threatened Friday to cut financial support for the Starlink high-speed broadband system that has become an essential communica...
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Amid Ukraine war, US set to fly Russian cosmonaut to ISS aboard a SpaceX Ship
5Oct By adminNo Comments
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Amid Ukraine war, US set to fly Russian cosmonaut to ISS aboard a SpaceX Ship

[ad_1] The United States will carry a Russian to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX ship. The United States will on Wednesday carry a Russian to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX ship, in a voyage that carries symbolic significance amid the Ukraine war.Anna Kikina, the only female cosmonaut in service, is part of the Crew-5 mission, which also includes one Japanese and two American astronauts. Blast-off is set for noon from the Kennedy Space Center, with the weather forecast so far promising. Two weeks ago, an American astronaut took off on a Russian Soyuz rocket for the orbital platform.The long-planned astronaut exchange program has been maintained despite soaring tensions between the two countries since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February.Ensuring th...
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Atomic Energy Body Members Reach Zaporizhzhia En Route To Nuclear Plant
31Aug By adminNo Comments
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Atomic Energy Body Members Reach Zaporizhzhia En Route To Nuclear Plant

[ad_1] The team led by the head of IAEA left Kyiv during the morning.Zaporizhzhia: A team of IAEA nuclear inspectors arrived in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia Wednesday ahead of a visit to a Russian-held nuclear power plant on the frontline, an AFP correspondent said.A convoy of some 19 cars, among them at least 10 white vehicles with "UN" on the side, could be seen entering Zaporizhzhia just before 2:00 pm (1100 GMT), the correspondent said.The 14-strong team led by the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) left Kyiv during the morning.(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) [ad_2] Source link
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“Go Home”: Volodymyr Zelensky Tells Russians As Ukraine Launches Offensive
30Aug By adminNo Comments
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“Go Home”: Volodymyr Zelensky Tells Russians As Ukraine Launches Offensive

[ad_1] The conflict has largely settled into a war of attrition.Mykolaiv, Ukraine: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged Russian troops to flee from an offensive launched by his forces near the southern city of Kherson saying Ukraine's military were taking back their territory, though Russia said the assault had failed.Ukraine's assault comes after weeks of a stalemate in a war that has killed thousands, displaced millions, destroyed cities and caused a global energy and food crisis amid unprecedented economic sanctions.It has also fuelled worries of a radiation disaster being triggered by shelling near the south Ukraine Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.Zelensky, in his nightly address late on Monday, vowed that Ukrainian troops would chase the Russian army "to the border"."If they ...
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