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☆ Ukrainian Sniper Breaks Cover to Claim World-Record Hit of More Than 2 Miles
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Alistair Macdonald | Photographs Joseph Sywenkyj For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

KYIV—The Ukrainian sniper had lain still for hours in near freezing temperatures when the command came to take the shot at a Russian soldier almost 2½ miles away. “You can,” his spotter said, and Vyacheslav Kovalskiy pulled his trigger. The bullet took around nine seconds to reach its target, who doubled up and fell, according to a video of the shot reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Kovalskiy and Ukraine say the shot set a new sniping distance record, breaking the previously acknowledged mark by more than 850 feet.

Persons: Vyacheslav Kovalskiy Organizations: Ukrainian, Wall Street Locations: Russian, Kovalskiy, Ukraine

☆ The Old-School Artillery Shell Is Becoming High Tech
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Alistair Macdonald | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

RAUFOSS, Norway—At a factory in rural Norway, engineers are perfecting an artillery shell they say will be able to travel many times farther than the traditional ammunition currently pounding the battlefield in Ukraine. The work is part of a broader trend among arms companies to increase the range, precision and lethality of artillery shells that have remained largely unchanged for decades.

Locations: RAUFOSS, Norway, Ukraine

☆ This Russian Suicide Drone Is Blunting Ukraine’s Advance
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Alistair Macdonald | James Marson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Lancet drone is playing a key role on the battlefield for Russia. KYIV, Ukraine—One of the scourges of Ukraine’s counteroffensive is an exploding drone with distinctive X-shaped wings that smashes into targets at more than 100 miles an hour. In recent months, Russia’s Zala Lancet drone has repeatedly struck and disabled Ukraine’s Western-supplied armored vehicles that were supposed to break through Russian lines and turn the war decisively in Ukraine’s favor, according to Ukrainian soldiers and officials as well as videos posted on Russian social media.

Persons: Russia’s Locations: Russia, KYIV, Ukraine

TEL AVIV—Ariel Bernstein was a 20-year-old Israeli foot soldier when his country last fought Hamas on Gaza Strip streets. The war, he recalled, “was like chasing ghosts.”For two of the 2014 fight’s seven weeks, Bernstein and his company hunkered down in a rural Palestinian home where they dodged Hamas sniper shots, watched for militants jumping out of hidden tunnels running under foot and tried in vain to save the life of a comrade after a deadly Hamas missile attack.

Persons: Ariel Bernstein, “, Bernstein Organizations: Hamas Locations: TEL AVIV, Gaza

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☆ The War in Ukraine Is Also a Giant Arms Fair
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Alistair Macdonald | Photogaphs Serhii Korovayny For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones Locations: ukraine

☆ Ukraine’s Push Into Green Energy Starts With 5,600 Tons of Cow Dung
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Alistair Macdonald | Photographs Joseph Sywenkyj For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Ukraine’s Elite Snipers Fight Russians, Bullet by Bullet
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Alistair Macdonald | Daniel Michaels | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Russia Turns to Little-Known Shipping Companies to Secure Drone Supply Chain
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Jared Malsin | Alistair Macdonald | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ISTANBUL—Russia is adapting to Western sanctions on its military supply chain by turning to a netherworld of shipping and logistics companies to bring in more of the armed drones from Iran now playing a pivotal role in its war in Ukraine, according to an assessment from the government in Kyiv reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Organizations: Wall Street Locations: ISTANBUL — Russia, Iran, Ukraine, Kyiv

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☆ This 60-Year-Old Soviet Rocket Launcher Fights On in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Alistair Macdonald | Photographs Serhii Korovayny For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Bacardi’s Russia Business Grows as Other Booze Makers Leave Country
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Saabira Chaudhuri | Alistair Macdonald | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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CHASIV YAR, Ukraine—Some of Ukraine’s biggest gains in its counteroffensive have come around the city of Bakhmut, which Russia seized in May after months of bloody fighting. But soldiers near there say advances have slowed in recent days amid stiff Russian defense and counterattacks, denting hopes that Kyiv could soon retake the city.

Persons: CHASIV YAR, denting Organizations: Ukraine’s Locations: Ukraine, Bakhmut, Russia

☆ Great Power Rivalry Looms Over Ukraine Grain Deal
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Jared Malsin | Alistair Macdonald | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ U.S. Pushes Military Cooperation in Space
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Alistair Macdonald | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Drones Reach Stratospheric Heights in Race to Fly Higher, Longer
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Alistair Macdonald | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Facing a Battle for Armored Steel, This Tank Maker Bought the Factory
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Alistair Macdonald | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Ukraine’s Deadly New Missile Was Created to Hit Saddam Hussein in His Bathtub
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Alistair Macdonald | Daniel Michaels | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ U.S. Ramps Up Howitzer Shell Production to Supply Ukraine, Replenish Stockpiles
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Alistair Macdonald | Andrew Tangel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Superfast Starstreak Missile Makes a Comeback Amid Ukraine War
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Alistair Macdonald | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Wanted: Buyer for the Daily Telegraph, a 150-Year-Old British Newspaper
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Alistair Macdonald | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Ukraine Dam Explosion Shakes Farmers, Pushes Grain Prices Higher
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Yusuf Khan | Alistair Macdonald | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ For King Charles, a Detente Emerges in Relationship With U.K. Media
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( David Luhnow | Alistair Macdonald | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

People in Piccadilly Circus during the coronation of King Charles III. Photo: Cover Images/Zuma PressLONDON—King Charles III’s coronation this weekend got rave reviews from the British press, part of what appears to be a fragile truce between the notoriously aggressive U.K. media and the new king, after a long and sometimes frosty relationship. The former Prince of Wales has had a famously fraught time with the British press, especially when he had an affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles, now his wife and queen, while married to Diana, princess of Wales. He was also mocked for years over everything from his ears to his penchant for talking to plants.

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